France’s Freche Location Rents Genie Z135/70 for Grand Prix Filming

July 7, 2018

French rental company Freche Location, working with Formula 1 Grand Prix production team on the Castellet racetrack in France, chose a Z135/70 articulating boomlift to enable camera operators to film the race from a height of 43.15 meters (141 feet). The unit was chosen for its height, its 21.26 meter (69 feet, 9 inches) of maximum horizontal outreach and maximum up-and-over clearance of 23 meters (75 feet, six inches).

The unit also offers the benefits of the Genie XChassis design that combines a compact footprint with jobsite stability. Its telescopic Jib-Extend, which telescopes out from 12 to 20 feet with a vertical rotation of 110 degrees, offers the additional flexibility to access hard-to-reach areas.

For the Castellet racetrack, it was the first time hosting a Formula 1 Grand Prix in 28 years.

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Michael Roth

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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.