the reason why I opted for chin mounted cam is that in case of freak accident, I dont care about getting my chin dissfigured, there's nothing important in there
I kind of get why helmet cams are banned, but also tbh I dont really see a reason why chin mounts should NOT be allowed
There is nowadays a lot of confussion and a lot of talk about these cameras on helmets😱
I got actually in a lot of talk with FIA and stewards about it in Clio Cup Europe (Couldnt use any helmet camera and also had trouble using even gopro inside the car...) and also recently with KTM GT car in Red Bull Ring where even sticker on helmet was too much😅
It's understandable safety thing I totally get it (basically to explain you can use anything you want and any camera you want on helmet in private test, but not in official practice,quali,race in any series) but at same time its shame there is nothing going on in this regard from manufactures.
F1 is using one of its kind camera that you can't buy so there is literally no option at all apart of obviously rollbar camera.
Also reason WHY it is banned of course because of safety (in some huge incident it can literally break your head) but main issue is M Schumacher skiing incident with Gopro...(literally in FIA document) ☹️
ALSO important to say there is never any talk about it and no mentions as well, so I can totally see drivers putting camera on helmet to have cool video and suddenly stewards are mad and giving them fine😆and also there is a lot of confussing from stewards/scrutenering/fia about it as well. One day some stuff is fine next day not, next day again fine, etc.
Hopefully in future manufactures will give options for helmets inside or some other solutions :)