According to this preliminary schedule, we have only 15 hours of racing, 16 hours total coverage. While the last 12 hours are uninterrupted, we have a 9 hour gap from 12-9, filled with 2 and a half hours of Sprint Cup PRACTICE, a half hour of NCTS Setup, a 2 and a half hour NCTS race, an hour of Tradin' Paint and NASCAR Performance, a half hour of Lexus Test Drive, and an hour of Lucas Oil on The Edge, with an hour of N/A from 8-9. Does anyone have an official time schedule for Speed Coverage, or is this it? Either way, its disappointing to see taped programs and NASCAR Practice (I could "live" with the truck race) take away from what could be the Race of the 21st Century. Anyway, look for Eurosport to offer 24 hours of live streaming, as well as Radio Le Mans (already available for LMS Races, PM if anyone wants to see the last two LMS races live and in their entirety, as well as Le Mans) so that the real fans cannot miss any significant part of Le Mans.
Although I do miss the full coverage ol' Speedvision provided way back when, I still haven't forgotten having to wait 2-3 months to read an article about it... I'm more than content with Speeds' 15 hours of coverage and can handle the mostly night time hours online...
Yup, Thabk You Speed for finding the funding to bring it to us!!!!
I noticed the schedule for that weekend too and am greatly disappointed if in fact that is the final schedule for that race. Hoping that this is just a tentative schedule and that SPEED will update it as the LeMans series draws nearer. Can anyone at SPEED give us an answer on this one?
This close to the event, and with ALL the NASCRAP and whatever else scheduled, the amount of Le Mans coverage will not change. Break out the computer, and watch Eurosports streaming coverage.
This close to the event, and with ALL the NASCRAP and whatever else scheduled, the amount of Le Mans coverage will not change. Break out the computer, and watch Eurosports streaming coverage.
Nice cheap shot at NASCAR when you should be blaming speed for airing shows like Lucas Oil on the edge and Lexus Test drive instead of cutting back to the 24 hour race coverage. Try to be a little more classy
They have had a contract with NASCAR to show all the CUP practices and truck races. Can't blame them for keeping to their contract that brings in more money then a single 24 hour race that only the hardcore care about. You had more coverage in the old days because they didn't have their contract with NASCAR.
Besides, the camera men don't cover the race on the track at night anymore so you are really only missing out on 3 hours of daytime coverage.
This close to the event, and with ALL the NASCRAP and whatever else scheduled, the amount of Le Mans coverage will not change. Break out the computer, and watch Eurosports streaming coverage.
Nice cheap shot at NASCAR when you should be blaming speed for airing shows like Lucas Oil on the edge and Lexus Test drive instead of cutting back to the 24 hour race coverage. Try to be a little more classy
They have had a contract with NASCAR to show all the CUP practices and truck races. Can't blame them for keeping to their contract that brings in more money then a single 24 hour race that only the hardcore care about. You had more coverage in the old days because they didn't have their contract with NASCAR.
Besides, the camera men don't cover the race on the track at night anymore so you are really only missing out on 3 hours of daytime coverage.
What cheap shot at NASSCAR? I didn't blame NA$CAR for what's broadcast. As everyone knows here, $PEED is in it for nothing but the money. BTW,nice cheap shot at me, I guess you missed this part of my comment :"NASCRAP OR WHATEVER ELSE..." Geez.
If there are no camera operators after dark, I wonder who was up there manning a couple of camera positions I passed last year, after dark?
It's a great shame they (worldfeed) don't have camera operators at night anymore. This is the best part of the race. I remember SpeedVISIONS's FULL 24 hour coverage in the early days and seeing the bright headlights going down the Mulsanne Straight and the light reflecting of the barriers. It was great. 15 hours of coverage? It seems to get less every year. I guess it's going to be Eurosport and Radio Lemans.
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This close to the event, and with ALL the NASCRAP and whatever else scheduled, the amount of Le Mans coverage will not change. Break out the computer, and watch Eurosports streaming coverage.
