A Day At The Races
Darley Moor MotorCycle Road Racing Club (Darley Moor MCRRC) Race Circuit near Ashbourne in Derbyshire was the venue for the “Stars at Darley” race meeting, the last race of the road racing championship series.
Darley Moor is a great circuit for photographers who want to capture images of fast racing motorcycles and their riders. You can get close up to the action especially at the hairpin bend where high speeds are reduced significantly to navigate the hairpin safely. This is a popular location and many photographers gather here.
Four Nottingham Outlaws (NOPS) made the trip there over the weekend, having first researched the DMMCRRC website and purchased admission tickets in advance. Racing was over two days (Saturday & Sunday) with the main race event having a part one on the Saturday & concluding part two on the Sunday. Ray was the first to visit the circuit on the Saturday, taking lots of images as well as understanding the protocols and learning the circuit. Ray commented that he had taken approximately 1400 images over the course of the day.
On the Sunday, Outlaws Reg, Nigel & Stuart visited determined to get some fast & furious action shots and they were not disappointed. Long lenses were pointed at the action as the brightly coloured motorcycles and their riders thundered around the circuit at tremendous speeds, fast lap times meant average lap speeds were close to one hundred MPH, slowing down only to navigate the hairpin bend.
The Sunday was very cloudy with occasional rain showers, quite the opposite to the weather experienced by Ray on the Saturday.
Cameras were set with high shutter speeds, high ISO, fast wind on action and suitable lenses as these settings were all required to take images that paid justice to the skills of the riders. Stuart managed to fill a 128GB SDX memory card within an hour or so of being there, obviously trigger happy and reporting that he had taken over two thousand images across the day!
A great day out was had by the Outlaws attending the event and below is a slideshow which features a selection of images taken by those Outlaws attending.
Images have also been posted on the NOPS Facebook page by Reg.
