LOL: It's an old crappy, beat-up Sony PD150 that I bought 6 years ago to do some silly project for some studio... It sat around in the shop for a couple of years collecting dust and I decided to use it for the track...

I purchased two woodworking C-clamps and mount it to the cross member behind the seats, the most stable part of the car... It works perfectly IMO... I'm a director of photography / cameraman by profession and have worked with many of the mini-cams used for TV broadcasts of racing events for 15 years... I mostly do network primetime shows and feature films now... I just throw this crappy camera in the car for videos for the forum and to analyze the driving line of the track.

The only problem with shooting a camera out the front or rear of a car is that it does not give you the true perception of speed, because everything is relative at those angles... If you really want to present the visuals of absolute speed, you need to mount cameras at 45% thru 135% angles to the static background...

The best we have been able to do with forward and backward mounted cameras is to place them very low on the car so you can see the static tarmac in relation to the moving vehicle...

Obviously, I don't do this when I'm goofing around on the track with my buddies... Heck, half the time I even forget to turn the camera on because I'm concentrating on the event and not working...

The thing that I keep promising to do, is get the audio set-up properly... The camera has a front mounted mic that gets buffeted by the wind from both windows being down and cancels out all the good audio of the engine and exhaust note... The funny thing is, one of my best friends is an Emmy Award winning sound engineer and he keeps telling me that he'll let me wire in some of his mic's to the back end of the car so the audio is better, but I keep spacing it out every time I go to the track...



Here's one of my tools for work... Trust me, I've tried to get them in the car... NO WORKIE !!!