Wednesday August 03, 2005
Wednesday August 03, 2005
The San Jose Grand Prix
Last Sunday we had the chance to host one of the Champ car races here in San Jose. The public came in force (over 150,000 for this 3 days event) and so did I: I took both my sons so they could experience a bit of the excitement of car racing as opposed to watch Formula 1 on TV. And boy! Did we get thrilled; we were along the fence and got to watch the cars zooming past us at about 150mph!
An interesting thing I noticed is that these cars are much less noisier than F1 cars. In fact the big difference is that F1 cars are a lot more in the high pitch range. I'm sure the main reasons is that an F1 engine will revve up to 19,000 rpm when a champ car will merely achieve 12,000 rpm. Also F1 is using V10 (at least for this year) not V8.
I had taken my D70 (digital SLR from Nikon) to play with and tried to capture some of these cars: not and easy task! Here are some of the pictures I took. Click on these thumbnails to get a bigger image.
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