Not nearly enough coverage on Speed ... if you can show the entire Grand-Am race from Utah you can find a way to show much more of what I predict will be a much better race. I understand showing the Truck race from Talladega, but single car qualifying over Petit? Snore!

LoveAllRacing - 03 October 2008 08:05 AM

Not nearly enough coverage on Speed ... if you can show the entire Grand-Am race from Utah you can find a way to show much more of what I predict will be a much better race. I understand showing the Truck race from Talladega, but single car qualifying over Petit? Snore!

Guess you can quess who is writing the bigger check.

Just because SPEED cuts away from Petit Le Mans powered by the Totally New MAZDA6 at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday doesn’t mean the cameras stop rolling. The middle 5.5 hours of the race will be streamed online at americanlemans.com so fans can enjoy uninterrupted video coverage of the main television race feed combined with John Hindhaugh providing lap-by-lap coverage as well as reports from the rest of the American Le Mans Radio team.



The streaming video window coincides with the end of SPEED’s opening two hours of race coverage at 1 p.m. ET and the beginning of its second segment at 6:30 p.m. Americanlemans.com also will air live video coverage of qualifying starting at 3:15 p.m. this afternoon.


- Road Atlanta & ALMS

I guess ALMS.com can't handle the traffic. It is literally taking forever to access that site. I guess this means that there are other racing series besides Nascar that race fans like to follow. Why doesn't Speed just go Nascar 24/7 and get it over with?

LoveAllRacing - 03 October 2008 08:05 AM

Not nearly enough coverage on Speed ... if you can show the entire Grand-Am race from Utah you can find a way to show much more of what I predict will be a much better race. I understand showing the Truck race from Talladega, but single car qualifying over Petit? Snore!

Single-car qualifying at a restritor plate track? About half as exciting as watching flies reproduce.

hopefully as the alms continues to get more and more quality teams in their line up. and as these open wheel drivers realize that nascar isn't the place for them as they bail from the irl.

perhaps the series will start to be noticed by more and more fans of actual racing, and not that nascar crap that they're being conned into believing is true competition.

and that will lead to better television ratings.
and therefore better coverage of their events.

they're sitting quite well now with the new fuels that they're using and new teams moving up to P-1.
and the corvettes and bmw being combined into GT-2 will finally put them in the mix in a very competitive field of cars.

patience folks.
it's just a matter of time.

How did the coverage on SPEEDTV work out during the actual race? Did they cover it well enough for those of you watching from home?

They did a fine job with the coverage that I saw. I'm not a big fan of condensed, tape-delayed broadcasts, but a 2 hour delay of the second segment beats not seeing that 2 hours at all.

yaacorvette - 06 October 2008 09:35 AM

How did the coverage on SPEEDTV work out during the actual race? Did they cover it well enough for those of you watching from home?

Not when live timing and scoring was 100 laps ahead of the TV coverage. Appreciate the tape delay but, unless I missed it, they never actually mentioned it was on a delay and tried to fool the audience into believing it was live. Kind of tough to fool viewers in the ET time zones when it was still sunny in Atlanta after 7 pm!

Having said that the on track product was awesome and Speed, as usual, did a good job of the coverage.

I would think that we all knew it was tape delayed.