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Old 06-15-2017, 07:11 PM
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I'll be watching on the WEC app and AirPlay it to the big screen. How's everyone else enjoying the 'Greatest Race in the World'?
Old 06-15-2017, 07:56 PM
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http://www.roadandtrack.com/motorspo...rs-guide-2017/
Old 06-16-2017, 07:48 AM
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I did my rant about lack of coverage on 'Velocity' last year
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Old 06-16-2017, 09:01 PM
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I try and watch as much as I can, certainly the last few hours.
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This weekend is the VARAC event at the GP track. I'm torn as there will be vintage F1 cars screaming around the track and I can watch replays of LeMans on the app.
Tough call for Saturday!
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Watching on the WEC app. Working perfectly
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Poor Toyota, I kinda want them to win because of their performance.
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Originally Posted by CarlEightySix
Poor Toyota, I kinda want them to win because of their performance.
me too

I'm thinking Austin has become a must see race as Porsche has a habit of dropping out of the series when they're dominant.

Might even be the last time we can see these cars in North America.
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Can't believe I was able to do this, but I watched 23 1/2 hours of the 24 hour race on the TV in my family room using a couple of different YouTube enabled streams. The first stream was from Eurosports with commercials. About 6 hours into the race that stream all of a sudden died. I found another English language stream that was even better because there were no commercials. But with about 5 hours left in the race that stream was shutdown. Luckily I was able to find another Eurosports stream.

I was so loaded up on coffee (the race ended at 7 am here in the mountain time zone), and I was so wired that I didn't sleep at all all day Sunday. But I went to bed last night at 8:45 pm and slept like a baby until my alarm went off at 6 am this morning when it was time to go to work.

If anyone wants to critic me and call me names like not having a life for watching 23+ hours of a 24 hour race, I don't care. LOL ... it was a race to remember.
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Originally Posted by My993C2
Can't believe I was able to do this, but I watched 23 1/2 hours of the 24 hour race on the TV in my family room using a couple of different YouTube enabled streams. The first stream was from Eurosports with commercials. About 6 hours into the race that stream all of a sudden died. I found another English language stream that was even better because there were no commercials. But with about 5 hours left in the race that stream was shutdown. Luckily I was able to find another Eurosports stream.

I was so loaded up on coffee (the race ended at 7 am here in the mountain time zone), and I was so wired that I didn't sleep at all all day Sunday. But I went to bed last night at 8:45 pm and slept like a baby until my alarm went off at 6 am this morning when it was time to go to work.

If anyone wants to critic me and call me names like not having a life for watching 23+ hours of a 24 hour race, I don't care. LOL ... it was a race to remember.
Hopefully the half hour you missed wasn't the last.
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Very nice.
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Originally Posted by bronson7
Hopefully the half hour you missed wasn't the last.
No ... I was so wired up on caffeine by then that not only did I catch the last 7 hours of the race, I did not fall asleep until 14 hours after the race ended (9 pm local time). No I missed about 20 minutes of the race Saturday afternoon when I took a catnap in front of the TV while the race was still on playing through a YouTube live stream. The other 10 minutes that I missed was just before midnight my time with 7 hours left in the race, I took a shower to help me stay awake (mission accomplished).

Definitely a race to remember. Now will I do it again next year? Not sure. Only time will tell. I will be a year older and as we age, we do need to sleep more.
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Originally Posted by My993C2
No ... I was so wired up on caffeine by then that not only did I catch the last 7 hours of the race, I did not fall asleep until 14 hours after the race ended (9 pm local time). No I missed about 20 minutes of the race Saturday afternoon when I took a catnap in front of the TV while the race was still on playing through a YouTube live stream. The other 10 minutes that I missed was just before midnight my time with 7 hours left in the race, I took a shower to help me stay awake (mission accomplished).

Definitely a race to remember. Now will I do it again next year? Not sure. Only time will tell. I will be a year older and as we age, we do need to sleep more.
If you're going to stay up and watch the entire thing you should probably find a way to go see it live--bet it'd be easier to stay awake

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