Are we being deadass right now ? Fuoco and Kobayashi are both slower than the genesis and the aston martins? Last year's Lemans winner not even making it to hyperpole. Its starting to get ridiculous.

Must be nice to drive the only brand that can all pull a sub-3:26.8 lap and swiftly recover from repeated penalties like #6 never needed to. It's so blatantly tilted.

Seriously, everyone is being overly melodramatic it's getting well into cringe territory.

I wrote out this whole thing, but accidentally reloaded the page and lost it all -_-

I know there is a rule against constant negativity, but that isn't what this is. People make mistakes and things go wrong, like the broadcast of Detroit this week, but this is not a small accident, this is a repeated constant problem with IMSA's broadcast, which strongly reduces the quality of the final product.

John Hindhaugh, the main commentator on IMSA's broadcast is often considered one of the great recent endurance racing commentators, but he's really really bad at his job, to the severe detriment of the IMSA broadcast.

I went back to Laguna Seca's broadcast to find a few moments.

With 1 hour and 12 minutes left in the race, the 31 car attempts a pass on the 10 car into the corkscrew. Ryan Myhren notices the attempted move, and leaves the door open for John, the play by play commentator, to step in and commentate over the attempted move. John says the following:

*silence for three seconds as the move is attempted and fails* Excellent maneuvre...........uhmm...and..................has that actually paid off?.........yes it has, so CHANGE OF POSIT-no it hasn't (at this point the cars are at the final corner, and its been at least 10 seconds since the move failed at the corkscrew).....is that Gimmi Bruni ahead of them all? ("Bruni" is a lap down) ...YES IT IS (Now Myhren steps in to explain that not only is the car a lap down, but Bruni is not even driving the car.)

Somehow, Hindhaugh manages to stumble his way through a very simple move (attempted pass through the corkscrew, pass fails), and along the way he incorrectly says the move worked, and then confuses a non lead lap car for having passed the whole pack.

This is not isolated, in the same race he calls a change for the lead when actually it is a lapped hypercar unlapping itself, he confuses a Corvette GT3 with a Ferrari GT3, and constantly mixes up the 6 and 7 Porsches. He messes up the timing, often saying a car is a minute behind the car ahead, even though its only a few seconds behind, and nearly always thinks a different driver is in the car than who actually is. He has a strong dislike of actually commentating over moves that are made on track, and seems to prefer to thank people for watching the broadcast, rather than do his job and commentate on passes for the lead.

And this is just his mistakes, on top of all of these constant blunders, his pure presentation skill is severely lacking. He buffers constantly and never finishes sentences he starts. Listening to the man speak is like playing a podcast and pausing it every few seconds mid sentence. On top of that he has the most grating accent I've heard in english language sports broadcast. He also likes to yammer about the "Porsche Keys to the Race" and the "Crowdstrike pit lane report". I can understand plugging the sponsors, but even NASCAR on FOX commentators don't do it this much.

And these are not problems just in this race, this is constant, every race, every year. People love to give Crofty hell for his commentary. While I don't like Crofty that much, at least he is capable of completing a sentence.

This is seriously hurting IMSA's broadcast. I often find myself tuning it off or playing it on mute because of how frustrating the commentary is. I'm socially awkward and speak too fast, on top of that I often stumble over words, but even I could commentate better than Hindhaugh, hell, my half fluent grandma could do better. Viewers should have commentary that accurately explains what is going on, and gives exciting and thrilling play by play analysis, not some unaware guy who's entirely incapable of even mentioning when passes are made.

Call me crazy, but I think they should do it as a support race of NASCAR at the Charlotte-Roval Weekend. The pitlane should handle 40+ cars and they could catch a lot of extra eyeballs while also creating a unique event.

With Michelle Gatting racing a Porsche in Dubai for Pure Rxcing. I wonder if they are going to stick with Porsche for the other drivers.

Seeing Ferrari get a 1-2 in Hypercar qualifying despite having the worst BoP made me want to take a moment to appreciate how great of a job the Ferrari race engineers are doing. After not even 3 years of development they made a car that, not only dominated this season, but so far is also beating the Toyotas despite a worse BoP in every conceivable way (except for weight, where they are tied); and let's not forget they won Lemans back to back to back.

Plus, given its BoP, the FIA seems to believe their LMGT3 car is the best among that group too.

