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The series plans to roll out new garage cameras and beefed-up technology in a bid to catch any teams breaching the championship\u2019s hefty rulebook.<\/p>\n
Teams have long been required to fit a downward facing camera to their pit booms that records during on-track sessions.<\/p>\n
That footage can then be requested from the teams by officials as part of an investigation, most commonly into a pitstop breach.<\/p>\n
This year there will be compulsory boom and garage cameras supplied by Supercars.<\/p>\n
Both will be required to be connected directly to Supercars\u2019 internal network and recording from 30 minutes prior to Practice 1 through to the end of the weekend\u2019s final race.<\/p>\n
The new measures are included in this year\u2019s Supercars rulebook but supply issues mean they won\u2019t be ready by Round 1, where the 2025 pit boom camera rules will apply.<\/p>\n
Supercars motorsport boss Tim Edwards told Speedcafe the new system will have multiple benefits once implemented.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will give us the ability to look at what\u2019s going on at all times,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won\u2019t have to go down to the team and say \u2018can I please have your SD card, I want to look at your boom footage from your last pit stop?\u2019. It\u2019s all on our server.<\/p>\n
\u201cTeams can log into their own respective cameras, so they get to see their own cameras \u2013 both the garage and the boom.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boom camera [being streamed and recorded] is also so we can monitor to make sure there\u2019s no breaches of the curfew at night.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt also allows us to monitor between qualifying and the race on Saturday where we have the two qualis and two races, where there\u2019s a parc ferme period between them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t be in every garage at every minute of the day, so it just gives us a bit of oversight on what\u2019s going on during that period as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Edwards stressed the cameras provide extra security for teams too, in the same way that similar wifi-enabled setups are used for homes and businesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cMatt Stone has already got it in his garage. He can log in at any time and see if anyone\u2019s been in there,\u201d said Edwards.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just looks in the morning and, if there was any movement at any time, you can jump straight to that point and see, \u2018who walked through my garage at 2am?\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will give the teams that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Supercars season will get underway at Sydney Motorsport Park from February 20-22.<\/p>\n
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