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Hey guys check out some of this footage my brother and I go from him racing a couple weekends ago. We used a GoPro HD Hero 2, we are trying to find more ways to isolate it better to keep the vibrations from the car shaking the camera to much.

https://vimeo.com/43967037

 
1. the track sucks.

2. your slow.

3. you need new tires.

4. I wish my parents were rich.

5. need to find a mount that has less vibration, perhaps on your fearing somewhere.
 
Yeah, the track is pretty rough

but a pretty exciting race, haha I think it's hilarious that the guy you were chasing on the last lap ended up hitting the car that was already spun out, did he not see the yellow flags or something?

Just out of curiosity, what place did you end up getting in this race? and what series of racing is this?
 
First off we don't have rich parents, it is my brother racing, his car and all his money put into his car... The track is amazing technical and no track is perfectly smooth.

The series is a Waterford Hills Road Racing its apart of the SCCA. He placed second in class and forth overall. We are trying to get the car setup properly, went from Hoosier tires to Goodyears so still trying to figure out the best setup.
 
track isnt horrible, what most people need to realize in this thread is that to get a track with perfect pavement and a decent size takes millions of dollars, which your local road course isnt going to have. This combined with stiff suspension and a crap mount makes it look worse than it actually is

you want to see bad pavement try running at englishtown on their time attack course, that is straight up horrific

try running carts in parking lots, my ass still hurts

 
but about the mount you can get motorsports mounts, but if you want to get serious the contour cameras are much better espescially with sound for cars
 
everyones hating but this is fucking baller, i really want to try this shit sometime. What is this series of racing even called? it's like formula 1 but waaay smaller, is it indy?
 
We actually have a contour also. The contour wasn't working properly it kept cutting out, not holding a charge for the entire race. Also we have to use so much double sided tape to keep it isolated from the vibration on the car, which also make it cut out.
 
yea maybe i've just been playing too much Gran Turismo lately but i totally want to be a Le Mans driver now, can a 17 year old canadian even acheive that or do you have to start young? OP do you know?
 
He has put well of 20 grand into the car so far and that is cheap compared to our competitors... A lot of racers have a budget well over ours. And to get into le mans you need to practice a lot you can def attempt at getting into it because a lot of those drivers range from 16-45
 
haha! not exactly Indy

Indy car racing sucks ass compared to F1, but I'm guessing he wouldn't becoming to NS to ask about a camera mount if he was in Indy
 
Wow. I want to do that, it looks so fun. But then again, that's probably what everyone else is thinking.
 
That’s me. The car is

a Reynard 90SF, built to the SCCA Formula Continental rule set. This race was run at Waterford Hills, which

is a little 1.4 mile road course about an hour north of Detroit. I purchased this car last fall and have run

it four weekends now. I’ve been running

SCCA now for three seasons. All of this

is done out of my own pocket, but I’ve also got a full time gig and am out of

school. I’ve got less than 20k in the

car, but I beg borrow and steal my way to race.

Also, I’ve given up some things to make it happen. I don’t go out drinking much on the weekends

and try to avoid eating out too often.

It takes a lot of dedication to prep the car for each event.

I’ve been using both a Contour and a GoPro. Both are new and I’ve been struggling with

keeping the Contour operating (it replaced a ContourHD that took a shit earlier

in the spring). I got sick of losing all

the footage so I made a quick swap to mount the GoPro facing forward. The car creates a lot of vibration and I didn’t

have time to really work on the mount so there is significant movement of the

camera. The track is bumpy and you can

hear the camera bounce off the roll hoop a few times, but the vibration from

the engine is by far the biggest culprit.

I used to shoot all the forward footie from my old Contour and the

results were pretty good. More race

footage here: http://contour.com/users/2bwise

I got started back in college with Formula SAE. Resources were pretty much free back then,

but I also autocrossed my street car all summer. The more seat time the better. Once I graduated I got my SCCA license and

began road racing. The first two seasons

I ran a Formula Vee, then a Formula First, and now the FC. May never be going pro as a race driver, but

I do get to test drive vehicles every day at work. Its not racing, but I guarantee I spend more

time driving cars than 90% of the pro drivers out there.
 
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