Well Saturday afternoon I moved back down to Somerset having finished uni, so I figured it'd be rude not to go and check out the events going on at Wiscombe Park as it's pretty close to home, and it's been too long since I've been there.
We didn't arrive until a bit later than planned, thanks to wanting to be sober enough for the drive after the night before's celebrations, and me leaving my camera at home causing a detour to pick it up. After nearly removing my Passats front splitter on a ridge in the car park/field (causing a lot of laughter from a friend who happened to be walking past!) we wandered in about 1pm in time to nose around the Paddock and say hello to anyone we knew during the lunch brake before the action resumed for the afternoon session.
It was a great days racing, at an awesome venue. Wicombe's normally an eventful course thanks to being very tight and narrow, with an open first half leading into a densely wooded area causing the surface to often vary in grip throughout its length. The surface has been relaid over winter, and is apparently very greasy when wet, as fresh tarmac tends to be, but yesterday the weather was perfect, and lead to a good clean days racing, with only 2 red flags that I saw in the whole afternoon. As usual for a Hill Climb, there was a good turnout of retro machinery, as well as a few moderns thrown in there.
To anyone who's not attended an event there before, I'd definitely recommend it, the course is essentially the driveway to a country house, and is located in a beautiful valley in south-east Devon. It's a great course for spectators, with open access to the Paddock, and the ability to get very close to the action on the hill. The Valley causes the noise to be spectacularly echoed too. When you first arrive you could easily think you're just having a nice walk some idyllic countryside until the sound of a screaming engine and squealing tyres echos through the trees.
I'm afraid I still wasn't feeling brilliant after very little sleep and much too much alcohol this weekend (well I think finishing full time education is a justified cause for celebration), so the photos are nothing spectacular, but I was very happy to have a decent zoom lens, (this is the first Motorsport event I've made it too with anything longer than a 50mm!) I definitely felt improvement in my shots through the day too. If anyone happens to know anyone in them, and wants full size versions let me know and I'll email them over.
Anyway, on with the pictures, I'm affraid there's quite a few, and this is less than half of what I took!
The events for the rest of the season can be found on the venues website here. The next one's July 28/29th.
We didn't arrive until a bit later than planned, thanks to wanting to be sober enough for the drive after the night before's celebrations, and me leaving my camera at home causing a detour to pick it up. After nearly removing my Passats front splitter on a ridge in the car park/field (causing a lot of laughter from a friend who happened to be walking past!) we wandered in about 1pm in time to nose around the Paddock and say hello to anyone we knew during the lunch brake before the action resumed for the afternoon session.
It was a great days racing, at an awesome venue. Wicombe's normally an eventful course thanks to being very tight and narrow, with an open first half leading into a densely wooded area causing the surface to often vary in grip throughout its length. The surface has been relaid over winter, and is apparently very greasy when wet, as fresh tarmac tends to be, but yesterday the weather was perfect, and lead to a good clean days racing, with only 2 red flags that I saw in the whole afternoon. As usual for a Hill Climb, there was a good turnout of retro machinery, as well as a few moderns thrown in there.
To anyone who's not attended an event there before, I'd definitely recommend it, the course is essentially the driveway to a country house, and is located in a beautiful valley in south-east Devon. It's a great course for spectators, with open access to the Paddock, and the ability to get very close to the action on the hill. The Valley causes the noise to be spectacularly echoed too. When you first arrive you could easily think you're just having a nice walk some idyllic countryside until the sound of a screaming engine and squealing tyres echos through the trees.
I'm afraid I still wasn't feeling brilliant after very little sleep and much too much alcohol this weekend (well I think finishing full time education is a justified cause for celebration), so the photos are nothing spectacular, but I was very happy to have a decent zoom lens, (this is the first Motorsport event I've made it too with anything longer than a 50mm!) I definitely felt improvement in my shots through the day too. If anyone happens to know anyone in them, and wants full size versions let me know and I'll email them over.
Anyway, on with the pictures, I'm affraid there's quite a few, and this is less than half of what I took!
The events for the rest of the season can be found on the venues website here. The next one's July 28/29th.
Unfortunately it was a complete wash out and sunday was cancelled 
)