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Rain-soaked Daytona 500 not a problem for CSM Production and IP-rated Elation gear posted: 11/03/2021
CSM Production of Charlotte, North Carolina, was again called on to provide pre- and post-race production for NASCAR's Daytona 500 and for this year's race was grateful that they turned to an IP-rated package of Elation lighting gear. Delayed for six hours due to storms, the 2021 edition of The Great American Race was a rain-soaked affair that, despite a bit of waiting and the characteristic racing drama, came off without a hitch.
Held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, the Daytona 500 is the most prestigious race on the NASCAR calendar and traditionally harnesses the highest television ratings of any auto race of the year. CSM Production, an award-winning event production company, has worked the premiere race for many years and often uses Elation lights to highlight events surrounding the race. This year, CSM handled all pre-race events including a concert by country artist Luke Combs, driver intros and the National Anthem, as well as Victory Lane celebrations after the race.
Luke Combs played to the live crowd and a global audience on Fox with safety protocols requiring fans to remain in the grandstand seats. Ashley Tobin Rutherford, Sr. Coordinator of Technical Production at CSM Production, designed the lighting for the Luke Combs stage. She was on hand for the event and explains why using a bevy of IP65-rated fixtures made her job much easier. It seems to rain every day in Florida so you can use a lot of time bagging and unbagging fixtures, she explains, and that eats up a lot of your day. If there is even an inkling of rain, you can't uncover. Using IP65 fixtures cuts out all of that extra time and worry so we can focus on other important things like dialing in the LED screen and refining the effects and looks we want to achieve. She also said it was fantastic to know that when the gear came back to the CSM shop, it wasnt ruined or needed a lot of repair.
This year's design was new and slightly smaller than past years due to the reduced number of fans in attendance (limited to about 30,000, all in the stands). For the pre-race Luke Combs concert CSM constructed a main stage of truss grid bolted on a 53-ft long flatbed trailer on which four 2x7 vertical LED screens and a center 6x11 screen hung, along with twelve lighting pipes. Here, 12 Elation Cuepix 16 IP 4x4 matrix LED blinder and effect panels (acquired by CSM specifically for the event), 12 Elation SixPar 200 IP par lights and LED battens complemented the screen backdrop. Flanking the main stage were truss grids bolted onto two landscape trailers that held PA and additional lighting for the concert, including 6 Elation ACL 360 Matrix moving head effect panels, 8 Elation Platinum Wash LED Zoom moving heads and 12 Elation Cuepix Strip Tri fixtures working with 4 Antari M-7 RGBA foggers. All control data ran through a NETRON EN12 node from Obsidian Control Systems. Combs got NASCAR fans warmed up for the race, performing five songs with his newest song aired live on TV. After the concert, the PA trailers and center stage were cleared away, leaving just the LED backdrop for driver intros with custom content mapped to the screens and lights.
Post-race at Victory Lane, 12 Elation Proteus Hybrid IP-rated arc source moving heads (rented from Music Matters of Atlanta),16 Elation Pixel Bar 60IP and 2 Pixel Bar 30IP battens worked with 4 Antari M-7 RGBA foggers to add energy to race winner Michael McDowell's victory celebration. Eight Proteus Hybrids on truss towers provided front wash during the trophy presentation and photos, hit the front stretch of seats for burnouts, and provided the light show for a song played throughout the speedway. Four additional Hybrid units and foggers on stage added movement and cryo effect shots during burnouts, the lightshow, and driver car exits in the Winner's Circle. The Pixel Bar fixtures outlined the existing signage to highlight and make it more noticeable.
CSM supplied all of the Elation gear, except for the Proteus Hybrids, and work with Elation rep firm The Healy Group for all things Elation. Its fantastic to see that they have expanded their IP line, which is great for everything we do, Tobin Rutherford comments. The gear is really high quality yet still very cost efficient and on the back end, if you do have any issues, the support they provide is great. They really understand deadlines.
Although the rain held off for the Luke Combs concert and pre-race events, the downpour eventually came which meant that Victory Lane celebrations took place at 1:30am. It was a long day but we wouldnt be here if we didnt enjoy it so much, Tobin Rutherford concludes. Even with all the rain, the lights held up and worked for an amazing event!
About Elation Professional
Based in California with facilities in Florida and Mexico City, as well as European offices in The Netherlands, Elation designs and manufactures a comprehensive range of innovative lighting products known for its superior performance, excellent efficiency, and outstanding price:value ratio, all backed by a hard-earned reputation for Total Support. Elation also offers an advanced line of lighting control products through Obsidian Control Systems, as well as a full range of dependable specialty effects called Magmatic. Our mission has always been simple: to provide best-in-class products and service while offering the best value:performance ratio in the industry. Elation products continue to be a part of the industry's most exciting projects across the globe.
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