Well guys, this is it, the very last hours of 2012. In fact, some of you will already be reading this in the new year. Very soon the site will return to our usual schedule of awesome feature cars and event coverage, but before we dive into 2013 I wanted to take one last look [...]
Well Speedhunters, two-thousand-twelve is very nearly over and the remaining days on the calendar are few. Fortunately the Armageddon never came and my mind is already looking ahead at how to make 2013 even better, but before I can clear off my plate to focus on the new year there are still two more posts [...]
It’s a very modern world we’re living in today and technology is advancing at an alarming rate. Chances are that the device you just pulled out of your pocket to read this very post on has more computing power than the F1 paddock in the ’90s. This never ending desire for improvement is human nature [...]
Another week down and another eclectic mix of submissions from you! We’ve had a huge response to both of last week’s #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER stories and the submissions have been flooding in. On one hand this is a good thing for obvious reasons, but on the other there’s just not enough room on the internet for each [...]
I used to be afraid of the dark when I was a young boy, but now I prefer the dark, especially when photographing cars. There is no better way to have the ultimate control over light and the way it enters your camera. That is why I love endurance races. I can take my time [...]
Aging is a an unavoidable, albeit occasionally depressing, part of life. With age comes many great things, wisdom for starters, but somewhere along the way we often seem to forget how to have fun. Every passing year marks further separation from our former selves. But try as it might, there are some things that our [...]
We’re in the build-up to this weekend’s running of the Spa 24 Hours – the next stop in the marathon of round-the-clock races held over the summer. Almost 70 cars from 12 marques will be taking part in what is also the fourth round of the 2012 Blancpain Endurance Series. The Speedhunters team will be out in force at the race, and we’ll have a full preview up in the coming days. The race has a rich heritage: it’s just a year younger than its French cousin, Le Mans, with the first race held on roads around the Ardennes forests in 1924. The 24 Hours was held regularly up until the Second World War, and after a post-war stutter the it was rekindled in the early ’60s as a regular event, still held over the track’s original long lap.
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While certain events on the Formula 1 calendar, such as the Monaco Grand Prix, carry more prestige, amongst the drivers it is the Belgian Grand Prix that is often the one they want to win. With its tricky conditions and fast, flowing layout – which includes Eau Rouge and Blanchimont, two of the world's most [...]
They say that time flies when you are having fun, actually, I have found that it also flies if you are deep in the ***. Last weekend I was rummaging through a big box of old prints and slides researching for a new book project. I found a sheet or two of slides that reminded [...]
Ok get ready for one of the best Speedhunters films yet… this video was shot at the FIA GT Spa 24H race this past August and features a custom music score by my man, Ekstrak out of his London, UK music studio. You’ve seen Antonio’s post about the infamous Eau Rouge corner… now you get [...]
Regular readers will know that September is Porsche month here on SpeedHunters and Rod, Antonio and I trekked around Europe back in July eventually reaching Spa Francorchamps for the annual 24 Hours race. So what better way to round off a month considering the best of Porsche with a homage to one of the great [...]
In the mid-90s, my wife and I moved to London to pursue a dream of directing music videos in the UK scene. This of course, was not such an easy manuever. It was quite a huge challenge to go to a large, foreign city to get started in a freelance career…. Pretty stressful times I [...]
As we prepare to wrap up our Porsche themed month here on Speedhunters, I thought I'd post some photos of FIA GT cars running uphill at one of the most famous corners in the world of GT racing and Formula One – Eau Rouge. This famously treacherous corner is part of the Circuit de Spa [...]
I was just looking through the photos on my small Canon point-and-shoot Ixy Digital 910IS, and I spotted a photo I took of the food vendors at Spa Francorchamps… seeing the photo brought back the aroma of the huge stacks of freshly made Belgian waffles they were making, right there at the circuit! I mean, [...]
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In the past few weeks, we’ve been in Japan, so the Speedhunters website has been going crazy with photos and stories from our trip. As you can imagine, I have a million more photos dealing with legendary Japanese drifters and street drifting style… but we just thought we’d break things up a bit and show [...]
