09/02/2026
As a motorsports photographer, it’s easy to get caught up in chasing the action.
The cars. The slide jobs. The checkered flags.
But sometimes, I have to remind myself to turn around. Because so much of what makes racing, racing, happens right here in the pits.
It’s in the work nobody sees from the grandstands. The conversations between races when you missed your set up or when you finally figured out your car. The family and friends gathered around the trailer. The butterflies you get when you’re in the staging lane and the white flag drops on the race before yours. The kids growing up at the track. The hands that jump in when you come in on the wrecker. The wins celebrated together and the bad nights when you aren’t even sure how the car is supposed to fit back in the trailer.
There’s a whole life that exists on the other side of the catch fence.
