Why don't they spot via Monitor ?

[sideways84]

I'm really surprised no team has gone to the point of hiring a TV camera crew to work as a spotter, Cost can't be used as an excuse, and I'm talking of only a supplement to the spotter in the stands as required but....
It's amazing how hard it must be to spot from 15 stories up, and as far away as the cars are....I mean it's really a game of inches when it comes to clearing a guy.

Along the same lines teams could do the shock and spring cams, etc and I would imagine would gain loads of insight.....Some crew chiefs with drivers known for poor feedback could watch in car camera and probably tell what the driver can't relay just from what the drivers hands tell him

[turbojunker]

The delay probably wouldn't work for spotting.

[sideways84]

I wondered about delay.....

So if you take a stopwatch and time a car on tv, Is it accurate ?

[outlaw6099]

2 years ago, i was at the Daytona 500 watching the race from the roof of a camper in the infield by turn 3, we also had a TV up on the roof as well, we timed out 16 seconds from when the cars went past us to the same point on track as the TV.

[Dirt13]

2 years ago, i was at the Daytona 500 watching the race from the roof of a camper in the infield by turn 3, we also had a TV up on the roof as well, we timed out 16 seconds from when the cars went past us to the same point on track as the TV.

Was that the one Newman one? I was down by turn 3 in the infield too!

[caissefan]

2 years ago, i was at the Daytona 500 watching the race from the roof of a camper in the infield by turn 3, we also had a TV up on the roof as well, we timed out 16 seconds from when the cars went past us to the same point on track as the TV.

Was that the one Newman one? I was down by turn 3 in the infield too!

I think I remember that story....You got plastered and ran around in a tiny thong bikini.

[turbojunker]

I wondered about delay.....

So if you take a stopwatch and time a car on tv, Is it accurate ?

Sure, it's accurate. It's just late.

[sparkie1260]

I wondered about delay.....

So if you take a stopwatch and time a car on tv, Is it accurate ?

Sure, it's accurate. It's just late.

It definitely is time delayed. We were watching last October's Dega truck race from behind David Starr's pitstall. The Sprint Vision was directly behind us. It was amazing to see it in person and then turn around and see it again on the big screen.

[caissefan]

I like the idea,and if there was a way to not have the delay it might be a really good idea,but until then it would never work...

I still kind of enjoy when ESPN is up on a pitbox with the CC and the TV is on,and you see how the delay...

[outlaw6099]

2 years ago, i was at the Daytona 500 watching the race from the roof of a camper in the infield by turn 3, we also had a TV up on the roof as well, we timed out 16 seconds from when the cars went past us to the same point on track as the TV.

Was that the one Newman one? I was down by turn 3 in the infield too!

It was when Kenseth won it, the race was fun till the rain came.....