Motorsport
Car, kart and motorcycle racing, track days and 4x4
off-road events - our system can take the motorsport experience onto a
screen for everybody to see in seconds, and onto a DVD within four
minutes of the race or experience ending.
But while the system can be used as an outright souvenir of a
motorsport event or track day experience, it can also be used for
assembling on-board data to provide valuable information for race
teams looking to improve their on-track performance.
In essence, the system offered to theme parks and event organisers
is a stripped-down version of the highly complex on-board system that
is used in motorsport.
The system can link video with data logging across a vast range of
parameters to help assess driver or rider, and car, kart or bike
performance in testing, qualifying or the race itself.
While it has proven to be an important tool in motor racing, it is
also a tremendously powerful method of recording once-in-lifetime,
turn-up-and-drive events and experiences such as track days, corporate
on-track experiences and off-road events - enabling guests to share
the experience with friends and family.
The Rapid Media-developed system is supremely uncomplicated.
Drivers or riders, or their support team members or administrators,
are given a Flash memory card as they arrive and sign in. Racers can
designate a team member to manage the process. As they get in their
car or kart, or on their bike, the Flash card is slotted into a
playing-card box sized digital recorder.
At the end of their practice, qualifying, race or experience, the
card is slotted into a PC, the rider or guest recognised, on-track and
other content merged into a finished, edited, product, and then
screened for race assessment, or presented to the guest on a souvenir
DVD - complete with their name and other information - all in around
four minutes.
Of course, this can be used in other motorised sporting events such
as watersports or airborne sports.
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