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Old 22 January 2002 | 12:36 AM
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Just got back from almost a week in Monaco. What an absolutely fantastic rally to spectate on. I will write a Novel soon just to get things started here are a few pictures from the rally. I took over 450! Cheers Simon for getting me in on the inside of a WRC event, absolutely brilliant stuff from the moment i landed in Nice.

Night on the Col de Torini, one of the most famous places in WRC history. I have always wanted to see this and the atmosphere was everything i hoped it would be. Awesome.










Top of the Col de Torini in daylight. Pinizi almost stuffed it and Colin did a 360 right in front of me. It was on TV i believe. LOL

































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Nice piccies. What camera did you use? btw - those top few, the ones of the cars with the lights on - strange effects! Were they in reverse


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Jon - u r a ******* star mate... I think you have surpassed yourself on this one...thank the lord for broadband
U popping over to Catalunya?? I'll be in touch later in the week mate
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If a picture is worth a thousand words John, Si best get the server upgrade ordered now!

Corking night photo's
Old 22 January 2002 | 08:35 AM
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Top pics John

Did your plane land in Luxemburg on the way back ?
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John,

Fantastic pictures. Makes me jealous to say the least.
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John,
Fantasic pictures... wish I had been there to.
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Old 22 January 2002 | 09:50 AM
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Great pictures - love the light effects, but like Burr says, makes the car look likes it's going backwards. (Or did you take them when people where reversing out of a ditch? )
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The joys of taking pictures at night with a digital camera !
Old 22 January 2002 | 11:03 AM
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Awesome

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this is the camera i use, Kodak DC215 Zoom, cost me £220 a year ago. http://www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/cameras/dc215/

Not sure about Catalunya yet, depends on funds, i am off to Canada to do the TBird Rally again in a few weeks time.

I aint ever stepping foot in Luxembourg again theo. LOL
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The final stage of the rally














Old 22 January 2002 | 02:07 PM
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Nice pics mate, Glad I looked at them at work and not at home. it would take bloody ages for those pics to load on a 56k modem.

Darren

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Old 22 January 2002 | 02:10 PM
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Outstanding, nice one John!

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well i just uploaded them all on a 56K modem!

Scrutineering














































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John,

'kin amazing last set of pics.

You luck, lucky man.

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awesome (sorry, yanks are converting me ) pictures. Good to see some closeups of WRC cars. is interesting to see how the differ from the road car, ie; a lot!
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....they keep getting better
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Well done John.
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Yeh Nice one John
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other stuff including my trusty steed, picie of Tiery Boutson(ex F1 driver) on the Col de Torini, simon de bonkers, Some of the GP track in Monaco plus the usual stuff. Scenery and roads were awesome, handbrake turns galore was esential for fast motoring.








































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John

Fantastic pics, how did u get all that access

What a nice way to ease me into the working day!!

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One of the best things I've seen on Scoobynet - superb pictures, and a lot of them!

Well done John - you're a star! Thought about taking it up full time?

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Old 23 January 2002 | 02:35 PM
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Glad you like them.

I wouldnt know where to start to do this kind of thing pro, be a brilliant way to make a living though. I would think it's quite difficult to make money from this, there are hundreds of Pro's on the rally.

I didnt have any special passes during the event, i just went where i wanted to and no-one bothered me at all. I kept out of their way so they had no reason to though. I think the French were quite relaxed about the whole thing, i cant see me getting away with the scrutineering shots on the Rally GB!

I took loads of shots in the Peugeot area as Burns PA, Clare (woman in sheapskin jacket) invited me there as i knew her a bit from Rally GB2000, we met in Nice airport and she remembered me from back then.

There are lots of things i saw i didnt photograph as that would have been out of order. I spent Friday in Rally HQ helping with the WRC.COM timing, etc with S de B. You dont take pictures in places like that! I also spent sunday night in a nightclub with lots of the drivers/team members and i think its a bit crap taking pictures of them in a social surrounding where they just want to chill out.
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