In motorsports that can be difficult. Being in the right place at the right time helps but that has a lot to do with luck and there is not a lot I can do to improve your luck, except sell you some genuine lucky heather: PM me for payment details! 

The British GT race series has great subject matter so we went along to Donnington Park to photograph arguably the most diverse, interesting and visually appealing race series in the UK, apart from the World Endurance Championship. 

Like the WEC there are lots of visually different cars racing around the track at the same time. This is great for the spectator photographers as there is something different coming round the corner every time you look up. 

So for the photographers who want to know, let’s look at how I captured these images. For a while now I’ve been wanting to try a technique that I use in DSLR filming. That technique is using the Auto ISO feature. 

If you look at the pictures taken at the Melbourne loop through the wire, they were taken at 09:30 am and there is a large shadow being thrown across the track (cropped out of these pictures). This is not ideal because as you track the cars the metering will change your aperture when you are in shutter priority. 

The best way to counteract this is to go full manual as nothing will then adjust itself. However, you will need to change the exposure as you go from dark to light parts of the track to get a correctly exposed image - very difficult to do when you have a fast moving subject and you are trying to smoothly pan with that vehicle. 

The easiest way to do this is engaging Auto ISO. This is what I did and left it engaged all day. If you go back to shutter priority the camera will go back to changing the aperture and the ISO, so I stayed in manual to make sure I had the depth of field required for the shot I was taking. 

This head on shot of the KTM is 900 ISO at 360mm, f13 at 500th of a second which gives me about 4m of in focus car. If you can't work out the maths in your head for depth of field there are calculators you can down load for free for your smart phone. Or, if you have an old school lens, there will be a window on it to show you how much of your image will be sharp. 

Not a conclusive test, but now as autumn is approaching and the sun is getting lower and the shadows longer, it will be a process that I will definitley be trying out again, especially for the rallying later in the year. 

Enough of the photographic rambling. Let's look at the British GT Series and the cars that take part. Donington was the final of seven rounds, six being held in the UK and one round at Spa. There are two classes - GT3 and GT4 both of which run at the same time. 

Within those classes there are many sub classes. To give you an idea, car 44 the Invictus Games Jaguar F-Type driven by Royal Marine veterans Steve McCulley and Paul Vice MC who were injured together on operations finished in 28th place. Lapped 7 times by the race winners, they were placed first in class, GT4 AM.  

Basically the Lambos and McLarens of GT3 are madder looking and faster than the Mustangs and Jags of GT4. It's not as simple as that but will do for 'Pub' knowledge. 

So let's look at some of the cars that were out on track. The first one is number 23 a 2018 Ford Mustang GT4 run by RACE Performance. This is my local team and I had the privilege of looking round the RACE HQ a few months back. 

Unfortunately the Mustang was taken out by car 33 who lost control at the old Hairpin, cutting across the grass and re-joining just before Starkey's Bridge he scattered a pack of cars and leaving the RACE Performance Mustang nowhere to go. 

The GT4 race winners were Steller Performance’s Richard Williams and Sennan Fielding who converted pole position into a win with the R8 Audi, which was also the second win of the campaign for them. 

Crowned British GT champions in this class were Tom Canning and Ashley Hand who clinched the British GT4 title in car 97 the TF Sport Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT4.

In the GT3 class it was the stunning Balfe Motorsport's McLaren 720S GT3 driven by Shaun Balfe and Rob Bell who took the honours on the day. 

In a clean sweep for TF Sport, Graham Davidson and Jonny Adam came in 5th on the day, doing enough to be crowned the 2019 British GT3 champions in the #47 Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT4. At the last meeting they won at Brands Hatch so were given a 20 point penalty. 

The GT cars were not the only racing on show over the week BRDC British F3 Championship, BRSCC Sports & Saloon Car Trophy, Ginetta G40 Cup, MINI Challenge - JCW, Protyre Motorsport Ginetta GT5 and the Challenge and Volkswagen Racing Cup. Pictured here are a few of the winners from those races and some of my favorite shots of the other cars racing.

To capture these images I was using the Nikon D4 with a Nikon 200 - 500mm. We will be testing this camera out over the next few meetings but first impressions are good. 

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