IMSA RACING WHY THE SNUB????

I'm sorry but I witnessed  some of the BEST side by side  yesterday ...........why the crickets from the HIVE???

I'm following bicycle racing, F1, and Formula E this year. I like endurance racing but the calendar fills up pretty quickly. No snub though.

because there's a pandemic going on, so sports and racing is near the bottom of the list for many of us.

 I DVR'd yesterday's race but have not had a chance to watch it yet. I am looking forward to it now.

I'll get out of here before any spoilers.

I could not find it on TV. Our NBC wasn't airing it that I found. I wish I could have watched.

I've been trying to find racing on TV.  And I ask- what race?  IMSA is doing a poor job getting the word out, seems to me.  I even saw the end of the boring NASCAR race...  

For y'all that missed it, IMSA's youtube channel will have the full race up in a few days.  Right now there's a highlight reel.

I'm a Mazda fan, but that was some great driving by Helio Castroneves in the Acura.

Not interested in motorsports I'm not competing in.

I found it on yesterday by accident flipping through the channels during a commercial break, and watched about half of it. What I saw was pretty good. I had no idea it was going to be on regular tv.

Unless they are battling it out like the Touring Car Masters series, watching racing puts me to sleep.

Even the highlites video was meh.

It was a pretty fun ending! Nice driving by Helio. Seemed like Jarvis made a mistake by staying out no?

SPOILER ALERT.  Mazda blew it on pit strategy.  Cadillac guessed right and won.  I was pretty disappointed in the end which was mostly follow the leader in the wet after the delay, but at least it wasn't predictable.

It was fun to watch them run at a track I know pretty well. 

I think it is crazy that IMSA won't put out a caution when a rainstorm comes. They wait until cars crash and THEN throw the inevitable full course yellow. Or, in this case, the red flag.  Seems like it would be safer and cheaper for everyone to put out the yellow as soon as the cloudburst arrives, and let everyone pit for rain tires.

759NRNG (Forum Partidario) said:

I'm sorry but I witnessed  some of the BEST side by side  yesterday ...........why the crickets from the HIVE???

My bad, guess I should have piped up.  Road America is my home track. I had a golf cart reserved, camping and everything all set up back in February.  But COVID screwed it up and my work schedule changed unavoidably meaning I had to miss it live.  Was able to live stream it in the office though.  Enough bitching I suppose...

The race was great.  Corvette with the P1 and P2 finish in GTLM, but ONLY because of sheer luck that the 911 and BMW ate it on the last lap.  Chevy should be thanking Mother Nature for that one.  Lot of action those last 30 minutes for sure.

I love the 911 and 912 RSRs but GTD is the group I follow more.  I split between rooting for Porsche (usually Pfaff or Dempsey-Proton depending on the race) and rooting for Turner Motorsport BMW because I have a BMW track project and my personal dream car is a 911 GT3.

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Come on man.  That's like saying "I'm not interested in cars I don't own."  Or, maybe you're not.  But really?

Danny Shields (Forum Supporter) said:

I think it is crazy that IMSA won't put out a caution when a rainstorm comes. They wait until cars crash and THEN throw the inevitable full course yellow. Or, in this case, the red flag.  Seems like it would be safer and cheaper for everyone to put out the yellow as soon as the cloudburst arrives, and let everyone pit for rain tires.

One of the many things I love about IMSA versus other racing groups/series is that they run rain or shine unless there's just too much standing water.  Makes strategy more important, and a lot more driver skill and thoughtfulness is required in inclement weather.  You want to see some awesome weather patterns in a race, check out the 6 Hours of Spa in 2019 (FIA World Endurance Championship race).  They had sun, rain, sleet and snow all in one six hour race.

Matt330LS said:

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Come on man.  That's like saying "I'm not interested in cars I don't own."  Or, maybe you're not.  But really?

Pretty much. I don't enjoy going to car shows and looking at other people's cars or watching motorsports I'm not involved with either racing or crewing. Just can't get into it. 

Matt330LS said:

Danny Shields (Forum Supporter) said:

I think it is crazy that IMSA won't put out a caution when a rainstorm comes. They wait until cars crash and THEN throw the inevitable full course yellow. Or, in this case, the red flag.  Seems like it would be safer and cheaper for everyone to put out the yellow as soon as the cloudburst arrives, and let everyone pit for rain tires.

One of the many things I love about IMSA versus other racing groups/series is that they run rain or shine unless there's just too much standing water.  Makes strategy more important, and a lot more driver skill and thoughtfulness is required in inclement weather.  You want to see some awesome weather patterns in a race, check out the 6 Hours of Spa in 2019 (FIA World Endurance Championship race).  They had sun, rain, sleet and snow all in one six hour race.

Formula 1, MotoGP, etc. 

F1 will sometimes start behind the pace car under yellow to help get some water off the track so they can go racing.

I don't watch many motorsports, honestly. The only ones I watch avidly are Formula Drift and Drift Masters European Championship. NASCAR, F1, NHRA, IMSA, SCCA, FIA, don't pay any attention to any of those. I find the SCORE stuff fun when I stumble across it.

Matt330LS said:

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Come on man.  That's like saying "I'm not interested in cars I don't own."  Or, maybe you're not.  But really?

A general "why u no talking about this" came up, I supplied a requested answer.

I'm not interested in cars I will never own, either.

On Saturday afternoon I was working on the RV and thought it might be nice to put the race on, turn up the AC, have a beer, and take a little break.  But in order to watch the race live, you apparently have to pay more money to NBC Sports and buy their "track pass" or gold package or some other crap.  Since I'm already paying a small fortune each month for cable TV that includes a sports package (that includes NBCSN), I'm not about to pay them even more money.  And, yeah, I know the race was re-broadcast the next day but I really don't like to watch replays of sporting events.  Invariably, I will find out some bit of information about the race which will ruin the suspense or give away the winner.

IMSA puts on a great show and I enjoy watching it, but they make it so damned hard to do so.

you guys got cable TV?

that takes away from garage time. 

In reply to jwagner (Forum Supporter) :

Mazda thought they might as well gamble on the race not restarting than lose position in the pit and have to make it back on a wet track in a few minutes.

I watched most of the race and it was on my local NBC station although I get it via my cable service and not off the antenna. I'm in Chicago so RA is sort of one of my home tracks.  The only thing about IMSA is that they have 4 classes running at the same time and it's hard to follow each "race within a race" unless the broadcast team shows those races and reports on them, other than the lead class that is.

Having raced at RA it can be tricky in the rain since it almost always gets wet on only part of the track at first and it can catch some drivers by surprise. That being said I still don't see why they red flagged the race. The track had standing water in parts but that's racing. Pit and take on rain tires as some teams did early on before the red flag.

I probably would have watched if I hadn't been driving all day to Arizona....