<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/14235/ra0033.jpg"></center><p>Need to seriously work on my panning.

Must be all the other one's you weren't happy with?

My "hit rate" was about 10-15%.

I really liked about 6-10 of the ~60 I shot.

The bad ones ranged from slightly blurry to downright unviewable.

My favorite one was where I missed the bike completely, and took a lovely picture of bare pavement.

when i was trying to shoot at laguna seca, it was my first time trying to shoot moving objects. the AF on my lens is slow to begin with, so 99% of my shots were OOF. and I don't know how to pan, so that probably had a bunch to do with it too. That looks like a good shot to me. :)

I tried for the first time at F1 in Indy last year. I think I had 5-10% keepers, and the rest had serious issues similar to what you described. I learned a lot though...enough to get the hit rate up to 15-20% or a bit more.

Still haven't gotten the hang of the focusing system, so out of a burst of 3 or 4, only 1 will be usable.

Body: Nikon D70
Lens: older 80-200 f/2.8 ED. I think I lost quite a few pics due to slower focus mechanism.
Focus: AI (AF-continuous)
Burst: None. slow burst speed on the D70 (3.5 fps). By the time I'd fire the burst, the bike would be gone.

But...I had fun, and am still learning.