2016 Le Mans 24 Hours - 15th to 19th June 2016

[catamount39]

FAUX sport coverage for Le Mans in the US.

FS1 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM
FS2 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
FS2 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM
FS2 7:00 PM to 7:30 PM
FS2 10:30 PM to 5:30 AM
FS1 5:30 AM to 9:30 AM

FS1: 9.5 hours
FS2: 10.5 hours
Total: 20 hours

Go WEC stream!!

Yeah I'm definitely getting that stream this year.

 

[FutureF1]

I mean who really watches the entire race? While I love it, I don't think I could sit in front of a TV for 24 straight hours... I'm thankful there still is coverage. If there was an hour, then I'd get the frustration.

 

[Aloha62_2]

I mean who really watches the entire race? While I love it, I don't think I could sit in front of a TV for 24 straight hours... I'm thankful there still is coverage. If there was an hour, then I'd get the frustration.

I have in the past, or at least been awake those 24h while the race was background noise at times. Getting a bit trickier with age!

I would recommend 4 hours kip early during the night so you can be a bit perkier before the sunrises, missing the sunrise sucks.

 

[sk8er913]

I mean who really watches the entire race? While I love it, I don't think I could sit in front of a TV for 24 straight hours... I'm thankful there still is coverage. If there was an hour, then I'd get the frustration.

I attempted that last year. I completed 22 hours and 45 minutes or something then said "meh porsche is going to win." And turned it off... then 5 minutes later a Nissan LMP had drama. Lol.

 

[R0ssingt0n]

I spent almost 24 hours straight awake at the circuit last year; from 8am Saturday to 8am Sunday. Ended up passing out near a ditch for a few hours after buying another beer to keep me going. That weekend almost killed me

 

[Aloha62_2]

I attempted that last year. I completed 22 hours and 45 minutes or something then said "meh porsche is going to win." And turned it off... then 5 minutes later a Nissan LMP had drama. Lol.

The Nissans really did add some sorely missing hilarity to the race. Watching top end racers glide around is great and all but every now and then you just needed to see a barely running nissan cornering as well as an acid fueled hippo and everything would feel right in the world.

 

[ukfan758]

I mean who really watches the entire race? While I love it, I don't think I could sit in front of a TV for 24 straight hours... I'm thankful there still is coverage. If there was an hour, then I'd get the frustration.

But why does 4 hours not have to be covered in the US but yet elsewhere it is?

 

[Sertsa]

I bought the stream for the second year. While no, I don't watch the entire 24 hours, I often have it on while doing other stuff, or peek at it from time to time.

Anyway, according to the below video fordperformance.tv will stream onboard cameras of the GTs and garage. I've also seen Porsche Motorsports and Corvette Racing have live onboards in the past.

 

[trustjab]

That's when you need 5 computers and 2 cell phones to view all these different feeds simultaneously!

 

[Roo]

I spent almost 24 hours straight awake at the circuit last year; from 8am Saturday to 8am Sunday. Ended up passing out near a ditch for a few hours after buying another beer to keep me going. That weekend almost killed me

I tried that in 2012, the first year I went. I was a zombie by mid Sunday morning, and it just wasn't fun. I can't imagine trying to stay awake for 24 hours in front of a TV screen. Much better to schedule some sleep in somewhere, even if it's not at night. In 2013 I went back to my tent half an hour after the start when I heard the safety car period was going to be a long one - I didn't know why at the time - and that, along with 4 hours or so just after dawn, worked quite well.

The Nissans really did add some sorely missing hilarity to the race. Watching top end racers glide around is great and all but every now and then you just needed to see a barely running nissan cornering as well as an acid fueled hippo and everything would feel right in the world.

An awful part of me quite liked how the Nissans kept trolling the LMP2s, by holding them up in the corners and then disappearing down the straights at a million miles an hour.

 

[Holdenhsvgtsr]

An awful part of me quite liked how the Nissans kept trolling the LMP2s, by holding them up in the corners and then disappearing down the straights at a million miles an hour.

Don't worry we will have tracy krohn doing that with the GTE's

 

[CodeRedR51]

Can someone post a direct link to the live stream page? I seem to be completely blind and cannot find it. Unless it's not active yet.

 

[GTPorsche]

I mean who really watches the entire race? While I love it, I don't think I could sit in front of a TV for 24 straight hours... I'm thankful there still is coverage. If there was an hour, then I'd get the frustration.

I like how FS1/FS2 don't have coverage at all during peak US hours. I could understand them not having coverage for the overnight US hours, but in the middle of the day?

C'mon man....

 

[Northstar]

I mean who really watches the entire race? While I love it, I don't think I could sit in front of a TV for 24 straight hours... I'm thankful there still is coverage. If there was an hour, then I'd get the frustration.

I think very few people actually do, but it's nice to select which portions of the race you are willing to miss rather than have some producer decide for you.

I may get the stream, it depends on my work schedule for that weekend.

 

[Furinkazen]

Can someone post a direct link to the live stream page? I seem to be completely blind and cannot find it. Unless it's not active yet.

You are blind. The race is two weeks away.

I think very few people actually do, but it's nice to select which portions of the race you are willing to miss rather than have some producer decide for you.

I may get the stream, it depends on my work schedule for that weekend.

Going for 20 hours minimum this year.

 

[CodeRedR51]

You are blind. The race is two weeks away.

I know that. But when you see posts like this:

I bought the stream for the second year.

You go looking for it.

I'm guessing the "TV Broadcast" link that doesn't work at the moment is what I am looking for. Just interested in price anyway.

