Need Good Lipstick Camera Locations

[North Coast Cab]

Woohoo...finally got the lipstick camera working. Turned out the power connection was backwards. If you buy the $65 one recommended by Jack, buy a male BNC=>phone adapter and use the rca yellow video cable with a 3.5mm(1/8") plug to connect to camcorders analog connection point. You can buy a power adapter or cut the end off and connect to power and ground.

Anyway, I've been playing around with ways to run the cord and camera and I'm looking for some cool spots. I have a few track days coming up, but I don't want to blow a session with it mounted in some bad place. Ideas or suggestions?

Thanks in advance, John

[Zeke]

I've always liked the perspective of the track from the front bumper. Being that low kinda reminds me of what I used to see in a lay-down kart. Some tracks had enough of an elevation change that the horizon could be only a couple hundred feet away on a crest of a hill. Several tracks I have run on have/had that feature including the old Riverside, Willow Springs and Sears Point. Of course, Laguna Seca is the all time winner with the "corkscrew," but I never ran there.

Tracks that don't do that are the flatter ones, but the apex of each corner from a bumper cam is like what you sometimes see on the F1 broadcasts. Equally good is the camera right over the driver's head, but I don't know if that is so good in a closed car. Works best on an open wheel car.

How about dead center in the cockpit from somewhere behind the driver? Seems like the most popular place and probably for good reason. Correctly mounted gives a view of what's in the rear view mirror, kind of a screen in screen effect.