HOMESTEAD, FL – At Homestead-Miami Speedway, home to both the NASCAR and IndyCar Championship finals in 2010, Panasonic installed a double-faced large screen LED board that displays live video and scoring information. The tower at Homestead-Miami Speedway stands more than 150 feet high and was designed to withstand winds of 150 m.p.h. It has also been designed so that the LED board can be raised and lowered for use at another facility with a matching scoring tower.
Each face of the scoring tower contains a pylon measuring 16.2 feet wide by 90.1 feet high, with a cap display that is 20.8 feet wide and 13.9 feet high. With a pixel pitch of 22mm, the LED modules are designed and engineered with technology to ensure high visibility, even on a sunny day.
"Since there are only a few major events at each of the NASCAR facilities, the plan is to build identical structures at multiple tracks," noted Jim Doyle, president of Panasonic Enterprise Solutions Company. "The LED boards are constructed in a way that will allow them to be transported between facilities. This efficiency allows them greater usage of the equipment and will lower their organization's costs."
To accomplish the task, the Panasonic team, working together with Homestead-Miami Speedway, devised and built a transportation and winching system that enables the LED boards to be lowered to the ground on rails, removed, and then loaded onto a truck.
The project also included the application of a front-end video system. The video display interfaces with the track timing system to allow fans to follow the live action in addition to stats of each driver, including point standings, race position, running order, speed, lap count and so on.
Homestead-Miami Speedway is open year-round and in 2009 hosted all of North America's premier motorsports championships, including the IndyCar Series, the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Cars Series and NASCAR's series-crowning Ford Championship Weekend.
"Our goal always is to improve the racing experience for our fans," said Matthew Becherer, president of Homestead-Miami Speedway. "The size and resolution of these new LED panels is incredible and results in sharper images and a more engaging spectator experience, regardless of seat location. The response from our fans has been overwhelming."
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