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Most interesting narrative and welcome back. Photography is something that you can keep going back to and this site is excellent for asking advice. Far too many distractions when you are a teenager to keep sticking to one interest (I can just about remember my teenage years 
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Not a bad return image. It is a very difficult subject to photograph and especially panning along a straight section of track. Corners are easier as the cars are slower. The image is dynamic although not perfectly sharp, but it does pick up good detail. As you probably realize it would be a better image if the car was more to the left and driving into the space rather than leaving it. Perhaps cropping some of the left side empty space would balance the picture better. Main thing is to get the whole car in shot which you have done. I always missed completely or chopped the back or front off !!
Hope you post more regularly now you have returned.
Phil
)Not a bad return image. It is a very difficult subject to photograph and especially panning along a straight section of track. Corners are easier as the cars are slower. The image is dynamic although not perfectly sharp, but it does pick up good detail. As you probably realize it would be a better image if the car was more to the left and driving into the space rather than leaving it. Perhaps cropping some of the left side empty space would balance the picture better. Main thing is to get the whole car in shot which you have done. I always missed completely or chopped the back or front off !!
Hope you post more regularly now you have returned.
Phil
Thanks Phil - I appreciate the comment - and well done for reading the slightly long narrative! 
It was actually a deliberate attempted to frame the car to the right of the photo, with the very front/nose of the car sharp in focus - my thoughts being that the car leaving the shot would help to create a sensation of speed. But you could be right about the balance of the picture being off. I did take several centralised panning pictures, so I'll have a look at getting around to uploading one of those.
Thanks very much for taking the time to post some helpful advice!
It was actually a deliberate attempted to frame the car to the right of the photo, with the very front/nose of the car sharp in focus - my thoughts being that the car leaving the shot would help to create a sensation of speed. But you could be right about the balance of the picture being off. I did take several centralised panning pictures, so I'll have a look at getting around to uploading one of those.
Thanks very much for taking the time to post some helpful advice!
