WRC video experiment

Assetto Corsa Competizione (ACC) has a pretty amazing replay system. When you save a replay it stores all of the info in a special file format that gets played back when you view the replay. All the information from the race is stored in the file, not just for your car, but for all cars, which lets you switch to any car in the race and select different views, etc. And since the replays aren’t actual video files, each replay file takes very little storage.

Unfortunately WRC doesn’t have a replay system like ACC, which is a bummer because being able to save your runs and review them later (or make clips, etc.) would be nice. To be fair, WRC does have replays but once you exit the run you’ve just done, you can no longer access the replay. Also, the controls within the replay are not great. For example, you can fast-forward and rewind, but you can’t drag the slider to a specific part of the replay, which is really annoying if it’s a 15 or 20 minute drive as you have to wait for the replay to advance on 4x speed.

All that said, I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to record stages I run in some of the events I’m doing. Here’s a short example of what the “TV footage” camera view looks like. The switch to the overhead “drone view” is pretty cool. I just played the replay at the end of a stage and recorded a couple minutes of it. I’ll post what the in-car view looks like (i.e., what I see when driving) later on.