I love this championship. Why? Amazing racing, GT3-spec cars (the best, in my opinion), the best GT pilots in the world, amazing circuits, huge grids, and all the manufacturers represented! Love it!
I only started watching the Blancpain series about 2 years ago when I was stuck in hospital with nothing else to do... after I watched 1 race I was hooked. Thanks to catchup and RUclips uploads of previous seasons, the following month in hospital flew by. I must watched have watched more than 20 endurance races of 6 or more hours - before this, I had always thought endurance races would be dull to watch and I unfairly judged this kind of motorsport without giving it a chance. With F1 losing its appeal at an ever increasing rate, I’m glad to have found a new sport to get into. I’ve been to a lot of Formula One races all over the world but now it’s lost so much of its buzz that I doubt if I’ll ever go to another - which is a pity but just can’t justify the cost only to watch a race that has a really high chance of being a complete snooze fest. Anyhoo, cheers people 😉✌️
I want to thank everybody behind the Blancpain series for the joy it brings me, all of us. I build me a serious racing simulator (sfx-100) and installed Assetto Corso Competizione, it's a dream come through :-) Looking forward to your guy's coming to the Nurburgring, I will be there.
M3RCATOZ 69 3 years ago a wheel was the best investment I made in gaming. If you play racing games enough and have enough space it’s a no brainer. My TMX pro with shifter was $400 which I sold to my friend. That’d be your entry to sim racing.
@@levengeurmasquedesabbysses6060 Racing in a full motion simulator is amazing. I have been sim racing for 24 year, always great fun. But now when I raced a full hour I'm really done...haha
#72 started P16, a crash and a pit stop at start of the race, managed to get to P1, get the DT Penalty and STILL finish 2nd. I think they are the winner of the weekend, they couldn't do any better. For me
Why did 72 ferrari got a drive through penalty for such a small mistake?!! I understand cars getting DTP for crossing the white line cause it is dangerous... but the same penalty for only lifting a car twice sounds unfair to me both situations are so different and one is a bigger mistake than other, then why they both get same penalty??!!! I know there is a rule for unsafe pit release. But IMO they should remove that rule and stewards should decide the penalty for each incident in pits
The teams decide which car they want to use and nobody picked an american brand. Besides that, Chevy and Ford don't even build GT3 cars, so there wasn't even a choice to begin with.
I'm pretty new to this series and although the racing seems fierce....there seem to be way too many safety cars for overly long periods for fairly minor matters. Kinda kills it a bit for me.
Someone in the live comments said something along the lines of "worst track, no risk whatsoever" as they were all going wide out of t2. Comment aged poorly after the incident later on the same lap hahaha
Garage 59 was running the McLaren switched to Aston Martin (also McLaren has a brand new model 720s gt3) Rowe switched to the Porsche 911 GT3 and remove 2 BMW M6 from the grid.
@@NICK_O2 all the cars have their Evo version or the brand new model. Garage59 choose to trust the aston Martin rather then trow a new 720 in the pack. The play safe rather then risk and gamble
End the stupid safety cars. Just go FCY and let the cars keep the gaps built up in between. Allows the race to go back to green quicker too. What is SRO thinking?
@Todor Samardzhiev You're right, but in many cases they have recovered the cars and cleaned the track under FCY and then deployed a safety car. If they used FCY for smaller incidents and an immediate SC for bigger crashes, it would be ok, but using both every time makes absolutely no sense.
@@theflagstand it does make a bit of sense in that its easier to call out a vsc instead of directly sending out the real sc which would then have to find the leader and so on. Once everythings under control you can either go green again quickly or if the vsc has taken a while bring out the sc to allow the drivers to get their temperatures up again so they dont crash right after the green flag. I also find it a bit weird to watch but you can find logical reasons for it being done that way :D
@@agenthoini They systematically call out a SC after a FCY even if one wasn't needed. That's the real problem. Whenever there's a bigger accident, they deploy the SC right away without a FCY. But when there's a smaller crash or something else that would only require a short-ish FCY, instead of switching the track back to green they bring out a SC. In the process, as said earlier, the key advantages of both FCY and SC are either neglected or erased away.
Can't help but love Bentley's for that reason. Biggest boat of a car in the gt3 class, blunt front end but still whistles around the track with ease. My favorite car in gt3.
While the racing is good and footage production is excellent, the series has some rules and practises that are utterly ridiculous. Firstly, deploying a SC at the end of every FCY is one of the stupidest things ever seen in motorsports. The purpose of a SC is to give the corner workers better time and space to deal woth bigger accidents, not to bunch the cars up. And a bunched-up restart is more dangerous too. They're literally erasing the advantage of using a FCY, so why not deploy a SC right away if they're going to do it anyway? Secondly, the penalties seem to be too harsh. And I'm one of those who have complained about F1 having too small penalties. Finally, according to the announcers, there is a 65-minute stint time limit. It essentially takes one strategy element out and elimimates a possibility of a massive fuel save run. And everything that limits strategy options mostly sucks.
