82nd Running Of The Le Mans 24 Hours - 14/15 June 2014.

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And so far, I don't see any indication that the race will be covered on Fox Sports 1.
 
ProjectWHaT
Anyone know if there'll be any TV coverage for America?
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Fox Sports 1 and 2 will be airing all 24 hours. First time the entire race has been televised in the States. No word yet on the schedule, but I'm sure the start and finish will be aired on 1.
 
Autosport
Ferrari F1 driver Alonso to give the start at Le Mans 24 Hours
By Gary Watkins Monday, May 26th 2014, 15:50 GMT

Two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso will give the start at next month's Le Mans 24 Hours.

The Ferrari driver has accepted an invitation to be the honorary starter of the blue-riband round of the World Endurance Championship on June 14/15.

The move "shows the strong links that exist between the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and Ferrari", according to a statement from the Le Mans-organising club.

It will be the first time in the history of the 24 Hours that the role of honorary starter has been given to an active racing driver.

Those who have filled the role previously include Alonso's boss at Ferrari, Luca di Montezemolo (2009), six-time Le Mans winner Jacky Ickx (2000), actor Steve McQueen (1971) and then Jaguar chairman Sir John Egan (1986).

Reigning WEC champion and 2013 Le Mans winner Allan McNish will act as grand marshal, which includes the duty of leading the cars around the formation lap.

Corvette Racing programme manager Doug Fehan will also be honoured during 24 Hours week with a 'Spirit of Le Mans' award for his contribution to a race in which his operation has recorded seven class wins.

Multiple Le Mans winners Derek Bell, Henri Pescarolo and Tom Kristensen, long-time Porsche engineer Norbert Singer and team boss Reinhold Joest are among those who have been given the award since its inception in 2001.
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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114156
 
Great, so I'll miss most of the race thanks to them putting it on Fox Sports 2, which has magically been removed from the package I currently have. Wonderful :rolleyes:


This pretty much seals the deal on streaming for me.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of the race was on FS2. I think that FOX needs to create a dedicated motorsports network, perhaps they could call it "SPEED", or something along those lines...
 
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Furinkazen
Strakka out after major accident at Spa.
http://www.motorsport.com/lemans/news/strakka-racing-cancels-le-mans-entry/
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#Ouch:ouch:
Furinkazen
EDIT Krohn Racing take place instead.
http://www.motorsport.com/lemans/ne...tig-heading-to-le-mans-on-last-minute-invite/

EDIT 2: From Twitter:

Eve Hewitt ‏@radiolemans 3 mins
Major team news coming about the return to Le Mans of a major fan favourite.
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Which prompted this tweet from me...

Christopher Mattiuz ‏@HockeyKamen 1m
@radiolemans Now was this about Krohn Racing or The Man Formerly Known as "The Stig"? I'm #confused... @_@ http://tinyurl.com/l9khtku​
:D
 
Furinkazen
Saw that. Appears it's not Chris (PS Following you now).
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So what do you think it is? Car-related? Driver-related? Thinking the latter here...
 
CAMikaze
So what do you think it is? Car-related? Driver-related? Thinking the latter here...
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Other tweets indicate it's nothing to do with "car waiver" aka the Vipers needing a waiver in. Could be wrong but i'm calling Pescarolo having pulled themselves together at last minute.
 
Furinkazen
Other tweets indicate it's nothing to do with "car waiver" aka the Vipers needing a waiver in. Could be wrong but i'm calling Pescarolo having pulled themselves together at last minute.
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If that's the case, you may need to have at the ready a certain clip from a certain monster movie from the 1930's.
 
Ok it's "major team news" so it's a team. Also they must be racing in the Tudor championship because there's an hint about them not having a car compliant with ACO rules.

This rules out GTLM, therefore it's either a GTD team or a LMP2/DP team.


EDIT - Flying Lizards?
 
Hun200kmh
Ok it's "major team news" so it's a team. Also they must be racing in the Tudor championship because there's an hint about them not having a car compliant with ACO rules.

This rules out GTLM, therefore it's either a GTD team or a LMP2/DP team.


EDIT - Flying Lizards?
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Do flying lizards have a car though thought they did audis now.
 
Hun200kmh
Ok it's "major team news" so it's a team. Also they must be racing in the Tudor championship because there's an hint about them not having a car compliant with ACO rules.

This rules out GTLM, therefore it's either a GTD team or a LMP2/DP team.


EDIT - Flying Lizards?
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Ok that puts Vipers back in the frame. Perhaps at a looong shot BMW?
 
Yep, GTD Audis but as I said one of the insiders was implying it was a team without an ACO compliant car.

However, I just digged a bit more and it seems FLizards (the team and owners) is already set for Le Mans, in a "joint venture" with a GTE-Am Ferrari team. So, it must be some other team from the US. What are the fan favourite teams from there? Highcroft was, but it has vanished. Muscle Milk? Hardly a fan favourite I think. Level 5? No ... really have no clue.
 
Hun200kmh
Yep, GTD Audis but as I said one of the insiders was implying it was a team without an ACO compliant car.

However, I just digged a bit more and it seems FLizards (the team and owners) is already set for Le Mans, in a "joint venture" with a GTE-Am Ferrari team. So, it must be some other team from the US. What are the fan favourite teams from there? Highcroft was, but it has vanished. Muscle Milk? Hardly a fan favourite I think. Level 5? No ... really have no clue.
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James Foster ‏@Jimmyb_84 55m
@radiolemans @dsceditor @Roadhog29389 I look forward to it, I wonder where the car has come from as they don't run an ACO compliment model?
 
Furinkazen
Ok that puts Vipers back in the frame. Perhaps at a looong shot BMW?
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Won't be the BMWs hence why bmw did the m3 and not the z4 I would take an educated guess at weather tech or srt.

Scratch that weather tech are already on the list.

I'm going to send aoc a memo telling them that risi are not a fan favourite and there was a reason they were kicked out.
 
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