Numbers Up For This Year's Classic

THE Sydney to Hobart has - for now - escaped the worldwide economic crisis unscathed, with this year's fleet up about 30 per cent on last year's, when 82 yachts started. Despite the huge costs involved in building and preparing yachts for the race, the 108-strong field for this year's race is the third largest since 1998, when 115 yachts competed. In 2004 there were 116 starters.

Pit-stop Snaps Two Years In The Making

A PIT stop in a formula one grand prix race is a scene of frantic activity that is usually over in less than 10 seconds. It took German photographer Andreas Gursky nearly two years to complete his huge images of the scene.