Jamey Price: Jockey, Spy Suspect, and the Motorsport Photographer Every Team Wants

Jamey is one of the most recognized photographers in global motorsport, 68 tracks deep, with clients across F1, IMSA, WEC, and IndyCar. What most fans don't know is that a significant part of his work has nothing to do with the shots that end up on your phone wallpaper. Tire photography. Technical documentation. Competitive intelligence. Teams spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on it, it lives inside the budget cap, and it has directly shaped race outcomes. Red Bull pioneered it. Every team followed. Every team but one.We also go back to the beginning: growing up in Charlotte, finding Formula One on a satellite dish in 1998, becoming a licensed steeplechase jockey with 11 wins in 55 races, and picking up a camera in the jocks' room because nobody turns away a guy in a flak vest and riding boots. He learned by doing, built a following by refusing to let bad takes go unanswered, and somewhere along the way became the person Conor Daly and Colton Herta both feel comfortable teasing to his face.The conversation also gets into the structural gap in women's motorsport that the F1 Academy doesn't address, what Lewis Hamilton's paddock behavior costs the media that covers him, and why IMSA remains Jamey's favorite series to shoot.Topics covered:Steeplechase racing, what it takes, and why he walked away when he didTeaching yourself photography at horse tracks in full jockey kitThe spy photography economy inside professional motorsportHow a tire photographer contributed to Hülkenberg's Silverstone podiumThe one F1 team that still doesn't use tire photographyWhy the F1 Academy ladder has a physics problem, not just a pipeline problemEngaging trolls as a brand strategy (it works)Monaco, IMSA, Jordan Taylor, and what Lewis Hamilton does with his hand in the paddockFollow Jamey Price: Instagram: @jameypricephoto Wednesday Wallpaper: jameyprice.comBusiness of Speed: Newsletter + more at bizofspeed.com