Endurance Racing News Thread

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

Hi, im new to this whole 24hr of le mans, jass . Is that on T.V.? If it is what channel?

Eurosport will show the whole race, coverage is split between both channels. Im actually not even going to get to see race this year, going to Silverstone for the MotoGP instead.

Is anyone heading over to it?

On the ferry over tomorrow and driving down, can't bloody wait, 3rd year in a row so its a bug that has thoroughly implanted itself.
Car is dressed in a Gulf livery with number 80 on the side(80th running of LeMans) and will fly the Irish flag.

As said not a mention of the Irish teams in any media, still its only National Geographic's number 1 sporting event in the world, whatever....

Also for anyone going who may not have got the email sent from the ACO, do not expose you're tickets to light for any extended periods, and do not use the window display for camping tickets, apparently the tickets were printed on faulty paper which will turn black and become unscannable(to permit entry) if this happens, there will be areas to print off the tickets again at various venues around the circuit.

Any uk tv coverage this year? Or it just Eurosport or online?

kierank01 wrote: »

Amazing work by AF Corse to build a car from scratch in a couple of hours.

+1

Killinator wrote: »

That is class,
Looking at the LCD rear view he has, its any wonder they can tell whats behind them, just constant blinding bright lights:D

Its a bone of contention among most drivers, little point in flashing until you are within a few car lengths/passing distance, not miles away

ELMS has cancelled it's last two races and optioned for a trip across the water to join up with ALMS. It's looking dodgy for the whole LMS set up. I'm checking the ALMS website and I saw that they completely screwed up the televised coverage with trying to focus on the web feed. The whole feed crashed. It seemed ok on Motors TV but apparently to make matters worse, the TV coverage started one hour into the race. It looks like the American network providing the coverage didn't have red button option for it's viewers and there a lot of unhappy fans threatening to make the cross over to Grand Am for their sportscar fix.

http://www.alms.com/articles/atherton-web-crash-not-acceptable

This year has seen a disastrous coverage by the TV stations with mixed up commentating, bad video feeds and non stop plugs for sponsors eating into the race. Nobody else is winning apart from Muscle Milk and the multiple categories seem very confusing to everybody bar the hardcore enthusiast. Grand Am looks like the prominent series this year with different winners and less confusion with the different categories. It reminds me of the Indy/Champ battle and we all know how that ended up.

KenSwee wrote: »

ELMS has cancelled it's last two races and optioned for a trip across the water to join up with ALMS. It's looking dodgy for the whole LMS set up. I'm checking the ALMS website and I saw that they completely screwed up the televised coverage with trying to focus on the web feed. The whole feed crashed. It seemed ok on Motors TV but apparently to make matters worse, the TV coverage started one hour into the race. It looks like the American network providing the coverage didn't have red button option for it's viewers and there a lot of unhappy fans threatening to make the cross over to Grand Am for their sportscar fix.

http://www.alms.com/articles/atherton-web-crash-not-acceptable

This year has seen a disastrous coverage by the TV stations with mixed up commentating, bad video feeds and non stop plugs for sponsors eating into the race.

I agree with you, but never forget, no sponsors = no coverage, so Id rather put up with the ads than a non existant stream

Nobody else is winning apart from Muscle Milk and the multiple categories seem very confusing to everybody bar the hardcore enthusiast. Grand Am looks like the prominent series this year with different winners and less confusion with the different categories. It reminds me of the Indy/Champ battle and we all know how that ended up.

Granted Muscle Milk keep winning but some wins have have taken an even bigger effort than normal - they came from 4 laps behind to win at Lime Rock Park. Dyson are being hampered by the Lola chassis - moreso no Lola support/parts than the team themselves. The recession is hitting the series too, with P2 promising but lacking, the GTC class is good though, but only there to make up numbers and due to the fundig Yokohama tyres are putting in.

Grand-Am is owned by NASCAR so there is more discontent in the series lately with dissatisfied teams and drivers

ALMS has THE best GT racing in the world though, factory Corvette and Viper teams against factory supported BMW,Ferrari,Lotus and Porsche teams, with mostly reasonable Balance of Performance to keep it tight. When SRT/Riley get the Viper fully dialled in it will be even better. The big question mark though is what will replace the BMW M3 in 2013, rumours abound of a compromised Z4, but wait and see as the GT3 Z4 uses the M3 engine, not available in a roadgoing Z4 and therefore illegal under ACO (ALMS) rules

ALMS promotes itself as both 'World Class' and 'For the Fans' so it will be interesting to see how they handle the broadcasting disaster

ALMS Baltimore GP time http://www.alms.com/camera/television-broadcast

I saw on the Motors TV website that they were showing all the races bar Le Mans, live but I didn't see the last race (Silverstone) on their listing. Am I wrong or was the races shown only in highlights/delayed coverage?

Also has anybody seen the magazine program for the WEC on Eurosport?
I thought is was full of too much talking and very little racing. I can se that they are trying to promote the championship by introducing drivers, teams and some tips but asking Martin Brundle how it feels to pass backmarkers? I thought it was bit too much.

KenSwee wrote: »

I saw on the Motors TV website that they were showing all the races bar Le Mans, live but I didn't see the last race (Silverstone) on their listing. Am I wrong or was the races shown only in highlights/delayed coverage?

Also has anybody seen the magazine program for the WEC on Eurosport?
I thought is was full of too much talking and very little racing. I can se that they are trying to promote the championship by introducing drivers, teams and some tips but asking Martin Brundle how it feels to pass backmarkers? I thought it was bit too much.

sometimes I think there is not enough talking/features on motors, but that WEC show on eurosport was a bit much.
They seemed to totally ignore lmp2, apart from the wheels coming off the Murphy car.

kierank01 wrote: »

sometimes I think there is not enough talking/features on motors,

My guess is that Motors TV won't pay for presenters.

CaptainFreedom wrote: »

I was there, epic weekend though

Is it going to be a long term formula in your opinion?
How do you think will it work along side Le Mans and Grand Am?

CaptainFreedom wrote: »

Second Question: Ill give my opinion later after the formal announcement of the Grand Am - ALMS takeover ahem merger

Is there something I should know?