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April 2007
Chocks away for Gigawave HD at the Red Bull Air Race World Series
Gigawave's Diversity System makes its Hong Kong debut at the 7s

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Chocks away for Gigawave HD at the
Red Bull Air Race World Series
As the Red Bull Air Race World Series took to the skies over Abu Dhabi, SIVision's Technical Producer, Imre Sereg, used a total of seven Gigawave D-Cam High Definition wireless camera systems to film the action.
The Digital Gigawave D-Cam HD wireless camera systems used by SIVision for the innaugural event of this season's Red Bull Air Race World Series were supplied by Presteigne, one of the UK's leading broadcast hire company.

The Red Bull Air Race World Series features 14 of the world’s best pilots, going head to head in a series of sprint races just a few metres above the water. In extremely hot conditions, the strong breeze may have pleased the crowd of 250,000 lining the city’s famous ‘Corniche’but it caused big problems for the pilots, who had to navigate a series of 20 metre high ‘Air Gates’ at speeds of up to 400kph.
In the end, Hungary’s Peter Besenyei beat the American, Mike Mangold in the head to head final by 1.03 seconds to win the first round of this season.

From Abu Dhabi, the pilots head west for the next round of the Red Bull Air Race World Series
Abu Dhabi, UAE – April 2007
Gigawave’s Diversity System makes its Hong Kong debut at the 7s.
Two Gigawave Diversity Systems were used for the first time in Hong Kong at the annual international rugby 7s tournament, providing effective coverage of the whole stadium and the outside rugby village area.
Along with the Diversity system, facilities company, TWS Asia used two Gigawave D-Cam Wireless Digital Camera Systems to cover the 40 000 seat Hong Kong Stadium, providing some fantastic interactive footage of the excitable crowd.

The Diversity System allowed coverage from the different zones of activity with seemless changeover.
On the pitch, Samoa produced a spectacular display of running rugby to blow away Fiji and win the prestigious Hong Kong Sevens title. A Mikaele Pesamino hat-trick gave the Samoans a 27-0 half-time lead, and although Fiji came back with 22 unanswered points after the break it wasn’t enough.

England’s hopes of claiming a fifth successive title were ended when New Zealand knocked them out in the quarter-finals.

Wales collected the Plate, coming from behind the beat Argentina in another dramatic final, while Russia shocked France to win the Bowl.



Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong – April 2007

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