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Cool IDEA for Future Version of NASCAR

2 posts by 2 people · 07 May 1996 - 08 May 1996

Doug Bur 07 May 1996#318097
During a RECENT Nascar Race (on ESPN?) they had cameras mounted under the car that were aimed at the disc brake rotors .. you could see them heat up and expand as the car braked and then cool as it accelerated. They also had a camera mounted on the fender right in front of the wheel well. What a cool angle. Wouldn't it be cool if future version of Nascar allowed you to watch the brakes heat up? It sure would help us amateurs understand when we were improperly using the brakes ... the announcer of the race basically said that the driver was being "easy" on the brakes -- he could tell by what he saw. COOL! Doug -- ===== From the desk of Doug Burg - My Unofficial "Need For Speed" page: -----> http://members.aol.com/speed1racr/html/nfs_main.htm<----- If you wanna BUY/SELL/TRADE: AuctionWeb [link lost in import] "You can make $$$ or you can make excuses, but you can't make BOTH"
Kevin Earl 08 May 1996#318194
That would be pretty good, but I was thinking more along the lines of having the ability to put out like 10 free floating cameras at various locations around the track and being able to select them during the replay (or while racing for that matter) to view the race from, kind of like the old Stunt Driver game where you raced the Shelby against the Porsche, VW Bug, etc. I always like the view from the edge of the track that they show on TV. This view sometimes comes up in the TV1 or TV2 cameras, but I want to be able to set one there to view the whole race. Also, another cool camera angle would be from the announcers stand. There were some good shots by ESPN during the Talledega race from that vantage point, especially of racing down the back straight. Kevin

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