Motorsport Off Topic Thread

[Crippled Potato]

Red bull did one similar a few years ago but it was mounted on the camera pod. No idea how the merc is mounted and it is very well stitched together. love it.

Would be awesome if this technology was available during broadcast of races.

 

[Skeeter]

Isn't a video just a bunch of still images played in order?

Its going to be like 3D technology or bullet time where they set a number of cameras to film in sync so they can align the frames, combined with the 360 photo technology that splices the frames together to form a navigable image.

Clever stuff. Kudos to Merc for embracing it and giving the fans something shiny and new.

It won't appear during races for ages, if at all. The camera is huge, and I expect the combination into a video is a process that's done offline after the recording.

 

[Indy500]

68 cars on the latest entry list for the Sebring USCC enduro: http://www.imsa.com/sites/default/files/races/entry_lists/Sebring Entry List.pdf

 

[GravyMonster]

Probably not the same camera, but this is how these guys do it:

tl;dw: 6 cameras, 4 at each compass point, 1 top, 1 bottom, and the image is stitched together.

 

[visibleman]

I wonder how they did it.

You can see multiple 'stitches' in the video, so it'll be a multi-camera setup similar to what Spunkey posted. Alternatively you use a 360 panoramic lens setup which tends to be a smaller package but you vastly reduce the resolution of the video.

Still pretty impressive though

 

[~Mike~]

360 video is very clever stuff

 

[JRS]

The Almighty Satanic Evil That Is Bernard Charles Ecclestone™ has been found not guilty in the civil case brought by Constantin Medien.



Can almost feel the hatred swelling from certain posters on here already. And it's b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l.

 

[sunama]

That's good news.
It shows that if you are super wealthy, you can wriggle out of anything.

With regards to bribes - bribes of all kinds happen in all walks of life. Even the current US president who took Millions of dollars from a wealthy tech business man to fund his electoral campaign in 2008, repaid the "favour" after becoming president, by awarding companies, owned by this businessman, £100M+ contracts. I believe these were green energy contracts, which have yielded virtually nothing.

If Bernie goes down for bribes, then perhaps politicians should also end up in Court.

 

[~Mike~]

The Almighty Satanic Evil That Is Bernard Charles Ecclestone™ has been found not guilty in the civil case brought by Constantin Medien.



Can almost feel the hatred swelling from certain posters on here already. And it's b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l.

I'm shocked.

The judge also said: "Even... making allowances for the lapse of time and Mr Ecclestone's age, I am afraid that I find it impossible to regard him as a reliable or truthful witness."

lol

 

[arknor]

The Almighty Satanic Evil That Is Bernard Charles Ecclestone™ has been found not guilty in the civil case brought by Constantin Medien.



Can almost feel the hatred swelling from certain posters on here already. And it's b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l.

did you actually read the article?

Mr Justice Newey found Mr Ecclestone had made a "corrupt" deal. And he had been not "reliable or truthful" during the case in London, the judge added.

But he said there had been no financial loss to German media group Constantin Medien. It said it would appeal.

LOL@ the judge being called newey I wonder if his first name is adrian

Bah it's "guy newey" maybe they are related

 

[JRS]

did you actually read the article?

No, I read War & Peace instead

Of course I read it. He was found not guilty. As I stated. Not seeing your problem here....

 

[JRS]

Fair enough. It is/was being reported as a 'not guilty' verdict though.

 

[Indy500]

This isn't the main case against him anyway, that will happen in Germany about 2 months from now.

 

[JRS]

Yep, and the verdict here probably won't help Bernie's defence.

 

[Duke]

Still loling at Bernie in the rotating door at the court on a previous visit few weeks ago.

 

[~Mike~]

This isn't the main case against him anyway, that will happen in Germany about 2 months from now.

Yep, and the verdict here probably won't help Bernie's defence.

You should read the article I posted the other day

Interesting read in the Guardian about Bernie

Bernie Ecclestone's are big boots to fill but he may not be going soon

.....Ecclestone's ability to survive any number of crises should make observers wary of predicting his final demise. His claim in recent days that the case will never come to court may be founded in German law, which rules that an action of this kind may be settled by the payment of an appropriate sum to the party claiming injury.

In this case Ecclestone would need to pay about £240m to a Bavarian bank, which might not be an insuperable problem to a man whose offshore family trust is said to contain around £2.6bn.

 

[JRS]

You should read the article I posted the other day

I would, but I'm allergic to the Grauniad.

 

[MissChief]

The problem with paying the money to make the case go away is that it's as good as admitting guilt.

 

[El_Watcher]

The next case against him should be open and shut by any common sense view. The person who took the money was found guilty of taking a bride, so by direct correlation, the person who paid the money (BE) is therefore guilty of paying a bribe. Any other result puts the Law into nonsense territory.

 

[Skeeter]

You have confused and trivialized that somewhat.

Gribkowsky is in prison for corruption and tax evaision, not receiving the bribe from Bernie. And while the payments have been confirmed as a bribe, the argument is that it was in response to Gribkowsky blackmailing Bernie about his tax issues, and not related to undervaluing F1 to aid a sale, which is what Bernie is accused off.

Its not as simple as just whether it was a bribe (it was), its about what the bribe was for and who it may or may not have affected.

I assume that if Gribkowsky is found guilty of blackmail then there's the possibility that Bernie would not only get let off, but could also get his money back? That would go down well on here, that's for sure.

Personally, if F1 loses Bernie then the sport is history. The crazy old man is one of the only things stopping the FIA destroying the sport, or the teams ripping it apart themselves.