60th Anniversary Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring 2012

Tiemen · PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 3:10 pm

So, next weekend we will have the first WEC/ALMS race of 2012. There was no thread yet so I figured I started one :-)

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Back to the old days:

deggis · PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 3:22 pm

Tiemen wrote:

Stream: Link anyone?

The old stream link now redirects to this page: http://www.americanlemans.com/races/60t ... rs-sebring

Lists only ESPN3, but IF it's the same than last year, then the stream should be also at alms.com, unless WEC has complicated this commercial rights wise. On the other hand ACO and Audi might stream it instead or also. The ESPN3.com stream is geo-restricted but works (worked last year) via proxy.

(?) Audi TV: http://microsites.audi.com/lemans/ (still in Zhuhai...)
(?) ACO channel: http://www.dailymotion.com/FIAWEC (ILMC races last year were streamed at Dailymotion)

Mattzel89 · PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 3:29 pm

Looks like Eurosport will be covering the final 2 hours of the race. MotorsTV will have full live coverage, except for 2 hours in the evening when they show the AMA season opener in Daytona live.

ellis · PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 4:20 pm

Highcroft transporter is in the Sebring paddock. Seems like the DeltaWing is going to do a demo run. They'll be announcing Nissan engines for it too.

Northfire · PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 9:58 pm

Here is the car design of the Audis for the Sebring 12 Hours.

deggis · PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 4:09 pm

Northfire wrote:

Here is the car design of the Audis for the Sebring 12 Hours.

yellow <3

http://www.fourtitude.com/gallery/galle ... R18%20TDI#

Gabriel · PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 4:41 pm

Looking forward to this race. Sebring is always awesome.

deggis · PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:37 pm

Revamped live timing: http://scoring.alms.com (will still probably go down every other hour)

Direct link for RadioLM: http://direct.sharp-stream.com/radioshow.mp3

deggis · PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:58 pm

http://www.planetlemans.com/2012/03/12/ ... -released/

Quote:

"the whole race will be streamed live from start to finish on the official website at http://www.fiawec.com to all parts of the world with the exception of North America."

worldwide – ESPN 3 – Live
worldwide – ALMS.com – Live – not in the USA
worldwide – fiawec.com / lemans.org – Live – not in the USA

Juihi · PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:17 am

Some great videos about the history of Sebring uploaded by the ALMS youtube channel

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:28 pm

It's incredibly frustrating that the WEC and ALMS cars aren't really competing against each other, even if they are in the same class. Bullshit.

Tiemen · PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:31 pm

Updated the first post with the links and video's provided in this topic! That way the first post will be some sort of overall collection so important info is easier to find :-)

Great video's btw Juihi!

deggis · PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:26 pm

dicksplaash wrote:

It's incredibly frustrating that the WEC and ALMS cars aren't really competing against each other, even if they are in the same class. Bullshit.

How come are not? I see no difference to last year (ILMC) besides maybe that now the session results (here) have a "WEC" mark next to the WEC entries, but the classes are the same. Thankfully... because every class being split to ALMS and WEC subclasses would be bullshit.

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:49 pm

http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/ ... ations-faq

Quote:

PODIUMS: How will the podium procedure work with separate classes for ALMS and FIA WEC?

ELKINS: The podium celebration will be unique as we will present awards for two distinct championships. To begin, we will award the overall podium. This will be comprised of the first three cars across the finish line irrespective of what championship they are competing in. We will then have podium ceremonies for the respective classes and championships: ie LMP1-FIA WEC and then P1-ALMS. We will then have GT-ALMS and then GTE-Pro-FIA WEC and so on (totaling 9 classes). It will be a bit longer of a ceremony but it will be spectacular.

Which pretty means that for GT, there will be two podiums for what is really the same class.

And:

Quote:

POINTS: How will points be calculated for the ALMS and WEC championships?

ELKINS: Each entrant will receive points in their respective series. So for example, if the No. 1 FIA WEC car wins its class, it will receive 1st place points only in the FIA WEC championship and if the No. 6 ALMS car places second behind the No. 1 FIA WEC, it will receive 1st place points in the ALMS championship and so on.

ALMS has had this system for as long as the series has existed IIRC, that only the series regulars get full points, even if they don't actually win the race.

I would rather have just the universal classes LMP1, LMP2, GT, etc, than WEC LMP1, ALMS P1 and so on. More racing, less points calculating.

deggis · PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:58 pm

Thanks, new link to me. "but the classes will be considered the same for the sake of timing and scoring", that is the most important thing.

Raikkon · PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:52 pm

dicksplaash wrote:

It's incredibly frustrating that the WEC and ALMS cars aren't really competing against each other, even if they are in the same class. Bullshit.

Agreed. Totally ruins it all imo. Never mind.. I hope for a great race starting the build-up to the F1 soon after...

Eddington mains · PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:07 am

Karun posted these pictures on his Facebook page..

I know he ain't the best driver on the planet and his F1 career was a bit of a dead end but he did do this..

So I'm always going to support him!

Shane · PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:09 am

Still a lucky son of a gun...

EsbenT · PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:54 pm

Hope he gets to race at Le Mans as well this year. No more pitlane parkour, remember...

StanV · PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:12 pm

Chandhok seems like an amazing dude/personality. Yes, I base myself on the regular interviews he gave on the BBC last season and also on his twitter-accoun.

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