jcsperson

It was working earlier. There are blank spaces where other feeds used to be.

sdurg24

You are absolutely right. The coverage is designed for the announcers not the viewers. Why have interviews during a race and miss all the action? I am always wondering what is going on. If you really want to hear something truly stupid, listen to the radio broadcast. Because they have such little regard for the listener they can't seem to do a play by play broadcast even though there are multiple classes to keep the listener informed. I'm sitting at the race and don't get told of
Most passes even though passes are relatively rare and I can't see them from the Corvette Corral. Really pathetic.

Z06Ronald

Source: www.facebook.com/EnduranceRacingFans/photos/a.614888808550851.1073741836.40634821940 4912/912932188746510/


http://www.larbre-competition.com/

jcsperson

Fox Sports 1 will be showing the WEC Six Hours of Silverstone from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm Eastern Time on Sunday.

FIA WEC heads to Silverstone; full six hours to be broadcast on FOX Sports 1

cor123

The month of April is upon us, which means only one thing: Its time to go racing! After a busy off season, all the hard work and preparation has lead to this weekends kickoff of the FIA World Endurance Championship (or FIA WEC for short). Several of the Worlds top makes will take to the track in anger at the Silverstone circuit in England. Returning again for this year is a familiar face in the GTE-AM category, with the French squad of Larbre Competition. After a very successful campaign with a brace of C6R GTE machines (including victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans), the team return with a brand new "V8 beast": The C7.R.

To read the full article please visit:

http://corvettemotorsport.com/news/f...ne-preview-662


Sat 11th April - Qualifying LMGTE-7:00 am EDT

Sun 12th April - Race- 7:00 am EDT

Live coverage for this weekends event can be viewed at www.corvettemotorsport.com | www.fiawec.com as well as on twitter at: @Corvettems

sea six

Great information, I will be up and watching 👍

jcsperson

I was very surprised by the small size of the field and the lack of a real crowd. It almost looked like a made-for-TV sort of thing.

cor123

They seemed happy at a crowd of 45,000 !

RX-Ben

I don't think the WEC has seen large attendance anywhere yet, but if they keep this up, people will realize this is Group C reincarnated. They appear to be doing something right, with 6 ultra-high tech cars able to win P1 on any given weekend. And, they visit a number of non-Tilke tracks, which is a huge plus.

sea six

Looked but didn't see the live broadcast of this weekend race! I see the taped race on fox but it's only 2 hours👎

jcsperson

They must've been disguised as empty seats. They weren't conspicuous at all on screen as the cameras followed the cars circulating the track.

cor123

Tequila Patrón Sports Car Showcase At Long Beach

April 17-18, 2015
Long Beach, CA


April 17, 2015 Qualiyfing -

(GTLM) 8:30 PM - 8:45 PM ET
(P) 8:55 PM-9:10 PM ET

Race and Television Broadcast:

Saturday, April 18, 2015 Online Coverage
IMSA.com (includes live images, in-car cameras and announcers)
http://www.imsa.com/

07:05-08:45 PM ET


Sunday, April 19, 2015 TV Broadcast Tape Delayed
04:00-06: PM ET Fox Sports 1


Onboard cameras:
http://www.foxsports.com/motor/tudor-live-stream

http://www.imsa.com/camera/united-sp...r/race-central


LIVE TIMING:
http://scoring.imsa.com/

Live Timing for mobile device:
http://scoring.imsa.com/mobile.html

Radio:
1) Streaming on IMSA TV on IMSA.com & RadioLeMans.com

PIT NOTES:
https://twitter.com/search?q=IMSA

http://twitter.com/ @CorvetteRacing, @UnitedSportsCar, @IMSA, @IMSAlive, @DISupdates, @Rolex24Hours

TICKET INFO:
http://www.imsa.com/sites/default/fi...al%20Flyer.pdf

Event Schedule:
http://www.imsa.com/sites/default/fi...20Schedule.pdf

Spotters Guide:
http://www.spotterguides.com/

Entry List:
Not listed yet

Track Map:

http://www.gplb.com/circuit-map/

WEATHER:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/recre.../weekend/90806

Hotels:
http://www.hotelplanner.com/Hotels/1...-Prix#navPanel

Fan Guide:
http://www.gplb.com/fan-guide-download/

Corvette Corral:
https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hp...11&oe=55DEEA12

cor123

CORVETTE RACING AT LONG BEACH: Riding Momentum Out West

Two victories in last four years on southern California street circuit



· 2014 winners Garcia, Magnussen coming off Daytona-Sebring double victories

· Gavin, Milner victorious at Long Beach in 2012

· Chevrolet, Corvette Racing early GTLM leaders in TUDOR Championship



DETROIT (April 14, 2015) – Following the two longest races on the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship schedule, Corvette Racing heads to the Long Beach street circuit for the shortest race of the season. The Tequila Patrón Sports Car Showcase at Long Beach is the third and shortest race on the TUDOR Championship schedule, and it historically has been good to Corvette Racing.



