2014 Review: Cars

Over the next few weeks we will be reviewing our year and what a year it has been.  We have traveled to the USA, Brazil, Japan, China, Bahrain, Qatar, France, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Portugal with the FIA World Endurance Championship and the European Le Mans Series.  

However the highlight of 2014 we are starting with first are the cars we have driven and photographed this year.

It started in March with the Aston Martin Vantage S V12 (HERE) which we had for two days to write a report for the official FIA WEC website and for the Silverstone programme.  This was an amazing car and a personal dream come true to have the exclusive use of an Aston Martin on the road for two whole days.

Next up was a few days with the Audi R8 V8 (HERE) in and around Dunbar last May.  Again this was for a feature for the official FIA WEC website, which also appeared in the programme for the Chinese round in Shanghai. 

In the summer I drove a Porsche 911 Turbo S from the manufacturers UK headquarters in Reading to the home of Porsche in Stuttgart, Germany (HERE).  This was an amazing trip and you certainly get to know a car by driving it almost non stop for three days.

In Japan in October I drove a Toyota Prius for a feature on race car hybrid technology finding its way into the road cars of the future.  This article will be published over the winter but I did some shots of the car driving in Gotemba and Fuji (HERE).  It certainly wasn't as sexy as the previous three cars I had driven but it was an interesting look at how the race car technology that is used in the LMP1 class in the WEC could be used in future hybrid road cars.

Of course in addition to the road cars we have had plenty of opportunity to photograph the race cars at each of the circuits we visited during 2014 but I wasn't at these events as the official photographer, my role as the media delegate gave me little time to go trackside during the races.  However we did try to catch the atmosphere at each of the places we visited.

Tomorrow we will review the places we have traveled to in 2014.

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