First Monaco. Solo. Race day in the principality is expensive and the race is boring. The photo is the start.

I hiked up above the track to Tête de Chien.

I'd been telling r/formula1 for two days it was going to rain. They told me I was wrong.

Twenty minutes before lights out, the clouds dropped. I'm 6'3" with a Fuji GFX 50R and a GF 250. Crammed into a four-foot cubby off the trail, hugged the gear to my chest. Hikers kept stopping to laugh at the big American in a hole.

When it stopped, the clouds had won. They were between me and the circuit. I was shooting fog.

A hiker passing the other way told me to drop forty feet down the trail. He was right.

That's where this shot is from. Grid below, prepping the start. Pérez took the wet win.