The two-car team will go for its sixth victory at Long Beach since 2007 and second in a row. All four Corvette drivers have won on the 11-turn, 1.968-mile street circuit: Oliver Gavin (2007, 2009, 2012), Jan Magnussen (2008, 2014), Tommy Milner (2012) and Antonio Garcia (2014).



Last year’s victory was the first for the Chevrolet Corvette C7.R, which went on to win four times in the GT Le Mans (GTLM) class. Magnussen claimed pole position, and he and Garcia never trailed. As in 2014, the field will be comprised of cars from the Prototype and GTLM categories.



Garcia and Magnussen will drive the No. 3 Corvette C7.R with Gavin and Milner sharing the No. 4 Corvette C7.R.



At 100 minutes, the Long Beach event is a true sprint race. With a minimum drive time of just 35 minutes, the race likely will involve just one pit stop and driver change. As a result strategy and timing is a key. Those two factors have served Corvette Racing well so far in 2015.



Both Corvettes placed on the GTLM podium in the Rolex 24 At Daytona to open the season with Garcia, Magnussen and Ryan Briscoe winning by less than a half-second while Gavin, Milner and Verizon IndyCar star Simon Pagenaud placed third.



The most recent TUDOR Championship race saw Garcia, Magnussen and Briscoe win the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring to become the first trio in 15 years to win there and at Daytona in the same season. As a result, they lead the GTLM Drivers’ championship as does Chevrolet and the No. 3 Corvette C7.R in the Manufacturer and Team standings, respectively.



Not to be outdone, Gavin and Milner have been on the podium two of the last three years at Long Beach and placed third last year. They are tied for sixth in the GTLM standings but just four points out of second position.



The Tequila Patrón Sports Car Showcase at Long Beach, the third race of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, is set for 4:05 p.m. PT on Saturday, April 18 from the Long Beach street circuit. Live coverage begins at 7:05 p.m. ET on IMSA.com with FOX Sports 1 airing the race at 4 p.m. ET. Flag-to-flag radio coverage will be available via IMSA Radio.




ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. 3 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R

“I am looking forward to going back to Long Beach. The last two years have been very good. We’ve been leading or at worst in the top-three. Long Beach seems to suit the Corvette very well. We should be pretty good for the race but so should the other manufacturers. It’s a short race at only 100 minutes. Strategy again will be the key thing as well as getting your full service done as quickly as possible. It will likely be a one-stop race again. It’s very difficult to predict what will happen. You can be aggressive as possible and things could go your way. Or it could be like last year and be a smooth race.”



JAN MAGNUSSEN, NO. 3 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R

“A fast start to the season is a welcomed change for Antonio and I. Obviously after two races things look good for us at Corvette Racing, and we are heading back to a place where we won for the first time in the Corvette C7.R last year. Long Beach is a fantastic place and a great track. I really enjoy street circuits and this is one of the best. The track has a nice flow to it. It’s narrow in some places and wider in others. Staying out of trouble is always important, but it’s even more critical here. The short duration of the race means there isn’t room for mistakes, and if you make one then it’s really hard to recover. The drivers have a difficult task but so do the crews and engineers. This likely will still be a one-stop race, so the strategy along with refueling and changing the tires and driver has to be perfect. Fortunately over the first two races, our stops and strategy have been the best in GTLM. We’re hoping that continues at Long Beach.”



OLIVER GAVIN, NO. 4 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R

“So much of the race will pivot around the pitstop. The performance of the cars is so close that trying to pass will be at a premium, so the only place you’re really going to be able to do it is in the pitlane. The window is really quite narrow. Because of track position, you’re going to want to pit as soon as you possibly can and try to make your fuel last all the way to the end. What it does put a lot of pressure on is making sure that the team executes on the stop and also on the drivers to make the change as fast as we can. Any holdups at all are going to cost you spots. And trying to get those spots back is going to be very hard. I’m sure everyone in the pitlane is going to be very focused on making sure their pitstops are well-drilled – the fueling, the tires and the driver changes.”



