Silverstone 3, Hamilton, and Blow ups

[Craig.]

Well. Here goes Piquet Jr's Renault engine.

These guys dont look amused with all the pics being taken.

And what do we have here, a funny sounding Toyota engine.

And heres why

The only semi decent shot of Lewis Hamilton.

[MWISimmer]

Excellent pics across all 3 threads Craig.

[Rifleman]

Nice stuff, Craig......ya gotta love open wheelers........

[Willit Run]

Awesome shots in all your post!!!

[SkyNoz]

What was causing the engines to blow? Nice pics!

[Omag 2.0]

Contrails! Cool!  ;D

Not the best day for Renault, judging the look on those faces...

[Craig.]

Thanks for the kind comments guys.
These things are by far the hardest subject I have ever tried to shoot. Their size and speed make it very tough when your as close as I was at times.

As for the engines going bang. Renault have been testing their new engine that they want to use for this homologation rule. They have had a number of rather unfortunate blow ups with it and thus far been forced to run it at reduced rev's. Piquet was given the all clear to run it at full revs thinking the problems were solved. Problems not solved:)
Williams are testing their new Toyota engines so their bound to have teething trouble. No idea why Ralfs went, he was on a warm up lap, and had slowed down a good deal by the time he got to bridge because of Piquet's engine.

[beaky]

#2 is priceless- good catch!
Too bad for them- blowups and picture-taking are just part of the game...