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Yeah, true. Mr Henchmen is biased towards Silverstone as its his local track. But Silverstone isn't a great place to do motorsport photography.

Its possible to get media accredited for 3/4 times a year, some of the smaller publications will let you do this.

White balance I generally just set to to the camera presets according to the whether, but I do also fix it in lightroom afterwards sometimes.

What I've found is its best to use a monopod if your shooting with a heavy lens which you can't handhold for long or find it uncomfortable too, or if your shooting from a long distance away at a slow shutter speed. If your shooting quite close to the subject the monopod does restrict your movement.

You sure do, that's one of the exciting things about them your never quite sure what your going to see :) Same with trackdays, I've seen everything from a standard Volvo Estate to a BTCC Car!

Depends what sort of shots your after, I've never been to mount panorama, but I would advise the 120-300mm with the 1.4x extender and the 16-85mm for any wide angle shots for the slow pans. Could also take the 50mm f1.8 for the pitlane pictures.

If your shooting in b&w you can get away with grain.

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as @scott199 says most Camera have live view. I don't know about the d3400, but most cameras let you zoom in in live view aswell which you can use to see if the image is in focus or not.

A good guide but Silverstone is probably one of the worst circuits to do motorsport photography at (unless you have media access), there's fencing up around nearly all the circuit making panning shots very difficult. It gets extremely busy during the major events. Compared to most other tracks...

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If you want maximum reach for a reasonable price I recommend the Sigma 150-600mm, its got a very long reach and is a decent sports lens. The Tamrom 150-600 is good but the Sigma lens is better.

@PhotoBoris unless your doing a parralel pan (where you shooting parralel to the car) your always going to have some parts of the car not in focus, the main thing you can do to get more of your car in focus for an angled pan is to increase your shutter speed or you can also shoot wider and or...

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