Credit: PaddockTalk/Sam Tickell

It is that time of year again – time to choose my favourite photos. 2008 was an odd year for me. It was a year that I was able to take on more photography assignments and thanks to others in the Ptalkphoto team, I learnt a huge amount. But it was also a strange year in that I was unable to make it to the number of events I would have liked. The Australian sportscar scene – which is my preference, imploded and rebuilt itself in 2008 but it did mean that I was unable to do some events that I otherwise would have. But, no doubt, 2009 should be a great year.

Here are the five I chose. No Pulitzer winners, but here they are....

The first one is of Dario's final lap pass of Dixon at Chicagoland. I knew that I wanted to get this shot and put myself in position to get it. I didn't think that Dario was going to be able to overtake, but when Dixon went low on fuel, Dario was able to make the pass.

When it first happened, I thought that Dario pulled some extra horsepower out of his rear end like Sam Hornish Jr did on Marco Andretti on the last lap at Indy in 2006. Dario wins the 2007 championship with this pass and it was an exciting conclusion to his great season.

The second pic is Dario in the pits. I think the pit shots can be cool because of the coordination of all of the crew and the efforts of the entire team to give their driver a chance to win. Many times, it is hard to get into a good position to get a good shot in the pits due to pit rules and all of the people in the way. This picture is also from Chicagoland.

My top five from 2007…I only did one event (Sandown GT Classic) with PaddockTalk photography for 2007 to run alongside the journalistic duties I have with the site. But that doesn’t make choosing just five any easier.

But here they are - in reverse order …