2021 World Endurance Championship (WEC)

[Jonny69]

Posting this for reference and to open the discussion, so apologies in advance for the badly constructed post. Also last-minute heads up because it's 6 Hours of Spa this weekend.

Round/race/date/start time
1 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, 1 May, 12:30 UK time
2 8 Hours of Portimão, 13 June, 11:00
3 6 Hours of Monza, 18 July, 11:00
4 24 Hours of Le Mans, 21–22 August, 15:00
5 6 Hours of Fuji, 26 September, 03:00
6 8 Hours of Bahrain, 20 November, 11:00

There are quali sessions for all of these in the preceding days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_FIA_World_Endurance_Championship

https://www.fiawec.com/en/season/about

Don't forget Hypercar replaces LMP1 this year: https://www.fiawec.com/en/hypercar/27

Haven't checked where you can watch live yet, but the usual suspects are Eurosport and the FIA WEC app: https://www.fiawec.com/en/official-fia-wec-app/45

Seem to remember the shorter races aren't always paywalled and you may be able to watch legitimately on YouTube - but check first.

You can listen live as usual with Radio Le Mans: http://www.radiolemans.co/

(Note: you've now got to disable your adblocker to get the listen live button to appear)

Will probably start a separate thread for Le Mans in August and sort out all the home resources for watching that race.

 

[Alibaba99]

There's already grumblings that the gimped LMP2s from last year are faster than the Hypercars, not that the top class is full of quality. Two Toyotas and a Grandfathered LMP1 from last year with the Scuderia Glickenhaus cars absent.

 

[Jonny69]

Nearly forgot about this in the end, having gone to the effort of making note of all the race dates!

Le Mans this weekend. I don’t think I’m going to get a chance to post the resources like normal. If you do a search for previous years Le Mans races on here, you should find most of what you need.

 

[Jonny69]

Probably everything you need is here: http://www.dailysportscar.com/2021/08/19/how-to-follow-the-2021-24-hours-of-le-mans.html

 

[Ceryndrion]

ahhh rain.. always good for an interesting start to a race..

 

[Housey]

It does annoy me that I pay for Eurosport and seem to be getting adverts every 10 minutes. Anywhere else I can pay for a better steam without Eurosport crap?

 

[Ceryndrion]

Personally I just pay the ten euros for the fiawec stream.

 

[kaiowas]

Personally I just pay the ten euros for the fiawec stream.

Who’s doing the commentary on the WEC stream? If it’s the RLM guys I could be tempted. Combination of the Eurosport commentators and regular ad breaks are making it difficult for me to really get into this race

 

[Ceryndrion]

Martin Haven, David Addison and Graham Goodwin and features expert analysis from Allan McNish, Oliver Gavin and Darren Turner plus pitlane reporters Louise Beckett and Duncan Vincent.

Of course, you can always mute it and have RLM playing.

 

[Ceryndrion]

the word.. Ouchie springs to mind.. what a mess

 

[pimper]

It does annoy me that I pay for Eurosport and seem to be getting adverts every 10 minutes. Anywhere else I can pay for a better steam without Eurosport crap?

As already mentioned, get the WEC stream. Its about a tenner and its a lot better, mute and put RLM on for a great stream and great commentary.

 

[KiNgPiN83]

If you have Amazon Prime you get the Eurosport feed on there. Doesn’t feel as every ridden as normal there but it could be me just not noticing them…

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

I paid the price on the app to watch, and really think it is worth the money for me. Works with no VPN in China, and is a pretty solid app.
Watched the first 2 hours and then needed to sleep, woke up early and it'll just a solid constant watch.
I love the 24 hours races.

 

[SoliD]

Started watching about 8pm last night and tried to catch up. That start hour was just insane, don't remember one like it, and then the sprinkling at dusk caused more carnage. Seemed some ridiculously stupid accidents at both points.

Been keeping eye on what's going on, and just hearing the Toyota has a gearbox issue and the mist and rain looks impending! Could cause yet more headaches for all the teams.

 

[Greboth]

Will paying for the WEC Stream give access to highlights? If not, does anyone know where will show highlights? As I caught the first 8 hours but sleep and plans today means I’ve missed the rest.

 

[NutritioN]

I've always gone to YouTube. They have a channel that does regular highlights as the race progresses.

https://youtube.com/c/24heuresdumans

But I'm there this year

 

[chrismscotland]

As usual a great race but such a shame for the Kubica & Co crew in the WRT