Here is some cool footage of the first ever live coverage of a Grand Prix race from the cockpit view of a Formula 1 car.
The technology was privately tested using a Renault F1 car at Monthlery, France and then at Michelin's proving grounds in Clermont-Ferrand in 1984.
Nelson Piquet then tested it for FOCA TV, driving his camera-equipped Brabham-BMW at Monza later that same year.
The first live broadcast of a Grand Prix race was performed in 1985 during the German Grand Prix held on the short, new version of the Nurburgring.
Frenchman Francois Hesnault was behind the wheel of a third Renault RE60 turbo fitted with a big (and heavy!) Thomson camera and a transmitter.
The technology was privately tested using a Renault F1 car at Monthlery, France and then at Michelin's proving grounds in Clermont-Ferrand in 1984.
Nelson Piquet then tested it for FOCA TV, driving his camera-equipped Brabham-BMW at Monza later that same year.
The first live broadcast of a Grand Prix race was performed in 1985 during the German Grand Prix held on the short, new version of the Nurburgring.
Frenchman Francois Hesnault was behind the wheel of a third Renault RE60 turbo fitted with a big (and heavy!) Thomson camera and a transmitter.