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Old 02-08-2007, 02:26 PM   #1
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Default BMW F1 on snow in St.Moritz, full report about testdrive

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

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


the track




NH prepares for the ride




the roll-out under the eye of plenty of spectators



preparation to start the engine



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.




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 , but to see the car driving infront of the mountain-landscape was cool




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.






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 )


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


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Old 02-08-2007, 02:29 PM   #2
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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
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Old 02-08-2007, 03:24 PM   #3
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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
nonetheless, those are the first pics of an F1 car on snow I guess
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Old 02-08-2007, 08:07 PM   #4
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awesome pics! that must have been a sight haha
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Old 02-08-2007, 08:24 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by TT
nonetheless, those are the first pics of an F1 car on snow I guess
Mika drove his McLaren in the snow sometime back
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Old 02-08-2007, 09:35 PM   #6
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thats prett crazy
must be a blast driving on snow
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Old 02-09-2007, 04:03 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by 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
nonetheless, those are the first pics of an F1 car on snow I guess
I guess you'll like the sunday's performance more.... no TC and doing donuts infront of the camera
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Old 02-10-2007, 06:16 PM   #8
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Very funny idea
Thx for the report 8)
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Old 02-10-2007, 06:30 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by stmoritzer
I guess you'll like the sunday's performance more.... no TC and doing donuts infront of the camera
where are the sunday vids ?
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Old 02-10-2007, 07:13 PM   #10
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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
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