This past weekend marked one of my favorite races of the year, the BITD Parker 425 race. What makes this race so great is that its a nice break from the typical Nevada desert, and offers some great scenery and shooting spots. The weekends event always starts off on Thursday with qualifying for the Trick Trucks and Class 1 cars. I always make it a point to shoot qualifying because you typically get great shots because the teams are going all out.
2010 Dezert Racing Calendars
Every year PCI Race Radios puts out a 2010 calendar that show cases a few race teams. You can purchase your calendar by clicking on the link below!
Desert Racing, Nutter Butters, and One Dead Pigeon
The weekend of October 26th marked the second to last race of the year for Best In The Desert. The Silver State 300 is a unique race because its based out of Alamo, NV and uses parts of Nevada that don’t typically see races. Because of this I was excited to go and have the opportunity to shoot some new areas.
BITD Henderson Photos up!
Photos are now up! Congrats to everyone who participated, Henderson is always a fun race. Just next year lets tell the dust god to take a day off lol.
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BITD Vegas 2 Reno – Day 1
2:15pm
First day of this three day adventure. Today I flew into Vegas to start the first day of the BITD Vegas 2 Reno race. The race actually starts in Beatty on Friday but Time Trials and contingency are both in Vegas. Today my game plan is pretty simple, get my rental car and drive straight to Jean before dark to go scope out the time trial course. The past few years it has been in the same location but I’m hoping they changed it up this time around. You can only shoot the same spot so many times, but it would just mean you have to try something else and it is always good to challenge yourself. If ten other photographers are in one spot, why get the same shot as them right?
(Pre flight meal)
7:37pm
Good news, the time trial course is different this year. This time around it is near the SCORE race course off Knight Ranch Rd. They haven’t been on this part of Jean before for time trials, so looking forward to shooting it.
Preran a lap on the time trial course, found some good spots. This course is a lot different then years past. A lot more rough sections and some more technical sections. Came across Casey from BITD while prerunning, when he saw me he was a little upset because he thought a team was on the course. I explained I was just a media goon and he was cool with it. Should be interesting tomorrow morning!
Good thing I also got a 4×4 Rental car (and the insurance), its pretty sandy out there and it came in handy a few times.
