My father was a newspaper photographer for many years when we lived in Scotland. One day he was assigned to cover the demonstration of the new Aston Martin at a track near Glasgow. The driver that would take them around that day? F1 star Peter Collins… Collins, his friend Mike Hawthorn, Tony Brooks, and the…
In 1970, I was a fourteen-year-old who’d just been bitten by the car racing bug. When my new friend, David Sampson, took his Scalextric set out of it’s box — that was it. I was hooked. My Dad was a former news photographer and when he started taking me to car races, he couldn’t resist…
“Whatever you do in life, it’s important to have a brand. You’ve got to give people a reason to remember who you are.” Darren Heath is one of the world’s best in racing car photography. In this interview with Mario Muth, he shares experiences and lessons in this difficult field of endeavor. You can see more of…
While I’m not great at doing video yet, it’s fun to try. Especially when the subject is one of your favorites – the 2015 12 Hours of Sebring car race in Sebring, Florida. I was at Sebring to shoot still photographs for Automobilsport.com, and took advantage of the proximity to the track to try capturing…
Hello folks — another birthday, another Daytona 24 hours! I’m sitting in the Daytona Beach airport as I write this, amid blue sunny skies and not-too-cold temperatures waiting to fly back to chilly Maryland, where it seems like my new bride will be the only warm thing there! This year’s race was a bit different….
Story and photographs by Derek Cadzow. Printed in the March/April, 2006, issue of Cary Magazine. Reprinted here with permission. On a sunny Sunday afternoon, a group of Mazda Miatas, Porsches, older MGs leisurely drive down the road in formation, when all at once the starter’s flag snaps and 30-odd engines roar to life in one…
It’s Monday and I could only get going very slowly this morning. What was holding me back? — a bit of a headache from lack of sleep and sore aching leg muscles from walking what must have been miles and miles around Daytona. But if that was the only price for a fantastic weekend, I’ll take it! This…