"Anima" (anima)
09/02/2013 at 18:00 • Filed to: zandvoort
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"Anima" (anima)
09/02/2013 at 18:00 • Filed to: zandvoort | 7
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An event where your day starts with walking into the paddock and being greeted by a randomly parked, unattended, 50 years old Formula Junior car can only be a great one.
Welcome to the 2013 Historic Grand Prix at Zandvoort.
Where D-type Jags are parked unattended..
Where Alfa's are being polished..
And Historic F1 cars are being raced!
Our day started with the pre 1961 F1 cars on track. Among them a 1927 Bugatti Type 35C.
After the race the drivers came in towards Parc Fermé.
Time for a stroll down the paddock again. Found this F2 car which seemingly had a close encounter with the gravel trap.
Some Healey's being prepared for a race later on the day.
$kay, remember to breathe!
A Masarati 4c (the one without the freaky headlights)
Another F2 car. Just look at those pretty headers!
All of a sudden I heard a loud bang followed by a thundering engine sounds. After walking (read: running) towards it I found this M8F was the source of the eargasmic sounds.
Onward toward the back of the Pitboxes. Plenty of awesomeness to take in.
Look who's peeking out of the pitbox.
A bit later she came out to play.
Pretty sure it's a Lambo dude!
The pit transportation of the guys running the Lotus cars.
Little boy enjoying a Maserati.
Big boy enjoying a Masarati.
These things are really tiny in real life!
Time for some track action again!
A large and varied field of cars.
Some more $kaybait!
Some close racing going on!
A lap later.
A dab of Oppo.
Back to the paddock. Walking towards where the cars line up to drive out onto the track.
Now it was time for the main event!
There are few words that can describe the sound of a field of historic F1 cars from different era's thundering down the straight of a track.
And even though these are legendary historic cars, the drivers were pushing!
Luckily no serious damage to either the car or the driver.
All in all a truly amazing day!
I´ve got the chance to get up close and personal with cars I never dreamed of seeing in real life and got to enjoy seeing those same cars all out on the track.
Blondude
> Anima
09/02/2013 at 15:20 |
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Holy crap, words cannot describe my jelly right now.
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Anima
> Blondude
09/02/2013 at 16:03 |
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I know right! I already can´t wait till next year!
Totally worth being sandblasted in the cold for 6 hours to experience it.
YSI-what can brown do for you
> Anima
09/02/2013 at 17:48 |
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Oh wow, this seemed amazing! I really liked the F1 field though, the one I went to had 6 or 7 F1 cars, yours has 3 or 4 times as much! Also how good did the Bugatti Type 35C sound? I have heard they are pretty good, but not much on youtube to tell.
Also Alfa Tipo 33/2 Daytona <3
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Anima
> YSI-what can brown do for you
09/02/2013 at 17:55 |
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One of the best experiences in my life!
I never really got a good chance to hear the Bugatti since the Coopers behind it made enough noise to literally make the ground shake underneath your feet 50 yards away.
And man! Sudden Lola T70 startups 10 feet away are about the most amazing sound ever. I laughed my ass off at everyone standing around it literally jumping back a few feet from shock!
Can I ask you to repost/share it perhaps? Nibbles is being a little bitch again to me..
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YSI-what can brown do for you
> Anima
09/02/2013 at 18:02 |
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You could make a new post and then in the post link it to the article, that is what I did whenever I reposted something, or you can change the publishing time to about 5 minutes into the future and it should repost, obviously write repost in the title.
The Lolas are some of my favorite cars to watch while racing. They are beautiful and angry at the same time. Such an underrated car.
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Anima
> YSI-what can brown do for you
09/02/2013 at 18:05 |
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Yeah Blondude sugested the latter wich worked. :)
But yeah.. those Lola's man.. The sound the make when they go full throttle is just... WOW
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YSI-what can brown do for you
> Anima
09/02/2013 at 18:07 |
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Any big V12 machines there? They always tend to make amazing sounds! I heard a Jag XJR5, just wow! The echo was spine tingling.
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Anima
> YSI-what can brown do for you
09/02/2013 at 18:10 |
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Not that I heard. Mostly V8 Can-Am cars and the F1 cars.
http://www.historicgrandprix.nl/raceklassen/
These were the racing classes. Some differed a bit but there's a nice list of the cars in there.
Wish I had a spare battery that day so I could've taken even more shots. (I took over a 1000 already.)
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YSI-what can brown do for you
> Anima
09/02/2013 at 18:13 |
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I know that feeling I have 4 hours of footage from the race. . . 4 hours!!! Granted I was there for 3 days, but still.
MrGuy
> Anima
09/02/2013 at 19:25 |
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Wow, that must have been amazing! Zandvoort's one of my favourite tracks, but add to that all that incredible machinery making all of those sights and sounds, and that must have been incredible.