[Adam43]

Originally Posted by Gingers4Justice

They’ve been switched off all day today. Only functioning cameras are Porsche Curves through to Tetre Rouge - nothing along the Mulsanne, the chicanes, Indy or Arnage, which is about 2/3rds of the circuit.

It's not that they aren't switched on. They probably just aint there. They build up through the week:

Originally Posted by GT6

Seems very strange that now it is all compressed into 8 days they could not put the camera's in for test day

Originally Posted by sceptic

Currently they put in some cameras on Tuesday (approx 16), and take them out on Sunday. They are effectively paying for those for 6 days.

Other cameras (another 20 approx) aren't put in until Friday. Those are only charged for 3 days.

So the number of camera days they are paying for is 156.

To do test day coverage, they would have to put cameras in on Saturday. That's a 9 day hire.

Given the budget isn't likely to rise, that means fewer cameras at other points in the race week.

To maintain full coverage of the track during the race, you'd have to drop down to 8 cameras. So the already patchy coverage on Wednesday and Thursday would get even worse.