In general the driver's perspective has always seemed underused to me. In F1 at least (where the cars are insanely stiff), unless there are overtakes in progress, watching from the trackside cameras just looks like cars driving round a track. Whereas from the driver's view you can see the car reacting to the track and the driver reacting to the car.

People complain a lot that the TV coverage spends too long on the driver's girlfriends. For me I think it spends too long looking at the cars (from the outside)!

I guess part of this is just that the image quality from onboards is not so sleek. But if it was up to me I think like 60-70% of the airtime would be from onboard.

I once got free tickets to a race (DTM, German touring cars), and to be honest I don't know why people go to them. You saw a small section of the track, and occasionally cars whizzed by. No idea who was in the lead, who was behind, or what was happening in the race in general. Much better to watch on TV.

The poor advertisers don't get great exposure from the helmet cam shots, so instead we mostly get the boring, wide-angled shots instead on the broadcast.

Sounds like a killer app for VR- observing from the driver's perspective, being able to switch to whoever you want. How many cameras are in those cars I wonder?

> unless there are overtakes in progress

I don't think F1 cars have overtaken each other since the 1990's.

If you want to see overtaking, stick to watching the Superbikes instead.