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I thought the coverage was awful. Seems that nobody could afford to buy even one pit reporter to ask questions, so we never had a clue as to what was happening to the cars when they came into the pits. Eurosport had a small covey of fluffers who asked completely irrelevant questions of the occasional driver, one actually wandered the grounds near the pits see if she could be spotted in the crowd. Riveting stuff.
Eurosport had a really bad habit of inserting pre-recorded crap at times when there was action on the track, as opposed to when we were going to sleep with an hour-long safety car parade.
Speaking of the safety car, whoever came up with that new procedure ought to be shot. Twice. A guaranteed one hour parade, every time the son of a ***** came out. The first four hours, I think they had something like a whopping 60 laps can of actual green flag running.
The decision by the tire companies to not have intermediate tires available was another godawful decision. I wonder how many millions of dollars got tossed in the dumpster as a result of all those crashes?
Listening to the commentary on RadioLeMans wasn’t much better. None of the commentary was sufficiently focused on the action appearing on the screen, they got into one tangent after another, and it made the old US productions on channels like Speed look a lot better than I ever thought they would.
That said, the racing in all the classes was pretty evenly matched. Good on them for that.
It was a sobering thought to think that, Ferrari’s absence from Le Mans was so long that they literally have missed half of the hundred years that the race has been held. Wow. Good on them for the win. I wonder if they permited the church bells to have been rung in Maranello today, even though it wasn’t an F1 victory…
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