After shooting this year’s LifeLock 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway, I had to leave the pit area to get back home. Instead of leaving from the tunnel, I drove out on the track (we’re allowed) and took turns 1 and 2. I think i hit about 90 mph around turn 2 before slamming on the brakes.
Its always louder, more scary, and way more asphalt in your face than you can imagine or think it’d be. That’s what I realized after photographing this year’s LifeLock 400 NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway, through the precarious vantage point of a hole in the fence over the track’s Turn 1. The cars speed under you at 180 some mph, 8-10 ft between you and them…
Thanks to Cory Olsen of the Grand Rapids Press for filming me!
Turn 1 holes in the fence at MIS, during a green flag restart of the LifeLock 400 NASCAR race. Photogs duck because of all the asphalt that gets kicked up.
Funny thing as I walked pit road after driver introductions yesterday at the LifeLock 400 at Michigan International Speedway, I come to a car that has a nickname for me. Naturally i had its crew film me with it!
Home-ice advantage doesn’t become more evident than when we media folks converge on the locker rooms after a game and see the stark differences between gilded opulance in the home dressing room compared to the utilitarian spartaneity of the visitors’. This clip is from after Game 2 as I run between the Detroit and Pittsburgh sides to try and photograph players giving interviews.