Finally finished loading all my media from last weekend's assignment (personal).

A bunch of us from the Photography Club were on our annual pilgrimage to Sepang for the Super GT Championship (Round 4). Our "leader", Dennis Woo gave us a plan where we will cover 2 days worth of event.

Day 1
We arrived during the qualifying session on Saturday (23/6/07) and went straight to "business". : )

Managed to shoot a couple of pan-shots; no flames this year! They are tough to catch! I like the activities at the pits (garage) as well. The engineers and team members show much dedication to their duties! <salute!>

At around 1pm, we lined up and joined the "Pit Walk". As we only had 45 minutes for this, the situation was tense and there's a sense of "rush" all the time. Funny thing was, we were too early - the garages were not ready for us yet and we "wasted" a couple of minutes before the racing queens showed up.

Nonetheless, I had a great time! The queens were very friendly and professional. Most of them pose well and gave each and every photographer some "personal time" to get their shots. <kudos!> As Dennis mentioned before, SuperGT Queens are the best way to get introduced into Portrait Photography - these ladies sure know how to pose and show their best side!

After the "Pit Walk", most of us decided to go off early. From past years, we have learned NOT to drain our energy too early in the event. Some of us stayed back to cover other motorsports event that were held.

Day 2
Arrived slightly later than yesterday; already the whole Sepang track area is BUSY. Buses here and there, car parks were full and most people have to walk at least 1km to the grandstand! It's especially tiring if you're carrying equipment and "rush" - late late late!

I missed the warm-up session and decided to meet up with the rest of the gang. We consolidated our 4R prints in order to ensure higher success rate in getting the queen's signatures during Pit Walk.

Pit Walk was crazy! The amount of people were tripled! Sunday is NOT a day you can get good portraits done easily. Fortunately, most of us were only after the queens signatures! I love the look in the queens' eyes when they see their photos from the previous day; most will be happy to autograph the photos, but there are some queens which were stopped from doing this by their managers! I don't understand why... <angry!>

Later in the day, a few of us joined the starting grid formation event. This is something I'll never forget!

Drivers and engineers were busy putting finishing touches to their machines while the queens were busy posing and answering questions from the media - Japanese journalist mostly! Ha ha ha, me no speak er no Japanese... sorry.

I must say that the starting grid formation event (albeit only 20 minutes) is the HIGHLIGHT of the whole 2 days! I really appreciate the chance to cover this.

Went home early to avoid the post-race mad-rush!
Grateful to all my friends for their help and taking photos of us photogs!



Here's the links to some of the media available:
Photos & videos here: http://lancechee.multiply.com/tag/super%20gt%202007

My Super GT Photos from 2006: http://lance.fotopages.com/?entry=845734

Here are links to more photo galleries featuring Super GT 2007!

2nd year I'm doing this with my fellow photographers. Shooting the photos and printing them before getting signatures from the queens!

I'm so happy to see their smiling faces when we ask for their autographs.
They look so happy that photographers are doing more than just "shoot" them!
Some of them even take their time to write messages and draw super-cute cartoons!

Arigato gozaimas!



The full gallery here: http://lancechee.multiply.com/photos/album/6

2006 collection: http://lance.fotopages.com/?entry=845734