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Top 10 photos of the week: 2015-01-28

Your weekly dose of top 10 photos from around the world, shot by the award-winning Motorsport.com photographers.

#25 BMW Team RLL BMW Z4 GTE: Bill Auberlen, Dirk Werner, Augusto Farfus, Bruno Spengler

#25 BMW Team RLL BMW Z4 GTE: Bill Auberlen, Dirk Werner, Augusto Farfus, Bruno Spengler

Jamey Price

Welcome to this week's top 10 photos chosen by our own photo editors. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did selecting those photos. And remember that you can write your own comments when you click on those photos and bring up the photo viewer page. 

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10. Looonnnng shadows on the banking during the Daytona 24 Hours. Nice, classic Brumos colors on this Porsche as well.

#58 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT America: Madison Snow, Jan Heylen, Patrick Dempsey, Philipp Eng
#58 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT America: Madison Snow, Jan Heylen, Patrick Dempsey, Philipp Eng

Photo by: Art Fleischmann

 


9. The Rallye Monte Carlo is one of our top 5 events of the year, photographically. It's rich with history (the stages are mostly the same) and the often severe conditions make for incredible photographs. Then there are the switchbacks...

Mads Ostberg and Jonas Andersson, Citroën DS3 WRC, Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team
Mads Ostberg and Jonas Andersson, Citroën DS3 WRC, Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team

Photo by: Citroën Communication

 


8. This is what you'd call pre-pre-pre-dawn at the Rolex 24...the night is long at this time of year.

Race action
Race action

Photo by: Action Sports Photography

 


7. It's all here, the boucherie (butcher shop), café, a quiet puff of chimney smoke coming from a residence above the restaurant. And a 300HP turbocharged VW Polo R tearing through an alley...

Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia, Volkswagen Polo WRC, Volkswagen Motorsport
Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia, Volkswagen Polo WRC, Volkswagen Motorsport

Photo by: Volkswagen Motorsport

 


6. Oh, Vale...

Valentino Rossi, Yamaha Factory Racing with lovely Yamaha girls
Valentino Rossi, Yamaha Factory Racing with lovely Yamaha girls

Photo by: Yamaha MotoGP

 


5. The winning Chip Ganassi Racing Ford is doused in confetti.

Podium: winners Scott Dixon, Kyle Larson, Jamie McMurray, Tony Kanaan, Chip Ganassi Racing
Podium: winners Scott Dixon, Kyle Larson, Jamie McMurray, Tony Kanaan, Chip Ganassi Racing

Photo by: Jamey Price

 


4. In the winter time, the sun stays low longer as it rises and sets. Havoc on drivers.

#10 Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP: Ricky Taylor, Jordan Taylor, Max Angelelli
#10 Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP: Ricky Taylor, Jordan Taylor, Max Angelelli

Photo by: Art Fleischmann


 

3. Anyone who reads this Motorsport.com feature on a regular basis will know we are huge fans of helicopters in shots. Here's another one for you. Wonderful scenery and tough (frozen) road conditions for the Hyundai crew.

Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul, Hyundai i20 WRC, Hyundai Motorsport
Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul, Hyundai i20 WRC, Hyundai Motorsport

Photo by: Hyundai Motorsport

 


2. A BMW Z4 spits some fire as it heads into the International Horseshoe with the ferris wheel turning in the night.

#25 BMW Team RLL BMW Z4 GTE: Bill Auberlen, Dirk Werner, Augusto Farfus, Bruno Spengler
#25 BMW Team RLL BMW Z4 GTE: Bill Auberlen, Dirk Werner, Augusto Farfus, Bruno Spengler

Photo by: Jamey Price

 


1. We can't help but think of German Romantic landscape paintings when we look at this frame. Exquisite white snow in a beautiful part of the world to hold one of the best rallies on earth. This road, at this precise moment, would be wonderful at any speed.

Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila, Volkswagen Polo WRC, Volkswagen Motorsport
Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila, Volkswagen Polo WRC, Volkswagen Motorsport

Photo by: Volkswagen Motorsport

 

 

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