Your other shots looked good, on our 400d we up the iso to 800, this will give you faster shutter speeds, Stu suggested we set the camera for "cloudy" - makes everything a bit more colourful. I try to keep to F8 and not drop down to F4 or 5.5, keeps more in focus.
Strikes me there are 2 methods - sit near a corner or any point round the track, focus on a point on the track (possibly centre weighted focus) try to press the shutter when you think a car is in the frame, you can crop lots after.
2nd method, and this is how we mostly set the canon (thanks again Stu), is with servo focus, find it in the menu somewhere, holding the shutter button half down and following a car round the track in the viewfinder, the autofocus will hold the car in focus (feels weird), snap away......we fill the card up, 400+ shots and end up with a few we like, but are still "just getting there"
both these methods are designed to save fractions of a second, the time it takes for the camera to focus, when the shutter is pressed that calculation and adjustment is already made, have fun. Unfortunitly Jordan at 15and a bit is keener eyed and faster fingered than I ever was/am.
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