Snow is another reason to watch something from warmer places like Daytona
The major reason for me to watch was the fact that even Sebring is looong to wait yet.
Snow is another reason to watch something from warmer places like Daytona
The major reason for me to watch was the fact that even Sebring is looong to wait yet.
I would've followed the race more if it weren't for the fact this weekend I've been driving back and forth between US and Canada. The little bits of the race I caught were pretty exciting. And the new DPs are way better looking than the old ones...
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That's just the problem tho, it is America and if it's not NASCAR, a vast majority aren't interested and if you read some of the chat on the Justin TV streams, everyone was pulling for Allmendinger at the end... a NASCAR regular. This could attribute for the sh*tty coverage and plus it's SPEED, pretty much a strictly NASCAR channel (and other retarded shows like Pass Time and Dumbest Stuff on Wheels but that's another topic).
As for the race, i watched probably a good 8 hrs of it and it was very good. I didn't know they were letting the head of the lapped cars around and giving them their laps back so that coulda lead to some confusion as to who was running where and who was still in contention. There at the end, the other Shank DP ended up 3rd overall completely out of nowhere once the Ganassi car had their gearbox issues. I felt like GT was somewhat of a disappointment, 45 cars and only 4 were really competing for the win, not to mention that about 30 of the cars entered were Porsches. But all in all i couldn't complain, the racing was good the whole 24 hrs and there was plenty of drama but you're right, Sebring is still a longggg ways away
Grand-Am is still NASCAR, so no wonder the TV and Internet audience was wide. What made me feel sorry for the organizers were nearly completely empty grandstands on the outside of the circuit. Or maybe I just looked at them when the guys had some beer in the surroundings, don't know. Maybe only 4 real contenders in GT, but what they did deserved following them for sure. Wow, yay, and that Shank/Speedworks battle with ramming at the oval!
By the way, have you noticed how they presented McNish - '3 times Sebring 12h winner'. Le Mans? Never heard...
People watch the 24 hours from the infield, you don't see as much on the banking...
He is only a 2 times Le Mans winner afterall...lol
They did mention Pirro(APR Audi R8) as a 5 times Le Mans winner...
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Yeah, but still... 2x24 > 3x12
Didn't know that 24 is watched from the inside - saw people there, but I thought they just went off from the grandstands for some time.
Infield tickets sold out two weeks before the race... I heard it was packed. I've been several times over 30+ years and the stands are always pretty thin, but it was weird to see it even emptier than usual. The grandstand on the south side is strictly for NASCAR events. BTW, whoever has the concession for chainlink fencing is makin' some dough... it's EVERYWHERE. Used to be you could walk around the track easily, and late at night some of the best viewing could be had just wandering around the banking. You can't do that anymore, so
the vibe is totally gone for me. Well, to be honest, it slipped alot when the DP cars came in.
Never own more cars than you can keep charged batteries in...
Maybe they just wanted to keep to the American or Florida theme for that matter and Le Mans is in some strange far away land called France that all the NASCAR fans have prolly never heard of. I'm being a conspiracy theorist, i know, but i like to take any opportunity i can to denounce that joke of a series
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