FIA WEC 2015

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Watching it now :D

Motors TV is on Freeview too for those without Sky although only SD.

If you subscribe to the live streams on the FIAWEC website you get the main live feed plus a load of in-car streams. Main stream quality is very good - noticably higher-def than the SD Motors TV. £4 for today's race.
 
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I paid for the full season pack for the official WEC stream, the quality is tremendous and well worth the extra £5 for le mans from last year. Finally a Le Mans without Eurosport coverage and ads!

The start to this race was epic also!
 
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I think the Eurosport coverage is brilliant for Le Mans. Yeah the ads are annoying but I don't tend to have the free time to watch large chunks of it any more :(.

Some great liveries in all classes except P1. White, white with a bit of black, and white with a bit of blue makes it all look a bit samey. I'll be glad when Nissan rock up and bring in some red.

Wow, that 911 doing both the races this weekend? The 911 RSR really is the work horse of endurance racing!

Someone wake Buemi up!
 
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Is it just me, or does Wurz seem to forget cars are very reliable now and you can push them for six hours with little problem?

Also can't understand why only one Toyota took advantage of FCY.
 
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The fastest lap so far would have been good enough for the top ten in last year's F1 British GP. These cars are within a few seconds of F1 pace and are running for six hours straight.

Add in regulations which has resulted in four major manufacturers all coming at it with totally different hybrid systems, petrol and diesel, no stupid limits on fuel or tyres and wheel-to-wheel racing like we're seeing today and F1 looks like a joke by comparison.

F1 really does look very dull compared to WEC these days.
 
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Certainly does. This has been hours of great racing already. Hopefully this soon takes over as the pinnacle of motorsport, as the racing and innovation proves it is.

Lieb got away with that. :eek:
 
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The fastest lap so far would have been good enough for the top ten in last year's F1 British GP. These cars are within a few seconds of F1 pace and are running for six hours straight.

Add in regulations which has resulted in four major manufacturers all coming at it with totally different hybrid systems, petrol and diesel, no stupid limits on fuel or tyres and wheel-to-wheel racing like we're seeing today and F1 looks like a joke by comparison.

F1 really does look very dull compared to WEC these days.

There's some great noise too!
 
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The fastest lap so far would have been good enough for the top ten in last year's F1 British GP. These cars are within a few seconds of F1 pace and are running for six hours straight.

Add in regulations which has resulted in four major manufacturers all coming at it with totally different hybrid systems, petrol and diesel, no stupid limits on fuel or tyres and wheel-to-wheel racing like we're seeing today and F1 looks like a joke by comparison.

F1 really does look very dull compared to WEC these days.

WEC has very strict rules on fuel and efficiency. You can have drivers deliberately having to slow down to avoid penalties for driving too fast.

But the rules around engines is brilliant.
 
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Fair enough on the fuel.

IMO, endurance racing is the natural home for the innovation of hybrid systems and efficient racing. F1 is a contrived mess with it's one-spec-fits-all engine formula which some muppet seems to think is innovative and saves money.

F1 should be about all-out speed and go back to the good ol' days of naturally aspirated V8/V10/V12s.
 
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F1 has never been about all out speed, and the large capacity NA engines are from an era the world no longer lives in. F1 had to shift, and the direction it went was the right one, but the way they have done it is shockingly poor.

Totally with you in endurance racing being the natural home for hybrid tech however. I remember when Porsche first wheeled out that 911 RSR Hybrid with the flywheel in it, and nearly won the N24 because the spinning lump of metal in the passenger seat meant they could go 1 lap further on the same amount of fuel as their rivals.

F1 tech is impressive. They are faster than before and are using 30% less fuel. The problem is nobody knows it. The sport is almost embarrassed about it. WEC on the other hand has bolted it's hybrid tech right at the forefront of everything it does so nobody could be in the dark about it.

The funny thing is, nobody is moaning that WEC is rubbish with this tech and should return to it's 'old days' like they are with F1. Instead everyone has embraced it. But they are the same thing! The F1 V6 power unit complies to the ACO regulations. You could bolt a Mercedes F1 engine in the back of a LMP1 chassis and go and win Le Mans. Do you think everyone would tell them its a waste of time and is rubbish and they should have used an NA V12 instead? Of course not, we'd love it!

The technology is not the problem, the way the series its used in promotes it is. WEC is brilliant at it, F1 is awful.
 
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