TOMMY MILNER, NO. 4 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R

“This is one of those races where you have to grab it by the horns and drive it as hard as you can for the amount of time. Of all the races we do, this has the highest amount of pressure in some ways. You make one mistake and you’re done. You don’t have the opportunity to make time up. At Long Beach, once the race starts, you pretty much feel like you’re at the end and you have to go racing. It’s exciting that way. You can tell everyone is thinking the same way you are. We all know it’s hard to pass there and make things happen. With just one stop, the crew guys know that the pressure is on them. It’s fairly simple in many ways but it’s also supremely detailed in that everything we do – even in practice and qualifying – directly relate to how the race is going to go.”



DOUG FEHAN, CORVETTE RACING PROGRAM MANAGER

“It has been a very good start to the season for Corvette Racing. We benefitted from great strategy at Sebring, and we will need that again to win at Long Beach for the sixth time. This will likely be a one-stop race, so the execution by the engineers, crews and the drivers is paramount. A 100-minute race is a little bit of a different dynamic but it’s great entertainment for the fans and we are looking forward to giving them another great show this weekend.”



Corvette Racing at Long Beach

Year
Class
Drivers
Result
Car
Notes

2007
GT1
Magnussen/O'Connell
2nd
Corvette C6.R
Magnussen fastest race lap

Beretta/Gavin
1st
Corvette C6.R
Gavin pole

2008
GT1
Magnussen/O'Connell
1st
Corvette C6.R
Magnussen pole

Beretta/Gavin
2nd
Corvette C6.R
Gavin fastest race lap

2009
GT1
Magnussen/O'Connell
2nd
Corvette C6.R

Beretta/Gavin
1st
Corvette C6.R
Beretta pole, fastest race lap

2010
GT
O'Connell/Magnussen
2nd
Corvette C6.R

Beretta/Gavin
9th
Corvette C6.R
Gavin fastest race lap

2011
GT
Beretta/Milner
5th
Corvette C6.R

Gavin/Magnussen
2nd
Corvette C6.R
Magnussen fastest race lap

2012
GT
Garcia/Magnussen
4th
Corvette C6.R

Gavin/Milner
1st
Corvette C6.R
Gavin fastest race lap

2013
GT
Garcia/Magnussen
5th
Corvette C6.R

Gavin/Milner
4th
Corvette C6.R
Gavin fastest race lap

2014
GTLM
Garcia/Magnussen
1st
Corvette C7.R
Magnussen pole

Gavin/Milner
3rd
Corvette C7.R
Milner fastest race lap




TUDOR Championship – GTLM Standings

Driver Standings
Team Standings
Manufacturer Standings

1. Ryan Briscoe/Antonio Garcia/Jan Magnussen – 72

2. John Edwards/Jens Klingmann/Lucas Luhr – 58

3. Bill Auberlen/Augusto Farfus/Dirk Werner – 57

4. Giancarlo Fisichella/Pierre Kaffer – 56

5. Wolf Henzler/Patrick Long/Bryan Sellers – 55

6. Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Simon Pagenaud – 54
1. No. 3 Corvette Racing – 72

2. No. 24 BMW Team RLL – 58

3. No. 25 BMW Team RLL – 57

4. No. 62 Risi Competizione – 56

5. No. 17 Team Falken Tire – 55

6. No. 4 Corvette Racing – 54






1. Chevrolet – 70

2. BMW – 60

3. Ferrari – 60

4. Porsche – 60




Tequila Patrón Sports Car Showcase at Long Beach – GT Le Mans (all times PT)

TUDOR Practice 1: 7:45 a.m., Friday, April 17
TUDOR Practice 2: 4:45 p.m., Friday, April 17
TUDOR GTLM Qualifying: 5:30 p.m., Friday, April 17
Race: 4:05 p.m., Saturday, April 18 (IMSA.com)
TV: 4 p.m., Sunday, April 19 (FOX Sports 1)

cor123

GM Press Release




CORVETTE RACING, CORVETTE DP AT LONG BEACH: Pole Position for Ricky Taylor

Corvette DPs take four of top-five overall positions; Magnussen leads Corvette Racing in qualifying



· First Long Beach pole position for Corvette DP

· Wayne Taylor Racing second in last year’s Long Beach race

· Corvette Racing to fight in GTLM from fourth and fifth on grid



LONG BEACH, Calif. (April 17, 2015) – Wayne Taylor Racing’s Ricky Taylor captured his first pole position since 2012 with the fastest qualifying time for the Tequila Patrón Sports Car Showcase following Friday’s qualifying at the Long Beach street circuit. Corvette Daytona Prototypes and Corvette Racing’s two Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs will have fights on their hands for Saturday’s TUDOR United SportsCar Championship’s third round.



Taylor’s best lap of 1:14.790 (94.729 mph) was 0.258 seconds clear of Scott Pruett, the next fastest qualifier. Taylor and brother Jordan were second in last year’s Long Beach race.



