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More spectator photos

Griff Wigley — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:11:08 +0000

Dan Seacat from Southport, Indiana sent these photos. Click to enlarge.

Also:

V-Mar Racing has a gallery of 84 Champ class photos and a gallery of 39 Junior Class photos, both with a nice slide viewer.
Adventure Rider Val B has an album of dozens of photos on SmugMug.
Cmancraig has 2 YouTube videos posted: here and here.

Photo Album: Fujinami, Cabestany, Bou in Section 12, Loop 2

Griff Wigley — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:50:12 +0000

I parked myself at Section 12 at the end of the day and got a few good shots of Fujigas, Albert Cabestany, and Toni Bou. See the album of 10 photos or this slideshow.

Photo album: Sunday observers

Griff Wigley — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:51:38 +0000

Teams of observers (4-5 on a team) again checked each of today’s 15 sections. Some teams were the same as yesterday but many were new. I got around to sections 9-13. See the album of 25 photos or this slideshow:

Head Course Marshall Gary Hoover, man of many faces, including Elvis

Griff Wigley — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:59:26 +0000

Gary Hoover, a member of the local Southeastern Trials Riders Association (STRA), is the Head Course Marshall for the event, recruiting and supervising the observers. Gary’s lip curl is evidently helpful in crowd control situations, just like that other boy from Tennessee.

My favorite rider photos

Griff Wigley — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:31:41 +0000

I didn’t take many action shots today but of those I did, here are my favorite four:

Left: Takahisa Fuginami
Center two: Dougie Lampkin
Right: Marc Freixa

Photo album: Day 1 podium

Griff Wigley — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:12:07 +0000

Here are a couple dozen photos from today’s podium ceremony. Included are photos I used in the previous blog posts on the winners. See the album or this slideshow:

Photo album: Saturday Observers

Griff Wigley — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:00:59 +0000

Teams of observers (4-5 on a team) checked each of today’s 15 sections, a difficult job to do for 6 straight hours. I got around to sections 1-7 and 14-15 and tried to take photos of as many observers as I could. See the album of 50 photos or this slideshow:

Photo album: riders studying the sections

Griff Wigley — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:55:55 +0000

The first loop involves a lot of analysis of the sections, especially by the riders in the Championship class. See the album of 17 photos or this slideshow:

Photo album: Saturday morning observers’ meeting

Griff Wigley — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:00:45 +0000

Scenes from this morning’s meeting with the observers. See the album or this slideshow:

Dignitaries! Officials! Muckety-mucks!

Griff Wigley — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:40:33 +0000

The new TTC HQ building was the site of tonight’s dinner with officials from the FIM, NATC, and other motorcycle trials-related organizations.