Through my work context, I had the rare opportunity to collaborate with a group that owned assets from the former Jaguar Formula 1 team (2004 era). After the team was sold, the group acquired cars, chassis, and engines and continued doing track activity and development work years later (this project happened after 2010).

The objective was to mount a commercial 360° camera to capture immersive onboard recordings. However, due to extreme vibration levels and high speeds, camera mounts would repeatedly fail— sometimes breaking after only a few laps.

The solution was the creation of a device that integrated into the upper section of the car, carefully shaped to respect aerodynamic flow, and built with a full vibration isolation concept from chassis to camera.

I engineered a multi-layer isolation “sandwich” combining several damping elements with controlled stiffness transitions. This approach reduces transmitted energy across a broad frequency range, protecting the camera and the support while maintaining rigidity where needed.

As a result, the 360° setup could reliably record high-speed sessions. Footage from these runs was used during later development activities and track record moments (not as part of the official Grand Prix grid, but as a private post-season platform working with the ex-team hardware).