These cars are SO cool! Playing with some A1GP cars at Road Atlanta

Oh my God, you know, say what you want about electric vehicles and hydrogen and hybrid power and all that stuff. It does not make me feel that. So what am I doing driving down to Rhode Atlanta on a random Monday? Well, there's actually two parts to what I'm doing over the next 48 hours, and I'm going to make it into one video here. So part one today at Rhode Atlanta, there's a driver that I've had the privilege of working with Gianno Torino. You know, he's actually the 2024 Lamborghini Super Trofeo pro class champion from Lamborghini North America. And basically, Gianno and his dad have a really cool side project where they've been working and rebuilding and buying as many as they can get their hands on chassis's from the 2008-2009 A1GP season. The chassis's that Gianno and his dad are using are the 2008-2009 version. It's a Ferrari V8 engine. It's not a Formula One engine. It's sort of a little bit more loosely like a GP2 or F2 engine. They're not Formula One cars, but they are open wheel. They look pretty similar to a Formula One car because the chassis was actually sort of loosely designed based around the F2004 Ferrari. So these are really cool cars, and Gianno and his dad are going to be doing a shakedown today with as many of their cars that they have ready to run at Rhode Atlanta. And then tomorrow, I'm going to wake up not quite as early as today, but still early enough. And I've got a job with Porsche where I'm going to be doing some photography of a couple of their road cars for a drive that they have coming up. But today, I'm really excited to see these A1GP cars because I'm a big fan of the series. I'm a big fan of racing. I'm a big fan of open wheel cars. And to be able to do whatever I want is awesome. So we're going to have some fun today. Alright, so we are pretty much ready to roll here at Rhode Atlanta. It is a bright, beautiful, blue sky, sunny morning. The cars are put together. They've got three cars here today. We've got the Lebanese car, we've got the Italian car, and then we have another car, which is actually the Swiss car that doesn't have a livery on it. It's basically just looks beat up. We've got GoPros on it. We've got all kinds of different things to kind of make it look cool for photo and video. But for now, let's enjoy the sound of an LMP2 engine going by. Love it. What a day. This is one of my favorite racetracks. To see these cars pounding around here has been really, really cool. Big thank you to Giano. Big thank you to Torino Racing. All the engineers and mechanics working on these cars. These are pieces of racing history. So cool to see them running around. So the yellow one is actually not Team Italy, I was mistaken. It's actually Team Germany's car. So yeah, really, really amazing to have Lebanon, the Switzerland car, and the German car. Big thank you for watching. I am going to go get some dinner with my friend Foster, and then I'm going to get up nice and early tomorrow and do more photography with Porsche for some road car stuff that they've got in North Georgia here. So I'm really looking forward to that. I'm working with some new people, a new client. I've done stuff with Porsche before, but not this particular part of Porsche. So really excited to be working with some new people. And yeah, while I'm down here, just kind of kill two birds, one stone. It's been really cool to be back down at Road Atlanta. I'm going to go get some food with Foster, get some sushi, head to bed because it's been a long day, an early day, and I've got an early day tomorrow. And yeah, I'll see you in the morning. This video is brought to you by Paddock Focus Photography Workshops. Want to learn how to become a professional multisport photographer or simply improve your racing images? Check out paddockfocus.teachable.com and use the code PFYOUTUBE for 10% off. Good morning and welcome to day two here. And yeah, I had a lovely evening last night, but I'm now back on the road. It's about 5 a.m. Heading toward North Georgia, toward Cleveland, Georgia to be exact, where I'm going to meet up with the Porsche crew. Basically what we're doing today is we're going to be making content for them to use to give to journalists, and the journalists will be able to use this stuff in articles that they're going to be writing about a Porsche experience drive. So yeah, it's going to be a fun day. Let's do it. Over the past year, I've used these cheap but fun little NASCAR film cameras to document some of the races I've been to. Now I've turned those photos into a 256-page hardcover book. There are two versions to order. One is a regular ship-to-your-door version that will deliver anywhere in the world, or if you're in the United States, you can order the signed and numbered limited edition version of the book. It will make a great gift to yourself or your racing-addicted friends and family. All right. It's been a productive and busy morning just chasing these Porsches around, just trying to get some group shots of them. We've got a nice windy road that they kind of come up through here, go by me right there. I'm kind of doing two different shots because I have a little button on my camera right now that I always have. I use it all the time. Basically it allows me to do two different types of photos very, very quickly and easily. One of them is basically just a faster shutter speed, and the other is like a super slow pan so I can kind of just shoot what I need and let go of it, and then it switches to the other mode. So pretty easy way to do it. And that is a wrap from Georgia. We are done. I'm heading home. It's a three-and-a-half-hour drive back to Charlotte, and I really enjoyed this morning. It was really cool to be working with Porsche. I've worked with the brand before. I've worked on their motorsports side before, but really cool to be working with the North America Road Car Division, and we had a lot of fun. We got some cool pictures, a little bit of a strange weather morning, but it actually made for some very dramatic, you know, cloud inversions, and we had a little bit of color in the trees. It was a beautiful road that Luke found for us to use, so yeah, it was a really nice sunrise spot to do some static photos of the cars, and then we did some car-to-car. Actually out of the back of a 911 Carrera, like, was perfect car for it, but I had a lot of fun over the last two days. Big thanks to Giano and the Torino family, and then of course to Luke and Shelby and Calvin and Porsche North America for having me down. I'm glad I could kind of double up on a little trip down to Georgia, but time for a little time at home, turn these pictures around. Yeah, big thanks for watching. Please like and subscribe if you like my content. I have lots of different YouTube videos about lots of different kinds of things, from Formula One to M2 WeatherTech, 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours of Spa, if you go back far enough. Yeah, really cool, you know, to be able to grow my channel and be able to show you different sides of what it's like to be an automotive and motorsport photographer. So if you like what you see, please like and subscribe, and I'll see you back down here in a couple days.