Motor Racing at Silverstone 1987
Discussion
Following on from the hugely fascinating threads posted up recently featuring racing from the 1960s and '70s, I thought I'd scan some of my photos for those of us who's memorable history is a little more recent 
. So, 1987 was the year I got my first 'proper' camera, a second-hand Praktica MTL-3 with a 300mm telephoto lens that weighed as much as the Isle of Wight! I was 17 and went to Silverstone, my local circuit, for all the big meetings and many of the small ones too. Here are a few of my memories...
F1 tyre testing in June.
Nigel Mansell
Alain Prost
Jonathan Palmer
Andrea De Cesaris
Ayrton Senna
Satoru Nakajima (or 'Itchyknackers' as one of my mates used to call him!)
Eddie Cheever
Ivan Capelli
My favourite event on the calendar always was and always has been the 1000km races, especially in the glorious Group C days.
Cheever/Boesel (at the newly introduced Luffield bend)
Bell/Stuck
Watson/Lammers
Mass/Wollek
Pescarolo/Thackwell
And finally, some BTCC pictures pre-Super Touring, pre-TOCA, just good old Group A!
Dennis Leech
Mike Newman
Andy Rouse
Graham Hathaway & Karl Jones
Tim Harvey
Coming soon, 1988...
>> Edited by Trackside on Thursday 22 December 22:55
. So, 1987 was the year I got my first 'proper' camera, a second-hand Praktica MTL-3 with a 300mm telephoto lens that weighed as much as the Isle of Wight! I was 17 and went to Silverstone, my local circuit, for all the big meetings and many of the small ones too. Here are a few of my memories... F1 tyre testing in June.
Nigel Mansell
Alain Prost
Jonathan Palmer
Andrea De Cesaris
Ayrton Senna
Satoru Nakajima (or 'Itchyknackers' as one of my mates used to call him!)
Eddie Cheever
Ivan Capelli
My favourite event on the calendar always was and always has been the 1000km races, especially in the glorious Group C days.
Cheever/Boesel (at the newly introduced Luffield bend)
Bell/Stuck
Watson/Lammers
Mass/Wollek
Pescarolo/Thackwell
And finally, some BTCC pictures pre-Super Touring, pre-TOCA, just good old Group A!
Dennis Leech
Mike Newman
Andy Rouse
Graham Hathaway & Karl Jones
Tim Harvey
Coming soon, 1988...
>> Edited by Trackside on Thursday 22 December 22:55
Great shots Trackside.
All the evidence in those of the abilities that continued to develop and produce the shots I too, to echo trackcar's comments, have enjoyed over past months.
I do envy you your 300mm lens though. I was stuck with a Vivitar 75-205 2 ring zoom which I thought was OK if I could get close enough to the action but may not have been even as good as I thought. In haste one day I bought a 2x multiplier but it was a Tamron (the only one Jessops had in stock) and the results with the Vivitar were not so clever. And then Donington started to erect fences and things and the proposition of blowing a few quid on films and processing with that degree of limitation did not appeal at all. Photography was much more expensive, relatively, back then than it is now.
On the other hand I did have (still do) a Canon AE1 body to hang the lenses on.
All the evidence in those of the abilities that continued to develop and produce the shots I too, to echo trackcar's comments, have enjoyed over past months.
I do envy you your 300mm lens though. I was stuck with a Vivitar 75-205 2 ring zoom which I thought was OK if I could get close enough to the action but may not have been even as good as I thought. In haste one day I bought a 2x multiplier but it was a Tamron (the only one Jessops had in stock) and the results with the Vivitar were not so clever. And then Donington started to erect fences and things and the proposition of blowing a few quid on films and processing with that degree of limitation did not appeal at all. Photography was much more expensive, relatively, back then than it is now.
On the other hand I did have (still do) a Canon AE1 body to hang the lenses on.
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