James Burgess

Last weekend, Kate and I went down to the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent, to watch the World Touring Car Championship. I was invited as a VIP of SimBin, who have produced a number of sim-racing titles, including the official WTCC ‘games’.

The weekend was absolutely fantastic, as I was able to procure not only a paddock pass, but also a media centre and pitlane pass. The latter being an absolute gem in it’s own right - meaning I could waltz around the pitlane whilst the race was in progress, making for great photo opportunities. I had a fantastic time taking photos from all over the track, and Kate was an absolute darling in going on ahead of me to ’scout out’ great new locations for photographs - what would I do without her?

On top of it all, I got to talk to some of the guys from SimBin, who are - like myself - keen sim-racers - and I got some good insights into the way they’re moving forward in the development of their physics engine. Mark, Bram (both of them), Henrik… the lot of them were top guys and I thoroughly enjoyed the weekend - especially the free cookies in the VIP area… very tasty.

Regardless, I thought I’d turn this post into a small photo blog… these are a few unedited photos from the 746 photos I took over the course of the weekend. I came out with about 55 that I really like, and a bunch more besides that can be deemed as ‘good’. I’ll get around to editing them (colour balancing, etc.) eventually.

So, without further ado (click to expand to 1024×768 images - please don’t reproduce them anywhere):