SportVue-Enabled Helmets Allow Pioneering Race Team to Monitor GPS Navigational Information While Keeping Eyes Straight Ahead. While many of the race teams at this years Baja 1000 will be looking for a head start, one already has a heads up.
The Wide Open Baja Challenge team of Dominic Dobson and Frank E. Everett will use a revolutionary GPS-enabled prototype heads up display in the #BC12 Baja Challenge car in this week's 39th running of TECATE-Score Baja 1000.
Created by former Indy car racer Dominic Dobson, the SportVue Heads Up display technology is similar to that used by Top Gun fighter pilots. Seattle's Motion Research Corporation has developed this patented technology and is now bringing it to consumers. The display gives riders and drivers a constant view of critical data in an easy-to-use display in the drivers' peripheral vision, focused at infinity. The technology frees the driver from distracting glances at dash-mounted GPS displays and allows them to focus on driving. SportVue is currently sold in several models for nearly any vehicle, including motorcycles, karts, road racing cars, dirt cars, autocross cars, boats and even snowmobiles. The display mounts onto any full-face racing helmet, and shows the rider or driver critical information at a glance.
The company that pioneered personal Heads Up displays is a co-sponsor of the Micron Technology Wide Open Baja Challenge car to be driven by Dobson and Everett along with co-drivers - Chris Berty, Steve Curry, Richard Sottosanti and Richie Sottosanti.
Dobson created SportVue with the help of scientists at the University of Washington and other racers. "I first envisioned this product as a way to boost performance when it matters the most - at 200 miles an hour!" says Dobson.
Two products for motorcycle riders, SportVue MC1 and MC2 with Radar Alerts, are already on the market. These displays show speed, rpm, gear position, and even flash radar when a rider is under a speed gun.
SportVue LT1, MC1 and MC2 are available through the company's website sportview, link below, and from dealers and distributors worldwide. Wide Open Baja provides Baja racing vehicles for tours and the Baja race events for drivers and are based in Irvine, Calif. More information can be found at .
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