You’ll get what you’re hoppin’ for
The last chicane at Magny-cours opens onto a reasonably long straight, so grand prix drivers often rode the kerbs pretty aggressively here in search of laptime.
If you shot from inside the circuit with a long lens, looking across, then perhaps three or four times a session someone would push it too far and you’d get a striking image like this one. You just had to be patient.
Lewis Hamilton had taken his first grand prix win in Canada, then another at Indianapolis, but here in France he had car trouble in first practice and was trying to make up for lost time in the afternoon.