[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[Juha_Koo]

People are never happy, when the onboard cameras were behind the drivers, everybody complained how they can't see the road properly... "Seats take too much space in the view", "I don't want to see rollcage but road" etc etc.

I understand FIA's safety concern, I always thought it is because of it that we dont see seat-mounted cameras (although we have seen them in the past, e.g. check 2011 Hirvonen Mexico & Finland onboards (Mikko used "hard-surfaced" Recaro seat that season)).

And unlike stated above, making and using specially designed seats would become really expensive. There's no need to make new seats as everything is possible with existing stuff.

Just check out Torstein Eriksen's video of Østberg Portugal test. Awesome footage with GoPros, only lacking the intercom audio.