Thanks for the kind words.
These images came together after a decision to try a different location. There's a larger clear view available of the Speedway's first turn, but there have been early incidents in the second turn in recent years. Without a photo credential, you have to deal with a fence, but that seemed like an acceptable interference, so we were waiting in the second turn at the start of the race.
That wreck is one of those situations where you hope that experience and equipment come together, and you react correctly when things happen. Experience shows that you typically look for trouble when cars run three abreast, and that's how the camera was pointed in the right place when Sam Hornish Jr. was turned sideways.
That sequence also showed how nicely cameras such as the T2i used there can work. Years ago, when there was a similar stock car wreck in the same turn, an Olympus C2100 came up short when the autoexposure and autofocus didn't react quickly enough. And 12 years ago, during an even bigger wreck during the Indianapolis 500, a Sony DKC-ID1 only got two shots. The DKC-ID1 was the best superzoom digicam available in 1998, but it was designed before the era when camera buffers were considered necessary. That Sony had to pause for several seconds between shots while it stored images to its PCMCIA card, so there were only two pictures captured from that 1998 wreck.
Sometimes you need to have gone through the early era of digital cameras to appreciate how much you can get out of the cameras from the current era. 
