Keith Breazeal Video Productions

I shot photos at the Northstar-at-Tahoe Downhill Mountain Bike Race on Sunday, 29 July, 2007. Normally I shoot video but the old still photography bug bit me. I grabbed the Canon S3 1S camera and started hiking up the mountain. So, here's a slide show to music.

Crank It Up!!!!!! Some of my favorite burnout sequences from the "Last Drag" at the Baylands track in the San Francisco Bay area. My video camera smelled of burnt rubber and nitro-methane for weeks. I was nearly killed in 1971 when a blower explosion sent car parts flying straight at me. From then on, I shot from the start line instead of further down the track.

The Peterbuilt "Shockwave Jet Truck" has three jet engines with a total of 36,000hp and 18,000 lbs of thrust. Quarter mile is 256mph in 6.36 seconds! Shockwave is very popular at airshows and drag races. Typical airshow performances include driving by the crowd line and lighting the afterburners, blasting down the runway at speeds approaching 300mph, and racing aircraft down the runway. If you like noise,speed, and fire, here it is. Guinness Book of World Records lists Shockwave as the fastest full size truck at 376mph.

Wayne Handley races his Raven aerobatic plane against Jim Cheatham in the R-22 helicopter. The rules are from a standing stop to one quarter mile down the runway, then back to the start line. Jim was a helicopter pilot in the Army and Wayne a fighter pilot in the Navy. Ahhh, the feud continues!