IMSA Race 2024 Daytona 24Hr or ~ 6 Daytona 500s including stages

[Adam43]

Originally Posted by belt driven

That was my complaint on NBC Sports Gold/IMSA. livescoring.us is damn near real time. I watched the start of Petit '18 from outside T1 entry and livescoring showed green within 50 yards of actual green flag. It only takes a few seconds for Hindy to see feeds and send us his hyperactive observations. NBC streams were over 50 seconds behind!

There isn’t anything that can realistically be done about this. Nor is it really anything that NBC or the race series can be blamed for.

The buffering and delivery will always have different lags. Not least because of the differing amount of data in each.
It is potentially as much down to your set up as the rest of the process.

For years we’ve been syncing timing, radio and TV. Radio Le Mans giving count downs so you can sync with the pictures! You’ve got it easy because you are just dealing with timing and one source of media.

Use Timing71 and you can delay the timing. It’s ace.

The only way to get truly live is to be there. Actually it’s not even live then due to the processing time of your brain. But that’s a different, albeit interesting, discussion on what is now.

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by belt driven

I go cold turkey on racing over the winter ; so apologies for dumb questions.

What did Shank do to cheat? I was a fan all the way back to Rolex/Grand Am. He was the only one to field 2 cars full seasons.

What happened to #5? Crashed, DNQ/will not start? Start from pits?

Understand Lambo has homologation commitments for WEC, but why no Ferrari GTP? So many roundballers and pop stars they don't need no stinking race publicity to sell cars in the US?

Originally Posted by joeb

Shank adjusted tire pressures out of the regulations and hid the data stream from Imsa at last Daytona. This allowed them to be great on restarts and smoke the field eventually winning.

Yes the 5 Porsche crashed in practice and wasn't repaired in time.

Shank did a bit more than adjusted, they literally changed the system coding to reflect proper pressure when they ran well below Michelin minimum pressures all Rolex weekend and only HPD tearing down the car found it and turned their partner team in to IMSA

No Ferrari cause Ferrari claims 1 the car is too tough for anyone but factory to run, 2 they can't build any more, 3 to prove 2 wrong, they are building a Corsa Clienti non-race version of the car for sale. Plus they got what they wanted with their LM24 win last season. I doubt we will see any of the Hypercar reg based cars other than the hopeful Aston Martin program enter IMSA. I guess MAYBE Toyota with a Lexus program but is there much to gain for them there. They have the Lexus GT3 and the new car coming with the GT4 Supra and then NASCAR and NHRA running as well for US sales.

[tomcug]

IMSA "We will have total coverage of the record breaking lap out soon!"
I hope this means an onboard of Derani's lap.

[Adam43]

Porsche repairs are progressing:
https://www.dailysportscar.com/2024/...l-rebuild.html

[stuart thompson]

Latest BoP figures are out, once again Lexus are exempt ��

[broadrun96]

Lexus eats the f out of its tires though, they drop back longer it goes.

Looks like Ford haven't really used their cars and playing it like the GT again. Otherwise why would IMSA give them a few bricks to carry, Porsche got an extra brick too. They just went down the paddock to get them from Aston and McLaren who lost some. MB got weight break, power and wing.

And everyone on FB IMSA page thinks it's more NASCAR loves Toyota but can't even name the car so that's great engagement there IMSA.

[joeb]

This is the table with all the fun bits. And yes there is a different thread to discuss bop in all its glory but this is fine here:

[joeb]

I added the Andy Blackmore Guide to the opening post and here:

https://spotterguides.com/wp-content..._ONLINE_V1.pdf

[joeb]

Opening practice has started!

https://livetiming.alkamelsystems.com/imsa/

[joeb]

Legge has been pedaling that Acura, leading all GTs so far.

[broadrun96]

Ford at the rear to cry poverty are they?

[joeb]

Just looking at weather again for the weekend. Potential for fog is there, and we have seen some extended yellows or red flags in past years with fog. Hope that doesn't happen this year.

[joeb]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

Ford at the rear to cry poverty are they?

trying to keep the corvettes company it seems

[joeb]

The film car is out on track for this practice - the GT3 Porsche not the Lola it seems

[joeb]

Dixon tops De Phillipi for GTP while the APR team leads LMP2 and Gradient Acura stayed atop the charts in GTD for the entire session with an early lap from Legge. Lexus fastest in Pro.

[joeb]

Practice 2 is now live with an LMP2 and GTD only portion to open but strangely not only open to the AMs?

[joeb]

Some random guy named Alex topped the timetables in FP2 with a 1:35.589. Indycar guys got a lot of seat time at the end of session.

[tomcug]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obSyiopnH3E
New video from Lanky Turtle.

[Adam43]

The man knows how to shoot video

Practice 3 is red flagged. Riley LMP2 stopped. Don’t know why only looking at the race control messages. Gone green now, short stoppage.

[E.B]

Originally Posted by Adam43

The man knows how to shoot video

Practice 3 is red flagged. Riley LMP2 stopped. Don’t know why only looking at the race control messages. Gone green now, short stoppage.

Puncture for the #74 Riley. .

[Adam43]

Thanks.

[seanyb505]

It'll take a few seconds to remember that's an oreca, and not the 2017 Riley

[joeb]

Originally Posted by Adam43

The man knows how to shoot video

Practice 3 is red flagged. Riley LMP2 stopped. Don’t know why only looking at the race control messages. Gone green now, short stoppage.

I don't want to say this, but there have been no major incidents for anybody in practice this week and with just one more session this morning, we may actually get all cars to the start!

[joeb]

Green flag just dropped on last practice before the main event. Lets hope we get through this uneventful.

[joeb]

Joe is interviewing Wayne Taylor on IMSA Radio and he sounds like they have already lost. Doesn't seem to think the Acura has the speed to compete with the other GTP cars. Mentioned that they could get lapped. Sounds a little dramatic to me, it is a long race with a lot of yellows coming, and conditions will be changing and who knows what will happen to the setup of all the cars.