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F1 just aired footage that no camera ever filmed. The shot follows the Red Bull down the pit lane, swings around the crew during the stop, and ends up directly above Max's helmet. That last angle is the car's own onboard camera. So somewhere in that move, a trackside camera became an onboard camera with no cut in between, and the only way to pull that off is to generate the views no lens ever occupied. A computer built those frames out of the footage around them. Hollywood figured this out in 1999. For the bullet time shot in The Matrix, the crew bolted around 120 cameras in a ring around Keanu and fired them off in sequence to fake one impossible camera move. Months of planning for a single scene, and it won them the visual effects Oscar. Nobody planned this pit stop for a camera. Max boxed on lap 33 of a live race, got his tires, and the replay came out looking like someone flew a ghost camera through the whole thing. The audio gives it away too. Computer-built frames don't have microphones attached, so the replay runs on ambient feed sound and you hear the broadcast booth murmuring instead of an engine. And this was a routine pit stop. Wait until they start doing overtakes like this.