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Re: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007 (very image heavy)

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Originally Posted by Samnooshka (Post 1220343)

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Re: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007 (very image heavy)

Cool pics, looks like a great day out. :thumleft:

Re: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007 (very image heavy)

Smashing pics. Especially #7. Fantastic noise they make... If you're lucky enough to ever hear it. I did, last year (I think) at Sammy Miller's museum, when Sammy blasted it round and round his courtyard!

Re: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007 (very image heavy)

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Originally Posted by Samnooshka (Post 1220375)

And finally the bikes!!!!

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AJS Porcupine. Very, very rare.

Re: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007 (very image heavy)

Lots of racers there.

Re: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007 (very image heavy)

I'll add mine here rather than start a new thread.

Went to the FoS on Friday, was a bit disappointed this year to be honest, they sell so many tickets it's really hard to get near the track at a decent point. Managed to see the bikes this year though which I completely missed last year.
Buell:
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This is how Chris Pfeiffer arrived into view:
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Then he did some of this:
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And left like this!
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As usual you can click them to see the detail and movement in the bigger versions.

Re: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007 (very image heavy)

They are great :) looks like you got really close :) we were track side through most of the day but only took my average range lense when i should have taken one to get closer... also my height meant that most of my shots have the straw bales in view lol so some have focussed on those :(

Re: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007 (very image heavy)

Thanks, have a 70-200mm lens at the mo' so could get a bit closer than you did. I also know where the closest place to the track is (just after the first corner) which helped.