It was a dismal day - the light levels in those pics was pretty close to the actual light levels on the day at noon - basically a rancid day altogether
Nice camera. Heres a tip for F1 and any race photography. Practice panning with the car or bike. It takes practice but after a few trys you will get it down.
If you ever come out to oklahoma, You can get out to the country and take some beautiful pictures of lighting bolts.
seeing the sheets of rain come out of the clouds is really cool to.
and well the clouds to. Seeing something the size of mount everest slowly float towards you from Kansas (yes you can really see them from kansas border (around Alva) in oklahoma city its ftw. especially when its only a couple miles away and you see a giant glowing orange wall. But tornados and hail typically come after that and you run to the bomb shelter.
(can you tell it was windy few days before??....lol that's the roof of the shed from the other guys house that tore off and beat that tree up.)