320mph, night racing and pretty blue skies at the FIA European Finals!

If I could only do one drag race meeting a year then it would have to be the FIA european Finals, the final round of the season its got it all big speeds , big classes and every one going for broke. It promises to give some great racing.

Above John Bradshaw burns out at dusk in his 350z real slow shutter speed about 1/20th and then rear curtain flash to keep some sharpness to the image.

I always try and get to shoot Mark Flavell where I can not only does he put on a huge burn out but also the reflective paint work means you can get a little bit creative.

When you go into Finland you notice that the spectators often bring their sofa or arm chairs with them, its not very often that you see that sort of activity in the uk so when I spotted this I had to grab a quick snap!

They even packed the throw cushions!!!!!

Possibly the worlds easiest photo to take in drag racing is the head on shot as a Top Fuel car launches, dead easy but always looks amazing

Andy Carter Launches off the line at sunset.

Janne Ahonen Launches off the line at sunset, the biggest issue with shooting these is making sure that the force as they go past doesn’t know you over, because you know some one is going to catch is on camera. A bit like this Santa pod fail anyway back on track (pardon the pun)

Ok Ok I know I normaly promise you that I’m only going to bring you cool images and this is nothing special but this one puzzled me for an age, the tonal range is way off can only assume that I have caught the flash off a fellow photographer, which happened to be firing at the same exposure as what I was shooting, what are the chances of that !

A little late but my clouds finally made it to the party, just in time for TMD!

But I didn’t get to enjoy the fluffy clouds for too long before I got dragged away. . . . . . . .

To hang out of a lift some 20ft above the shut down area this was shot on the 16-35,I’m just above turn off one you can just see the gantry in the distance

but with a 1000mm (ish) lens

Pro Classes over there was no point hanging around for the slower classes as the run off is so long they don’t need to pull a chute  so I headed back up to the start just as the sun was starting to drop!

its evenings like this that make me feel like a small child in a candy store

The Problem is its always over far to quick and you end up working in a very very dark hole

which is never fun!

Shortly after that photo was taken I was asked to leave the middle as I’m not good enough to be shooting there, which is news to me, with my knuckles wrapped I scuttled off to somewhere more akin to my skill level and stood with every one else.

And shot that, I know I know rank amateur at best!

That wraps up all the interesting stuff. one round to go before its all over for another year, let me know what you think and don’t forget to subscribe!!

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