ITCC Round Three
A day of mixed weather graced us at Mondello Park, where the sun split the rocks during qualifying and the heavens opened just as the race began. The event was the third round of the Irish Touring Car Championship and whilst still in it’s infancy has proved to be a major success thus far. The series is the brainchild of competitors Brian Sexton, Barry Rabbitt and Philip Burdock who decided to create the series after the Formula Libre class was ‘ruined’ by space framed and sports car entries. The rules are very straightforward; the car must be a production car and was capable of seating four people. Two wheel drive entrants are given the advantage of being allowed to run slick tires, whilst four wheel drive competitors must run traditional threaded road legal tires. Track time however was limited as the ITCC championship had to share track time with Formula Libre, Ginetta Juniors, Historics and Strykers to name but a few. With the rapid expansion of ITCC, I’m sure it won’t be long before they can hold dedicated events. More images from all the days action after the jump …
Nexen Tires 1JZ S15 Silvia
You may have already seen the preview here or the full feature on Speedhunters but as always I like to show the images a little bit larger here with no watermarks. It’s a very special car owned by Christy Carpenter, built from the ground up by the folks at Garage D and the 1JZ built by DeaneMSPORT. The car puts down in excess of 600BHP through it’s Nexen N8000 18″ tires. More after the jump …
Nigel Colfer 180JZ Preview
Spent today shooting Nigel Colfer’s recently victorious 1JZ powered RPS13. I’m pretty happy with how it all went although we did spend over two hours searching for a location the results may just be worth it. Here’s a quick edit from the last shot of the day back at Nigel’s place. Now to finally start into the backlog of work that need’s to be cleared !
Team Nexen
Just finished quickly working over this shot of the two Team Nexen Ireland cars of Christy Carpenter and James Deane. It’s a simple enough composite, containing around five images. We only had time for one angle as the guy’s had to head to practice so I don’t think it came out too bad. I know it’s not the greatest image in the world but it’s good practice !
