Aside from the spectacular environment it’s built around and the atmosphere abuzz within it, the beauty of the Leadfoot Festival lies with the machinery. I’ve been to a lot of car shows and motorsport events during my lifetime thus far, but when you’re talking sheer diversity, nothing has come close to the event created by [...]
Any day I get to pack up my gear and go Speedhunting is a good day, but ever since this time last year I’ve been counting down the days to the next Leadfoot Festival. The weekend just passed, edition 2013 went down in style on Rod Millen’s 1-mile long driveway. Although he made a name [...]
Every year, thousands of off-road racing fans gather in Johnson Valley, California, for the King Of The Hammers. After shooting motorsports for over eight years, I have never seen anything like this. We arrived in the desert at night, and after we setup our camp we headed out to the most popular spots to check [...]
When I started writing this post I figured it would be a great to include the exact amount of photos I shot this entire year. Well I got halfway and realized that it might as well be one trillion, because that was how many it felt like I had shot. This past year was a growing year [...]
There are some events that you can attend where you just know it’s going to be a great day even before you even arrive. The UK’s Retro Rides Gathering, held again this year at the beautiful Prescott Speed Hill Climb, was one of those days. I find it’s all to do with location and the [...]
This year’s Retro Rides Gathering returned to the magnificent Prescott Speed Hill Climb, buried deep in the rural countryside of Gloucestershire in the UK. It was a fantastic day of sun and amazing builds, and the Gathering showed off its expectedly hugely eclectic turn-out of cars in the club corrals under the orchard trees at [...]
There is always a build-up to entering competition for race-car drivers and they all deal with their emotions in different ways. I remember Vaughn Gittin Jr told me that he still gets nervous to this day in Top 32 competition. It’s the first battle of an event, and it’s the worst feeling when your day ends there. Although as [...]
Rhys Millen has brought the overall Pikes Peak International Hill Climb record back to his family. He did it with his Formula Drift Hyundai Genesis Coupe, which was entered into the Time Attack class. This was a record-breaking event in many ways as there were a whole load of wrecks. There were a total of eight red [...]
Andrew Comrie-Picard, also known as ACP, is the driver of the Scion xD rally car. I’ve followed ACP from when he competed in Formula Drift back in 2010, driving the SRT Dodge Viper… …and I shot him in X-Games Rallycross where he has earned a Bronze medal. ACP is a very hardcore racer who has [...]
Every year I try to shoot at least one hill-climb event. I just love the concept of driving at the limit on a public road with sheer cliffs on one side and a rock wall on the other. I was going through Pikes Peak withdrawals because the 90th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill climb was postponed due [...]
This Vauxhall Firenza was parked up at the Motorsport At The Palace event we covered a while back, looking like it was just about ready for a fresh lick of paint. In period, hot Firenza’s were just perfect for old-school tail-out fun and a direct rival to Ford’s Capri. There are some pristine restored examples [...]
Prost or Senna? It’s one of the age-old arguments between racing fans, the polarising argument where there’s usually little common ground. Spectacle over smoothness, emotion over calculation? On the surface they seemed such different drivers. At least, that’s how they portrayed themselves, but they were both equally ruthless in their own ways, and both capable [...]
The rally stage at the Goodwood Festival Of Speed provides a complete contrast to the buzzing, packed areas around the hill-climb course and the car companies’ enormous marketing stands. At the top of the hill-climb, just the other side of the finish-line grandstands, is the Forest Rally Stage paddock – and winding its way through [...]
Lotus took centre stage at this year’s Goodwood Festival Of Speed, literally in the shape of the magnificent Gerry Judah sculpture on the front lawn before Goodwood House, and displayed a wide selection of cars around the paddock and exhibition area from across the marque’s long and illustrious history. Known during their heyday as the [...]
The nirvana that is the Goodwood Festival Of Speed doesn’t get bigger every year so much as even more spectacular. That’s a good thing too: the event reached maximum capacity for any car-fan’s brain to take many years ago… Now four day’s long, that’s still not really enough to take the whole Festival in – [...]
