Tag: NASCAR

Go To Team is Playing with Fire

As a kid who didn’t want to light the fuse on a bottle rocket and watch it scream off into the sky? Well, Go To Team’s Director of Photography Skip Clark is all grown up, which really just means the bottle rocket is a lot BIGGER. The Daytona 500 gave Skip a chance to relive his […]

Go To Team’s Guitar Hero Rocks NASCAR

Go To Team’s Director of Photography Tom Wells rocked the Daytona 500 by creating the ultimate off-track fantasy for some of Nascar’s top ranked drivers. While the drivers reached for the guitar and drums, Tom grabbed his Varicam. The Guitar Hero set for the Daytona 500 featured a full rock band set complete with lights, […]

The Phantom of the Hangar Shoot

While on location for the Daytona 500, Go To Team’s Skip Clark unleashed The Phantom camera. Capable of shooting at up to 2000 frames per second, The Phantom is the Rolls Royce of slow-motion video capture. While recreating the famed Victory Lane of Daytona, Skip was able to add a new dimension by slowing down the […]

Behind the Scenes of FOX Sports NASCAR Hanger Shoot… A Year’s Worth of Cool Footage in 10 Hours

Go To Team wrapped up one of their biggest shoots of the year last week as Fox begins their NASCAR coverage. It’s Go To Team’s fourth year on the “Hangar Shoot” and every year it’s getting bigger while we get to make REALLY cool tv! Fox Sports uses the week before the Bud Shootout every […]

NASCAR Season Begins

Okay, so the NASCAR season doesn’t really start for another several weeks, but Go To Team’s NASCAR season has already started! We just crewed a three camera round-table style shoot for Fox Sports with some of the NASCAR on Fox talent; Darrell Waltrip, Jeff Hammond, Larry McReynolds, and Mike Joy. Charlotte-based Skip Clark headed up the shoot […]

Oh to be young and fast… Go To Team Virginia Crew Behind the Scenes on ESPN Photo-Shoot

Joey Logano and his fast friends Go To Team’s Modisett Crew traveled down from Richmond, VA to document NASCAR’s young up and comer Joey Logano and two of his racer buddies during a ESPN the Magazine’s photo-shoot. Logano made NASCAR history this year by becoming the youngest driver to win a Nationwide Series race […]

Outside the Lines in NASCAR

Go To Team‘s Charlotte crew, Skip Clark and Rene Cusson, wrapped up their work on the “Discrimination in NASCAR” story two weeks ago and it aired this past Sunday on ESPN’s Outside The Lines. Skip Clark and Rene Cusson worked with talent Kelly Naqi and producer Greg Amante to gather interviews and shoot the stand-ups. […]

Go To Team’s 5000th Shoot Party at NASCAR

In celebration of our 5000th shoot day almost everyone at Go To Team hit the road for Charlotte, NC and the Nascar offices for a day of good food and great company. We hired a catering company, Food for the Southern Soul out of Charleston to bring a little of the lowcountry to the folks […]

5000 Shoot Days… That’s a lot of ‘Cool TV’

It seemed like an average day at the track working for one of our best clients, NASCAR… when we were notified that it was the 5000th shoot day in Go To Team’s history. That’s right in the last ten years Go To Team has shot over 5000 shoots. That’s a lot of interviews, b-roll, live […]

Ooohhh…. Aaaaahhhhhh…..

Go To Team camera crew Skip Clark and Rene Cusson made their way to Daytona Beach, Florida this holiday weekend. Amidst the July 4th fireworks above the crowded beach were even more bangs and booms lighting up the Daytona International Speedway. NASCAR held it’s Coke Zero 400, covered live by TNT, and made to look […]