Watkins Glen Photos

[Douglas Kniffin]

Good honest racing fun....

[racer27]

Darn Work ---- It keeps interfering with my racing fun....

[Jdorsh]

I would like to thank everyone for helping to exceed ICUITI's expectations. The event was such a hit that VS Racing has signed ICUITI for 2008. To quote Paul Travers, CEO, "I never knew racing could be so much fun!"

This series blows away all others in my opinion in both the track time and level of competition – not to mention the respect shared in the padock. Just look at the size of the fields in other series. I can't seem to find many that offer 50 plus car fields.

I can't wait for Cleveland, although VS Racing will be quite busy putting the #73 car back together - oops. Who knew the wall in turn 9 could grab cars Amazingly; I have no injuries and am not even that sore...other than the bruises on the wallet

In an effort to help raise the profile of the F2000 series, I am pleased to announce that Canaccord Adams and VS Racing are working to put a prize package together for Cleveland that will be sure to please everyone. We will announce the details at the Cleveland drivers meeting.

[Jeff Owens]

Hey thats not fair. Why is it the events I miss have Real crew help??? The t-shirts are great, Christina would love one of those. See you in Cleveland!

[Purple Frog]

Mrs. Frog is starting to sort through the 1100 shots she took.

Race 2, Sunday start:


Race 1, Saturday start:


more later...

[Purple Frog]

It's a pain sizing these things down from 10 meg images...

[Purple Frog]

More odds and ends...

[Purple Frog]

An uncropped start sequence...skipping every few frames

[Purple Frog]

Four frames just prior to the previous 10...

[Purple Frog]

Some of the folks that put on the show.

and... NASCAR winners do burnouts... what do F2000 winners do?

[Michael Rand]

Eakin, chew on this, Janice puts together a "slide" show for the season ending gala at Lime Rock on August 18, going through her photos with a crowd and a party vibe will be worth the entry fee !

[GR]

Thanks Mrs. Frog for the ability for us on the outside to get a feel of the excitement!!

But.............. I do notice a lack of the pics that would be of even more interest to us, ie.... those "compromising" situations that legends are made of .............. and this group of dedicated racers are , well, shall I say......... known for

Perhaps there out there.............. Might be a way to develop some revenue to support the Tech operations of the series I know Tequila (in the quantities needed) can get expensive

The last pic in the series is AWESOME!!! It says a ton....

[Matt M.]

The only time I had a smile all weekend............. Well - this and when stinky hurled in the BBS boxes.....

[GR]

Is she staring at your...... shift lever??

[jim morgan]

She's thinking to herself, "Now I see why they call him Fast Matt!"

[Cole Morgan]

I would like to take credit for the above post, I didn't realize that I was signed on under my dads name. That was all me, bring it Matt....

[Cole Morgan]

Some of the folks that put on the show.

and... NASCAR winners do burnouts... what do F2000 winners do?

We do lockups, see above.

[Purple Frog]

Struggling for captions...

[Purple Frog]

there are 100s more...

[Purple Frog]

off to the races....

[Purple Frog]

Only about 300 more pixs...

[Nicholas Belling]

how about the VD that took severe damage.. would be good to see photos showing how these cars hold up after some serious on track incidents..

Mr.Frog how did you have time to take all these photos.

[D.T. Benner]

And just keep the button down?

[Dave Hopple]

Here's some more WG photos @ Mark Windecker's site http://mwphoto.smugmug.com/gallery/2991693#P-1-15



-Dave


P.S. I'll for sure take a break working on Nick's Mazda this weekend at Cleveland to watch your guys race (and go into T1! )

[Michael Rand]

Hey Dave Hopple, since it is unlikely the two groups can possibly be paddocked very far apart, let's be sure to find each and put faces with names.
Thanks to Apexspeed we all "know" each other online, and you most likely know some of our drivers, but we, F2000, being me, Robert Wright and Al Guibord Jr, would like to meet in person.
We have a Series canopy off one side of the ADSA/Wright Racing 18 wheeler which is a good place to start. Looking forward to meeting up in Cleveland, Mike Rand

[Purple Frog]

Mrs Frog took all the photes except one. We bought the camera on the way up to the track. Nikon 40 ;10meg w/3 frames per second, and a 2 gig card, plus a 1 gig card. No shop on the route had a lens longer than 85mm, so she was a bit hampered that weekend. The new VR200 lens is on the market, so we need to find one soon.

With the 10 meg format we have played around and done some custom cropping and produced some neat shots. Everything we posted was basically raw images scaled down to 1024 x 768. The 10 meg images have unbeivable detail when we had been used to 5 meg.

[Purple Frog]

I must apologize to all affected. The other night at 3 in the morning I sadly mis-labeled a picture. So I'll correct it here. Both pictures are pretty darn neat.

Left to Right

The first one is the Dole family.

The second one is the Burke family.

I apologize again for the screw up.

[Purple Frog]

I know it's a bit late... Ulrich vassmer gave me this CDof Pixs at WGI. I misplaced it, then found it as I was packing for Cleveland. Great shots should not be wasted.

[Purple Frog]

Ulrich has hundreds more beautiful shots... here's a few more:

[Purple Frog]

Who is that in the background?
A pretender? A wannabe? A photoshop hoax? An innocent just on his way to the loo?

Photo courtesy of Mr. Burke.

[cmz750]

In case anyone wants to reminisce about the F2000 race at Watkins Glen this past June here is a link to some additional photos to look through. Sorry for the big delay in posting this link.

-Carolyn

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[Douglas Kniffin]

Great pictures!