“This is really nice,” Ricky Taylor said. “Long Beach is a really special event. It’s only our second year here and there’s already a crowd like I’ve never seen before. It’s a really cool atmosphere. Everyone wants to be on pole and win here.”



In GT Le Mans (GTLM), Jan Magnussen qualified Corvette Racing’s No. 3 Corvette C7.R in the fourth. Last year’s pole-winner bettered that time Friday with a 1:17.739 (91.136 mph) in the car he shares with Antonio Garcia; the duo won last year’s Long Beach in GTLM and lead the TUDOR Championship standings with endurance teammate Ryan Briscoe.



Oliver Gavin qualified right behind Magnussen in the No. 4 Corvette with a lap of 1:17.756 (91.116 mph). The No. 4 crew had to change the nose in the practice immediately following qualifying after a collision with a slow prototype.



Gavin and Tommy Milner were the 2012 GT class winners at Long Beach in the American Le Mans Series.



In the Corvette DP ranks, Christian Fittipaldi led a string of three consecutive Corvette DPs from third to fifth on the Prototype grid. He qualified Action Express Racing’s No. 5 Mustang Sampling Corvette DP with a lap of 1:15.274 (94.120 mph). Fittipaldi and Joao Barbosa lead the TUDOR Championship’s Prototype standings.



Michael Valiante in VisitFlorida.com Racing’s No. 90 Corvette DP was fourth – less than three-tenths of a second behind Fittipaldi. Eric Curran was fifth in Action Express Racing’s No. 31 Whelen Engineering/Team Fox Corvette DP at 1:15.915 (93.325 mph).



The Tequila Patrón Sports Car Showcase at Long Beach, the third race of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, is set for 4:05 p.m. PT on Saturday, April 18 from the Long Beach street circuit. Live coverage begins at 7:05 p.m. ET on IMSA.com with FOX Sports 1 airing the race at 4 p.m. ET. Flag-to-flag radio coverage will be available via IMSA Radio.



CORVETTE DP QUOTES

RICKY TAYLOR, WAYNE TAYLOR RACING NO. 10 KONICA MINOLTA CORVETTE DP – POLE WINNER

“Track position is so important. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a pole. We were really quick and I was fastest in the final practice before qualifying by a little bit. I was making excuses for everyone else saying that we were the only ones on new tires. The car felt good but we were on new tires… just making excuses. Then the car was even better in qualifying and on low fuel. It just got better and better, which really bodes well for the race. It’s all very good and very positive.

“Starting on pole should be really big here. Being only a 100-minute race you think strategy doesn’t come into it but you can do a lot with fuel mileage. It’s hard to be in the lead sometimes. You don’t want to be the one to pit and be the one setting the tone. But I think we have really good guys that have incredIble pit stops all year. We have a lot of people from Konica Minolta here so we really want to do a good job and have a flawless race. We can only do our best. I think we have all the pieces in place.”



CHRISTIAN FITTIPALDI, ACTION EXPRESS RACING NO. 5 MUSTANG SAMPLING CORVETTE DP – QUALFIED THIRD

“We had a good qualifying considering what happened in the previous session. I went a little bit too close and just brushed the wall at Turn 6. We messed up the front suspension so we lost almost three-quarters of the session. The guys did a perfect job. We had what we had in the car. I think I lacked a little bit in the fact that I didn’t run often. I only ran eight or nine laps in the morning session and had the problem in the second session. I went straight into qualifying, and on a street course that’s not the best you can do for yourself. Part of that is me to blame. We’ll take P3. We have a very strong car for the race and a very strong piece. Hopefully Joao and myself can do it tomorrow.”



ERIC CURRAN, ACTION EXPRESS RACING NO. 31 WHELEN ENGINEERING/TEAM FOX CORVETTE DP – QUALIFIED FIFTH

“We had a good run in the Whelen Corvette DP. We’ve been fast all day. Dane was quickest this morning and we were P3 in the next session, so we were hoping for top-three in qualifying but that’s OK. We’ll take it. We keep getting better with this Action Express-prepped Whelen Corvette DP. We’re excited for tomorrow and think we have a good shot at this thing.”



CORVETTE RACING QUOTES

JAN MAGNUSSEN, CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R – QUALIFIED FOURTH IN GTLM

“It was a good lap. This was as fast as we have gone at Long Beach. We improved the car from this last practice to qualifying. It was a good step forward but it wasn’t quite enough in qualifying. We’ll race them tomorrow and see what comes out of that.

