2016 IWSC Rolex 24 @ Daytona (Jan. 30-31)

racer612008 · PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 10:08 pm

The season opener for the 2016 IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship is near with the 54th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Also racing includes the IMSA Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge with the BMW Performance 200 on Friday as well as the Ferrari Challenge running several races during the weekend.

Entry Lists:
IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship - 54 cars entered (P - 13, PC - 8, GTLM - 11, GTD - 22)
IMSA Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge - 37 cars entered (GS - 9, ST - 28)

Spotters Guide: LINK

Schedule (all times are local to the circuit/USA-Eastern):

Spoiler:

Live Television Coverage/Stream Information:

Spoiler:

LIVE TIMING & SCORING:
IMSA Official

Track Layout:

Onboard Lap:
Tommy Milner - #4 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R - 2014 practice

deggis · PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 12:38 am

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 1:00 am

I wonder why that oval re-entry at the oval T1 is always so bumpy, is there a tunnel or a submerged river?

racer612008 · PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 1:02 am

Soul Reaver wrote:

I wonder why that oval re-entry at the oval T1 is always so bumpy, is there a tunnel or a submerged river?

there is a tunnel that goes under turn 1, but it's after the banking starts

codename_47 · PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 2:24 am

No live coverage on Motors TV.

great

Ian-S · PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 4:35 am

^^ As I said, for a series wanting to expand their TV viewership, they're certainly going in the right direction by removing 80% of their live viewers right off the bat....

racer612008 · PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 8:36 am

that really sucks, I guess it was because of the budget cuts that IMSA/NASCAR Media Group have done for this year.

deggis · PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 9:05 am

racer612008 wrote:

that really sucks, I guess it was because of the budget cuts that IMSA/NASCAR Media Group have done for this year.

Eh? They sell stuff to Motors and broadcast world feed would be done anyway, so it sounds like it was Motorstv who dropped it...

racer612008 · PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 10:00 am

deggis wrote:

racer612008 wrote:

that really sucks, I guess it was because of the budget cuts that IMSA/NASCAR Media Group have done for this year.

Eh? They sell stuff to Motors and broadcast world feed would be done anyway, so it sounds like it was Motorstv who dropped it...

I mean it wouldn't shock me if Motors dropped it on their end, considering how the last 2 seasons were and with the fading car counts on the Prototype side (at least GTLM & GTD are looking good now)

But it wouldn't shock me at all if NASCAR was buying airtime as well. It wouldn't shock me for the smaller races here in the USA, considering most races is usually a commercial, followed by "this message from a IMSA manufacturer" with 60 second splits of racing in between.

racer612008 · PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 3:21 pm

Linked the timing & scoring to the main post, it appears that Australia won't have any live TV coverage either as there is nothing listed on FOX's website (FS5 has alot of highlights for regional series & GP3 instead, looking up other countries now to add to the main post).

Hopefully it's just IMSA making the TV broadcasters wait to put it on their guides until they announce their plans, but I doubt it. At least the stream is staying the same, it appears for now anyway.

Ian-S · PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 5:07 pm

Has an external company taken over international TV distribution? This usually happens, new company takes over, triples fees, TV companies tell them to go forth and series remains off air for a few months to years before new company either relents and goes back to original costs or is sacked.

NASCAR, Champcar and Indycar have had this happen to them.

deggis · PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 8:03 pm

racer612008 wrote:

But it wouldn't shock me at all if NASCAR was buying airtime as well. It wouldn't shock me for the smaller races here in the USA, considering most races is usually a commercial, followed by "this message from a IMSA manufacturer" with 60 second splits of racing in between.

Well that... I can see buying air time for North American channels but MotorsTV is European and mainly British.

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 11:08 am

Spotter guide: http://www.spotterguides.com/wp-content ... DAY_v1.pdf

Woodski · PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 3:53 pm

Flying down Thursday morning.

racer612008 · PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:50 pm

Rubens Barrichello will be racing for Wayne Taylor's team this weekend.

Kenny Habul will race the 2nd Stevenson Audi with Boris Said, Tristan Vautier & Dion von Moltke

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:57 pm

Haha, yeay Rubens!

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 5:48 pm

deggis · PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 1:09 am

Mattzel89 · PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 7:59 pm

codename_47 wrote:

No live coverage on Motors TV.

great

And that's not the only series missing on Motors this year

Gaara · PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 8:09 pm

Mattzel89 wrote:

codename_47 wrote:

No live coverage on Motors TV.

great

And that's not the only series missing on Motors this year

Wait, what else is gone?

TBK-Light.com

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