A Day With The Army

While on holiday in the U.S in July 2010, I fulfilled a life long dream of going to a U.S National Top Fuel Drag Racing Event. Whilst there, my wife and I were personally invited by 6-time world champion, and fastest man in the world Tony Schumacher, into the inner sanctum of The U.S Army Team “Bunker”. I don’t mind telling you, I was a mess! “The Sarge” has been my hero since he debuted in 1996.  I always knew he was a class act, and meeting him just confirmed it. I had pretty much unlimited access to everything that weekend in Sonoma, but I resisted the urge to “set up shop” a third of the way down the track to take pictures of the burnout procedures, and the races themselves. That has been done a million times. I really wanted to make use of the opportunity of being so close, and shoot pictures from places that are generally “Off Limits”.