Santa Pod

My second photo shoot took place at Santa Pod Raceway, a very popular location for car shows and racing days. These are organised meets backed by some of the major companies in performance motorsport and are on most weekends at tracks up and down the country. This particular event was for VW, Audi and Porsche cars and enthusiasts. 

There were roughly 2000 people who attended the one day event, there were young kids, families, couples, groups of friends and people from every walk of life sharing there passions and interests with like minded people.

I set about trying to capture the people involved in the show as well as the show itself. It's a very alien world to people who have never been to a show, people spend hours cleaning there car to compete for 'Show & Shine' which awards prizes and trophies for the cleanest car, best wheels, best interior etc

Again this is very contrary to the "boy racer" stereotype often associated with people involved with modified cars. People think that everyone who likes motorsport meets in a supermarket car park every weekend to play loud music, drive like idiots and just generally be anti-social. This is not the case, although a small minority do the above the amount of people involved in the modified community is huge. There are roughly 20+ fully legal, organised shows each year just for people interested in VW, Audi and Porsche cars. Each show sees anywhere from 200-10,000 guests all sharing the same passion.

I wanted to try and capture what I think the shows are about and use these in my project. I think people will be interested to see what goes on at shows and the types of people that attend and compare this to there expectations.

The main aim of this project was to document what I believe the modified motorsport community is all about to demonstrate that people who share a love of modifying cars are no different to people who like football, fishing, dancing etc