The tight enforcement of rules in sportscar racing is important as there are literal amateurs in the field. If you create an environment where drivers can push their luck with the rules, they keep asking for more and more, leading to nothing ever being penalised. If there's a rule infringement, it is critical to ensure that it is penalised to stop other drivers trying the same thing. The maximum stint length is again because of the AM drivers and ensuring everyone in the team plays their part.
@@amphobius The way I see it, tight and proper rule enforcement doesn't mean you have to have overly harsh penalties even for small infringements. I understand that there are those fundamental infringements which need to be penalised for even harshly to ensure safe racing. But then there are those smaller infringements that mostly cause little harm to anyone. They are sometimes dealt with too harsh penalties. The stewards also need to recognise different kinds of incidents, because you can't give a similar penalty for two incidents caused by different actions. If one of them is caused by pure stupidity and one of them is a true human error and thus mostly a racing incident, giving the same penalty for both is unfair. While I'm not saying this happened in this race, it is a slight issue in sportscar racing as a whole.
I love this championship. Why? Amazing racing, GT3-spec cars (the best, in my opinion), the best GT pilots in the world, amazing circuits, huge grids, and all the manufacturers represented! Love it!
I only started watching the Blancpain series about 2 years ago when I was stuck in hospital with nothing else to do... after I watched 1 race I was hooked. Thanks to catchup and RUclips uploads of previous seasons, the following month in hospital flew by.
I must watched have watched more than 20 endurance races of 6 or more hours - before this, I had always thought endurance races would be dull to watch and I unfairly judged this kind of motorsport without giving it a chance.
With F1 losing its appeal at an ever increasing rate, I’m glad to have found a new sport to get into. I’ve been to a lot of Formula One races all over the world but now it’s lost so much of its buzz that I doubt if I’ll ever go to another - which is a pity but just can’t justify the cost only to watch a race that has a really high chance of being a complete snooze fest.
Anyhoo, cheers people 😉✌️
I want to thank everybody behind the Blancpain series for the joy it brings me, all of us.
I build me a serious racing simulator (sfx-100) and installed Assetto Corso Competizione, it's a dream come through :-)
Looking forward to your guy's coming to the Nurburgring, I will be there.
Race at 6 hours !
What a luck i assume that races are AWSOME man im still on the controller shit............
M3RCATOZ 69 3 years ago a wheel was the best investment I made in gaming. If you play racing games enough and have enough space it’s a no brainer. My TMX pro with shifter was $400 which I sold to my friend. That’d be your entry to sim racing.
@@levengeurmasquedesabbysses6060 Racing in a full motion simulator is amazing. I have been sim racing for 24 year, always great fun. But now when I raced a full hour I'm really done...haha
Always enjoy John and Bruce's commentary throughout these Endurance races.
This race was David and John not Bruce
#72 started P16, a crash and a pit stop at start of the race, managed to get to P1, get the DT Penalty and STILL finish 2nd. I think they are the winner of the weekend, they couldn't do any better. For me
Race start at 29:50
Thanks
Looking for this comment lmao thanks
Why are people going off track?
Great chat. So much moe energy for boatley, furfury, nee-san, nonda, doicheness and oddy.
Glorious racing..glorious part of the world been there many times.
Adjusting mirror at 259 Km/h that guy is crazy
I'm glad you can hear the sounds of the engines in this broadcast!
great race and congratulation Bentley for well earned winning
Epic 6HR race at Paul Ricard.
Great racing.
Why did 72 ferrari got a drive through penalty for such a small mistake?!!
I understand cars getting DTP for crossing the white line cause it is dangerous...
but the same penalty for only lifting a car twice sounds unfair to me
both situations are so different and one is a bigger mistake than other, then why they both get same penalty??!!!
I know there is a rule for unsafe pit release. But IMO they should remove that rule and stewards should decide the penalty for each incident in pits
Chris Buncombe was like blue flags what blue flags? Causing havoc..bunched them up though.
Assetto Corsa Competizion with RTX on
Great race.
**Sven was holding the mirror steady on the straight because it was bouncing so much he couldn't see out of it
This race brought to you by "force majeure". lol.
Palanthis that’s how you spell it lol?
First half? Please
wow i didnt know chris harris drives for garage 59
What's the point first part thank you very much😉
Thanks for stream.
Great race....thankyou SRO...can we get an american made car in there-or what....
The teams decide which car they want to use and nobody picked an american brand. Besides that, Chevy and Ford don't even build GT3 cars, so there wasn't even a choice to begin with.
The blue stripes are to cause epilepsy gz, plant grass or put gravel.
40 mins Safety car and FCY: show the cars on track
after 1 min since green flag: show replays of the start and the crashes
They always show highlights after 1 hour, the state of the race doesn't matter.
Yeah, Good!
How is Chris Goodwin running in Am Class ? Isn't he a Pro ?
72 is the car of the day. The commemtators are all English so they are they only want to talk up Bentley.
Well Bentley pretty much dominated the race so no wonder they wanted to talk about Bentley.
I'm pretty new to this series and although the racing seems fierce....there seem to be way too many safety cars for overly long periods for fairly minor matters. Kinda kills it a bit for me.
