Here is my first attempt at a video using my canon 5dmkII edited using adobe premiere. Sorry no steadicam all handheld, mostly taken with 16-35mm f2.8L or 300mm f2.8L x2.

More Images from day 2 at the Silverstone Britcar 24 Hour Race.

Well it’s the 1st of October, It’s windy, it’s raining and it’s the Britcar 24 Hour Race at Silverstone,
After a 2.5 hour drive from my home in harpenden I arrived at silverstone, a tip that normally takes 55 minutes. I parked my car in the paddock had a cup of coffee in the paddock cafe to prepare myself for a day of wet sports photography,

A quick trip to race control to pick up my media tabbard, pickup time table, and free copy of the event program. Something about the program seems to ring a bell, oh yes the image on the front cover is mine, taken at last years britcar 500. I continued to look through the program page 12 & 13 6 more of my images in a double page spread, two more to be found page 20 & 43 fame at last.

Here are a few images from the day, more to come tomorrow.

Swan Honda’s James Ellison took a sensational victory in the second race of the day at Silverstone as he kept the Title Fighters behind him. The tension now builds ahead of the final round in two weeks’ time as the title standings were yet again shaken up.

Ellison said: “It is so emotional to win especially after everything that has happened this season and I had so many things going through my mind but I needed to stay calm, but I got excited on the last lap and got a drift and then bit but fortunately I held it!”

Relentless Suzuki’s Michael Laverty saw his chance of another podium vanish on the opening lap when he was involved in a crash at turn one with Loris Baz and Chris Burns whilst the Swan Honda of Ellison powered into the lead ahead of Kiyonari and Michael Rutter. Laverty rejoined but was forced to retire with a technical problem just a lap later.

Josh Brookes was working his way up the order and made a move on Alastair Seeley on the third lap to put the HM Plant Honda up to fifth and then he was pushing Gary Mason hard for fourth. However there was disaster for Rutter as he crashed out of third place at Aintree on the fourth lap. Mason then was in a potential podium position but Brookes made a move the lap later to go third and relegate Mason to fourth. The Australian was then on a mission to try and close the gap to leaders Ellison and Kiyonari however finished third to move second in the overall standings ahead of team-mate Kiyonari.

During the second free practice session of the DTM at Brands Hatch, the drivers of Audi and Mercedes-Benz searched for the limit in preparation for qualifying. Eventually, Paul Di Resta set the fastest lap time with his AMG Mercedes C-Class. The Scot completed his fastest lap of the 1.929 kilomtres short Indy circuit in 41.101 seconds and thus toppled erstwhile leader Timo Scheider with seven minutes remaining. The Audi works driver had been on top of the time sheets for most of the session with his personal best time of 41.166 seconds.

Scheider ended up fourth in second free practice, after Oliver Jarvis and Gary Paffett moved up into second and third place respectively in the closing stages of the session. Thus, three local drivers from the UK locked out the top three positions. The nice balance between the two manufacturers competing in the DTM also became apparent in the following positions: Bruno Spengler (Mercedes-Benz), Mattias Ekström (Audi), Ralf Schumacher (Mercedes-Benz) and Martin Tomczyk occupied fifth to eighth place

Ralf Schumacher

On Saturday morning, the search for the best possible set-up took its toll. Yellow flags were out for a while after David Coulthard, Maro Engel and Markus Winkelhock went off the track. Apart from a few kilograms of gravel, the cars remained largely undamaged, so that all drivers were able to resume their session. The longest distance, 54 laps, was completed by fastest driver Paul Di Resta. Scheider and Winkelhock only completed 24 laps each.

Susie Stoddart

Tom Sykes celebrated his first BSB race win since Knockhill in 2008 this afternoon, as the Kawasaki WSB time secured the second race win of the weekend at Brands Hatch as he fended off the challenges of Ryuichi Kiyonari. However, following mixed results Josh Brookes, Tommy Hill and Ryuichi Kiyonari are now equal on points in the overall standings going into the final race of the day.

Sykes said: “It’s nice to be back and that was a good race. I was pleased to get out front and we made big changes since yesterday and they clearly paid off, so thanks to the team for their hard work. We now want a repeat performance in the next one to try and make it a double.”

Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha Sterilgarda) took a home pole position at Silverstone, with a record fastest lap of 2’04.091.

The Coventry man held off the charge of Jonathan Rea (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) and Michel Fabrizio (Ducati Xerox) in fine style, while Jakub Smrz (Pata B&G) moved forward impressively with some great single laps to go fourth on the grid.

Smrz beat both of the official factory Aprilia machines and was one place up on championship challenger Leon Haslam (Suzuki Alstare).

CAL CRUTCHLOW

JAMES TOSELAND

SHANE BYRNE

MICHEL FABRIZIO

LUCA SCASSA

NORIYUKI HAGA

BROC PARKES

CARLOS CHECA

ROGER LEE HAYDEN

ROGER LEE HAYDEN

JAMES TOSELAND

Mark Webber beat his Red Bull team mate Sebastian Vettel into the first corner and never looked back in Sunday’s British Grand Prix. Vettel then dropped to the back of the field with a puncture, leaving McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton as Webber’s only serious challenger.

Nico Rosberg was an excellent third for Mercedes GP, with Jenson Button fourth for McLaren after a safety-car period aided his recovery from 14th on the grid…

F1 Silverstone 2010 Mark Webber 1st place

F1 Silverstone 2010 Lewis Hamilton 2nd place

F1 Silverstone 2010 Nico Rosberg 3rd place

In no big surprise, Red Bull F1 driver Sebastian Vettel has taken the Pole for the 2010 British Grand Prix at the re-vamped Silverstone circuit with an amazing lap of 1:29.615. For Vettel, it is his fifth pole of the 2010 season and 10th of his Formula One career. This is Vettel’s second straight Pole as he also took the front starting position at the European Grand Prix at Valencia. This is also Vettel’s second straight Pole at the British Grand Prix.

For Red Bull it is their 9th Pole in ten Grand Prix of the 2010 season. It is also the team’s fifth lock-out of the front row starting-grid in 2010.

Vettel said of his Pole, “Wacka, Wacka baby! This Silverstone is amazing! It is so much fun as our car works very well. The speeds we reach are a bit crazy, and the new section is really great! I really like this track!”

Mark Webber is running in the repaired version of Lucious Liz – the car that Sebastian Vettel struggled with earlier this season – and was able to qualify second.

Webber said, “Coming back here after last the crash at Valencia was not ideal, but the team has done a good job.”

Fernando Alonso was the best of the rest as Red Bull’s dominance that has been clear all weekend continued. Ferrari have made a significant step forward this weekend as both Alonso and Massa have moved up the grid relative to the competition.

Alonso looked ahead to tomorrow’s race saying, “We are better, but we need to continue to improve the car. We are performing better now, I think here we are competitive and we hope to score some good points!”

Lewis Hamilton grabbed a respectable fourth place starting position on the grid while his teammate and 2009 Formula One world drivers champion Jenson Button had a horrible outing way back in P14 nearly a full second slower.

In the Mercedes garage Michael Schumacher – starting 10th – was once again beat out by his remarkable teammate Nico Rosberg – who will start P5.

Toro Rosso Jaime Alguersuari was the biggest loser today as he was knocked out

A third victory of the 2010 season was forthcoming at the AirAsia British Grand Prix for the Fiat Yamaha rider as he won by a margin of 6.743s with a commanding display. Andrea Dovizioso and Ben Spies completed the podium.

World Championship leader Jorge Lorenzo took victory from pole position at Silverstone on Sunday as he stretched his lead at the top of the standings to 37 points over Andrea Dovizioso, who placed second in the race. Ben Spies achieved his first MotoGP podium with third place.

With three laps to go Hayden and Spies both managed to pass De Puniet, and Stoner scented the chance to get in the hunt. He soon made a move on the Frenchman to slot into fifth in a rousing finale.

Midway through Stoner’s lap times were almost identical to race leader Lorenzo’s, but in eighth place he was forced to chase down Pedrosa and the Australian found it hard work trying to pass the Spaniard. He eventually managed to do so on lap 13, and then proceeded to make up further ground.