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Is LMP1 becoming the new pinnacle of motorsport?


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#151 chunder27

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Posted 27 April 2014 - 20:57

Have to be honest being used to watching lots of motorsport where you have always been able to see the majority of the track, having to buy a radio to keep up with what's going on seems a bit ridiculous!  But I see your point. If you are used to watching events where you only get a fleeting glimpse and are happy to attend such events then I guess a radio is about the only way to keep up unless there are diamond screens or something present.



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#152 pingu666

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Posted 27 April 2014 - 21:00

the difference with multiclass racing is theres a much greater churn, larger field too, while a "normal" race the field comes past and theres a long period of nothing, sure over the race they get more strung out, but its not too bad normaly. but multiclass its fairly quickly a constant stream of cars all muddled up. and with wec you probably following several different races within each race, and there longer more complex races than f1

 

i do want varible length of races across the season back though, some time, some distance... that challenge appeals to me, and makes each race more unique



#153 TF110

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Posted 27 April 2014 - 21:04

I feel racing is racing, just different types. Complaining about an app to follow the wec is ironic considering F1 has paid live timing. You can actually get free live timing on the wec's site. And motors tv had all of Silverstone covered. Not much need to buy the livestream, which you can work around anyway!

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#154 arttidesco

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Posted 27 April 2014 - 22:30

Since the arrival of open wheel single seaters, sports cars have never been the pinnacle of the sport and probably never will be however ever since I have been a motorsports addict I have always been more interested in sports cars, Group 5 and 6 back in the mid seventies and have spent far more of my time and money spectating at sports car races the 6 hours at Silverstone, later including Brands Hatch and Donington and 10 Le Mans races between 1981 and 1992.

 

At Silverstone it also dawned on me that not for the first time there is more technical variety in the power trains of the top three teams of the sports car championship than there is in the whole field of Formula One and it is refreshing to learn around 43,000 people visited the event, far less than would attend P1 and P2 of a GP at the same venue and from a purely selfish point of view I hope it stays so.  I gave up on F1 as overated first hand experience stuck in a Brands Hatch traffic jam some where around 1984 :cool:



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Posted 28 April 2014 - 05:04

I feel racing is racing, just different types. Complaining about an app to follow the wec is ironic considering F1 has paid live timing. You can actually get free live timing on the wec's site. And motors tv had all of Silverstone covered. Not much need to buy the livestream, which you can work around anyway!

 

IMO putting WEC behind a paywall is big big mistake. Pay per view is not the way to grow the fan base. There are a lot of people out there, who might be interested in checking out the racing in WEC, especially now that Porsche has joined. A paywall pretty much makes sure that these people will find something else to do. And that's not good for the manufacturers or the privateers' sponsors. I've watched WEC for the last two years, and I was planning to watch Silverstone aswell. Don't know what motors tv is, so I've been relying on the dailymotion stream. When I realised it was gone, the first thought I had was (apart from being a bit angry) "ok, so they don't want the casual fan to watch this". The annoying part was that as far as I'm aware, they didn't even bother to announce this in advance.

 

About live timing... F1 can charge for this because they can afford it. They have the fan base. WEC doesn't have a big enough fan base to start alienating possible fans. And F1 live timing might actually be worth it. It's good. Now I havent paid for the WEC live timing, so I don't know how much it has changed (apart from the driver tracker which apparently lags behind), but if it's anything like the live timing they've had before, then they have a lot of nerve to charge for that. Previously it's been horrible with no sector times, no speed data and a terrible way of showing the gaps. 



#156 TF110

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Posted 28 April 2014 - 05:17

If you pay for it knowing they show it live on tv, thats your call. I sure wont as long as I have the internet. I dont condone their pricing of the online stream. This thread is about lmp1 as the new pinnacle, not the wec's pricing.