Michael Tan Photography

August 5-7, 2011 - BARC Regional @ Mosport

CASC club race weekend, watched only the G70+ race, though have a few cars from the other classes during Friday’s test day.

Rest of the photos here.

2011 Grand Prix of Mosport

For either the 6th or 7th year now, provided photos for motorsport.com at this year’s Grand Prix of Mosport.

I still have a crash magnet attached to me somewhere which I haven’t shaken off…

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2011 Montreal F1

Been a while since I went to Montreal for the F1 race.

For the rest of the photos from that weekend, click here.

2011 Victoria Weekend SpeedFest @ Mosport

Castrol Canadian Touring Car Championship

Michael Sallenbach in the Mini Cooper during Saturday’s morning qualifying session.

Dean Fantin in the BMW 328 during Saturday’s rainy race.

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Saturday qualifying
Saturday race
Sunday qualifying
Sunday race

2010 Rally of the Tall Pines

Roads free from ice and snow. A bit of wind. Temperature ranging from -6 to 4 from the morning to the afternoon. This meant for some fast conditions for the 2010 Rally of the Tall Pines.

Stage A4 in the morning, Pat Richard/Alan Ockwell comes through in their 2008 WRX STi after Antoine L’Estage/Nathalie Richard’s 2009 Evo X, getting huge air and distance. Unfortunately this ends up damaging their car - broken rim, suspension and the steering rack eventually fails on the following stage.

Rest of the pictures can be found here.

Results from the rally can be found here: www.rallyscoring.com.

Autumn in Ontario

Hockley Valley, though about four days after the colours have peaked. It’s been a dry summer hence the predominant yellows and oranges with very little reds.

2010 Grand Prix of Mosport

Now that I’ve sat done and gone through I’d say 95% of the pics (which is like the 80/20 rule), here’s probably my favourite one so far of the Flying Lizards Motorsports down Mario Andretti straight with some trees getting in the way.

Rest of the photos from the weekend’s race here.

Big wreck at the feature race of the 2010 Grand Prix of Mosport

Major spin puts the #48 Orbit Racing Porsche 911 GT3 in the GTC class driven by Luke Hines into the barrier at this year’s American Le Mans.

Fortunately Luke walks away from the crash.

I managed to take a few more shots as the shutter button was held down but decided to get away from the wall as soon as possible as the front right tire became airborne (flew about 30 feet up?), lands in the middle of the track and rolls down the track and rolls right across from us, while cars swerved around the wreck at a pretty good clip.

Unfortunately the camera was setup for panning and not for fast shutter so the next few images is completely blurry.

The day before I along a few others were shooting from same spot of where the crash occurred, especially with the random debris that landed on the other side of the barrier . Yikes!

The barrier couldn’t be repaired in time and the race finished with one more lap under full caution.

Somewhere on Durham County Road 47

July 10, 2010 - Sick Kids Hospital Exotic Car Event

Rest of the set here.