[Garry]

Brilliant advice guys, keep it coming along with any tricks and tips, samples you have taken etc. Its payday next week so I may have to pick up that lens Jimmy has linked to, great VFM.

I don't use a tripod but I've been tempted to get one for full-size motorsport anyway. I'm not too bad with panning at that scale though. The specific meeting I shot at in the first post was an open practice night aimed at novice drivers, so I didn't want to start distracting them with random flashes when its hard enough to learn how to drive a car round a track, never mind in race conditions and flashes popping off. One end of the marquee has much much better lighting than the other (white instead of orangey yellow, and more of them) so I got my better pics at that end.

Re cropping and framing, do you guys prefer to fill the viewfinder with the car (i.e. zoomed in), or have it quite far out and crop the photo down later on in post-processing?