Through the lens of motorsport photographer Jakob Ebrey
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“ It’ s good when you find a driver to support and then follow them through all the different championships – so, when you get the likes of Lando Norris, who was racing in F4, you can say you followed them all the way through their motorsport career. A lot of those small memories could mean a lot more in a few years when they’ re all higher up in their motorsport careers.”
That is also one of the most enjoyable parts for Mason, who loves seeing drivers move on to bigger things.“ It’ s nice to see them get their chance and to know you’ ve played a part in helping them on their journey,” he says.“ We ensure they have that level playing field, from a technical side and a training side, and they’ ve had the equipment to do the job, and in five or six years we get to see some of the lucky ones make it all the way to Formula One.
“ For the Donington weekend, we had first-time winners in Tommy and Chris Dittman Racing, both driver and team, and that’ s a real good story. It shows we’ ve got the likes of Hitech TGR and Rodin, who go all the way up to F2, and the likes of Chris, who’ s operating a UK-focused operation, and they can all be competitive in this paddock; we can give drivers with all levels of budget an opportunity. I think that’ s really important.”
As the championship continues to evolve, growing awareness and building its fanbase, it is drawing in an increasingly diverse range of talent. That includes a growing number of female drivers, rising from just two in 2020 to eight this season, many running parallel programmes in the
Through the lens of motorsport photographer Jakob Ebrey
Leading motorsport photographer Jakob Ebrey has spent over 25 years perfecting the art of capturing cars in motion and has covered rally cars to Formula 1. Morag Hosie spent the day with him.
“ I used to go to a lot of car races with my family from a very young age”, reveals Ebrey,“ and it was kind of a natural progression to record what you were doing while you were there. I used to take photos of all the cars and the drivers”
Learning to take the photographs at the track, Jakob also worked for his local newspaper at the same time to see the publishing side of the job.
“ I finished my A levels on a Friday, and on the Monday I started work for another photographer – John Colley and he was a motorsport photographer. I was very lucky that I did three years working for him, and at the time in his career, he wanted to slow down, and I took on a big percentage of his work.”
“ Practice as much as you can. On a test day today. There’ s eight hours of running on the track. And with it being on digital now, it doesn’ t cost a lot.”
“ We have from a 14-millimetre lens up to a 600-millimetre lens so that we can basically cover from the inside of a car to the car quite a long way away.”
Over a race weekend, it’ s not just about shooting the cars but capturing the buzz of the whole event.
“ The practice days are about getting big bold pictures of the cars and some dynamic shots. Saturday come qualifying and the race on Sunday are about getting
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