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Old 07-08-2012, 03:56 AM
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Wow, it has come to the this. RSR finally wins in America's premiere road racing series and.....nothing. Have we given up on the 911 as a racer? Lap times weren't the best but they were up there.
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WOOHOO!
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The Lizards really deserved a win! part of the reason nobody knows is that they have made watching an ALMS race on TV a real chore.
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We are all just too hungover to post from celebrating the win all weeked!
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Originally Posted by bgiere
The Lizards really deserved a win! part of the reason nobody knows is that they have made watching an ALMS race on TV a real chore.
Unfortunate, but true.
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ALMS on TV is a very sad state of affairs.
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Anyone know why the results aren't posted? Usually they're up fairly quickly after a race....
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Well that's another thing...ALMS can't even be bothered to post the race results in a timely manner...It's like they are trying to fail.
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I thought this race was an easy 1 to watch, on ESPN2? At least it was on Comcast in NJ.
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I was at the race and watching on TV at the same time. Most of the yellow flag events at the track resulted in some lame interview on the tv. I didn't know what went on until this morning when I read some of the coverage.
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Yep totally missed it... The GF(who gets FL updates via email due to buying me FLSwag for Christmas...) comes in and says "the lizards won!" and zips out of the room, that was my race coverage...
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Yeah. ALMS' website is not user friendly. There isn't even a "contact us" link. The ESPN2 coverage started in the middle of the race. I actually think the streaming on ESPN3 is working well this year. Bugs are worked out and it's nice to have the replay available. Pain to fast forward compared to a DVR but ....at least I get to see the full race.
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I was watching the live streaming on ESPN3. Everything was fine until they lost audio. After no sound for awhile, I got audio from the TV feed which did not correlate with the live feed picture. Later it suddenly switched back correctly.
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Those streaming feeds do often lose audio. I'm not in the US, so I think I have it a bit easier as far as streaming it from ALMS.com is concerned (not via ESPN in my case), but during Sebring this year, I kept getting bumped from the main feeds with commentary to a random in-car feed.

Nevertheless, I appreciate the streaming coverage.
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The Rolex series is great to watch!
Also the Continental tire.
I put them both on DVR for the series and always there to watch.
Good stuff!
I save the tracks I drive at like NJMP, Glen etc


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