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Fox and NextVR dropped the ball with Daytona 500

That was MOSTLY awesome, and clearly the future of sporting.. But it all comes down to camera timing. For those who didn't watch they had 4 cameras. One in turn 1 facing the front stretch, turn 4 facing front stretch, on top of the press box pointed directly at the start/finish line, and a camera on pit road pointed sort of toward the start line.

Long story short, as the race was coming to an end, as they raced to the finish line, the camera view went to the turn 1 camera which was way off finish line, you couldn't see the cars at all.

It ended up being the closest finish in Daytona 500 history, and they completely blew the photo finish. The camera should've been pointed directly at the finish line, instead we couldn't see the finish at all.

Posted Feb 21, 2016, 9:56 PM UTC

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