2014 12 Hours of Sebring TV coverage
 

Looks like the first few hours will be on Fox Sports 1 and the rest on IMSA dot com.

linkey:

IMSA | TUDOR United SportsCar Championship | 62nd Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida

Eurosport is showing 7 hours. What gives?

Maybe they are time compressing 5 hours?;)

IMSA is screwing themselves w/ their lack of coverage for this series. That is part of the reason why teams are dropping out. It costs a TON to campaign and no one is getting any sponsor advertising coverage out of it.

The days of one network clearing off 12 or 24 hours of their schedule for a race telecast seem to be over.:(

Well, now that Nascar folks are running the show, don't expect decent TV coverage. They are doing the same thing to AMA road racing. So far only 5 confirmed races and not a single one will be on TV. Internet only...

****ers....

JR

Is anybody watching?

IMSA | TUDOR United SportsCar Championship | Live Broadcast

Check out this boneheaded move... the result of the driver not waiting until the corner workers gave him the go ahead.

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What an idiot!

When I was doing track events I did see some drivers who were cleared for solo and also in advanced groups who thought they were Mario Andretti.

They're personalities were the problem.

BIG egos.

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IMSA | TUDOR United SportsCar Championship | Live Broadcast

Now's a good time to tune in... everyone is charging hard now that it's down to less than 2 hours.

A curious trackside firebreathing item... unknown as to its origin or function... kinda looks like a coffeemaker on steroids to me...
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Some of the victors...
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A long heritage...
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Thanks for those pics and info, John.

Now how about the huge mistake IMSA made in penalizing the Alex Job #22 car....that cost them the race!

I can't believe they didn't add the lost time back in - that is terrible! The Alex Job team should receive a huge sum of $ at least to compensate if they are not going to move them up in the podium.

This is outrageous....


IMSA Admits Incorrect Calls at Sebring - Sportscar365

Alex Job Frustrated with Sebring Officiating Calls - Sportscar365

I was there yesterday and shot about 1000 images. I'm going thru them now. Here is the Job car. They should also get extra points for having the best looking models walking around the pits/paddock. Smokin' is an understatement. :eek:


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We need pics of the models so we can see if they are smokin' or not!:)G

Well?

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I would hazard a guess that they are better looking than most other female help in the competitors' pits. And that is just a rear view. Keep them coming if you got any more. I am not sure about the uniforms - they look kind of skeleton like....just me being picky.:)G
And yes thanks for that!

As far as the suits, let me just say if you saw them from the front you would call themselves the "Cameltoe Crew"....;)

That might have been true years ago, but today there's a million channels, at least that's what I see on direct tv, and 90% worthless.

I attended the first half of the race and was surprised that we were allowed to walk up and look into the cars until about 30 mins before the start. We left and headed home to watch the last few hours on TV only to find it was not available at the little lake house we had rented for the week end....btw, If you've never attend it, there are some fun loving, crazy people at that race:)

The TV coverage sucked. I could see having a break in mid race, but to show JUST the first 3 hours is a shame. And those suits, from the rear, are really bad, REALLY bad. Sportscar racing on tv is wanning, just like the series. Sad.

Are these any better?????

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better from the back perhaps? though I did see other individual pics that had the second brunette looking amazing

what team was the grey outfitted women part of?

I think maybe the Aston Martin team. The car has the "Live Love Own" on the side of it IIRC.

always love your pics, big fan

if you took any others of the aston girls, do share :)

hey the momo girls were awesome red body suits and one was about 7 ft tall. they posed and did fan pics next to the shack for hours.. very nice..also an honorary mention is in order for the continental tire girls this year they worked hard and were over in the mosh pit for most of the time catering to the bubba crowd..no pit work for them..

i went by the wearther tech pit one time and the girls were in rapt attention to the monitors no texting or makeup going on in that pit..

great show though ...my first time...met some guys that were celebrating their 37th consecuutive.....

cheers frank

I don't have any of them from the front. They came walking up to me and I didn't noticed them in time to get a full frontal.

Getting back to the race, here is the winning car..........

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As far as the race coverage on IMSA dot com goes, my reception was horrible. I have a fast cable Internet line at home and the picture was full of artifacts and jumpy. I had it on full screen and it kept popping back to a smaller box when the signal slowed or stopped.

I watched the race on-line for a little bit but gave up. Came back to watch the end and, no surprise, a DP took the checkered flag. They have slowed the old P2 cars down soo much that they are going to force them and their sponsors away from the series. Little TV coverage on a third tier cable network combined with spotty to bad on-line coverage will drive this series into the ground.

Nice speed shot. Fast shutter or pan and shoot?

Looks like you took that picture in front of the burm at turn 3 or 4. I took around 500 pictures there last year at turn three. I took another 300 down at the hairpin in turn 7 in front of the Chateau Elan.

By the way, the commentators mentioned during the internet coverage that the GT-LM class winning factory Porsche RSR needed to be seen from an arial shot to appreciate the paint scheme. "Porsche Intelligent Performance":

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Obviously this is the LM Prototype, but this shot provides a clear image of the similar scheme:
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I wonder what this race would have been like if they still had the Audi r8, LMP 1, even from last years race. Do you think, like I do, that it would have run away an hid, blasting the field by say, 20 laps. NASCAR wants to dumb it dowm to the masses, just like their other series.

The Audi from 5 years ago would have beat the DP !

Patrick Long Karting event on Sunday after the 12 hours at Sebring was a huge success! Raised over 40k for charity (All Children's) and had a blast!!!

Drivers included

Patrick Long
Colin Braun
Jan Heyman
Bryan Sellars
Tommy Kendall
Dr Jim Norman
Sebastian Bourdais
Trent Hindeman
Katherine Legge
Tristian Vautier
Martin Plowman


Awesome event!!!

This car was able to re-start one his own.

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