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You're not missing much video-wise. The audio commentary is good (as always for Radio Le Mans), but the video has been a fixed camera pointing at pit out for 15 mins straight. And that'll continue.

There are small sections of good video coverage (like the chopper shots), pehaps when Radio Le Mans gets to use someone else's feed for a bit.

I'm not putting Radio Le Mans down, they just don't have the cash to cover this for video properly. You try placing cameras across 6 miles of track...

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Thanks for that link! They also have video at Radio LeMans!

Much better!

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What a great way to waste some time on a Saturday. I'm really enjoying this. The commentary is quite good too. It's pretty darn good for what it is.

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So what's the Porsches' excuse?

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They kept going straight and went home to the USA.

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just for the ignorant..the Zakspeed Viper was the last 10 years by far the most successfull 24h Ring race car... 3time overall victory 2x 2th place overall 2x 3th place overall.. no other car has such a 24h Ring record.. btw the Viper dyno was broken..problem fixed Viper is back on track doing super fast laps..

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haha, chill out, it was a funny comment by cat and bmw

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In the past, SPEED has aired highlights of this race in a one-hour time slot, several months after the event's conclusion. It's a shame, really.

For those with broadband, watching the ADAC video coverage and listening to the Radio Le Mans audio coverage on an LCD TV provides a fairly decent alternative.

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I'm glad you're interested in it (I'll be putting radiolemans on any second here), but this event is not considered a major event, so it isn't covered terribly well anywhere.

It's not part of a major series and it isn't a notable even on its own, so it's not a very high-line event. You'll note it doesn't attract many major drivers or teams.

Any major series will pay for the production of their own telecast and many major events (like Dakar) will too. Thus, Speed can show the event on a free-to-air basis or nearly so, after doing a little quick editing to make room for commercials. Some series even place their events on Speed on an infomercial basis (meaning Speed is PAID to air them). All of these are due to the series realizing the ads on their cars or sponsorships (like tire sponsors) are more valuable if their race is seen on TV. Have you seen the ads for the 24h of N-ring? There's a short video clip showed up on GT TV (the video channels in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue) yesterday about the 24h of the N-Ring. You can see the ads on the cars and the track, they're VERY low-end ads, like live-strip.com (as you might expect, it's a porn webcam site) and the-fetish-queen.com. A series like that doesn't have enough money to produce their own video content to give it to Speed TV.

Speed doesn't even spend money to send their commentators over to F1 races, they're not going to spend money to hire commentators and crew to produce a show about this race.

I wish Speed were a grass-roots racing channel (like Radio Le Mans), but it isn't, and that doesn't look like it's going to change soon.

A little plug here:
If you like endurance racing of street-appearing cars like these, please watch the Koni Challenge (a Grand Am series) race on May 31st on Speed. The Koni Challenge is a series of 2-3h endurance races with actual production-derived touring cars (not distant cousins like Le Mans GT1 or DTM, but real recognizable modified production cars). The series has been doing poorly, and Speed's coverage is waning. I would love to see the type like who are on this thread support a series like that so it can grow instead of winking out of existence.

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Thanks for the head's up on the Koni. I would watch if Speed was picked up in my area. I do like the simulcast idea of races as you can get direct numbers of how many watch and you can cover more area of car nuts (most of us have high speed connection).

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