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Today is the Official Test ahead of the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans on the 13/14 June.  The 56 entrants for the world famous race will be joined on track for the two 4-hour sessions by the six reserve entries and two ELMS spec LMP3 cars run by Team LNT and will include Olympian Sir Chris Hoy getting his first experience behind the wheel of a race car at Le Mans. Yesterday I was involved in organising the group shot of the 56 entries on the grid and my job, as it has been since 2012 was to position the cars in the right place by talking to the official photographer Eric Gilbert on the radio, who was positioned in a high lift 20 metres above the track. Earlier I took the opportunity to walk around the pitlane, joining the public in seeing the preparations for today's test sessions. KCMG were conducting a pitstop practice and using the X-T1 and the 10-24mm f4 lens, with the camera set to 8 frames per second, I captured some images using a slow 1/20s shutter speed which blurred...

While the UK is still in the deep freeze of winter I have come down to the South of France for one week for the European Le Mans Series (ELMS) and FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) official tests at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet.  With the sun shining, and not a cloud in the deep blue sky, it was a very different scene to the one I left in Grantham yesterday morning. Today was the first day of two days of testing for the ELMS and I decided to go out around the track to have a closer look at this fantastic circuit.  I have been to Paul Ricard for tests and for races but I have never been trackside with my camera as my media delegate duties normally don't allow me the me the time.  However with only sixty media on site I was able to go out with Jean-Michel Le Meur, my lead photographer from DPPI, the sports agency I employ for the ELMS and FIA WEC. I was also interested to see how the Nikon D800 handled as a sports camera.  With only 4 f...