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This Saturday we had the first round of Estonian rally championships. Weather was really bad - warm and windy with almost no ice or snow - but plenty of action to shoot. My trusty old E500 was quite busy :)









 
I always love your "in flight" captures. In motorcycle racing getting a shot with both wheels off the ground is usually followed by one of a rider buried in the air fence ;-)
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D620L -> D540 -> C750UZ -> E-500 -> E-510 -> E-3
 
Great action shots! Well done. Those are some very narrow tires fitted to those cars, they look like snow tires, yet the terrain appears soft and muddy. Any details on this?

Best,
Mark
 
Rob MacLennan said:
I always love your "in flight" captures. In motorcycle racing getting
a shot with both wheels off the ground is usually followed by one of
a rider buried in the air fence ;-)
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LOL! Thanks :) Yeah, most of the cars stay on road but some do end up where they're not supposed to...
 
Karaya said:
Great action shots! Well done. Those are some very narrow tires
fitted to those cars, they look like snow tires, yet the terrain
appears soft and muddy. Any details on this?
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Thanks :) These are actually real studded snow tires - many sections of the road were muddy, but there were long parts of ice or mud hiding ice, so regular gravel tires would have been too slippery at those speeds.

Usually we have around minus 15 degrees celcius this time of year, this February it has been close to zero or even over it :( That's why this winter rally looked more like a mud event.
 
Great action shots - magazine worthy. And very interesting tires on those cars! Narrow "mud cutters" I assume? I'd not seen that before.

Best,
Oly

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Bruce Clarke said:
Fond memories of my old Turbo 2000 Scooby I sold last summer. The
newer ones all look horrid to me! Caught the action nicely,
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Thanks :) I think the best looking Scooby was the old narrow-eyed two-door version (like in the second picture). I really don't like the new hatchback... yuck!
 
At least here in Finland you are requred by the law to use winter tyres between 1.12. - 28.2. and same applies to rallycars. Gravel tyres are classified as summer tyres AFAIK. I've read that many teams are not happy with that and also I fail to see the point during an "euro-winter" like this one.
And BTW, very nice photos. More please! :)
 
Olyinaz said:
Great action shots - magazine worthy. And very interesting tires on
those cars! Narrow "mud cutters" I assume? I'd not seen that before.
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Thank you - a handful of pics from this rally are in a newspaper and a magazine :)

Nope, those are not mud tires but true studded winter tires - while most of the road was muddy, there were plenty of very icy sections so studs were the way to go.
 
Glad that you could understand that last poor bit of English on my part ;-)

I've seen footage of rally car races in which the spectators are, shall we say, "a bit too close to the action"? :-O
Pika said:
LOL! Thanks :) Yeah, most of the cars stay on road but some do end up
where they're not supposed to...
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D620L -> D540 -> C750UZ -> E-500 -> E-510 -> E-3
 
iJones said:
At least here in Finland you are requred by the law to use winter
tyres between 1.12. - 28.2. and same applies to rallycars. Gravel
tyres are classified as summer tyres AFAIK. I've read that many
teams are not happy with that and also I fail to see the point during
an "euro-winter" like this one.
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Yep, we have that same law here in Estonia - you have to use winter tyres (these don't have to be studded) during the three coldest months. If the winters get any warmer, they will stop having winter events - too damaging for roads when there's no ice or snow.
iJones said:
And BTW, very nice photos. More please! :)
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Thanks :) Full gallery is here: http://recce.pri.ee/album98/fotod.html
 
Pika said:
Bruce Clarke said:
Fond memories of my old Turbo 2000 Scooby I sold last summer. The
newer ones all look horrid to me! Caught the action nicely,
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Thanks :) I think the best looking Scooby was the old narrow-eyed
two-door version (like in the second picture). I really don't like
the new hatchback... yuck!
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That's the one I had, last of the 'classic' shape. I fear they have lost the plot completely with the hatchback...

Bruce
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