Everyone agrees that Dorna broadcasts Grand Prix images of extraordinary quality: a camera in each corner, dozens of on-board cameras including some 360° and others gyroscopic, buried cameras, slow motion to tear one's eyes out and helicopter views to which are now added a camera on wire to cover the pit lane. The level is extremely high and one might therefore be tempted to believe that it will be difficult to do better…
But that would be a poor understanding of human history, and difficult has never meant impossible. The arrival of drones opens up a space whose limits we do not yet know.
The proof, by combining the possibilities of the latest generation drones, namely the automatic pursuit of a defined target, with the performance of competition drones (nearly 200 km/h), we obtain a machine capable of providing images in 4K that no human operator could ever produce.
The following video, available in HD and 4K after selecting the appropriate option, offers us an example with its pursuit between the trees…
We imagine what that would look like with one drone per rider following the motorcycles above the MotoGP peloton... Breathtaking images, certainly, but also undoubtedly a catastrophe in terms of security, because, for the moment, it is This concern for security has encouraged Dorna to remain cautious in this area.
However, when we see the synchronizations already possible currently, we come to think that nothing is really impossible, within a few years...