Love the racing, but omg please add turf and traps I can't stand the colored lines
Gonna get acc and do all of this
Tbh for gt racing it’s a good track, but for f1 cars it should have stayed a test track
6:30:03 final lap !
Someone in the live comments said something along the lines of "worst track, no risk whatsoever" as they were all going wide out of t2. Comment aged poorly after the incident later on the same lap hahaha
Yes
Umm, can anyone tell how can one find the waiting theme for the stream?
Car 25 defended amazingly from Bentley 108
Guess Who's Back
And?? Who cares kiddo
Can someone explain why Mclaren is not participating and why only one bmw??
Garage 59 was running the McLaren switched to Aston Martin (also McLaren has a brand new model 720s gt3)
Rowe switched to the Porsche 911 GT3 and remove 2 BMW M6 from the grid.
Was the 650s worst than other cars in the grid??
@@NICK_O2 all the cars have their Evo version or the brand new model. Garage59 choose to trust the aston Martin rather then trow a new 720 in the pack. The play safe rather then risk and gamble
Nick86ITA tysm I learned a bit about gt3
Still no corvettes in blancpain GT
Seven or Eight AMGs in the race
Os carros esse ano estão mais lentos de reta lembro q Ano passado eles chegavam a 295 e esse ano estão no máximo 284
25:40 start of race
anyone else find it weird that some are in lambos and ferrari's but other than a cool name it doesn't mean much? That just feels weird.
Penalty #43 Gore!!!
303 error has occord cant find the 1st half
Nice
It's up now
29:50
3:41:00 I shall renew watching from here
they need to run the race earlier
Why?
End the stupid safety cars. Just go FCY and let the cars keep the gaps built up in between. Allows the race to go back to green quicker too. What is SRO thinking?
They've been doing it for a year now and it still doesn't make sense. They're essentially erasing the individual advantages of FCY and SC.
@Todor Samardzhiev You're right, but in many cases they have recovered the cars and cleaned the track under FCY and then deployed a safety car. If they used FCY for smaller incidents and an immediate SC for bigger crashes, it would be ok, but using both every time makes absolutely no sense.
@@theflagstand it does make a bit of sense in that its easier to call out a vsc instead of directly sending out the real sc which would then have to find the leader and so on. Once everythings under control you can either go green again quickly or if the vsc has taken a while bring out the sc to allow the drivers to get their temperatures up again so they dont crash right after the green flag. I also find it a bit weird to watch but you can find logical reasons for it being done that way :D
@@agenthoini They systematically call out a SC after a FCY even if one wasn't needed. That's the real problem.
Whenever there's a bigger accident, they deploy the SC right away without a FCY.
But when there's a smaller crash or something else that would only require a short-ish FCY, instead of switching the track back to green they bring out a SC.
In the process, as said earlier, the key advantages of both FCY and SC are either neglected or erased away.
1:44
Awesome race 😁
The Bentleys look so ugly though 😬😅
Can't help but love Bentley's for that reason. Biggest boat of a car in the gt3 class, blunt front end but still whistles around the track with ease. My favorite car in gt3.
@@samgogo9067 I can't stand them for that reason lol
But still I have respect, as you say, it's super big compared to the others and still fast
Boatley
5:10:00
this championship has very stupid rules
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While the racing is good and footage production is excellent, the series has some rules and practises that are utterly ridiculous.
Firstly, deploying a SC at the end of every FCY is one of the stupidest things ever seen in motorsports. The purpose of a SC is to give the corner workers better time and space to deal woth bigger accidents, not to bunch the cars up. And a bunched-up restart is more dangerous too. They're literally erasing the advantage of using a FCY, so why not deploy a SC right away if they're going to do it anyway?
Secondly, the penalties seem to be too harsh. And I'm one of those who have complained about F1 having too small penalties.
Finally, according to the announcers, there is a 65-minute stint
time limit. It essentially takes one strategy element out and elimimates a possibility of a massive fuel save run. And everything that limits strategy options mostly sucks.
The tight enforcement of rules in sportscar racing is important as there are literal amateurs in the field. If you create an environment where drivers can push their luck with the rules, they keep asking for more and more, leading to nothing ever being penalised.
If there's a rule infringement, it is critical to ensure that it is penalised to stop other drivers trying the same thing.
The maximum stint length is again because of the AM drivers and ensuring everyone in the team plays their part.
That's why Grasser racing went imsa
@@amphobius The way I see it, tight and proper rule enforcement doesn't mean you have to have overly harsh penalties even for small infringements. I understand that there are those fundamental infringements which need to be penalised for even harshly to ensure safe racing. But then there are those smaller infringements that mostly cause little harm to anyone. They are sometimes dealt with too harsh penalties.
The stewards also need to recognise different kinds of incidents, because you can't give a similar penalty for two incidents caused by different actions. If one of them is caused by pure stupidity and one of them is a true human error and thus mostly a racing incident, giving the same penalty for both is unfair. While I'm not saying this happened in this race, it is a slight issue in sportscar racing as a whole.
@@jonathancouch6261 Well they also race in Blancpain, what's your point?
Mending rakit pc
What a pitiful circuit.
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