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Hi Guys
I'm planning to go to the Bathurst Rally in October,and it is the first time I have been to a rally.Do you need long zooms or are you able to get close,are the cars close together or there long gaps between the cars, and what access to the track in the forest sections would there be? Maybe to many questions just curious about how it works.
Jeff

Jeff, I've just been to the Rally in Melbourne.

I've found the lense required depends on how they've set up the spectator areas. In fact on the Saturday, I was so close to the cars as they came round the corner that I was using my 18-70mm lens.

Today though I had to use the 70-300mm as they had set the spectator sites a little bit more off the track as the stages were faster.

I was really surprised to be using the 18-70mm, in some cases at 18mm.

For some of my photos of the Rally of Melbourne, go to:

http://www.pixspot.com/thumbnails.php?album=667

Ray

Hi Jeff

I used a 105mm prime telephoto lens on a Praktika IV. Manual Focus.

http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/sw2photo/album?.dir=/67f1

The first and only time I went to the Bathurst Rally: 1992 I think it was...

The first two pics were taken on the top of Mt Panorama (above "the cutting" at race track, I think it is the campground or carpark). they will give you an idea how close people were in those days! Not sure about now days.

The last pic was around Oberon, road-side! Just a barbed wired fence in the way!

A couple of minutes between cars.

There are usually marshalls at the spectator viewing areas and they should advise where it is ok to be.


Interesting Rally story I heard about... in Europe... the crowd like to get as close to the cars as they can, including trying to touch the cars as they wizz past. One of the crew was cleaning one of the rally cars and found a finger in the radiator grill! Scarey stuff...

Jeff,

PM me if you come up, I live in Bathurst and I'm hoping to get some shots at the rally also. The special stages on the Mt Panroama circuit should be good, also the Sunny Corner forest stages should be good. I used to work in the Sunny Corner area and know it not to bad, there will be some great spots for shots.