How do the cameras in race cars seem to ALWAYS be pointing at the right thing at the right time?

Question

Does every car camera have it’s own operator?

Whenever there is a crash in nascar or similar the camera ALWAYS seems to be pointing in the right direction, even if the crash only takes half a second, far too short of a time for somebody to switch to the camera controls, then move it around to get the crash in shot?

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Answer 1

There are a lot of cameras. Some that are manned and follow the action, others that are static. Additionally, the broadcast company has a team of several people that are all watching the camera feeds, if something interesting happens they cut what it being broadcasted to the feed they want to show. There is also a short delay between what’s being filmed and what’s being broadcasted, so they can somewhat plan to switch back and forth between different things.