Some photos from Targa West 2009 at Toodyay, about 90km from Perth.
There are a total of 1200 photos from Targa West 2009, of which I haven’t even seen all of it so far. But here are 24 shots which I think people want to see. There are a couple of Nissan GTRs, Porsche 911, Lotus Elise, and of course, an i30 SX CRDi (unfortunately all the i30 shots turned out unsatisfactory). It was my first attempt at panning photography, so 70/80 per cent of my shots turned out kinda unsatisfactory.
Some overexposed, out of focus, not composed properly, etc. Oh, and we were in the spectator zone, so there were no way to get a better spot than the spot we were standing at, so all shots came back with the same angle. I remember I crossed the tape that kept us in the area for like a minute and the “marshall” came and asked me to go back behind the tape. 
Enjoy:
Click on photo to enlarge individually.
If you think people would get bored of the background or angle, you could try using a telephoto and zooming in some more.. or longer exposures to blur out the background.
There’s this guy who takes some excellent photos of cars in motion. Lemme dig through my bookmarks.
Found it: http://lifeinstillmode.blogspot.com/
Oh and I absolutely love the 6th pic.
Not much a rally kind of person… don’t like them cluttered with stickers.
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@cheahwey – I was using my tele lens. I wasn’t really sure what was the problem really, but definitely not the background. I’ve already had problems just stabilising the camera and it appeared that the camera had a little bit of trouble focussing.
We (my friend and I) concluded that it was the angle/spot we had. The car was coming towards our direction at one point and then drifts into a corner, which at the point of drifting, IMO, is the sweet spot for panning since the car is facing us horizontally (and I did manage to get heaps of great shots at that point), but when the car is approaching us my body seem to have trouble with the AF.
Or it could be just my hand. Or both.
And I think zooming in too close to the car defeats the purpose of capturing these shots, maybe a few but definitely not all the shots. I do want to be able to see that it’s a GTR, or an EVO. Thanks for the link!