Speedway, IN, June, 2010 – The United States Auto Club (USAC) announced today that GoPro, maker of the world’s bestselling and highest performance wearable HD video cameras, has been named the official onboard camera of both USAC and the Traxxas TORC Series Presented by AMSOIL. The GoPro cameras will be used extensively in the TORC Series and in USAC for use in television production of the races, as well as for live streaming coverage on USACRacing.com and TORCSeries.com. .. Read full article

Morgantown, WV, June, 2010 – In its continued efforts to usher American motocross into the new era, MX Sports Pro Racing welcomes GoPro as one of the newest supporters of the world’s most prestigious motocross championship. As maker of the world’s best selling and highest performance wearable HD video cameras, GoPro and its flagship HD HERO line will now serve as the Official Wearable Camera of the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship. .. Read full article

San Diego, Calif., June, 2010 – GoPro, maker of the world’s best selling and highest performance wearable HD video cameras, has signed on as the 2010 title sponsor for the GoPro X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival as well as the 2010 title sponsor for the Hollywood Film Screening Series. Lake Tahoe is the first stop for the GoPro X-Dance Film Festival and will take place from June 10–12, at MontBleu Resort Casino and Spa.

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Half Moon Bay, CA – May 11, 2010 – For the past few years some of the top athletes, past and present, in their respective sports of BMX, MTB, Skateboarding, Snowboarding, Skiing, Surfing, Wakeboarding, Snowmobile, XC Running and more have all joined together at the Dirt Diggers North, Lucas Oil AMA Motocross National..

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Aptos, CA – April 30, 2010 – Each year after the Sea Otter Classic the world’s best freestyle bike riders gather at a jump park outside the US Post Office in Aptos, California, for a day of epic freestyle riding. In possibly the last year for the event, GoPro sponsored an informal competition for the best sequence captured on video. The original prize offered by GoPro was $500 to one rider as voted by the Pinkbike community. But GoPro decided to up the prize winnings due to the phenomenal performances and the enthusiasm of the Pinkbike.com community.

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Long Beach, Calif., April 19, 2010 – GoPro® sponsored race driver, Tyler McQarrie, celebrated his first World Challenge victory at Long Beach in a Lotus Exige S from LPL Motorsports. This was Tyler’s first World Challenge race and also marks the first win at Long Beach for Lotus since Mario Andretti in 1978. Having received the car just five weeks before the race, Tyler’s team worked around the clock to prepare the car. The team effort helped Tyler qualify the LPL Motorsports Lotus on pole and an eventual flag to flag win in the race.

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Company to Preview Upcoming Camera Technologies, including Wearable 3D™ HD Sports Cameras.

Half Moon Bay, Calif., April 9, 2010 – GoPro®, the world’s leading HD activity image capture company, will exhibit for the first time at the 2010 NAB show: Booth # C7519. The company will demonstrate how its globally best selling HD HERO® wearable sports cameras are enabling professional video content creators to capture immersive action sports video at a fraction of the cost of competing cameras costing ten to twenty times as much. Retailing for $299 MSRP, the HD HERO line of wearable HD sports cameras has become the tool of choice for professional film and TV action sports cameramen, displacing expensive competing cameras from companies such as Sony and Panasonic. .. Read full article

GoPro in the News

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GoPro HD Video Testimonials

• April, 21, 2010 – Watch Tyler McQuarrie grab pole position in LPL Lotus Exige S for GTS World Challenge with a GoPro HD Motorsports HERO camera onboard.

• April 8, 2010 – OMFG…insane wakeboarding video by Colin Harrington & Liquid Force Films using GoPro HD cameras, and a homemade pole mount…hit the lake hard.

• April, 21, 2010 – GoPro HD HERO camera used to capture professional quality footage for this promotional video for AJ Hackett bungy video.

• April, 21, 2010 – Get a birds eye view of Bells Beach, Australia, with the GoPro HD HERO camera mounted to a RC plane in this FPV video.

• April, 21, 2010 – See how the GoPro HD HERO camera handles the vibrations of real helicopter in this footage from 920th Rescue Reserve.

• Feb 19, 2010 – Fingerboarding HD HERO Camera with C-Heck & Sebastian Linda.

• Jan 26, 2010 – Check out never-before-seen angles from Travis’ jump, shot with GoPro’s HD HERO camera.

• Dec 05, 2009 – University of Southern California Ski & Snowboard Team test out the slow mo 60fps of the new GoPro HD HERO camera at Mammoth Mountain in Unbound Main.

• Dec 01, 2009 – The ultimate Hero HD shootout: Eye Of Mine Multimedia has put a $4500 Canon XH-A1 HDV video camera against the HD HERO Camera Naked ($259) in a video shootout.