Is 2022 Checo's Year?

May 31, 2022

Sergio Perez (nicknamed Checo) is performing at an amazing level this season. He’d be leading in the Driver’s Championship, if Red Bull had just let him race at the Spain Grand Prix. Towards the end of that race, the Red Bull team ordered him to let his teammate (Max) pass giving Max the win. Checo probably would have won that race to go along with his win at Monaco last weekend. He should be leading the Driver’s Championship instead of being a few points behind Max.

At this point, if a Red Bull driver is going to win, I’m cheering for Checo. Here are some photos I took of him this season at the Miami Grand Prix.

Behind the scenes - Miami GP

May 17, 2022

As promised, here are photos from behind the scenes at the Hard Rock Stadium (location of the race)….

FIA W Series

January 21, 2022

During our weekend photographing the 2021 FIA Formula 1 U.S. Grand Prix, we also got a chance to cover the FIA Formula 4 and FIA W Series. The W Series is a race league setup only for women drivers. I enjoyed watching and photographing them and the Formula 4 activities. Here are a few of my photos of the W Series….very talented drivers in this league. It’s only a matter of time before some of them show up in Formula 1.

Missing F1

December 30, 2021

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m ready for the 2022 Formula 1 season to start…even though the 2021 season just finished a couple weeks ago. Here are a few photos I took last October at the FIA Formula 1 U.S. Grand Prix in Austin Texas.

Sebastian Vettel - Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team

Valtteri Bottas - Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team

Max again

November 3, 2021

Here is a photo I took during the last couple laps of the FIA Formula 1 USGP in Austin Texas. These race cars are super fast. I’d get one good, focused photo out of every 10 photos. I have one of the fasted shooting and focusing cameras in the world and the cars are too quick!!

It appears that Max Verstappen will win the 2021 season Championship with only a handful of races to go (he has a 12-point lead with 5 races to go). That’ll make a ton of Red Bull racing fans happy, but I’d prefer to see Lewis Hamilton win his 8th Championship. It doesn’t look like that will happen this year. Max will probably get his first.

Bagger Mayhem Racing

September 17, 2021

Last weekend was filled with sports photography. I covered the Steelers at Bills game on Sunday. The day before I was in Garrettsville Ohio covering motorcycle racing. The Bagger Mayhem Racing Team invited me over to cover them. Here is Brian who is the co-team owner and primary driver. They have another driver in training, a couple of mechanics and a great sponsor in Hard Drive Parts.