Air Race One - Tunisia

[Lloyd H]

Back in May I was asked if I'd like to go out to Tunisia to cover the Air Race One debut in North Africa for FLYER magazine in June, naturally the choice of location had me thinking for a few days, rightly so really as we all know what happened there a few weeks later. However the locals could not have been any friendlier at the hotel and Monastir airport, security was mega tight given the attack at the start of the year etc but I think the locals there really enjoyed the Air Race. I believe they'll be going back next year as well.
It was a really hard event to shoot, the best pylons were out in the rice paddies so we had to settle for ones in the boundary of the airport. The other major problem was the heat haze, it was 30º most days meaning that any long distance shots were a no go, they needed to be filling the frame at 300mm for the heat haze to be relatively un-noticeable.

Anyway on with the shots..

1.
Cassult 111M "Kermit" by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

2.
Cassult 111M "Kermit" by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

3.
Hot Stuff by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

4.
Madness by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

5.
'Hot Stuff' by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

6.
'Madness' #87 by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

7.
Neck And Neck by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

8.
Hart Attack by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

9.
Pooder by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

10.
Cassutt 111M "Kermit" by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

11.
Cassutt 111 M 'Kermit" by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

12.
Jay Jones by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

13.
Hart Attack by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

14.
Cassutt Racers by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

15.
Hart Attack by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

16.
Maintenance by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

17.
LHH_1339 by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

18.
Jay Jones by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

19.
Kent Cassels by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

20.
Hot Stuff by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

21.
Des Hart by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

22.
Swisss Watches by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

23.
Hot Stuff by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

24.
Pooder by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

25.
Cockpit Checks by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

26.
Thom Richards And "Hot Stuff" by Lloyd Horgan, on Flickr

Thanks for looking

[amisbk196]

Cracking set!

[wallace]

A beautiful set of pictures Lloyd.
I know Des Hart (G-BOMB) and it takes a lot to make him look presentable and you have managed that quite well!

That close up of number 53 is really good, it's a good portrait of the racer at work.. Interesting to see the undercarriage strut taped up to reduce drag in one pictures and two Go-Pros in another, so much for reducing drag!

All those sessions up on the Welsh mountainsides have paid off with these fast movers.

[DesH]

You can really go off some people Wallace

For racing we tape the heck out of the aircraft to gain every mph possible, the Go-Pros in the photos your seeing were fitted by the TV crew after the heat races were done for the day, they asked us to go out and get some good footage around the course which we had great pleasure in doing!

I edited some of my on board stuff into a little video which you can see below, we get quite close to the ground at some points!:

https://youtu.be/VuWzX3KHML4

(given up trying to embed it!) Mods feel free to do so!

Regards

Des

[seifracing]

nice set of pictures
i hope they go back there next year i `ll be there