Inside the E-Prix truck beaming Monaco to 150 countries
By Michael Moretti, MonacoViews Editorial
A Paddock Tour on Friday gave invited guests rare access to Formula E's television production hub at the heart of the Monaco circuit.
Tucked inside a discrete production truck at the Monaco E-Prix circuit, a team of broadcasters coordinates more than 60 cameras and 20 kilometres of fibre-optic cabling to deliver the race live to audiences in over 150 countries. The facility, opened to a small group of guests during Friday's Paddock Tours organised by Formula E, is the nerve centre through which every onboard angle, trackside shot and slow-motion replay is selected, graded and transmitted.
Each car carries 11 dedicated cameras, a figure that underlines how dramatically the technical ambition of street-circuit broadcasting has grown. From a single truck parked within the circuit barriers, the production crew switches between feeds in real time, balancing the demands of a tight urban track with the expectations of a global broadcast audience.
For Monaco residents accustomed to the E-Prix weekend as a fixture on the Principality's sporting calendar, Friday's tours offered a rare glimpse of the infrastructure that makes the event far more than a local spectacle. The circuit may run past familiar landmarks, but the operation behind the cameras is anything but small-scale.