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Sam founded Racer Views toshowcase the positive side ofmotorsport. He has beeninvolved in the motorsportmedia industry since 2004.Sam has gained extensiveexperience in the Australianmotorsport game, somethingthat evolves with every newevent.Sam’s emphasis is placed onthe artistic side of the sport tohighlight the unique attributesof speed and design that the

sport offers. Sam has handledvarious assignments fromgallery shoots, shooting forsponsor and driver needs andpurely for fun andexperimentation.In the current media climate,Sam has adapted to be able toprovide full journalism,publicity and social mediaoptions to all clients to supporthis strong history inphotography. Sam hasworked with other industry

bodies, including MotoDestino,Gold Coast Indy, RallyAustralia and Dark HorseRacing. Away from the track,Sam works in the Universitysector in Australia, currentlyworking in a corporatecommunications role providingassistance for seniormanagement and regionaljournalists and their medianeeds.

Sam Tickell

"For me, myphoto of 2012.WSBK rookie,

Josh Waters sitson the grid

preparing forrace 2 at Phillip

Island. HisYoshimera

Suzuki grid girllooks on. The

clouds, thelighting, the

angle and therider of choice all

came togetherfor me here."

"2011 was thefirst year that the

Radical Cupwent national.

Here atQueensland

Morgan Park, theRadical groupsshowed theirskill and the

pace of the cars.This photo shotcoming under

the bridge has aslower shutterspeed and ashorter lens -

showing speedand crispness"

"Marc Marquez isundoubtedly a

name we will heara lot of in thefuture. Here at

Phillip Island helooked to have

turned the tide ontitle rival Bradl.The oncoming

clouds would bemore symbolicthan we ever

though at the time,as Marquez's titlerun was ended by

injury and oneweek after thispicture, Marco

Simoncelli wouldlose his life."

"A sunnySaturday morning

greated theAustralian GT

drivers at PhillipIsland. The

Championshiphad a renewedvigor with it asthe Series had

new owners. Thisshot out of

Syberia of the twoVipers shows the

light and thecrispness you

can get - and theangles you canacheive if youwant to contort

yourself!"

"Carlos Checagot his WSBKyear off to a

great start. Hereat Phillip Islandhe showed his2011 hand - andmade a break

fromrecklessness of

the past.Standing in the

post race mess, Iwas able to

capture the joyof the team andcongratulationsto the rider whowould go on totake the 2011

crown"

A beautiful hard cover photo book with over70 pages of images from racing life inEngland and Ireland.

With names like Tony McCoy, Noel Fehily,Dougie Costello, Sam Twiston-Davies, MasterMinded, Hello Bud, Nacarat and ImperialCommander running and winning races atplaces like Cheltenham, Aintree, Haydock andmany and many other places, makes thisbook a behind the scenes look at racing likeyou've never seen before.

Professional photographer and amateur jumprider Jamey Price spent 5 months living andworking in racing yards in the UK and Irelandbetween July and December 2010. Thephotos in this book are his personal collectionfrom that period and are photos that couldonly have been made by someone that livedthe racing life.

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Jamey Price, is a Charlotte,North Carolina basedphotographer who hasextensive experience workingalongside the industry’s bestthrough internships with theCharlotte Observer, DanvilleAdvocate Messenger andthrough his continuedfreelance work with a varietyof wire services covering adiverse assortment of sportingevents around the globe.

Jamey’s work as a sportsphotojournalist has beendefined by his experiences asan athlete. Having competedthrough his four years atCentre College as a varsityswimmer, he now competes inthe occasional triathlon andcan frequently be found on theback of a race horse as asteeplechase horse racingjockey. With over 40 racesand 11 wins to his ridingcareer, Jamey is no strangerto the highs and lows of life asan athlete.

Jamey’s unique and awardwinning work has beenfeatured around the globe inprint and online publicationssuch as The Racing Post, F1Racing Magazine,Autosport.com, the CharlotteObserver, SouthParkMagazine and the Chronicleof the Horse. He joined RacerViews at its inception andmore of Jamey’s work can befound atwww.jameypricephoto.com

Jamey Price

"The Mid OhioALMS race wasone heck of awild ride for

everyone. Thewhole day the

announcers weretalking about

rain but the racestarted under

sunny skies butwith 30 minutesleft to run, the

clouds had rolledin and rain was

in the air.Minutes later theentire track wasunder water."

"The BaltimoreGrand Prix

certainly hadsome teething

problems early inthe weekend butat the end of theday, the trackwas a blast to

photograph andthe drivers lovedit too. This photowas taken of the

LMP1 MuscleMilk machine

roaring down theback stretch

during the lasthalf hour of the

race."

"The eveninglight as therace was

ending wassomething tobehold. I sawthis gorgeousgolden light

pocketpopping

through thebuildings ontothe track as

the cars exitedthe final turnheading downthe stretch."

