Winchester Speedway Sprint Car Races

Uh Ohhhh, Wreck time, originally uploaded by BillyCrafton.

Sunday, I checked out the Sprint Car Races in Winchester, IN with Terry Watson, Bob Coyle and Terry Cavanaugh.

It's the first time I've tried to shoot auto racing and I worked on my panning technique at slower shutter speeds. It's a little tough to get a sharp photo of the cars at a slow shutter speed to show active motion by blurring the background and showing tire rotation.

In this photo, these 2 cars were racing hard for the lead. I think 17 bumped the rear tire of 67, causing it to skid and resulted in 17 crashing into the side. This was on the exit to turn 4. #17's right front wheel was damaged but 67 was able to continue and won the race.

These guys were flying around this 1/2 mile track in 14 sec. and I was shooting at 1/320 sec in shutter priority mode.