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World Premiere: Real Formula One Driver Point Of View Video
Filmed on Spa-Francorchamps Lucas Di Grassi, Pirelli’s official test driver for the 2012 Formula 1 season, had a world premiere. Join in an installation lap around the Belgian track in wet conditions with the first time ever eye-level camera real driver point of view.
Di Grassi commented: ” I had to drive with only one eye open as the camera was blocking my other eye, quite tricky”.
RaceDepartment commented: “Please keep driving with one eye for the rest of your career as this is totally epic stuff!”
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18 Comments
Epic!
“quite tricky”is he insane? i could not drive like that even if i had 4 eyes:) we must talk with Bernie and introduce this in F1:)
Maybe he could drive with both eyes shut so we can have a nice 3D movie to watch? :tongue:
Someone throw me a set of keys please…
Wow!!! Would love to see a full tilt flying lap in the dry and one in a pack in the wet!!!
have to say you can see much more than I was expecting from the eye view
Can’t you see image distortion? Its a fisheye lens, reason why you see so much. Still a very interesting video but it does not reproduce the natural FOV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisheye_lens
Cant be eye-level if you look at the side mirrors all you can see is the top of the side-pod – which means i think that the camera is on the top of the helmet…..
looks like an inverse fisheye!!
Not exactly a world premiere
Lucas Di Grassi did this 9 months ago as well and made a video of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97rrME9eQHA
Seems much higher than I would have thought.
Not the first ever. They had done this before in Spain I think
i like its nice..
The apex goes right to the middle of the screen as he approaches a corner. Great job with the camera placement! :up: Wind noise really dominates the sound track.
Very cool, more of this would be cool, especially in the dry and wet when pushing it a little
I was surprised about the seat height. In racing games/sims the seating is much lower.
This video is a lie. This is not an eye-level videw, this position is higher.
Check the video of Robert Kubica made in Monza, that camera was put into his helmet, and the eye-level is lower than inht this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpLjvkh4hQE
Another question about this video: weher is the shield of the helmet?
This camera should be outside of the helmet, but the middle of it, on the top of it!
Why would Di Grassi lie about this? Doesn’t make sense.
He says its placed on his eye.