"Audi andPeugeot

brought outtheir big guns

for the premiererace of the yearin the Americas

at Petit LeMans. ThoughAudi struggledduring the race,

I love themovement andpower that isconveyed in

this slowshutter speed

image."

"The hillfollowing turn5 was a toughplace to shootand especially

at a slowshutter speed. I

had about asecond to findthe car in theview finder

before it wasgone again.The Ferrari

really showedit's pace that

weekendthough."

We would like to thank Tim Poulten, Stig Richards and theentire Bundaberg drinks Lotus team for their supportduring the 2011 season!

Congratulations on a fantastic second place in theChallenge Class of the Vodka 0 Australian GT Championship!

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Jim is a long time motorsportsphotographer based on the US westcoast.His events cover the prestegious LongBeach Grand Prix and Laguna Secarounds which include the ALMS events,Rennsport Reunion and MonterryHistorics.In the past Jim has shot for magazineswith the American motorsport scene,particularly Indycar and CART racing.More recently he has turned hisattention to sportscar racing - with greatsuccess!

Jim Fonseca

"Multiclassracing is

never dull towatch. There

is alwayspassing,

tactics and avariety of

thoughts onhow to go thefastest. Plus

you getfading lightand glowing

brakes!"

"A rare carindeed racesaround the

Laguna Secatrack. The

Ferrari FXX isa true dreamcar and the

angles of thismachinemake it

threatening.Like the finon top, thewhole thing

is shark-like."

"The newway of

sportscarracing withPorsches

latest effort.We see anearly effort

later with bigeverything.The future

seems a littlemore

elegant."

"Two ways togo sportscarracing with

almostidentical

colours. Theprivate Jageffort didn'tdo well with

their bespokecar but theExtreme

Speed Ferrariimpressed onoccassion."

"What couldbe one of the

last greatfactory

sportscarsbefore thegreen age.Great noise

and a classicpaint job. Avital win forthe squad

too atLaguna after

a horroreffort withthe AMR1."

"Love him ornot, ScottTucker puthis moneywhere hismouth is insports cars.Here we seeone of his

Level 5 Lolasin great

sunlight atLong BeachGrand Prix."

"TheRennsportReunion

offers a rarechance to

see these oldbeasts upclose. The

noise is alsosomething

else,somethingyou have toexperience.But the reartyres may

give a hint towhat you

might hear"

We would like to thank RacerViews columnist AshMiller for his support through the 2011 season andwish him the best of luck on his UK adventure!

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Jeff Picoult is a motorsportsphotographer from northeast Ohio.He has been watching racing myentire life. But, once he hit 40, hedecided that it was time to get outand show people what I see inracing so he createdXSAutoSports as a way toexpress love of both photographyand racing while also sharing hisview of things on and around theracetrack.

Jeff Picoult

"Anyone who has seenmy work over the pastcouple of years knowsthat I love to showcasemy photos as works ofart - not just another

picture on the wall. I likemy work to be used as astriking desktop imageon a computer or hungon the wall as a poster.This year I was luckyenough to shoot forseveral teams at the

season Grand-Am RolexSeries season finale at

The Mid-Ohio Sports CarCourse in Lexington,

Ohio. It just so happensthat Mid-Ohio is in mybackyard – my home

track so to speak. I knowthe layout quite well

which allows me to focusnot on trying to find a

place for a good shot butrather to take my time tocreate striking images.Here's an image that I

created of the #30 MazdaRX-8 at the request of

Racers EdgeMotorsports to use as a

computer desktopwallpaper image for their

fans to download."

"This is my absolutefavorite picture of the

year. Relief.Exhilaration.Excitement.Exhaustion.Anticipation.

Enthusiasm. Joy.Many words can

describe this scene.I'd be willing to bet

that Memo Rojas, co-driver of the #01

Telmex Chip Ganassiwith Felix Sebates, felteach and every one ofthese emotions as hisfriend and teammateScott Pruett crossedthe finish line to endthe 2011 Grand-AmRolex Series season

with anotherchampionship. Beinga part of the post-racecelebration was one of

the most magicalmoments in my short

motorsportsphotography career

and certainly one that Iwill never forget."

Iain Shankland also joinedRacer Views at its inception.He previously became PhotoEditor of PaddockTalk.comback in January of 2005.Since that time he’s beenworking diligently to gather anelite group of very talentedprofessional photographerswho now form MPH – theMotorsport Photography Hub.Together with his team, Iain iscurrently working with the verywell-respected motorsportnews website, Flagworld.com

2011 marks Iain’s 11thanniversary in MotorsportPhotography and he fondlyremembers his first year,where he became anaccredited photographercovering the Molson IndyToronto events.

Gail Shankland joined RacerViews at it inception and isalso part of the Moto PhotoHub group of photographers.

Gail got her first taste ofMotorsport photography in2003 when she attended theSaturday events of the MolsonIndy Toronto. From that timeforward, it has been Gail’spersonal goal to deliver whatshe calls “what women want”.

