Melbourne GP 2015 - Pics from pitlane

Starr · Post by **Starr** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:00 pm

Thanks Jeff! Awesome pictures!

Starr

sportandmiah · Post by **sportandmiah** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:06 pm

What lenses are you using? Great pics!

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 9:08 pm

Many thanks!

What a study in modern F1 car design and mechanics, thank you very much for posting these.

Ryan

badun · Post by **badun** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 9:14 pm

My two thoughts are:

No wonder Tamiya did not include any engine detail in the RB6
How did you get so close to the wrecked McLaren? I'm shocked they didn't throw a tarp over it as soon as the driver was out of the car!

billgtp · Post by **billgtp** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:03 pm

Awesome pictures thanks

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 6:24 am

Thanks guys for all your nice comments

Watch out for the follow-up, 'Pics from parc ferme' soon.

Dan - I checked my archive and unfortunately there are no pics at all from the RB6 or the Red Bull garage, so it probably means their garage was shut or covered up. Back then the pitwalk was on Wednesday afternoon, and sometimes the teams were still just getting their garage sorted, with not much car on display. (Now the pitwalks are on Thursday morning and afternoon)

Badun - when cars get towed off the track in Melbourne, the area that the marshalls place the car in is often quite accessible and, answering Sportandmiah's question, with a 65x zoom camera (Canon SX60HS) it makes it fairly easy. The trick is hearing about the incident on the PA and sometimes having to walk quickly from one end of the track to the other to get to the incident...

Eagle50 · Post by **Eagle50** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 6:49 am

Thanks for these great close-ups, Jeff! Hope someone makes 1/20 kits of one of these cars (the Williams would be nice).

Cheers, Chris

dancraft · Post by **dancraft** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:46 am

Jeff wrote: Dan - I checked my archive and unfortunately there are no pics at all from the RB6 or the Red Bull garage, so it probably means their garage was shut or covered up. Back then the pitwalk was on Wednesday afternoon, and sometimes the teams were still just getting their garage sorted, with not much car on display. (Now the pitwalks are on Thursday morning and afternoon)
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That's OK, thanks for checking Jeff.

Looking forward to the next post.

Regards, Dan

pzspeed · Post by **pzspeed** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 3:05 pm

Man.....so much for the simplicity of the 80's.....these cars are crazy complicated. It's hard to tell what your even looking at!
Great shots!

jaws · Post by **jaws** » Sun Mar 15, 2015 3:47 pm

WOW Fantastic pictures and another big thank you as others have posted.
Cannot even think how that must be to see F1 up close and personal. I've only seen one race the last race at Indy.
The Thursday pit walk is something I will never forget.

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