General Sportscar Chat thread

[Truckosaurus]

I didn't even think about minor single seater races also taking place this weekend

[nobster]

Originally Posted by GT3_Fan

Ha maybe we need the sportscar veteran criminal thread. Fritz has been charged now.
https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/v...investigation/


Our distinguished list does not stop getting bigger over the years.

Whittington Brothers
John Paul Sr
Randy Lanier
Scott Tucker
Daniel Uckerman
Michael Avenatti
Fritz Von Erd

Others?

Charles Zwolsman sr. known in our country as Charles Z. ( drugs )

[NaBUru38]

Hello GT3 Fan, I regularly publish calendars in this thread.

There's also websites like Racingcalendar.net.

[chernaudi]

I've posted about this in a couple of areas on Facebook, and if mods or admins think this would be better served elsewhere or in its own thread, feel free to split this off, but I've been talking about if it would be a good idea if say IMSA would either upload to YouTube say more ALMS races that they didn't upload prior to 2013, or maybe make them available as a download and such?


I know that it's probably a pipe dream, but I'd love to have the raw broadcast footage (that used to be used to make the old VHS and DVDs back then) that's unedited (the ones uploaded to YouTube seem to have had color edits done to them, and sometimes they're not in the proper aspect ratio), even if they have to be paid purchases.

[broadrun96]

Think the demand for that is FAR lower than the costs to make such things available would be. And not a ton of folks actually work for IMSA, they're not sitting out there with lots of extra time on their hands

[chernaudi]

I have to say that I'm in agreement with those on those groups I posted that in that say that every major racing series should make such things available, because, regardless of how big it might be, there's a demand for it, and they, like me, are willing to actually pay money for it.



Also if NASCAR (who are controlling owners of IMSA) can do something sort of like this with the NASCAR Classics YouTube page (maybe not the paid download model I'd favor, especially for the raw satellite feed footage that I'm speaking of that used to be used at least for the Speed Channel broadcast DVDs, but still better than nothing), why can't or why shouldn't IMSA, or even the ACO for older Le Mans races and older LMS races?


And yes, I know that not a ton of people are able or even willing to watch the whole, uncut races, but the ACO and FIA post whole LM24 events (though the newer ones from recent years).



My point is that there seems to be a demand (IE, I'm not alone), but it seems that there's not enough or people aren't vocal enough for that demand to be answered. I know I myself would pay decent money for such things if made available.