I tried streaming some live Eurosports event the other day, but the site wouldn't allow streaming where I am located (Minneapolis, MN, USA). Does anyone know if I'll be able to get Le Mans video coverage streamed from Eurosport? Thanks.
This close to the event, and with ALL the NASCRAP and whatever else scheduled, the amount of Le Mans coverage will not change. Break out the computer, and watch Eurosports streaming coverage.
I tried streaming some live Eurosports event the other day, but the site wouldn't allow streaming where I am located (Minneapolis, MN, USA). Does anyone know if I'll be able to get Le Mans video coverage streamed from Eurosport? Thanks.
To avoid the geographic restrictions, you need to use the MMS link of the video. Then play the link in the VLC media player. Now I'm not the best computer person and haven't been able to find the MMS link myself, but someone has always posted it on the ten tenths forum (can be opened from planetlemans.com). On race day I will get the link up before Speed signs off. You will also need to download the VLC media player to use the stream.
I am happy for all we get. Thank you SPEED for tossing us Race Fans a bone every so often.
Thank you for tossing us a bone??? I got left on the line during Despain's converstaion with Humpy Wheeler during the last WindTunnel, but what I wanted to say to Humpy was, despite everyone around NASCAR wanting to line his or her pockets with cash and working private agendas, I appreciate that Humpy was running a business (Lowe's Motor Speedway, for one) but I honestly think that his agenda was "what is good for the fan is good for the sport." "Thank you Speed" ignores the simple reality that it is the viewer that makes ANY programming possible: The sponsors are only there (whether it's ads or entire programs) because the audience is watching. If you want to "thank" someone, send a note to a sponsor once in a while, for paying to put the show on the air. We get LeMans coverage when Speed can't find anything else that pays more money, and the fans be damned. If Speed thought it would make more money with yet another endless telethon of Hicks Race For Pinks, they'd do it.
That brings up the bigger question of why America's leading technology and industry firms spend millions on sponsoring F1 teams without demanding -- as every other country's sponsors do -- that they put an American driver in the seat . . . or even run a U.S. G.P.! If you want to whine about why everyone's going broke except NASCAR, or why Speed runs motorsports dreck most of the time (we couldn't see German touring cars on some evening during the week?), complain to sponsor who spend their greenbacks oversears and ignore racing in America.
"complain to sponsor who spend their greenbacks oversears and ignore racing in America."
Maybe they are spending their greenbacks oversees because their target market audience is oversees? You really think that US companies are dumb enough to spend money on F1 for the American market? US companies that are involved in F1 or other oversees racing programs are there because the marketing budget is not a US/NA budget.
"complain to sponsor who spend their greenbacks oversears and ignore racing in America."
Maybe they are spending their greenbacks oversees because their target market audience is oversees? You really think that US companies are dumb enough to spend money on F1 for the American market? US companies that are involved in F1 or other oversees racing programs are there because the marketing budget is not a US/NA budget.
I don't think American companies are dumb at all: They're going to spend their sponsor dollars where they will get the biggest bang for the audience they're targetting. But most of these companies are experts in what they do; they aren't experts in motorsports. And the people who liaise between sponsors and teams have a vested interest in directing the money where their interests lie. Look at how much coverage you could get sponsoring a NASCAR truck or Nationwise car, or an ALMS car, or an IRL TEAM, for what it costs to get a 12 inch x 12 inch decal hidden somewhere on an F1 car. (A couple of years ago I would have included a Speed Touring Car or GT team, but Speed hides coverage of those races so badly that even diehard followers have problems finding the taped races on Speed.)
It isn't just a question of going where someone wants you to go (for their piece of the action) or where everybody else is. It's a question of innovation and smart buying to get a package that gives you visibility and has an audience, and buying the foreign glitz of F1, for example, means nothing in the U.S. as long as Bernie doesn't think the world's premier consumer market means nothing to European F1 teams racing on state-owned tracks in Asia. Hey, Bernie certainly knows where HIS money's coming from.
