We were shooting at a grasstrack meet in the UK with Simon Reeve, trying out a sacrificial Drift camera (wrecked the lens pretty quickly with mud and stone strikes!) and the ex Top Gear Stig, Ben Collins, was doing some celebrity racing for Channel 5.
The guys in the film crew had some great kit, expensive, which disintegrated quickly under the crazy conditions that is Grasstrack racing. They lost a mount and camera to vibration which caused the whole lot to fall off.
We'd had a few races with Flymounts and found them utterly reliable and the cameramen came over to ask if the could buy one so they could continue to shoot. We were happy to donate a Flymount to them and we keep seeing Flymounts in all sorts of action situations ever since. The same team use our Flymount on the Gadget Show and lots of other wet and harsh shoots.
Channel 5 lost £1800 of equipment and replaced it with a £65 Flymount which did the job better and more securely. Not a bad investment! (even if we did give it them for nothing)
Here are some shots of the day
Simon Reeve at the start line
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