Most track-side photography is about captivating the speed, sounds and tremors of fast, loud and sensational motor racing. Yet once in a while I stumble upon a picture that is so silent and eerie that it draws you away from the momentous aspects of the sport into a state in which thought stands still and the senses seem to be switched off.
Here's a postcard sent to the Netherlands in 1952, showing the 'Ring as a mere landscape. There are no cars present, the track looks to be a part of nature, the picture's composition is almost that of a 19th-century oil painting. In all, it's extremely zen, with nothing of the customary brawl and blare that goes with motorsports.
Do you have any similar "trackscape" photographs to share?
I don't want to pose any limitations, so please submit your pictures from every age and with any surrounding, ranging from the Paris-Rouen dust bowl to the Shanghai spaceship, from the Reims flatlands to the Targa Florio villages.
shot of Becketts on the old Silverstone GP layout at the final Aurora F1 race of 1980. It was my debut, and I'm in the yellow TVR right up the exhaust of the bloke in front...
