Now,Super GT Round 5 Fuji Speedway Final on Sunday, August 5, 2018, I would like to write about other things at that time.
Nowadays, running in Porsche is irresistibly fun, so the road from Tokyo to Fuji Speedway is not a pain at all.
Furthermore, on the road to Fuji Speedway after getting off the highway, I found a nice orange car in the distance! !!
This will have to catch up! It was a nice orange 991.2 Porsche GT3. Moreover, it was like a manual.
This GT3 seems to be very fast, and it seems that he ran very fast, but there was a car in front of him, so he couldn't run very fast.
But if there wasn't a car in front of me, I wouldn't have been able to keep up with this GT3 ... so I think I was lucky to be a little crowded (laughs)? After all, we stayed together until we passed through the Fuji Speedway East Gate. I'm happy to be able to run all the time while looking at a nice car.
When I came to Planpan GT last time, I got lost in FSWThanks to that (laughs), I was able to get a feel for the land in FSW. This time, I aimed for a parking lot of P6 or P7 from the beginning.
however! !! Even if I have a good idea of the land, I am an amateur about Super GT. By the morning, most of the parking lots were full. Hi ~ Greater than I imagined!
Certainly, all the designated parking lots that cost extra were already sold out before coming, so I should have been prepared for this. Moreover, there were all one-way restrictions in FSW.
For some reason, only P15 was relatively free, so I was able to stop here smoothly, which was good for the time being.
Even so, the parking situation is so tight from the morning (around 8:30 ... at this point, I understand the meaning of the gate opening of the day being 4:30 in the morning ... everyone, early ...). ↓ P15
Is there a relationship with the Carrera Cup in the morning? I feel that Porsche stopped relatively a lot (of course, the people involved are in a different parking lot, so as a general spectator).
While surrounded by many Japanese cars, McLaren quietly. ... quietly ... 720S! !!
After stopping the car, first head to the Advan Corner. The campsite was on the way to there.
Wow, awesome! !! You camp like this, right? !!
Everyone, barbecue goods and so on are usually prepared, and frying pans are rolling around (laughs), anyway, with a "perfect" system, "I will enjoy Super GT!", This race You were watching the game.
In addition, there are many loaded vehicles. How many cars have been piled up in this way? Somehow, everyone, cars and people, are gathering together! Enjoy it! I'm excited from the morning.
The advan corner is ... Yeah. Did the Advan corner look like a campsite like this (laughs)?
Everyone was ready to watch the game with a tarp of awnings and a simple tent. Everyone is amazing! !!
There are about 15 frozen 500ml PET bottles in the cooler box → For one man! As expected, everyone is eager to take a place early in the morning and watch the 500-mile race until after 6 pm in the scorching sun. ↓ This is where you can see the Advan corner. At this point it's still 9am ...
Before the warm-up run of Super GT started, there was also a flight performance event from 11:30. Yoshihide Muroya, the winner of the 2017 Air Race, showed a wonderful flight performance over the FSW with three Lexus cars running on the circuit.
The letters LEXUS are also on the wings.
I can't imagine how I could do that by spinning around in the sky, stopping, and so on. Great word!
At the end, with three Lexus running on the ground, I was doing some amazing things such as jumping through the home straight at a fairly low level while becoming a slapstick. It's amazing! No, when I first learned about the existence of air racing, I thought that "there are people who play great competitions", but when I saw the flight in front of me, I was surprised that "there are people who are amazing". It was a series of.
Super GT driving from the Advan corner is like this.
By the way, this time, in addition to watching the race, I went to watch the race with the purpose of taking pictures of the running cars, but the equipment I brought was EOS 5D mark III. Besides, the lens is not so amazing, it is a 300mm telephoto lens.
↓ It looks like this (the photo was taken at Tsukuba Circuit before)
For me, this camera and this lens alone were very satisfying. But, however. This day. Looking around, why not! There were dozens of people holding cannon-like lenses (laughs). Around the so-called "white lenses", high-end lenses ...
No matter where you look, only those who have amazing cameras and lenses. I felt like my camera might be like, "What's that? Did you bring a toy?" (Laughs). What's more, it's only men who are enthusiastic about taking pictures of driving cars.
For the time being, I was satisfied with the shooting from the Advan corner, so I wanted to see the car from a closer distance, so I walked from the Advan corner to the Dunlop corner.
Oh. Close, close. The orange people in the back are the ones who put out the flag. The course is right in front of me. And security guard, thank you very much for your hard work under the scorching sun without shadows ...
Pass by the side of the race course and exit to the Dunlop corner. The cars seen from here were also the best. You can see it from a very close distance and feel a great sound.
Driving from here is like this.
I also tried single-lens reflex photography from the front, but it was quite difficult to capture the speed of running here with manual focus from the side.
This kind of feeling is the limit ... or rather, it's the limit if it's too hot and only about 5 minutes (laughs).
The place where there is a shade around here is just a bit of a person ↓.
When you reach the Dunlop corner. There is another amazing sight! !! !! yes. There are a lot of amazing people holding cameras. It was amazing.
The Dunlop corner, a place where cars are crammed into the corner and is really fun to see in front of you & perfect for photography! I thought, but everyone thinks the same. Anyway, this corner was already occupied by people holding cameras.
The view from the Dunlop corner looks like this.
When I shoot, I set it to "high-speed continuous shooting", but I hesitate and take only one or two continuous shots to shoot once, even when I accidentally press too much. I only shoot up to 5 pictures in a row (because it's a hassle to see later ... because it's a hassle (laughs)).
but. At this time, the sound of continuous shooting of the people around me was amazing! !! Every time you take a picture, the sound of continuous shooting is "Chashashashashasha ... !!!", do you take dozens of pictures? !! Sound. Everyone, I'm sure there are thousands to tens of thousands of photos on this day alone ... It's too amazing ...
I wouldn't be able to get this far, but I think I did my best to shoot with these amazing people (laughs), so I'll continue to do my best in the future.
On the way back from FSW, I picked up Mr. Z from my home, who had been tampered with somewhere in Tokyo. After that, I ran back home with Porsche and my husband with Mr. Z.
"I'm going home first", I said earlier, but my husband caught up behind me when I was riding at high speed. After that, I ran two cars in a row with my husband for the first time on the Metropolitan Expressway, but while looking at my husband caught in the rear-view mirror, I suddenly ran with enthusiasm, "I don't want to be pulled out!" (Laughs) ).
Even so, I never dreamed that the day would come when my husband and the Metropolitan Expressway would run in a row. Porsche is definitely changing my life. Of course, for those who have more fun.
Watching SuperGT and Porsche Carrera Cup Japan was also a very good experience. it was fun! !!
I'm Rika, the author of this article. Ever since Porsche 911 became my favorite car, I've become totally addicted to Porsche, and I can't stop loving Porsche, so I started this blog. My favorite cars are 911 Carrera (991.2), 911 Carrera Cabriolet (992.1), and 911 Carrera T (992.1).
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