Petit Le Mans 2011 Pics

[HKYStormFront]

for the past couple years i had heard about petit le mans from friends and how awesome it was but had never gotten the opportunity to go. this year, nissan is fielding an LMGT prototype car (driven by the winner of the PS3 Gran Turismo 5 challenge winner currently on Speed channel) as well as Brass Monkey's nismo 370z. because of this, nissan offered a hospitality suite to support their racing efforts. members of NAGTROC, the370z.com, and most of the Z1 Motorsports shop crew attended and we all had a great time. pit tours, food, drinks and other exclusives were included. i was very happy with my results from this event and that's making it hard to pick favorites so be sure to check out the entire album of pictures!!

album:

Petit Le Mans 2011 - JPMcG Photography

fav's:

1. the CTS-V race cars were a wonder to behold (and hear!)


2. traffic jam!


3. racing takes a toll on wheels


4. the view over to the pits from nissan's hospitality booth


5. one of the Ferrari Scuderia cars coming down the front stretch, a thing of beauty!


6. BMW's cars were mighty impressive too


7. the Audi R18 V6 TDI's were stuuuuuupid fast! this one was damaged early in the race but later fixed sometime after lunch


8. sometimes it would get crowded heading into turn 6


thanks for looking!

[fiveo]

Great shots man! Looking at your album, I really like your eye......some good shots on but especially off the track in the pits and on pit road. Did anyone get some night shots?

In past years, I remember standing at turn 1 and the heavy braking area into 10a at night watching cars bottom out and shoot sparks, brake rotors glowing, and shooting flames out of the exhaust as they downshifted. You could even see the headers and turbos glowing through the bodywork on some of the prototypes! THOSE would make for some great pics.

[jedimario]

I tried some night stuff, but none of it really came out well

[HKYStormFront]

nah i left both days around 6ish. didn't feel like fighting the traffic at the end of the race. plus i was only wearing a t-shirt and shorts so i was getting kinda cold saturday. i plan to attend more of this event (and for longer) next year. appreciate the compliments tho!

[JB]

The Patron 458 is beautiful...could you upload a high res of that on here so I can put it on my background plsssssss

[HKYStormFront]

which pic JB? what resolution? i'll email it to ya... i figured you would want something like #6 above

[mike_5er]

I'll take #6 in high res as a desktop! haha. 2560 x 1600 if you could

[Clemsons2k]

Awesome pictures Patrick! Makes me extremely jealous I wasn't able to attend yet again this year

[HKYStormFront]

email address mike? thanks ryan

[DessicatorGC]

Patric, can you send me a few high res?
#'s 159 181 193 196 or any like that


thanks
Matt
wmswords@gmail

[JB]

Lol sorry for causing a landslide...

Matt that might be asking for a bit much man. He doesn't just give out all the high res versions because they are HIS pictures and he should be entitled to make money off of the prints, which you need the high res files to make. I'm sure he doesn't mine one or two, but 4+ is quite a bit.

[HKYStormFront]

yea i don't mind sending desktop resolutions but i'm not gonna be handing out full res pics to anybody... i've gotten burned too many times

[93redfox]

Wing mounting on that caddy is odd, but seemingly effective.

[HKYStormFront]

yea a lot of cars are mounting their wings that way. i read in an article about some of these ALMS cars that the "new" style is to not disrupt the air going under the wing which is causing inverse lift (downforce). they found that the traditional mounts were causing turbulence and apparently this works better... not sure how much of a difference it makes but it looks like all true racing wings are going to be heading this way in design. guess every little bit helps

[93redfox]

Hrm. In that case the wing should be mounted forward of the uprights, otherwise they are still in the airstream. Intradesting.