I did 4 years of helping with a photographer at our INDY CART series here in Vancouver. Being right down on the track you do get a lot of rubber and oil on your camera...face..clothes. Not a clean job.That was the most fun I have had in photography. They gave me a huge Nikon with lens I had to have a forklift to carry LOL. As pstekky says you can go everywhere if you have a camera and seem to know what you are doing. But when you have all the credentials...you get more. we could cut holes in the fence. It is also really dangerous. I was knocked over, drenched by water when cars hit the tire barrier. Had things fly by my head and only hear the whoosh. My most memorable was when Michael Andretti Hit the barrier I had my foot on and it knocked me back flying. Watching a car coming at you through a lens at 320kph is quite something.

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."