{"id":8795,"date":"2013-07-20T01:26:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T05:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=8795"},"modified":"2013-07-20T01:26:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T05:26:30","slug":"nascar-suspends-use-of-aerial-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/07\/20\/nascar-suspends-use-of-aerial-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR suspends use of aerial cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8797\" alt=\"marcosambrosecable\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/07\/marcosambrosecable.png\" width=\"675\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/07\/marcosambrosecable.png 675w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/07\/marcosambrosecable-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ten people were injured when the drive rope for the usage of aerial cameras by Fox sports snapped at Charlotte Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Now NASCAR has put a stop to the usage of these cameras suspending them two months after the incident that took place in the Coca-Cola 600.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;NASCAR has decided, in collaboration with its broadcast partners, to suspend all media partner usage of aerial camera systems that hang over race tracks,&#8221; NASCAR said in a statement. &#8221;The safety of our competitors and our fans remains NASCAR&#8217;s No. 1 priority, and until total evaluation and analysis have been completed, usage of this particular technology enhancement and any similar enhancements, has been suspended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QnRrG12s8ss\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>FOX had used the CATCAM system and ESPN who will begin televising races with next weeks Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway had planned to use the Batcam system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten people were injured when the drive rope for the usage of aerial cameras by Fox sports snapped at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Now NASCAR has put a stop to the usage of these cameras suspending them two months after the incident that took place in the Coca-Cola 600. &#8221;NASCAR has decided, in collaboration with its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-8795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8795"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}