With COVID-19 sweeping through 2020, drift days have been very far from few. The last one I had attended was the Revolution Motorsports day practice back in June, which I had never posted about due to not producing images that were to my liking. Fast forward four months and Australian Drift Club was hosting a South Circuit Drift Festival held at SMSP. It was expected to be a downpour of rain for the whole day and I had originally planned not to attend. Although one thing lead to another and the weather held out for the amount of time I had stayed.
Track activities were to start at 9AM through to 7PM, a solid 10 hours of drifting! More than enough time for me to redeem myself from the past event and shoot at SMSP again. Mind you, it has been 7 years since I've last taken photos of drifting at this track.
I had arrived just shy of 9AM, signing media accreditation before doing a lap of the pit area.
Track activities have already started by this point. Although due to someone having a head-on crash with the concrete barrier, there was about an hours worth of downtime.
Revo boys out in force for the day.
Image taken from the Australian Drift Club facebook page
I believe this is the first time that this layout been has been run, with past events only allowing from
turns 2 through to turn 6, this meant more vantage points to shoot from (which I didn't quite take advantage of).
R.I.P. front bar in the background.
Panning/action photos above are from vantage point 1.
NTS: wear boots next time.
These two were quite enjoyable to watch throughout the day. Although the sound of the headlight shattering breaks my heart.
At this stage of vantage point 2, I started to experiment with a much more slower shutter & a shorter focal length.
At about 2PM I decided to call it quits as rain droplets started to fall from the sky, storm clouds were forming and I didn't want a build up of mud to added onto the what I already had on my shoes. Overall I had a good time shooting/spectating. The conditions were
almost perfect for what I wanted to achieve with the photographs, redeeming myself from the last panning set I took
(I think). Thanks
Australian Drift Club.
Did someone say there's a North Circuit day coming up next month?
Track activities were to start at 9AM through to 7PM, a solid 10 hours of drifting! More than enough time for me to redeem myself from the past event and shoot at SMSP again. Mind you, it has been 7 years since I've last taken photos of drifting at this track.
I had arrived just shy of 9AM, signing media accreditation before doing a lap of the pit area.
