Roycroft Trophy this weekend

[nigel watts]

Hi Nigel, Your photography skills are amazing and so enjoyed by all of us. Without casting any dispersions on these skills could you give us a bit of a run down on your choise of equipment. Thanks .

Hi Parnelli,
I use a Canon EOS 7D with 70 - 300 L zoom lens for most of my shots. I also have a Canon G11 in my pocket for pit/paddock shots and a Canon EOS 3 film camera with 24-105L zoom for black & white shots.
Your question got me thinking about an average day for me at an event such as this. I know that I'm always knackered when I finally get home & then seem to spend endless hours at my computer in the days/weeks following.
So here are some stats relating to the Roycroft event.
Canon 7D fitted with 70-300 zoom weighs 2.1Kg
I shot 1512 digital images
I shot 2 B&W films [72 images] [not developed yet - too busy painting!!]
Now I know why I'm knackered and my arms & shoulders ache!!
Cheers
Nigel

p.s. I've got more shots to post. Hope you don't get bored with them.

[AMCO72]

ps...Quote....'Iv'e got more shots to post......Hope you don't get bored with them'.....NEVER...This thread is about the Roycroft meeting...those that get bored with this old stuff, can check-out other threads instead. Did you get any of the old RJR chassis inside the building?

[nigel watts]

Thanks AMCO72. Unfortunately I didn't venture into the building other than to have a coffee and a sit down.

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Looks as though I escaped Nigels' lens!

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Looks as though I escaped Nigels' lens!

There's more to come, but I wasn't there on Saturday so if you didn't race on Sunday I won't have you
Next year

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[jim short]

The old Northland Sp .Amco you got me thinking back to a couple of times we competed together,and we all know it won the 1st GP.1987 Steph. and I was part of the Aussie and nz Jaguar club that went to see Jaguar win at Le Mans {Le More not Le Mans Lofty scolded us to get it right!!} 96 in total and we all went to dinner at Jaguar house with all the top people involved over the yrs. Duncan Hamilton {Touch Wood a great book}John Watson the current driver,asked him whats the best place to watch? got no idear!! what about in the esses were the Ds crashed out in the first laps ??no when was that??any how after dinner was showing Ian Cummings and Tom wheatcroft some photos of Jaguars in NZ and the only one he was interested was the Northland Sp.as for winning we were a year early..Then 1997 Domain Hillclimb the biggest crowd Max Moselly ect was there and I had my Ferrari 500 Special amongst ,David Oxton Ralt and so on.never had I seen so many flash lites .to this day I have no idea how the crowd new I would be there!The Northland and I were close all day,in the end I did a 28.3 he did a 28.4 but watching eachother Don Suckling in the George Smith Sp. beat the two of us with a 28.0..Then a race meeting at Puke with a good field of the same cars that ran last week at the Roycfoft meeting including the Lagonda {Moores}thats gone to UK?I headed him of on the straight but he pulled me back out of the corners over and over,real fun ,he comented best race he had had .A little trick I learnt on the back straight dont put your hand into the slipstreem..Don Vercoe had made fun of the small bit of 2x2 timber I had put in to stop my left leg sliding around champion,but it worked real good ,the G forces was suprising as we were not going that fast, but no seat belt made the difference I guess.So I told him when I lapped him I would give him a tow.and as I came along side I put my hand out only to have it blown onto the Tyre,I guess gloves would have helped, but Stirling has said over and over if its not dangerous everone would do it.bloody stung you bet. Sadly for the car thats now in USA ,one of the beaten Riley drivers in that race objected to the car and went on and on ,the only reason that I wanted to join Waitamata VCC was to get cheeper ins!!!!so when my entry to the Chelsey hillclimb was debated over and over I told him to stick his club ,.Hell I belonged to 4 other clubs were we got 10% without being nasty I enjoyed watching him spin his Riley at 45mph.. last week!!1

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[conrod]

some fantastic pics, but did anyone get some pics of the Sundays race of Peter Sundberg's Alfa Monza smoking the tyres? He was doing it on all of the slower corners, much to the enjoyment of the crowd, and the detriment of those poor tyres!