 

[Sertsa]

Can someone post a direct link to the live stream page? I seem to be completely blind and cannot find it. Unless it's not active yet.

It'll be here: http://live.fiawec.com/ which will likely send you through here to sign in: http://members.fiawec.com/liveConnect The best stream is from the official app. It'll have the overall stream, selectable onboard cameras, live timing, etc.

Edit: The above links are also accessible through the main site, here: http://www.fiawec.com/

Edit 2: the price for the Le Mans race is 9.99 euros, which is $11.36 US according to my converter.

 

[MatskiMonk]

I gave up staying awake at 24 hour races years ago. I felt so crap on the Sunday it ruins the experience and simply isn't worth the bragging rights. Don't think I've ever made it through an entire 24 hour race online without at least nodding off a couple of times.... but that's probably down to the Jager and Martini (don't ask... tradition).

 

[Furinkazen]

One for the fans of bright noisy pieces of junk @LMSCorvetteGT2

I gave up staying awake at 24 hour races years ago. I felt so crap on the Sunday it ruins the experience and simply isn't worth the bragging rights. Don't think I've ever made it through an entire 24 hour race online without at least nodding off a couple of times.... but that's probably down to the Jager and Martini (don't ask... tradition).

No alcoholic drinking here helps

 

[IforceV8]

I like how FS1/FS2 don't have coverage at all during peak US hours. I could understand them not having coverage for the overnight US hours, but in the middle of the day?

C'mon man....

I hate to defend faux sports but that block of 3hrs from 7:30 to 10:30 pm are in the middle of the night and the French wont be on their cameras anyway so it will be a mix of onboards, security cams, and the usual pit lane cams. They will be streaming that time and the entire race on the Go app-if they remember to turn it on, and they usually screw that up so .

Ok I feel dirty now defending that terrible excuse of a network.

RIP

 

[Furinkazen]

the French wont be on their cameras anyway so it will be a mix of onboards, security cams, and the usual pit lane cams.

The french came off strike from the night time and for the first time ever last year, all camera's were on with full trackside coverage through the night time hours. Hopefully continues this year. The webcams always did lend Le Mans a little bit of a horror movie feel when there was a crash at night.

Rockenfeller's accident 5 years ago (I remember watching it live) was so creepy at the time for me. Just darkness, few flags, marshals, and debris... everywhere. All on footage looking like some relic from a 1990's VHS camcorder. That and after McNish's horror wreck early on my nerves were already a bit uneasy.

 

[IforceV8]

The french came off strike from the night time and for the first time ever last year, all camera's were on with full trackside coverage through the night time hours. Hopefully continues this year. The webcams always did lend Le Mans a little bit of a horror movie feel when there was a crash at night.

Rockenfeller's accident 5 years ago (I remember watching it live) was so creepy at the time for me. Just darkness, few flags, marshals, and debris... everywhere. All on footage looking like some relic from a 1990's VHS camcorder. That and after McNish's horror wreck early on my nerves were already a bit uneasy.

The French working the night shift, look out for a asteroid or Trump leaking the launch codes on his twitter.

Yes late night wrecks at Le Mans always had the feel of a WWII radio report from the battle field.

These guys are used to John Pew driving it so a quick rebuild is nothing.

 

[wowbaggerBR]

I mean who really watches the entire race? While I love it, I don't think I could sit in front of a TV for 24 straight hours... I'm thankful there still is coverage. If there was an hour, then I'd get the frustration.

That's not quite the point. Even if you can't take the full 24 hours, is nice to know that whenever you turn the TV on, the race will be there.

Last year was tragic, I slept throughout some very big chunks of the race. If this happens this year I'm covered by the on demand feature on the Fia WEC app.

I hate to defend faux sports but that block of 3hrs from 7:30 to 10:30 pm are in the middle of the night and the French wont be on their cameras anyway so it will be a mix of onboards, security cams, and the usual pit lane cams. They will be streaming that time and the entire race on the Go app-if they remember to turn it on, and they usually screw that up so .

Is this confirmed? Because last year the French were on their cameras the whole 24 hours.

 

[IforceV8]

Is this confirmed? Because last year the French were on their cameras the whole 24 hours.

I just found a replay of last years race and they did work all night so I would assume that they are doing the same this year.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

One for the fans of bright noisy pieces of junk @LMSCorvetteGT2

What was that, sorry I was just looking over all the 24h Le Mans wins Corvette Racing has to get myself in the mindset for watching the race. Don't mind me

 

[catamount39]

One for the fans of bright noisy pieces of junk @LMSCorvetteGT2

No alcoholic drinking here helps

Excuse me? I can't hear you over the sound of us winning just about every year since 2000 and the trophies piling up. V8 THUNDER FOREVER!

 

[GTPorsche]

Excuse me? I can't hear you over the sound of us winning just about every year since 2000 and the trophies piling up. V8 THUNDER FOREVER!

Pick a side already.

 

[Akmuq]

Excuse me? I can't hear you over the sound of us winning just about every year since 2000 and the trophies piling up. V8 THUNDER FOREVER!

Didn't know you are a Le Mans driver.

 

[Holdenhsvgtsr]

Didn't know you are a Le Mans driver.

I thought everyone that raced at Le Mans in GT was?

 

[Cobra_GT500]

Looking forward to next week. To start off we have e3 and I have the day off going to watch the Sony press conference. Going out on the Friday night. Then Le man weekend so excited . The plan is to sleep most of Saturday so I can watch as much of the 24 hour as possible.