Hamad Al Fardan wins Batangas race one – Jan 12 08
Al Fardan conquered the treacherous wet conditions to take an accomplished win in round 5 of the Asian F3 Series from Matt Howson and early leader Frederic Vervisch.

At the end of the first lap the order was Vervisch, Hamad, Quinn, PTRS Racing’s Matt Howson and Suzuki. The pattern of the race changed at the tight turn three hairpin when Hamad dived up the inside of Vervisch. Contact was made, spinning Vervisch whilst leaving Hamad in the lead. He then got his head down and was never headed in an accomplished display of wet weather driving. The incident promoted Niall Quinn to second place, the young Irishman impressing on his F3 debut especially taking into account the terrible conditions. However a lap later he was in the gravel at turn six and out of the race.

Story lifted from the AF3 news page, read the full story here: http://www.asianf3.net/article/articleview/949/1/8/

My first time to shoot race cars and was a really good learning experience. Actual shooting is quite far from reading web tips and tips from friends. Was fortune to be shooting with Al who had made it a career to practice panning with tricycles and jeepneys and Julles who does it during fashion shows.

Have limited the number of shots to post as like fireworks, several shots and they start to look the same. Canon 40D, 17-40mm and 70-200mm (some with tc1.4x).