Photo Essay: 2010 Belgian Grand Prix

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Thought about posting this in the photography section, but I think the main interest will be here...

I've finally gotten round to selecting and editing the pictures from the Belgian GP, so here they are with a little background info. The full album is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8104765@N06/sets/72157624909192328/

On thursday everyone was slightly anxious for the pit walk. Lots of waiting. That's mostly what thursday was.

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Until we actually arrived at the pitlane. Was really nice to see the action close by.

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Fancy Renault front wing. Soon to be updated.

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John Button says hi to us :)

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Jenson veeery busy after giving autographs. No I didn't get one, I was too busy getting Lewis'.

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Our resident @TheFifthDriver from twitter :) Everyone was shouting out his twitter name and he was unsure whether to respond hehe...

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Sauber trying to get at least their pit stops going as fast as possible...

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The crowd being chased out of the track. By big men on quads. With huge dogs.

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Friday :) VERY wet. Already liking the covered grandstand

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Yes, it's not F1. Still very wet though.

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Schumi was quick in this weather.

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Pouhon is fantastic to see. Really great. Amazing by how much the new teams have to lift through there compared to a McLaren or Red Bull.

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BRIDGESTONE. MERCEDES. And hispania. :lol:

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MORE pouhon:

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Porsche's were fun as always. Less smashing than I'm used from them though...

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The fans were actually as entertaining to take pictures of as the cars...

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The cars are back out and now it's dry. And Saturday. By the way. Don't know when that happened.

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Taking pictures at Eau Rouge for the Porsche race on Sunday.

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And Lewis kindly acknowledges my McLaren cap :D

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Eau Rouge on the laps to the grid is awesome.

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And I'm afraid the race was SO exciting I didn't have time to go take some more pictures. I was glued to my seat and the race was over in what felt like a few minutes. I am after all an F1 fan more than a photographer, so the race was important to me. Sorry no pics from it is the consequence.

The track floods with fans. And rain.
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And we all head home in the mother of all traffic jams. And rainstorms.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Let me know if you want different res of any picture. I put a lot of time into these so please comment ;)

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I hope i can do some coverage for the Singapore GP. Didn't have any camera last year, there were some shots on my old phone.
 
ahpadt said:
Do you get to go into the pit as a 'normal' spectator?
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Some tracks open the pitlane on Thursdays for spectators who have at least a General Admission ticket for the weekend. Friday, Saturday and Sunday have brief pitwalks only for people with paddock passes. The Hungaroring has been doing this for some years (it was already established in '07 when I went there), looks like it's the same at Spa, and perhaps at some more tracks.
 
Better than I managed, Thursday only. No idea how you managed to take good pictures with all that rain on Friday.
 
vikiradTG2007 said:
Some tracks open the pitlane on Thursdays for spectators who have at least a General Admission ticket for the weekend. Friday, Saturday and Sunday have brief pitwalks only for people with paddock passes. The Hungaroring has been doing this for some years (it was already established in '07 when I went there), looks like it's the same at Spa, and perhaps at some more tracks.
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Yep, weekend ticket required.
 
Thanks for sharing your pictures, I love Spa!
 
Nice work. I'll try my best to put something together like this after Suzuka :)
 
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