For the promoter of the Formula 1 championship, the pre-season testing session is seen as more than just an opportunity for the teams to continue evaluating their new generation of cars based on the ground effect concept. During the three days of testing in Bahrain the FOM will also experiment the use of drones that will fly at low altitude to improve the TV show with new side shots which will give a sense of speed that is instead limited by other shots.
Formula 1 is aware that it has in its hands a show which need to be improved with the debut of the new cars. Alongside the tests in Sakhir scheduled from Thursday to Saturday, the tv coverage season also officially begins, after the Barcelona tests had been reduced to a simple “shakedown”.
There was no live TV broadcast of the three Spanish days due to a precise choice: Bahrain asked and obtained to turn the spotlight on the Formula 1 world championship with the second test session, in exchange for a generous economic agreement.
The fans, therefore, will be able to follow the tests with live coverage by Sky F1 that will start from 8:00 and last until 12:00 (the morning session). The afternoon session takes place between 13:00 and 17:00. According to rumors coming from Bigging Hill, where the FOM has its Media and Technology Centre, we can expect a series of new features that should improve the TV show.
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After the positive experiments in Barcelona on the Ferrari filming day, Formula 1 intends to officially debut drones in Bahrain, expanding the range of TV footage that can improve the show on track.
In addition to the cameras scattered along the circuit to cover the entire Sakhir track and those mounted on the single-seaters, we will have the usual aerial views from the helicopter to which the images from the drones will be added.
Overcoming a number of political issues related to security, rather than actually technological, drones will be a nice novelty that will come into action in the Bahrain testing session to carry out trials ahead of the official debut in the first Grand Prix of the 2022 championship.
The small unmanned aircraft will have the task of making the sense of speed more perceived by viewers with unprecedented shots, since television, due to the effect of long telephoto lenses, tends to flatten the images by removing the sense of speed that is perceived live.
The drone, in fact, will be allowed to fly at a very low altitude (it seems 10-15 meters) to shoot laterally the single-seaters in action, with shots that will increase the sense of speed, raising the emotional quality of the show.
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