In the latest issu💃e of official MotoGP magazine , data acquisition specialist and former Moto3 and Moto2 world championship-winning crew chief Peter Bom shines a light on the secret wor🔯ld of videometry.

The Dutchman explains the history of teams♎ using publicly available TV footage to enhance their performance, which evolved into super🍒imposed images or ‘ghost mode’ showing two riders on the same section of track, at the same time.

“In the MotoGP paddock, the use of the ‘ghost’ function has been dubbed꧅ ‘videometry’,” writes.

“All the t♕eams now employ their own videographers, who film at st✃rategic points around the circuit.

“The emphasis is on the difference between their own riders and the competition, part🎀icularly the fastest riders on other brands of bikes.

“Using sophisticated software, two video recordings are precisely synchronised. Riders and technicians can then see exactly where their rider differs in a certain corner (brak💙ing, mid-corner and acceleration) compared, for example, to the fastest rider on track.

“Bei🏅ng able to see exactly where the differences lie and how many metres are lost or gained is the dream of every rider 🌌and chief engineer.”

Bom then reveals how video images can also be synchronised with the team’s telemetry data to help fine-tune bike set-up while former grand prix rider, World Supersport champi🍎on and WorldSBK race winner Chaz Davies explains how he uses videometry as a rider coach for Ducati.

But 🌌the biggest surprise is when Bom shows that it’s possibl🍌e to extract telemetry data for a 'rival' machine using only the on-board video and audio footage broadcast by Dorna.

“These on-board vid𒐪eos can be converted into data by specialists, then analysed using the same software teams and manufacturers already use for t෴heir own data!” Bom writes.

“The engineer who gave me this glimpse behind the s🌌cenes stated that he wouldn’t be surprised if this vi🌠deo-to-data conversion was now being done by some of the current MotoGP manufacturers.”

To prove it works, Bom shows gear selection, RPM, speed, braking and throttle position telemetry 😼generated from footage of a real pole position lap by Francesco Bagnaia at Assen!