While Gail still loves the thrillof motorsport photography,she is always keenlyinterested in her husband’sefforts as Flagworld.com’sAssistant Photo Editor andFeature Automotive Writerand is devoted to provideencouragement … so long ashe continues to listen to heropinions.

Iain is very proud to have aselection of his photospublished on individualdriver’s websites includingSebastienBourdais.com,PaulTracy.caAndreasWirth.com,Carpentier.ca andJonathanSummerton.com.

In addition to his passion formotorsport, Iain has lovedcars in general from an earlyage. Since January of 2006he has been reviewingconsumer vehicles and hasacted as Road Test Editor forthree popular motorsportwebsites. With well over 120road test reviews, Iain haswhat he describes as “ThePerfect job.”

Gail Shankland

Although I only had theopportunity to attend 3 racesin 2011, it was still asignificant year for me. Havingto wait until the middle of Julyfor my first race of the yearwas excruciatingly painful,especially since the racingseason starts in earnestaround April/May. Once I gotto the track and got thefamiliar sounds and smells Iknew the wait was well worthit. If you've never had theopportunity to attend a majorracing event, I can't stressenough how much different itis in person - it's intoxicating.

When I was asked to submitmy 5 favourite picture for 2011I thought it would be hardbecause I didn't think I'dactually had a very productiveyear. But once I started siftingthrough my pictures again, Ifound that I'd a lot morepictures that meant somethingspecial to me than I'dexpected. Without further adohere are my favourites in noparticular order from 2011...

While both Iain and Gail wereout shooting for RacerViewsthis year, Iain submitted thefollowing photos of his torepresent them both.

Iain Shankland

I'm not a big fanof Ferrari - I was

have to say Iloathe

everythingabout the

company andespecially theF1 team. Thatbeing said, Ilove the new458 Italia - it'sgorgeous. Thispicture is one ofmy favourites

simple becausethe red Ferrariis surrounded

by redadvertising

banners - I thinkit just "works."

"I had to put ina couple of

pictures fromthis race. Theall-new Panoz

car was present- only the

second time ithad been seenin a race. Thiscar is so ugly it

would makebabies cry andthat's why I had

to include ithere..Alas, itwas such a

failure the carhas been

scrapped andprobably willnever be seen

again in a race"

"One thing Ilove aboutthe ALMS is

that therace fans

areencouraged

to get upclose withthe carsand the

drivers onrace day.The fanslove it"

"Anotherthing I loveabout the

ALMS is thestart. Thefans arecleared

away andnow it's timeto race. This

is wheneveryone'sadrenalinstarts topump

throughtheir

veins..."

"Just say the word"Hockenheim" andyou can only thinkabout motor racing.Our friend and racecar driver Andreas

Wirth competes in theADAC Masters seriesin Europe. This year

we had theopportunity to go

over to Germany andsee him in the finalrace of the season.After all those yearswatching F1 races atHockenheim, it wasquite surreal to bethere shooting acouple of races.

Although the standslook empty, there'sactually well over

30,000 people at thetrack - it's huge and

they're all spread out.Ironically, the start/finish line is not the

best seat in thehouse. An entire

weekend of racing isonly €15!"

"After driving flatout along thelong sweeping

ParabolikaCurve,the drivers have

to come toalmost a

complete stop(from 310 km/h to50 km/h in lessthan 100m) tomake the right-hand turn and

head backtowards the

stadium section.It's a great placeto shoot becauseyou've got themcoming in full-steam and thenleaving quite

slowly."

"Thestadium

section isgreat

because thedifferentcoloured

seats makethe

backgroundso muchnicer toshoot."

"..and finally- I love it

when driversget reallycool paint-

jobs on theirhelmets.

Whywouldn't you

putsomethingdifferent on

your helmet?This was thebest one ofthe year for

me..."

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Andrew Henderson has had anextensive career in motorsportphotography has spanned more than20 years. Recently, Andrew hasspecialised in sportscar racing,becoming a team photographer in theALMS. He previously worked with Samin previous motorsport projects andjoined Racer Views at itscommencement.Andrew has continued to refine his artin the sport and via his organisation –Speed Captured Photography. He alsohas a background in IT which providesa individual flavour to his photos.It should be noted that due to Andrew'sother commitments, I (Sam) chosethese photos from Petit Le Mans.

Andrew Henderson

"The OrecaPeugeot 908

was notmeant to

race at PetitLe Mans but

after afairytale wina Sebring,the Frenchcar madeone last

appearance"

"Nightracing offersa challengeto photogs.You have tomake it looklike nightand you

have to seethe car. Here

we see itdone rightand when

done right, itmakes for agreat shot."

"In fadinglight at the

Road Atlantacircuit, youcan slow the

shutterspeed to get

theheadlights to

do sometricky stuff.Risi, longtime ALMS

runners alsoshow off the

great 458Ferrari."

Thanks!See you in 2012.

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