Hi all, I’m Steve, a long term motorsport fan and general addict of all things motoring. This is my first time on Speedhunters, so please be gentle! About two years ago, in an effort to try and capture some of the memorable moments from the sports I enjoy watching so much, I decided to buy a DSLR [...]
Dirt in every orifice. Cameras covered in dust. The sound of popping and banging exhausts echoing around my head even days later. Neck and arms aching from trying to keep up with the rocketship acceleration of the cars. It can only be rallycross. Ah, it’s good to be back. The opening round of the 2013 [...]
Last year on our pilgrimage to Lydden Hill, the spiritual home of the frantic sport of rallycross, the rain had lashed down to create a mudbath of epic proportions for the competitors to tackle. For 2013 and the birth of a new era for the European branch of the sport, Lydden was instead distinctly dry [...]
Ever since I shot the King Of The Hammers race, people have asked me why the sudden interest in off-road racing. My reply is simple: because it is awesome. Off-road racing is very visually appealing – there is such a wide range of racecars and it’s very dynamic both in the appearance of the competitors and the terrain they [...]
I’m going to wager a guess that Ken Block and Hoonigan Racing Division are names that need no introduction to this, or virtually any audience these days. Despite having never won a WRC stage, let alone a championship, it seems to boggle a lot of minds as to how Ken has become such a popular [...]
I hope everyone else is as excited as I am about WRC coverage coming to Speedhunters! One of my favorite things about working for this site is getting dropped into unfamiliar territory and trying to figure out not only how to shoot a new type of event, but also trying to figure out the rules, [...]
Even after I’ve had a week to soak it all in, all I can say is holy *#&^ing $#@*! world-class rallying, is there anything more glorious? As a petrol head, it seems virtually obligatory to be interested in Rally and like many of you, I’ve admired the WRC from the sidelines for some time. While [...]
The UK’s Race Retro show – home to the pre-season gathering of the country’s historic race and rallying communities – delivers a complete fix of classic competition cars. From the displays in the halls to the vintage rallycars blasting around the roadways of Stoneleigh park, it’s yet another reminder that the racing season can’t start [...]
The most grueling one day race in the world is the King Of The Hammers at Means Dry Lake in Johnson Valley, California. Out of 129 teams that took the green flag at the beginning of the day, a mere 27 of them finished the race. Almost 80 percent of the field failed to finish. In [...]
There seems to be a lot more positive energy around the WRC these days – perhaps it’s down to the immediate success of the new Volkswagen Motorsport Polo WRC or with the semi-retirement of Loeb which throws open the title race for the first time in nearly a decade [...]
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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’s little wonder that so many people look back on the mid ’80s as the golden era of rallying. Group B not only reinvented the sport from a technical standpoint, but it re-popularized it too. For a while, the World Rally Championship was bigger than Formula 1. During those crazy years from 1983 to 1986, [...]
It seems that recently I have been having more and more moments of wondering what is real and what isn’t. It could be from being delirious due to lack of sleep. The SEMA show is all about these moments, where you question if something really happened or not. Did I really just see that metallic blue Fox Body Mustang driving [...]
Tanner Foust left professional drifting at the end of 2010 season, and it has felt like something was missing from Formula Drift every event thereafter. He was really good for the sport and he brought his A-game every time he was out there. I was so used to hearing Jarod Deanda, the FD announcer, scream at the top of his lungs, [...]
The second important component to Castle Combe’s Rallyday festival in the UK is the involvement of the local car clubs. Each event I’ve gone to this year has been more impressive than the last, and Rallyday was no exception. Naturally the manufacturers with fine rallying heritage were to the fore, with Subaru, Ford and Mitsubishi [...]
