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What with colour-coded tyre-wear graphs, live grumbling on the pit radio and Eddie Jordan’s shirts in glorious HD, F1 viewers have become rather spoilt by their TV experience recently.
But despite the 20 different driver-cam angles that now replay after every shunt, we’ve still never seen anything quite like this.
While testing Pirelli tyres in a Toyota F1 car around Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya, Lucas Di Grassi strapped a minicam to his helmet. The result is below.
And the reason we don’t get this angle on the TV coverage? The camera actually obscures half of his helmet. So remember as you watch this: he’s driving with one eye.
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Zonda-R commented on this article
at 11:07 am on 20 October 2011
Awesome :D
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Takk commented on this article
at 12:45 pm on 20 October 2011
Big ty to the guys who thought of this, and the boss that approved. Inside the helmet, your view is even more limited because of the helmet itself. I really, really hate wearing helmets: I can't help but worry (ie. panic) over all the stuff I can't see.
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SAXO commented on this article
at 01:44 pm on 20 October 2011
sweeeeeeeet
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Jmb92xy commented on this article
at 02:20 pm on 20 October 2011
That was the coolest way every to watch a driver and car work!!! They need to put cameras back on the cars!
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ferrariowner commented on this article
at 04:21 pm on 20 October 2011
That looked fast no? But that was stand in for the slowest team, Virgin, in a sub standard 2009 Toyota F1 car doing a slow tyre test. So imagine what a helmet cam would look like strapped to Lewis' yellow lid when he was one his Korean pole! It would blow your mind! Do it FOM!
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