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racing and HD is a great match, no doubt. Even if you're like us and prefer being at road course events in person, there's one vantage point that only HDTV can give you -- those
in-car camera shots that make the kid inside us all scream "vroom." But if you see something like the pic above, that scream might be more... colorful. The in-car Gigawave HD camera mounted in the #6 Phoenix Carsport Corvette Z06 at the 24 Hours of Spa race in Belgium last weekend was seriously put to the test and came out looking like a champ. The Z06 burst into flames in pit lane, and the camera kept working through the whole incident and caught all the excitement. Luckily the driver wasn't hurt. Amazingly, the car was put back out on the track and the camera was still fully functional after the incident. Click on through for video of the incident.
[Video courtesy
Brightcove]
posted Aug 11th 2008 1:38AM
About as good as the HD sky cam getting hit by lightning during a volleyball game at the Olympics yesterday
It doesn't look like the camera really had to withstand anything. The fire stayed on the outside of the vehicle, while the camera was inside.
And if you were inside the vehicle, I'm sure you would have just sat back and relaxed because the fire was outside.
Well, if you look close enough in the first 15 sec. you can see the flames on the inside of the care as they lick up the support stanchion on the left.