Heat Seeker Camera Used for Daytona 500 Broadcast

Fox Sports used the Heat Seeker infrared (IR) camera from Flir ATS to record the extreme temperatures that developed on Nascar motor vehicles during the Daytona 500 live broadcast. The thermal images are of particular interest as cars running in the rear of a piggy-backed pair lose air flow while drafting and must eventually switch places with the lead car to avoid overheating the engine. The technology can also reveal the on-track groove that cars are using, as well as the difference between tyres about to be changed compared with fresh replacements.

Flir cameras were featured in three live segments during the Daytona 500 race: one segment that compared a hot tyre just taken of a car with a cold tyre sitting in the pits; the second segment compared the hoods of two cars during the race; and the final segment showed a blown-out tyre just after being removed from a car late in the race. Flir supplied two of its SC8300 HD thermal cameras to Fox Sports to enable it to cover the race. One camera was configured to be portable and was used by a roving Fox camera man in the pits. The other camera was mounted on a tripod at Turn 4 approximately 100ft (30m) from the track.

The pit camera was used to acquire thermal images of the activity in the pits and the Turn 4 camera was utilised to take video of the cars as they passed by at a speed of more than 200mph (311km/h). Thermal imaging using IR cameras is suitable for solving a variety of scientific problems based on heat and temperature measurement. Thanks to its non-intrusive analysis capacity, thermal-imaging systems have become useful for a variety of research and development applications.

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