The driver's eye camera is set to be rolled out across the full grid in 2023. Here's how this technology has proved to be a gamechanger for F1 on TV:
duelled for a series of laps for the lead. The F1 TV directors were able to switch to the Driver’s Eye camera in Leclerc’s helmet throughout the scrap, giving some incredible insight into how a race-winning overtake is executed from the cockpit.
"Ours was the first one, and it was a big success,” he says. “I didn’t even realise it at first probably, but people were waiting for it.” Driver’s Eye soon escalated to become an important part of F1’s TV offering as part of a fully customised project for the series. All drivers using Bell helmets - Bell being part of the Racing Force Group - had the cameras fitted last year, while refinements were made with the positioning of the camera to offer an improved angle and improved stabilisation, albeit without losing the rawness that makes the footage so authentic and close to what the drivers experience.
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