56th Rolex 24 at Daytona

[FLRacingFan]

 

[Doc Austin]

They probably deserved a penalty but five minutes is pretty harsh. The way that car is running tough, they could easily come back.

Man, it's sweet having this many cool looking prototypes in the race.

 

[Magnethead]

They probably deserved a penalty but five minutes is pretty harsh. The way that car is running tough, they could easily come back.

Man, it's sweet having this many cool looking prototypes in the race.

10-12 fuel loads at 10-15 seconds too fast adds up quickly.

 

[Magnethead]

Time to put all the bees back in the nest...

 

[AdoubleU24]

The fact that this is their biggest race of the year and we have to scramble between 3 or 4 different avenues throughout the event to be able to watch it is ridiculous.

 

[StandOnIt]

I can't complain too much. I have a couple of streams that have been really good, switch seamlessly between fs2 and the go thing. Commercial free too.

 

[Mispeedway15]

The fact that this is their biggest race of the year and we have to scramble between 3 or 4 different avenues throughout the event to be able to watch it is ridiculous.

Lol it’s a 24 hour race dude

 

[FLRacingFan]

Amazing how much cleaner this is with the PC class six feet under.

 

[StandOnIt]

a lot warmer down there compared to last year.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

So I went to bed around the 6-hour mark. I'm back with just under 8 left, Action Express is still up front, and Corvettes are still chasing the Fords.

Looks like GTD is the only class with any competitive racing going on right now.

What happened to the Acura protos?

 

[FLRacingFan]

a lot warmer down there compared to last year.

Hasn’t dropped below 60.

 

[FLRacingFan]

So I went to bed around the 6-hour mark. I'm back with just under 8 left, Action Express is still up front, and Corvettes are still chasing the Fords.

Looks like GTD is the only class with any competitive racing going on right now.

What happened to the Acura protos?

The #7 and #31 made contact.

The #6 had an alternator issue.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Radar looks like they'll stay dry for several more hours.

 

[FLRacingFan]

#10 retired. They came into the garage with a fifth RR puncture, fixed it, then when I had come back down to that side of the garage they were back.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Mazda has to be disappointed. Overhauled everything and they're getting the same poor results.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

#10 retired. They came into the garage with a fifth RR puncture, fixed it, then when I had come back down to that side of the garage they were back.

Hey, how are YOU doing? Give in to the Z Monster yet? I'm glad you've had reasonable weather, other than last night's shower.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Mazda has to be disappointed. Overhauled everything and they're getting the same poor results.

Gotta put a different power plant in there eventually. An old 2.0LT isn’t gonna cut it.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Hey, how are YOU doing? Give in to the Z Monster yet? I'm glad you've had reasonable weather, other than last night's shower.

I actually left the stadium for my car right before it started to really come down so I did get wet, but I managed to sleep from around 12-4 and I’m finally feeling awake again.

 

[nickp]

Factory 911’s are the Honda kids of a car meet

 

[Kiante]

Katherine Legge is such a damn good driver, its a shame she's not in the series full-time this year.

 

[Get That 88 Up There !!]

From when you go to bed and the Penske's in the top 3, to waking up to them many laps down.

 

[ChexOrWrex]

Couldnt imagine going several hours at top speed then going into a FCY

 

[Get That 88 Up There !!]

Oh my. This just got interesting.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

#5 to the garage!

TV speculates engine maintenance / repairs to keep the car running, maybe telemetry showed a pending problem.

They're back out, possibly still on the lead lap.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Couldnt imagine going several hours at top speed then going into a FCY

Can you imagine several hours of streamed coverage with no commercials then having the FS2 cut in?

 

[FLRacingFan]

Katherine Legge is such a damn good driver, its a shame she's not in the series full-time this year.

I think MSR are working on the funding to fill out the season still; there’s hope.

 

[Pat]

Wow... so many problems over night.

 

[ChexOrWrex]

What happened to Rockenfeller?

 

[nickp]

I love seeing katherine legge doing so well on track. I hope she gets another shot at Indy with a quality ride.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

I went to breakfast. Looks like whatever was bothering the #5 wasn't significant.

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

a lot warmer down there compared to last year.

It was COLD there last year, I’m sorry I didn’t go this year it would have been a bit more enjoyable. It’s been a blast watching from my tv this year, what a cool race to be at or follow along at home

 

[AdoubleU24]

Lol it’s a 24 hour race dude

My point being, who wants to watch 7 consecutive hours of it on a mobile app? What possibly kept them from keeping it on a cable network from the hours of 1-8a? Too many taped re-runs of other sports to show?

 

[Charlie Spencer]

My point being, who wants to watch 7 consecutive hours of it on a mobile app? What possibly kept them from keeping it on a cable network from the hours of 1-8a? Too many taped re-runs of other sports to show?

I assume it was a combination of two factors. They figured it was too expensive to continue paying people for a minimal audience, combined with making more money selling ads during their regular middle of the night stuff.

As to mobile apps, the stream was perfectly watchable on my 24" monitor.

 

[Magnethead]

My point being, who wants to watch 7 consecutive hours of it on a mobile app? What possibly kept them from keeping it on a cable network from the hours of 1-8a? Too many taped re-runs of other sports to show?

No broadcasters to cover the overnight hours in contract. On FSG it was commercial free, but only the rooftop camera, and IMSA Radio announcers which I think were actually the Euro TV broadcast team.

I went to bed around 1:00 and woke up at 8:00. Sad to see Castroneves' team be so far behind after leading for so long, looks like this lack of yellows has really strung the field out except for GTD.

 

[Magnethead]

Katherine Legge is such a damn good driver, its a shame she's not in the series full-time this year.

I think MSR are working on the funding to fill out the season still; there’s hope.

I love seeing katherine legge doing so well on track. I hope she gets another shot at Indy with a quality ride.

I follow Kat and Andy Lally on Instagram and Facebook. Andy is super approachable, very responsive to messages and I even had him write a small document for one of my college classes. Kat is absolutely a hoot. The other day they were doing some maintenance in her attic, and he recorded a video of himself absolutely scaring her crapless. They did date for awhile but they are both alphas and conflict alot, do better as neighbors. Haha

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Continental Tire spokesman:

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Looks like a little yoga to loosen up that pit crewman, a variation of Pigeon pose.

 

[Magnethead]

Continental Tire spokesman:

Yea that was kind of a scary interview. Reminded me of something Goodyear would say.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

7 cars out, 6 of those are protos including both Mazdas and both Nissans.

 

[StandOnIt]

Goodyear would have given them the hockey puck model and been done with it.