Discussing Real-Life Motorsports - 2019 - 2020 - 2021

It's on - the 2020 Spa 24 with 56 GT3 cars!

 

I wish ACC treated track limits the same way.

 

Surprisingly the Spa 24hrs is on the Sky F1 channel for people that have it.

 

Did someone know where can i watch the last 3-2 hours if the Spa 24 hours. I was not able to watch the end of the race. And it seems a things happens during thoses few hours.

 

I don't know why I didn't do this before now, but I caught one of the GTWorld onboard videos last night on Youtube and I felt nearly exhausted watching it. No commentary, no commercials, no external shots to minimize the scale of the action, just good solid fighting as seen from the passenger's seat. I really don't know that I'll enjoy traditional race coverage from now on...!

Check that channel out @lordpatou; they have multiple streams from each race including the entire 24hr coverage.

 

Full 24h video will be available at official YouTube channel of GTWC, as mentioned eracerhead above. However they still not uploaded it, hopefully it will be there in few days

 

My mistake; watched the 24hr stream live but didn't realize they hadn't uploaded it yet.

 

https://www.evo.co.uk/bentley/conti...r8rb9reqpCQY9mbYBiGCw7ewYK8EHB6SLThBdquo9HBhs

 

GTWC finally published “full “ video from 24H Spa. Unfortunately part 1 is missing , so hopefully they upload it (but I think that they had some technical issue and part 1 is lost - in live stream was impossible to rewind to race start after two hours).

part 2


Part 3

 

Finaly i will be able to watch the end of the race .

 

Ok, here is also part 1

 

Good race at Paul Ricard for the 1000Km which concluded the GTWC Europe.

Spoiler

And wow Ferrari won the title with the 488! Great job and great strategy!

 

lol, Timur Boguslavskiy 2020 Champion.
A midfield driver (...to be gentle...) miles and miles behind the real fast guys, what a shame.
The championship, with this regulations and in this format, is a complete joke.

 

I don't think individual championship standings are what really matters in competitions that have multiple drivers per car. And also this year has been particularly special due to the Covid, the compressed calendar has prevented some drivers to attend all events.

GT championships are more about teams and manufacturers than about individual drivers, this is not a driver ego fest like Formula 1

 

Racing is always about driver ego, why do you think each single driver is running for?

The real problem is, in all honestly, that GTWC right now is a minor championship with almost no importance for any top GT driver.
Otherwise i don't see why a championship couldn't care about drivers, but only about teams and manufactures.

Look what happens with fastest guys (Marciello, all F.F.F team, ecc...). Many of them prefer runs other series or other single races when they are in the same GTWC's weeckend, and this happens often thinking how many GT championships (GTE, GT3, GTD) runs all orund the world.
Marciello for example is Bugoslavskiy's teammate. He score less championship points because 1 month ago (...about...) in the same weeckend he prefer runs the Nurb 24h rather than GTWC race.
That means, he prefer runs and hopefulyy wins a single race rather than to have the possibility to win the GTWC championsip.

 

There's something you shouldn't forget when you talk about GTWC: it's customer racing.

Boguslavskiy wins the overall championship because he drives in both championships, and although I don't have the number in mind, there are many who do both. Also, you shouldn't forget that he pays to ride for a team like AKKA-ASP and to be with drivers like Fraga or Marciello. Jérôme Policand has explained it several times, without drivers like him (or Meadows in the past), he can't align his top car with Marciello because it's always the same question, who pays?

It's Mercedes who forced these drivers to be at 100% at the 24h of the Nürburgring (unlike the Audi drivers). And, yes, for a German manufacturer, the 24h of the Nürburgring are more important than a GTWC title (and anyway, they are still represented by the crew) since they are more known to the general public.

 

https://www.gt-world-challenge-euro...akes-up-new-challenge-in-australian-gt-racing

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