How to make a “ghost car” similar to Mario Cart for automatic races

“GPS is good in places, but we go to places like Monaco, Baku and Singapore, as all of these infrastructure and GPS buildings are really drifting,” says Dean Locke, director of broadcasting and digital media in Formula 1.

F1 cars are also much lighter than their counterparts in NASCAR, which requires low weight sensors. Its broadcasting teams have struggled to put full rolls of the ghost car or relevant overlap features as a result.

To overcome these restrictions, F1 has built many internal prediction models based on GPS data for past seasons and LIDAR wipes for each path. Then I merged these models into an internal application that causes the synchronous video feeding to these previous qualified experiences, then compared data inputs side by side. By manually defining contradictions as GPS data from the qualifiers was clearly unclear based on video clips, the team managed to train its models to discover and correct abnormal cases.

The F1 GOST CAR feature has been launched through the broadcasters for the 2025 season. It is characterized by both the driver’s display inside the car and the vision of a “helicopter” over the car-especially useful in the qualifying rolls where the current driver is ahead of the ghost car, because the ghost car will be invisible during the views of these parking.

A shame, though: F1 cannot show its ghost car on the live broadcast. Since the team process still requires that there is another part of the manual control to ensure that the transparent ghost car is placed in accuracy, Locke says it takes about 90 minutes to pass the ghost car overlap to the broadcast partners after each qualified operation. The team’s goal is to turn a 30 -minute to facilitate the fastest analysis after rehabilitation. However, Locke says that the ghost car broadcast was very popular on the social channels of F1.

Meanwhile, the F1 competitors pushed in Indycar, to the envelope more this season where Fox, NASCAR, took over from NBC as an indycar series, where he brought SMT tanker box technology with it. Starting with the rehabilitation of Indy 500 earlier in May, the entire animation of the Ghost Live was used as a failed crime of the Fox driver’s camera in the car. This is not a 3D width, such as the previous SMT NASCAR GHOST cars, which exchanges in a separate digital display (either a suitable screen or a smaller box format); It is the actual and realistic driver’s camera from broadcasting using a precise ghost car with an overlapping screen on the screen.

Ruling rolls

Ghost cars are still in their relative cradle, especially for direct broadcasting. Hall believes that the uses of this basic technology expand quickly as broadcasters become more familiar with them-including full races in addition to the qualifiers.

“You may want to compare wearing tires,” says Hall. “Let me show you this car, which is now running live, and let me show this car five rolls as it was working on different tires.”

Hall also suggests the idea of ​​multiple ghost cars to qualify; One for the electrode incubator, but perhaps others in bubble sites or other relevant sites.

It is easy to see how ghost cars around them can be the beginning of the way in which this private car data will be used. Just take a look at NASCAR. SMT has received an interest from multiple teams in less than a year of the pioneer in the vector box. The teams wanted to use data from the box for tactical purposes such as afternoon analysis or comparisons for competitors, and SMT developed the team analysis application.

The demand was so high that in 2018, NASCAR opened this data to allow all teams to have full access. They can display everything from locating cars to gears and suffocating data, not only for their drivers but for the entire field. TEAM Analytics has a feature that provides multiple conveniences of ghost cars for previous races, allowing sets to compare driving lines or speed operation.

“Now in every kiosk hole, it is the center of the center,” says Hall. “Because the difference, crew heads, want to know: How is my car for other cars? And because it is not only placed on the track, it is also gears, strangulation, etc., different drivers can compare their performance against” each other.

It is likely to be a matter of time only before these features flow into Indycar and F1 teams.

Locke says that these teams “will use anything at all to get an improvement in another team,” although he notes that the F1 teams already collect a wealth of internal data on their cars.

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