How Formula 1 is Filmed (It's a Technical Masterpiece)

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[benyahun]

Fun fact:
There are two high end slow motion cameras, each constantly posted on Toto Wolff and Jos Verstappen to see when they will smash something.

[paulrainford]

Nice video. As a member of the F1 replay team, I can say that your info is pretty accurate. There are a few things that have changed recently, but overall the video is a very good representation of what we do!

[gabor]

"It's a miracle how they combine everything into a TV footage."
*Monaco, 2021, showing Stroll go over a kerb*

[CarCurious]

I loved how you made a list of what you would talk about and then talked about all those things. No clickbait, this video is a masterpiece as well!

[SocietyUnplugged]

1:52 Fun fact: the reason was that "back in the 90's"on board footage was send to the helicopter. That's why there was loss in signal from the onboard cams when F1 cars drove through tunnels and bridges. Nowadays there are multiple wireless access points placed (transmitters and receivers) around the circuit. This enabled the helicopter to make cool shot.

[patrickbyr]

Very well produced, researched and executed. Never would have seen this if I didn’t come across the Reddit post. As a long term F1 fan, I gained a better understanding of the process. Great, great job!

[gkkes]

As a cameraman on the F1 in the early days, I can add a few things. Each cameraman has a button to press if he sees anything unusual, which flags a border around his recorded image in the replay area.
Often you film the leaders and then quickly re-establish on a second battle, sometimes a third. This was tricky in the early days with black and white viewfinders.
The fabulous Broadcast Centre included a canteen and bakery. Fun times...

[MisalignedMess]

Never realized how much goes into filming F1. Just shows how well planned out it is. Thanks for sharing, Tommy!

[paulthbrit]

Excellent video. I have been watching F1 for nearly 50 years and never seen a 'behind the scenes' video like this. Well done. I'm looking forward to seeing my first live race next week in Austin. Keep it up!

[Gothstana]

My god the effort put in by the camera teams is insane. I never even really thought about how they pulled this off every weekend. Thanks for all of this insight, it's actually blown my mind.

[estnexo]

I got this recommended after watching the insane season finale in Abu Dhabi.
Amazing research and sum up for everybody highly interested in what's really going on off-track and how many people are involved to make all this happen smoothly and enjoyably!

[BigCar]

Brilliant video! Congratulations on all this hard work.

[hansandersen]

They also introduced helmet cams this year, so you can see what it's like to race a f1 car. Go take a look at Alonso's lap at Spa this year, it is amazing

[Davvv]

Helmet cams are insane. Hope we get to see more of those.

[lewiskemp]

Been a F1 since 1989 watching Senna and a new kid named Michael. I enjoyed this video. Great job

[EpicLightMedia]

This video was made so well!!! I really enjoyed watching this.

[jonnysampson]

Hey man, just been recommended this and it's a really great vid I used to work in the production team at F1 and just a couple of indsider things I thought you might like to know!

- the curb cameras are known as flip flops as they are always in a pair, one looking at the cars front on entering the corner and one looking at the rear of the cars on exit
- the pit box top down cameras used to be a functional thing only as slow mo black and white cameras as a verification tool to measure the speed of pit stops (and to ensure penalties were serving the correct amount of time). Because it was a cool view they upgraded them to be broadcast quality
- Just on the logistics, all of the computer hardware is built into flight containers, so those containers can just be lifted and dropped down wherever without having to renetwork everything every race. Rigging the whole broadcast centre would take a day, it would then be tested for a day and then ready to go. Derig would usually take about 3 hours after the race. There was one extreme case in 2019 in Japan where the whole operation had to be moved inside the pit building to shelter from a typhoon that hit the track. It was derigged, moved, rigged again and tested in a day!

It's not just a production team in the sense of audio visual, the data platform that acquires data from the cars and then sends it to the teams, broadcast and external clients is done by F1 too, as well as the main timing system and backup manual timing systems.


This was so well researched though, I was so ready to do the internet thing and correct everything you had to say but it was pretty spot on! great stuff!

[javiazar]

As a photographer and lifelong (30+ years) fan of formula one, you've done both of my favorite subjects true justice. Thank you. 👏🏻

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[s.e.b]

The video we didn't ask for, but really needed

[festivaldeacnne]

I've watched this video about 15 times for a uni presentation and I still don't get bored watching it, great job on the editing and writing must have been long to gather all that information.