Quote Originally Posted by marshall_mosty View Post
Guys,
This has been out there for a while, whether or not everyone realized it was in the CCR is for each of us to answer personally. I don't think Will is going to ask us to surrender anything as long as we keep doing what we have done so far (last 12+ years).

Will,
I would challenge the running forward facing video as being mandatory is pretty stiff. What happens if the battery dies mid-session? What happens if I run out of memory on the SD card? What if I forgot to hit "record"??

I agree 1) it sucks to be forced to purchase anything, no matter how much it might cost, 2) it adds to your between session check list and that can suck, and 3) being penalized for a camera stopping or maybe never starting to record sucks. I think I have reasonable solutions to all the issues.

1) Tyler already found what appears to be a very inexpensive solution with the auto start function. The best GoPro of al of them IMO happens to be the cheapest one, the Session. It's $199 and can be setup for one button mode, and can also run off the remote you can mount to the dash (another $79).

2) With the amount of time we spend at several events debating fault for incidents, I think it's very practical to ask everybody, for the greater good, to spend 5-10 minutes of that between session time to make sure a camera with a fresh battery and empty/formatted SD card is ready to go.

3) We're never going to be on the hunt to penalize somebody for not recording. We just want incidents to be easier to review. Video is the best way to do that. Someone will only be penalized if we request their video to review an incident and it cannot be produced. Without penalty, someone with a video that could save your butt could be one of the "it didn't record" types that just doesn't want to give up the video for whatever many reasons some people don't want to share their video..

It sounds like the one issue people like the least is the messing with the camera between sessions. What if I revised the rule to only require recording for the Races and not practice/qual? Would you guys be for or against that? Someone could still run and share video that wanted to, but no penalty for not running video in a non-race session. What say ye? Remember, video can save your butt as much much as it can do you in wether its passing under yellow or getting collected by someone else....