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Bad decision to take practice off Youtube.

Wow, Rosenqvist a quarter second faster than everyone else in the first practice session.

Is it just me or is the quality of the USF2000 stream worse than last year?

There was a flip in the first corner on the start

If you're going to have an aircraft accident, might as well have it at an airport.

This started well.

The Swedes have arrived

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RTI stream always had worse quality compared to IC stream on YouTube from what I remember

As I have mentioned before, I am quite disappointed IndyCar has not found a way for the NBC pass to be available outside of the US. With no youtube stream for the practices I feel I'm missing out.

I live in Romania, and as I expected, we don't have any coverage. I was doing jumping jacks and would've payed the 50 bucks for the thing in a heartbeat. Hope we get lucky with some decent streams for the races.

Same here, no coverage in Belgium and would have paid for the indycar gold pass if it was available here. Real idiots running the show in TV coverage land

Sound off on IndyCar's social media avenues. Obviously no guarantee that they'll have any sort of quick solution but if enough of you all around the world make it known that there's a demand for the coverage, I have a hard time imagining they'd ignore the potential for a revenue stream and continued wide exposure.

I'm sure they're aware of how much audience there is for the free streaming after multiple of years of doing it on Youtue, but it is pretty obvious NBC just paid for the exclusive coverage of practice sessions to be only on NBC Sports Gold and that's it.

And screw over fans from the rest of the world in the process. They have the ability to geoblock but if NBC have demanded they stop all streaming on Youtube because of VPN then fuck NBC.

Fair enough. I don't want any freebies, I want to give them my money. I'm aware things are a lot more complicated than a few tick boxes, but they are missing out on thousand of potential customers and a shitload of money by restricting access.

Was there a large audience for it? The 500 aside, I can't recall any of the practice sessions reaching much above 10,000 viewers (the majority of whom would have been American). And qualifying being on YouTube has always been contingent on whether it was on US TV or not, so there's nothing new there.

I can understand, if Comcast's exclusivety over practice is true, why they are being protective. They are spending a lot of money on their Friday coverage as it's now being treated the same as the rest of the weekend, with many more people working that need to be paid.

It is also true that Indycar bit off more than they could chew in taking control of the international TV rights (there's an article floating around which states that they had to beg Sportsnet for the deal that they got as they never shopped the rights around within Canada and when they first talked to Sportsnet about a new contract, they initially weren't interested). Constructive feedback would probably help them get it right for next year.

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Marco Simoncelli ¦ 1987-2011
Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

Further to my last point, Pruett has written this; https://racer.com/2019/03/08/pruett-ind ... reckoning/

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Dan Wheldon ¦ 1978-2011
Marco Simoncelli ¦ 1987-2011
Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

I'm not talking about practice and qualifying only. I'm saying many people, myself included would have paid the $50 to be able to watch the races as well. Let's put it this way. Although I am willing to do so, I have no way of paying for any IndyCar coverage, and in this day and age this seems a bit of a no brainer.

Ah, well, that again is an Indycar problem. They underestimated the work needed.

Although I would point you to the end of Pruett's article, where Miles sees an emulation of the DAZN model as the best way forward in a lot of areas. So they are putting thought into that.

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Dan Wheldon ¦ 1978-2011
Marco Simoncelli ¦ 1987-2011
Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

Now that Indycar doesn't have a paid streaming platform (their own, not the NBCSN Gold one), free streaming and wider exposure would make sense for long term, but for short term it is just easier to accept the exclusive rights deal and a bag of money from a tv network.