What do you think......
 

I have been working with a few sponsors and 2 company's about going live on a website with onboard camera's.....its very hard to get a live feed from the air but not so with onboard camera's....
We have even been working on a project that for example...in our class for us to all put set GPS that will have our boat number on the target and follow us around the race course so fans not at the race can follow the race and who's winning.....that program is fairly simple....having live audio is also fairly simple from our boat also....but instead of just one onboard live...it would be cool to be able to click on a team during a race and be able to go inside the cockpit and see and hear whats going on live....

It will be very simple to have the audio and video downloaded after the race and have them put on a web site so fans can see and hear what happend at any time....but having it live would be pretty cool....

We already have a sponsor for our onboard...but it would be very easy to pick up a big sponsor if every boat would have that companys name and logo facing the onboard plus you could even have there website as the link to the live race.....a marine industry would be a great sponsor and benifit from that....its all about how many hits there web gets...its just as important as tv ratings and even between races have a little promo of there company and there products....

If its something you guys are interested in chime in.....

I had the opertunity to talk to a gentleman in marketing from NEXTEL 2 weeks ago....it is a big hit in NASCAR....

I'm not sure anybody wants to hear what goes on inside our boat. the'll think we hate each other

That is a very ture statement, but the fans would love it. Sure sounds like a cool idea tom me. Way to go Gino.

Hey Gino, Great idea, We are in, let me know what we need to do. Louie

That would be great. The average person has no idea the team work going on during a boat race.

That would be great. The average person has no idea the team work going on during a boat race.

That would be great. The average person has no idea the team work going on during a boat race.

unappreciated
 

That would be great. The average person has no idea the team work going on during a boat race.

I can see were the On The Chip audio would be nothing but a long beeeeeeppppppppp.....but for the adverage fan from the air it looks like we are just out for a Sunday smooth drive....but when you go inside the cockpit and see how we are getting the crap knock out of us....plus the NASCAR driver may have the occational counter steer going into a turn when we on the other hand have to do 10 times the driving just on a straight away...not to mention flying sideways in the air in a turn with no brakes would be pretty exciting....plus it would be great to show more onboards on tv....in 2003 the speedchannel did it alot and there shows were great....plus having sponsors name right in front of the audience when showing the onboards is a plus for the teams sponsors plus a great tool when going to make a presentation to potental sponsors.....

Just some other little tib bits were working on.....our web guy also said it would be very easy to set up on the top of the page the laps of each team.....

With the age of cell phones now having internet access even the fans on the beach or boats can watch from land and boat and also look at there phone to see who is in the lead and what lap were on.....

You should be in my boat when I'm "TALKING" to Kevin/Val/?????and now Marty! Nextel would just love us! Ask Jeff from Freeze Frame. I'm in

Gino, Awesome idea, we are developing a system as we speak wich will allow fans to log on and watch our onboard as well as our telemetry live. we are hoping to test it in a couple weeks

Scott....I think it could be the way of the furture for us to get out to the fans....the TV is great...but this is a great way for the fans to be able to follow live...

We have been working on some pretty cool things over the last 2 months and with the C.G. contract locked up again and NASCAR out of the way.....we have the opertunity to do some out of the box thinking with the backing now.....

Plus this is just another thing to bring to the TV show and takke our sport to the next level....

The #1 thing you hear at races are:

Who is winning.....
How many laps are they doing...
What place is that certain team in.....

Make it fan freindly and easy to follow....

This could take care alot of that.....

That is so true and with todays technology we are actually speaking to our team on shore and they let us know of any problems on the course or how far ahead or behind we are lol. So the "team" is truly the team. It saves time at the crane and we can let them know right away if we are in trouble. I get a sneak peek at what Scotty and the guys are working on and it is right out of star wars. Gino you lit a fire lol lets get this going. Thanks,louie

What r u talking bout rigger the average fan always knows whos leading if OTC is at the race:party-smiley-004:

i am very interested. send me info

Forget the cock pit conversation, just have the engine sounds with the on board camera. Great idea.

I think it is a great idea!!

What an idea!!!!! Keep me informed, please. But they can hear the engines not us:hitfan:

I've been saying since mine and daves first race at Biloxi."Can you imagine if we had a camera on us and a recording of what we were saying".People would get one hell of a thrill out of it. Laugh there arses off probably.But at least they would see the abuse we take and how difficult it can be to drive these animals.I think its an awesome idea.You can put one in Adrenaline Rush any time

Who's gonna hit the Bleeeeeep button!! LOL :D

There should also be a F***-Bomb counter at the top of the screen too!!

Dave

This!..should be interesting...

Destin 06 was one of the best. We could watch the boats run past the condo than run inside and watch on tv when they were on the outer legs. What about a G-meter to measure the big hits.

U better watch garbageman..u stepped up to supercat..whre the game changes in a hurry...hell i would love to hear that converstaion in that boat....

We will have a G meter, GPS, track position by GPS,
and N2 speed (shaft speed) along with our onboard video and voice. We have the equipment to record all and reproduce the video now, but we are awaiting the equipment to broadcast it live on the web

Sounds like great stuff, guys! Can't wait to see it happen.

The GPS track will be good if we can get at least all the boats in 1 class to do it to see what position everyone is in....if it gose to more then one class on the screen, we can go with color targets with there number....like class 3 green targets and class 4 yellow targets...


The way we have our video is the optional....split screen...front and rear veiw camera's or choose just one.....

We will be sitting down with our leader and see what we can put all together.....

Very cool Idea!! heck with all of this you wouldn't need TV other than to rebroadcast it later on. With it "Live on the web" I can see everyone at the race site sitting around the people that have their lap tops on and following the race. Very cool idea!! Keep it up Gino!!!