BMW F1 on snow in St.Moritz, full report about testdrive

[stmoritzer]

Here's the full report of the saturday's training session on the frozen lake.
For more info about the event, check out the thread in the F1 section (http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?t=46677)

Some Photos are done with a EOS350D, the rest with my Sony V3 ( if you are interested, check out the file name).

Aerial view of the location, courtesy of swiss-image.ch/Andy Mettler
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the track :wink:
http://img125.imagevenue.com/loc85/th_49771_IMG_4570_122_85lo.jpg (http://img125.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=49771_IMG_4570_122_85lo.jpg)



NH prepares for the ride
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the roll-out under the eye of plenty of spectators
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preparation to start the engine
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NH started in the middle of the straight, first drove back the the beginning and did a 180°. On the photo below he's comming back for the first time.
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I was mostly filming, hence only one drive-by was captured with photos
as you heard in the video already, TC was on and the engine noise was terrible :lol: , but to see the car driving infront of the mountain-landscape was cool :P
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after the drive, the official photographers needed some material and placed the car and NH on the finish line. I did focus on the carpictures.

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btw, I played with the white settings, but the car was in the shadow, so the white-snow-pictures are "fake", the one above shows the real color, the second one was edited, you can see the white sky (not possible :wink:)


The sunday was a blast, again sunny weather, close access to the action, plenty of footage (1.3Gb); Max Power kindly offered his help cutting a video, Jabba already prepared a "JW-trailer" out of the footage, I'm working on the photos. the full coverage should be ready in a few days :twisted:


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[dutchmasterflex]

just awesome! I really would have been disappointed if they just ran the F1 car with TC on.. but VERY happy to hear they went all out later on after all the tests!


Great job with the photo/video coverage, not every day you get to see an F1 car on snow :D

[TT]

I still think it was a total waste of time to take an F1 car up there and see it go half the speed of a fucking horse on an boring straighline with the engine constantly reined in by the electronics :D
nonetheless, those are the first pics of an F1 car on snow I guess :D

[Garretts_turbo]

awesome pics! that must have been a sight haha

[sameerrao]

nonetheless, those are the first pics of an F1 car on snow I guess :D

Mika drove his McLaren in the snow sometime back :)

[twboy1999]

thats prett crazy
must be a blast driving on snow

[stmoritzer]

I still think it was a total waste of time to take an F1 car up there and see it go half the speed of a fucking horse on an boring straighline with the engine constantly reined in by the electronics :D
nonetheless, those are the first pics of an F1 car on snow I guess :D

I guess you'll like the sunday's performance more.... no TC and doing donuts infront of the camera :wink:

[franck bullitt]

Very funny idea :!: :lol:
Thx for the report :!: :wink: 8)

[saadie]

I guess you'll like the sunday's performance more.... no TC and doing donuts infront of the camera :wink:

where are the sunday vids ? :mrgreen:

[komotar]

man hearing that engine and seing the f1 car in that inviroment must have been something!

thx for the report man! loved the pics 8)

and yeah, it's shitty taking pics in bad light :wink: