Charlotte, NC-based sports photographer Jamey Price shot the 2012 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma.

I’m standing on the outside of turn 8, a fast tremendously fast complex of corners that pushes the car to it’s aerodynamic limits. The DW12 Indycar chassis is literally dancing through this spot on the brown and dusty Sonoma raceway.

Ryan Briscoe is hitting nearly 140 miles per hour through it as he throws the wheel left then right. I’ve seen a lot of car racing around the world, but rarely have I seen something as spectacular as that section of track and those cars on the limit. Watching the drivers aim for a spot, hoping the car would turn in…and then stick….as they bottom out before hitting the crest of a small hill making the car go nearly weightless and press on faster and faster down the race track and out of sight again. You cannot help but be impressed. Minus the sheer lack of noise they make, the Indycars zipping around Sonoma are truly a spectacular sight.

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