Lakeside Breakfast Laps - 12 October 2014

[team_v]

I believe the fencing was up at our last happy laps becasue an evo went over the concrete barriers in the sprint series earlier that month.
Luckily they have the little photo booth on the exit of the karusel and you can go into the pit area/yellow tower to get some shots.

A UAV would be pretty awesome but they don't deal with strong winds that we would get being near the lake and would make it dangerous if it crashed into a car as speed.
Also the DJI Phantom 2 is like $1500 here and wouldn't last the session.
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I believe there is a few companies in teh US that are using a UAV linked to a gps transponder so that it will automatically follow you.
The presumption is that you can then have it filming while snowboarding etc and not have to worry about a pole or a camera-man

[mattatnoosa]

I believe the fencing was up at our last happy laps becasue an evo went over the concrete barriers in the sprint series earlier that month.
Luckily they have the little photo booth on the exit of the karusel and you can go into the pit area/yellow tower to get some shots.

A UAV would be pretty awesome but they don't deal with strong winds that we would get being near the lake and would make it dangerous if it crashed into a car as speed.
Also the DJI Phantom 2 is like $1500 here and wouldn't last the session.
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I believe there is a few companies in teh US that are using a UAV linked to a gps transponder so that it will automatically follow you.
The presumption is that you can then have it filming while snowboarding etc and not have to worry about a pole or a camera-man

You're right, there were 2 or 3 kickstarter projects on a while ago, you wear a wristband, drone follows, good for motorcross / surfing, not for track driving. The drones could only keep up to about 60kms per hour I think.

A drone would be good at least up the back, alot of grass to fall on, I wouldn't see it being an issue, bar battery life and staff thoughts on it.

[seangti]

My Dad and myself found that it looks like the Lakeside guys have put up extra fencing around some parts of the track so unfortunately 2 photo spots Dad usually uses (near the bridge and hungry) are no longer usable.

That's right, LS have spent a lot of time and no doubt money making the track safer. If you 'like' them on facebook you get regular updates on the work they do. It's been a very busy few months for them. So where they may have had guard rails, they now run concrete walls and some higher fencing. It's to prevent cars being launched upon impact or reinjected into the circuit.

They have also made some changes to the final corner onto the straight, too many cars turning in too early and punching the tyres on the outside. You may have noticed new white lines around the track, though those on the outside of that corner are the new track limits (~1.5m less room on exit). Anyone exceeding track limits will have their day ended.

For anyone that wants to go beyond happy laps pace to timeattack, speak/PM Nat or me.

[TTS20]

I have some time on the weekend (it is super hectic at uni and work atm) so I'll see about cutting out any parts that contain people that requested to not be in the video. The videos are a little blurry as far as 30 or 48fps video capture I think. I might try asking dad to reduce the quality to 720 or something to get a boost in fps next time.

Also if anyone has a Parrot drone or something similar (R/C helicopter with a video camera attached) I think that would make some pretty good content.

My Dad and myself found that it looks like the Lakeside guys have put up extra fencing around some parts of the track so unfortunately 2 photo spots Dad usually uses (near the bridge and hungry) are no longer usable.

Any news on that video??

[THE_EGG]

I had to chop out about 5 minutes in total throughout all the videos to ensure that person(s) who wished not to be photographed/filmed did not appear in any parts of the video.

Only one location in this speccy vid. I'm going to see if there is anyway of getting to places near hungry and/or chicane and bridge area as they have been great locations for taking photos and videos in the past.

Sorry for being delayed, a person in my group for a presentation at uni decided to not do anything so I was super busy putting his part together so we could present.

[ICUdR]

Good job bro!

[TTS20]

Thanks for the vid man, i've got a mate whos a cinematographer with a 4k camera, i might see if i can get him to come along to the next one