Le mans 2012 (non retro pics)

[g40jon]

Had my first trip abroad since the mid 90s last week All for a good cause though, as a couple of mates and I went on a bit of a road trip to le mans! 1 hour on the ferry and 7 hours crammed in the back of a ford mondeo and we were there and I was free to get snapping, heres some of my favs, hope you enjoy!

The race wasn't what I had expected and the whole area was more like a massive festival! On the way to the track a section of road was being used to parade flash cars











Inside the raceway, there were pleanty of exhibits to look at, the audi stand caught my eye









nissan had some interesting stuff on show



the juke has grown on me I have to admit!



the pitlane was a busy old place!





this guy looked like he had already been up for 24 hours!













I had been looking forward to trying out panning photography for ages, turned out, it is pretty tricky trying to catch a car travelling at 150mph+ I did get a few acceptable shots though!































hope you enjoyed that small sellection, theres loads more here:

s1113.photobucket.com/albums/k518/polojon/le%20mans%202012/?start=all

took over 1200 photos in total and has taken ages to go through them all!!

[TopJobHobNob]

you should copyright them. there are some crackers.

[super66]

Got some great shots there! I went last year and yes i agree, awfully difficult to take a picture of moving cars at le mans speeds!

[GT4ME]

Great pictures,thanks for posting.

[skinnylew]

I watched the Race on Eurosport, was awesome, shame about the Toyota's though.
Brilliant pics

[Deleted]

Great pics. I was there too - I was looking to see if I was in the back of any of your photos ;D

[simes]

I haven't been to LM since 2004.
Hope you made it to the museum.
Arnage is a great place for panning photo's as the cars are going slowly enough.

Mad Friday is good fun.....although it's calmed down a lot over the last few years.

Did you get onto the Mulsanne??? Sneaking through the woods in the middle of the night to get a glimpse of this

[Deleted]

Mad Friday is pretty much dead these days. The gendarmes were out in serious force this year and every roundabout in the area was manned.

Jun 22, 2012 16:16:21 GMT simes said:

Did you get onto the Mulsanne??? Sneaking through the woods in the middle of the night to get a glimpse of this

Woah, that was pretty awesome! I've still not had the balls to go out there!

[babyboomer]

Wow, fantastic pics fella; I've not been for a number of years (1996 was the last time) and these have whetted my appetite to go next year!

Jun 22, 2012 15:12:59 GMT Jonny69 said:

Great pics. I was there too - I was looking to see if I was in the back of any of your photos ;D

Please tell me that's not you slap (cheek) bang in the middle of this pic... ;D

[stwat]

Jun 22, 2012 16:16:21 GMT simes said:

I haven't been to LM since 2004.
Hope you made it to the museum.
Arnage is a great place for panning photo's as the cars are going slowly enough.

Mad Friday is good fun.....although it's calmed down a lot over the last few years.

Did you get onto the Mulsanne??? Sneaking through the woods in the middle of the night to get a glimpse of this

I did the old tramping through the woods ans peoples back yards to get to the Mulsanne some years back now. Magnificent.


Brilliant pictures g40jon. Really brings back memories of some fantastic trips there over the years.

[g40jon]

Jun 22, 2012 15:12:59 GMT Jonny69 said:

Great pics. I was there too - I was looking to see if I was in the back of any of your photos ;D

possible, i've got another 1000 pics that ive not uploaded!

[g40jon]

Jun 22, 2012 16:16:21 GMT simes said:

I haven't been to LM since 2004.
Hope you made it to the museum.
Arnage is a great place for panning photo's as the cars are going slowly enough.

Mad Friday is good fun.....although it's calmed down a lot over the last few years.

Did you get onto the Mulsanne??? Sneaking through the woods in the middle of the night to get a glimpse of this

didn't know there was a museum! guess i will have to go again! most of the pics were taken on the porsche curves, the rest ive no idea where i was! drove down the mulsanne before the race but thats about it!

[simes]

Jun 22, 2012 21:17:46 GMT g40jon said:

Jun 22, 2012 16:16:21 GMT simes said:

I haven't been to LM since 2004.
Hope you made it to the museum.
Arnage is a great place for panning photo's as the cars are going slowly enough.

Mad Friday is good fun.....although it's calmed down a lot over the last few years.

Did you get onto the Mulsanne??? Sneaking through the woods in the middle of the night to get a glimpse of this

didn't know there was a museum! guess I will have to go again! most of the pics were taken on the porsche curves, the rest ive no idea where I was! drove down the mulsanne before the race but thats about it!

Don't worry it took me three separate attempts, the general ticket even allows free entry!!