A Gathering of Champions

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World Champions - Yoshiaki Kinoshita (Toyota), Sebastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson
Last night the 2014 season officially came to an end when the FIA awarded the trophies to the winners of this years world championships in a glittering ceremony in Doha, Qatar.  

 I was attending in my capacity as the FIA Media Delegate for the World Endurance Championship and had the X-T1 to hand to capture some images for the FIAWEC website, social media feeds and for the press release I had prepared ahead of the event.

 Our champions - Toyota and Ferrari, Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi (Toyota LMP1), Gimmi Bruni and Toni Vilander (Ferrari GTE)  collected their much deserved silverware, as did the second placed crew from Audi of Andre Lotterer, Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler and the third placed crew from Porsche - Neel Jani, Marc Lieb and Romain Dumas.

 I was sat in the VIP area for the ceremony and used the 55-200mm to capture some images of the presentation.  After the awards I switched to the 35mm f1.4 and fitted the new Nissin i40 ttl flash for some set up shots with the drivers.  I will be doing a full review on this new flash gun next week.

 Here are some more images from the 2014 FIA Awards Gala.
World GT Champions - Toni Vilander and Gianmaria Bruni
World GT Champions - Toni Vilander, Antonello Coletta (Ferrari) and Gianmaria Bruni
St Regis Hotel, Doha - venue for the 2014 FIA Awards Gala
The Auditorium

The hosts - 2013 FIA WEC World Champion Allan McNish and FIA WEC TV Presenter Louise Beckett

Third place Crew - Marc Lieb, Romain Dumas, Neel Jani - no14 Porsche 919 hybrid

Anthony Davidson gets a lift from Sebastien Buemi who drives the Toyota TS040 onto the stage using electric power
Champions - Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi collect their trophy
Second place Crew - Benoit Treluyer, Andre Lotterer and Marcel Fassler - no2 Audi R18 e-tron quattro
Third place Crew - Marc Lieb, Romain Dumas, Neel Jani - no14 Porsche 919 hybrid

The Swiss Winners -  Neel Jani - Sebastien Buemi - Marcel Fassler
The gathering of the 2014 champions
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