Very impressive! Hats off to the Ferrari engineers!

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Hey everyone,

I wanted to get some opinions on a situation happening right now at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. During the race, the No. 50 Ferrari had contact with the No. 8 Toyota, significantly impacting Toyota’s chances. Despite this, Ferrari only received a 5-second penalty. Additionally, the Ferrari performed an unsafe release from a pit stop, for which they received no penalty at all.

Considering the impact on the race and Toyota’s chances, do you think this penalty was fair? Or do you believe that Mr. Eduardo Freitas and the race direction made a mistake here? I’d love to hear your thoughts on this as the race unfolds.

Thanks!

We got one toyota and one ferrari slower than a Genesis, two others just above it in Hypercar. LMGT3 we got all the podium cars out of the top ten. Totally better than last year and definitely making sure we don't speculate anything. Maybe its the success ballast.

Why does it appear to the average person that ferrari is being favoured by the BoP this year ? My friend who doesn't watch WEC as seriously as most of us asked me this and I couldn't answer. Seriously though, what is the FIA and ACO smoking while making BoP for this year

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So, I have questions that haven't been answered for very long time, why Honda never joined Le Mans again and made LMP or LMH cars? I mean, Honda joined Le Mans three times in 94, 95, and 96. But they compete in GT class at that time. Also, Honda also made prototypes, but it's on IMSA and used Acura name.

Honda is also one of the biggest Japanese brands and they have a huge motorsport rivalry on Toyota, like in Super GT, and Formula 1 from 2002-09. But, from this history, I have never seen a single Honda appearance in Le Mans since 1996 and no prototype/hypercars in their entire time. Pls, help me answer this mystery, and I do not need sleep, I need answers. Thanks.

The regular spec exhaust that's running in SRO is already on the quiet side, but for some reason they fitted it with the Nordschleife spec exhaust which sounds as if it's breathing through a straw.

This is the premier class of sportscar racing for crying out loud. Give the fans a proper experience of what a high revving naturally aspirated flat 6 sounds like. The cup cars that were racing earlier sounded beautiful but the GT3R sounds pathetic.

What do you think?

If you put verstappen in a hypercar or in a gt3, will he create 20 second gaps like what he does now? I understand in his blood, its just pure racing, but will he ever?

I have buildt a WEC and GTWC Simulation Game. (non licenced so not used commercially)

This is simply a passion project.

I´ve tried to go into as much detail as the Browser-Python Infrastructure allows.

There is also a fictional timeline starting 2028 where I built my ideal, but still sort of grounded in reality, version of what WEC should be, bringing back GTE and LMP2. (seen in most screenshots)

Everything is still very much a work in progress, as is probably clearly visible.

There are still lots of issues to resolve, mainly performance and UI wise, but i really like the base infrastructure. The translation from german is also very incomplete, as you can probably tell.

If you want to try the demo version, Dm me and I will send you the zip file. You will need python installed on your PC to run it.

Other than the running performance (I know the issues here and I´m working hard to resolve them) if you have notes on features, game modes, content or general improvemants I´m happy to recieve any feedback.

In the future i will flesh out the realistic WEC version a lot more, as this has started as my 2028 fantasy version where Audi for example have never pulled out from sportscar racing, therefore we have the WRT Audi Hypercar Teams, but I will probably divide the entire WEC experience in two seperate World. One based in reality and one, which is my ideal alternative.

I´m currently working on the GT World Challenge Europe expansion which I am also very excited about.

If there are any other racing series that you want me to include, let me know. IMSA is on the horizon, but first things first...

Hi, I have no idea if this is the right place (or indeed if there’s any right place, I never post anything online) to post this, but I was tapping through stories and I saw that James Calado shared some messed up maniverse/far right post from the recent protest in London. Does anyone know if this was intentional/a view he actually holds? If so, it’s massively disappointing as I was a big fan of his :(

I wanted to go and grab a screenshot but even though it’s been less than 24h it’s no longer on his story, which gives me small hope that it wasn’t genuine.

I’ve completely missed this until I just clocked what date the 28th Feb is. I must’ve read it several times and it’s just not gone in.

I get that the working week is different in Qatar, but Saturday is still a weekend day for them right? It’s just so sad how I can’t watch any of the opening round because I’m at work, which I’m sure applies to many of us here.