Rallying

We got invited for a day out last Wednesday  to watch "M Sport"testing out one of there rally cars by one of the marshals (Thank you Ray). Exciting stuff in real life much better than watching on the telly.
It was an early start getting to the forest for 7.30 so we could be in position before the forest track was closed and the testing could begin. A 6 mile long track and we were about at the halfway point but there was no mistaking when the car had started its run you could hear it miles away.

We wanted to try and show the car in action and to give a feeling of the speed it was travelling at and one way is to use a panning action at a slow shutter speed to have the background blurred but keep the car in focus






Another way we tried out, catching the car on a corner with the lose gravel spraying from the back wheels.
(It is a white car under the golden sheen of mud)

Or close up action?
We soon got into the habit of taking the shot and turning our backs to the spray of gravel (my jacket needed a wash when I got home)

Or even closer?

Even XOX got a bit muddy and that was just driving to the spot we where given. But as always it was lovely to be able to make tea and have somewhere warm to sit between runs.

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Thank you for looking

Richard