Thank you
@twitcher and
@Roo very much! Thanks to your help, I’ve come across probably a 100+ hrs of racing to catch up and subscribed to a few channels to hopefully stay up to date.
I’m in Canada so I may not be able to see that Petit Le Mans live, but I’ll try to find it. Thanks again!
Some more stuff I forgot
Regarding IMSA, I’m in Canada too, so their official stream is geo-blocked for me as well (that’s new for this year, and it’s bitterly disappointing). There’s a couple options available. For the Daytona 24hr and Sebring 12hr, I was able to find streams on TwitchTV. I had to switch steams a couple of times as they got taken down or went offline, but was able to watch most of the races live.
The other option, and this applies to more than just IMSA, but rather any series that uses geo-blocking (DTM does this sometimes for some reason), is you can get yourself a VPN, which will trick the geo-blocker into thinking you’re from a different area. I don’t have a VPN myself, never used one, but I do know people use them to get around geo-blocking of various streams.
Third option for IMSA is like I said before, just keep yourself in the dark regarding results, and just watch the race a week later, on your own time. Remember, Petit Le Mans is a 10 hour race...I doubt you’ll be able to sit through the entire thing. I find it much nicer to watch long enduros when I can pause them, watch them in chunks. The only endurance races I usually watch live are D24, Le Mans 24, Sebring 12, and sometimes Bathurst 12 (just because they happen in “off season”, and it’s tough to stay in the dark regarding results. Le Mans isn’t off season, but good luck avoiding spoilers).
I forgot to mention before, but if you like Prototype and sportscar racing (like IMSA and WEC), you can watch European Le Mans and Asian Le Mans series on YouTube, on official channels. Those races usually get uploaded a day or two after the race happens.
An additional resource that is handy to have is the calendar on Motorsport.com
https://www.motorsport.com/all/schedule/upcoming/
The website itself is nothing more than a motorsport tabloid, it’s decent if not usually slightly behind with “breaking news”, but most of the articles are recycled click bait trying to make mountains out of molehills. The calendar though, is super handy to keep track of everything that’s happening in the racing world. On any given weekend, there’s usually something going on, and most weekends from April through October, there’s dozens of races each weekend.
The other place I use to keep tabs of various series’s schedules is wikipedia. Just google search “series name + current year + wiki”. I like using Wikipedia because it’s the same format for every series, no need to navigate a graphically intense and complicated website for each different series. Just be aware that people keep the wiki pages pretty up to date, so there can be spoilers (sometimes, they’ll list results with the calendar).
If you enjoy vintage racing, search for Goodwood on YouTube. Most people know about the hillclimb event, but some don’t know that they also do circuit racing there...on the same track that we have in GTS. There’s all kinds of categories of cars, everything from pre-war to 60s and 70s GT, like this
RAC TT
St Mary’s Trophy highlights (these are professional drivers)
S.F. Edge Trophy (one of the best races you’ll ever see)
If you like production car racing, search Australia Improved Production on YouTube, you should find a bunch of races from that category. Not sure if you can find full seasons or not. I haven’t watched any from this year yet (that’s off season material
), but the last couple of years there was this kid named Jordan Cox driving an EG Civic pulling off some of the craziest overtakes I’ve ever seen. He’s racing in TCR Australia now, so not sure if he’s still doing IP.
As for Twitter, a few recommendations.
Most F1 drivers don’t run their own accounts, not worth following. Lando Norris on the other hand, runs his own account and is genuinely hilarious. He’s called the meme lord of F1 for good reason
. Carlos Sainz Jr is pretty good too.
For F1 related content, Will Buxton is my favourite. He shares lots of stuff, doesn’t just copy/paste headlines from news sites (does some of this, but not limited to just this), and has open conversations with both fans and drivers about all kinds of racing related topics. Not an “F1 elitist”, which I also like. The other F1 related account worth following is WTF1. It’s mostly just memes and banter, but it’s good fun. They also make content on YouTube. Oh, and Günther Steiner lmao. It’s not run by the real person, it’s a parody account, but it’s really funny (and the real Günther thinks is hilarious too). Well worth the follow.
For Indycar and IMSA news and info, Marshal Pruett is the best. Paul Tracy is active on Twitter as well, not super entertaining or anything, but good insight, and he asks a lot of open questions that spark good conversation. For current drivers, Alexandre Rossi and Graham Rahal are probably the most active, followed by Hinchcliffe, and a few others. Rossi and Hinch post some pretty funny stuff sometimes. Pipo Dirani is pretty active too, but a lot of his stuff is in Spanish. Lastly, and this one is a must follow, is Jordan Taylor. The guy is hilarious, and his alter ego Rodney Sandstorm is even funnier. Shae Adam (pit lane reporter for Radio Le Mans) is pretty good too, good insight and she’ll actually have a conversation with you.
For European and Asian sportscar related news, Graham Goodwin is my go-to. A lot like Will and Marshal, super insightful, but down to earth and personable.
