Client: Top Gear
Location: Yorkshire
PeugeotSport 208 Pikes Peak T16
Client: Top Gear
Location: France
Hot Hatches
Client: CAR Magazine
Location: Rockingham Speedway
1910 Benz
Client: Classic Cars
Location: Brooklands
Caterham Seven 160
Client: CAR Magazine
Location: Bologna, Italy
Infiniti Q50
Client: CAR Magazine
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Performance Car Of The Year 2013
Client: CAR Magazine
Location: North Wales
Rallye Sunseeker 2013
For some time now, i've wanted to photograph a rally. Ultimately committed drivers throw their cars around the ever-changing surface in a bid to be the quickest across various stages. With the Rallye Sunseeker on my door step, I headed down to Poole Quay with Jakob Ebrey to cover this year's event.
Fans lined the street for the ceremonial opening, creating a buzz that this sports famous for. Here, you can get closer to the cars and drivers than in any other form of motorsport.
The following morning, Somerley house played host to two special stages. With no room for error, cars literally flew past the house at breakneck speeds.
Further round the stage, Somerley House provided a picturesque backdrop for spectators:
After Stages 3 and 6, we headed back to the service park to catch the teams hard at work:
With Jukka Korhonen set to claim the title of BRC Champion, he looked calm and composed before heading out on the next stage:
A quick trip to the press office to file some images and it was on to the finish line at Poole Quay. As the sun began to set and crowds gathered, it started to look more like Monaco than Dorset!
As cars made their entrance, the Mayor presented the trophies to each of the competitors and celebrations were well underway with Jukka Korhonen and Mark Salminen being crowned the 2013 BRC Champions:
Absolutely loved my first foray into documenting a rally. Next stop WRC Wales?
McLaren P1 and Sergio Perez
in Photoshoot
Each year, one hundred and fifty thousand petrolheads flock to the mecca of motorsport, Goodwood's Festival of Speed. Held over three days, the show (unlike any other) lets fans get up close and personal with iconic cars and celebrities as they hurtle up Lord March's 1.16 mile driveway.
This year saw the FoS celebrate it's 20th Anniversary, whilst McLaren looked back over 50 years of remarkable achievements. From one legendary icon, to McLaren's next? Sergio Perez climbs out of Ayrton Senna's MP4-4 and into the eagerly awaited McLaren P1 hypercar, making it the car's first public debut.
Behind closed doors and with exclusive access, I'm given three minutes to shoot portraits of Checo. Gates unlocked, the car would then weave its way through a sea of spectators before catapulting CAR Magazine's Mark Walton up the hill with McLaren's test driver, Chris Goodwin.
Despite covering 373 miles in two days (most of which before dawn) and spending two full days at the show for just three minutes with famed Formula One driver Sergio Perez, it will remain a career highlight.
The P1 up close is breath-taking, especially in "Amethyst Black" with more exposed carbon fibre than you can shake a stick at.
A mass of intricate details, numerous tell-tale signs show that McLaren's F1 background has engineered the P1 to be a race car for the road. From it's indented nose that channels clean air into the roof-scoop, to the lightweight titanium-alloy wire mesh that surrounds the exhaust. Awesome! To read about Mark's experience in the P1 and see further images, check out October's issue of CAR Magazine.
The Greatest Alfas...
If you haven't picked up a copy of September's CAR Magazine then you only have a week left to do so.
Cars that define a legend, we flew out to Balocco, Italy to re-unite Alfa Romeo's legendary sports cars. From the TZ 'comeback racer' which sounded glorious echoing through the forests of 'misto Alfa':
To the 4.7 V8, 450bhp 8C Competizione which succeeded in shredding it's tyres in a spectacular fashion:
And how could you possibly forget the 12,000rpm screaming 155 V6 TI which enabled Alfa to lay claim of being the only non-German marque to win the DTM title:
The 24 page feature contains 18 of Alfa's greatest cars, including the eagerly anticipated 4C; a supercar for £47k? Be sure to check it out!
