Glad people like the photos...
When it comes to photography, I am trying to do big things with little tools unfortunately. My camera is a Fuji S5500, which is about as close to a digital SLR as you can get without being one, but I really need a DSLR to improve my photography. The Fuji offers 10x Optical zoom which is great for a non DLSR, but on days like the hillclimb, the camera spent most of the day at or near maximum zoom and the results are not as high as I am used to.
You can see the quality difference in the images at normal zoom levels (such as the first photo of the GT and the last two of the Perana) versus the shot of the Perana at the starting line. The sun glare also caused a few headaches but the circular polariser did its job well.

Timmeh