“This is more of a sprint race in every sense of the word. It’s one pit stop and the pit stop probably decides who wins. That’s how it usually goes at Long Beach. You need to be in the fight up front for that first pit stop and then you need to nail that pit stop. After that that’s when the real race starts, right after the only pit stop.”



OLIVER GAVIN, NO. 4 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R - QUALIFIED FIFTH IN GTLM

“The session before was mega frustrating for us in the No. 4 Corvette. There were some crazy things happening. It looked like we were getting a good run on a new tire, and coming out of Turn 6 into Turn 8, I’m behind a DP car and he’s braked pretty much at the normal spot and then just continued to brake into the apex. He pretty much parked at the apex and I ran into the back of him. We did some damage to our car and we spent most of the session trying to fix. We we were able to go back out at the end, but the car wasn’t quite right. Trying to get everything sorted before qualifying… I wasn’t very calm before getting back in. It But Chuck (Houghton, No. 4 Corvette C7.R lead engineer) made a good change before the start of qualifying, and the car felt pretty good. I just didn’t quite execute fully on the lap. I think the car is good enough to be third. I feel a little bit frustrated with myself. Could I have done that if I had had better preparation in the session before? Most probably. But we’re fourth and fifth. The lap times are super close. It’s going to be a real street fight tomorrow. The pit stop is going to vital.”



TUDOR Championship – Prototype Standings

Driver Standings
Team Standings
Manufacturer Standings

1. Joao Barbosa/Sebastien Bourdais/Christian Fittipaldi – 69

2. Scott Dixon – 65

3. Mike Rockenfeller/Michael Valiante/Richard Westbrook – 62

4. Dane Cameron/Eric Curran/Max Papis – 56

5. Joey Hand/Scott Pruett – 55

T6. Max Angelelli/Jordan Taylor/Ricky Taylor – 49
1. No. 5 Action Express Racing – 69

2. No. 90 VisitFlorida.com Racing – 62

3. No. 31 Action Express Racing – 56

4. No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing – 55

5. No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing – 49




1. Ford – 67

2. Chevrolet – 67

3. Honda – 58

4. BMW – 58

5. Mazda – 52




TUDOR Championship – GTLM Standings

Driver Standings
Team Standings
Manufacturer Standings

1. Ryan Briscoe/Antonio Garcia/Jan Magnussen – 72

2. John Edwards/Jens Klingmann/Lucas Luhr – 58

3. Bill Auberlen/Augusto Farfus/Dirk Werner – 57

4. Giancarlo Fisichella/Pierre Kaffer – 56

5. Wolf Henzler/Patrick Long/Bryan Sellers – 55

6. Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner/Simon Pagenaud – 54
1. No. 3 Corvette Racing – 72

2. No. 24 BMW Team RLL – 58

3. No. 25 BMW Team RLL – 57

4. No. 62 Risi Competizione – 56

5. No. 17 Team Falken Tire – 55

6. No. 4 Corvette Racing – 54






1. Chevrolet – 70

2. BMW – 60

3. Ferrari – 60

4. Porsche – 60




Tequila Patrón Sports Car Showcase at Long Beach – GT Le Mans (all times PT)

Race: 4:05 p.m., Saturday, April 18 (IMSA.com)
TV: 4 p.m., Sunday, April 19 (FOX Sports 1)

CajundpCorvette

Attended last weekends LBGP and Corvette Corral. Unless he appeared early, Doug Fehan was noticably absent. I was wondering if he was in discussions with the Tudor officials. I later watched the broadcast of the race to review Gavin's first lap incident. One of the broadcasters brought to my attention the fact that both the BMW and Ferrari teams were not only given weight reductions but a new aero package for the upcoming event at Laguna Seca. Just as they did last year, they are basically legislating the race results. After four consecutive victories last year, they suceeded in altering the "rules" to render the Corvette uncompetitive. All in the interest of "parity". Geez, kinda sounds like our government. So much for building a "better mouse trap."

cor123

Doug was there but because of meetings the Corvette corral re-scheduled his seminar to Friday at 9:45 am. He was suppose to give a seminar at 2:15 in the afternoon.

Rumba

The new IMSA management is no better than the old. The amount of spectators Corvette Racing brings to these races far out numbers all the rest combined, I my opinion. Someone needs to get tough. This is BS.

raff

The actual adjustments are here:
http://www.imsa.com/sites/default/fi...20%2315-12.pdf

BMW got a 10 kilo weight reduction

z28lt1

"New" C7.R's for next year, but only minor changes for the rules:

http://sportscar365.com/industry/che...c7-r-for-2016/

Z06Ronald

Quote from Doug Fehan: ' .. if you build something that’s significantly better, they’re just going to throttle it back anyway'.
How true this is!