Whenever I attend an event I’ve been to before, I always try to cover it from a different angle. For Gatebil Mantorp in Sweden last weekend, I took that thinking quite literally and did something I’ve never previously attempted – shooting an entire story from the sky.
This was my first time at Gatebil’s annual Swedish event, and also my first time back in Scandinavia since I froze my behind off (true story) shooting Gatebil on Ice in January. This summer event, held about two hours south of Sweden’s capital city, Stockholm, is much larger than the winter event, but roughly half the size of Gatebil’s big Norwegian event taking place at Rudskogen in July.
Still, this was Gatebil, which means the region’s hottest cars gathering in one place for the world’s greatest track event. I highly suggest you guys take full advantage of the Presentation Mode (hit the screen icon near the title) for this article as there are many details you just won’t see viewing the story in the normal way.
We arrived early Thursday to a mostly-empty Mantorp Motorpark, but it wouldn’t stay that way for long.
By midday Friday the paddock was absolutely bursting at the seams. Just check out that line of cars waiting to get on track!
This is what the Speedhunters booth looked like when I first arrived.
Within 24 hours, however, the paddock had changed drastically. Car culture fans from far and wide gathered at the tiny race circuit.
After Speedhunters driver Fredric Aasbø came back from each session a crowd swarmed around the 86-X wanting to take a closer look. It was fun to shoot this sort of thing from a different perspective than I normally would.
By Sunday afternoon the paddock had already started to thin out, leaving shredded tires and trash bags for as far as the eye could see.
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