2024 IMSA Battle On the Bricks at INDY | Full Race | WeatherTech Championship | Indianapolis, IN

[@TheWarjunkie666]

As always @IMSAofficial thank you for the quality live stream and commentary for free.

[@cosmomega]

The GT class ferraris crashing into prototypes trope still lives on

[@ronaldjensen9919]

So, Ferrari F1 strategists are in IMSA now?

[@j.paulm.1575]

@@ronaldjensen9919 No, this is a running joke that's been going on in sports car racing for well over a decade and has nothing to do with F1

[@EdwinWhite-wz7kn]

At 4:55 Race start. 1st caution at 21:35. Restart at 40:00. Second caution flag at 48:15. Restart at 56:35. Third caution flag at 58:39. Green flag at 1:53:05. Fourth caution flag at 3:03:10. Restart at 3:23:15. Fifth caution flag at 3:42:04. Green flag at 3:59:15. Sixth caution flag at 4:50:20. Restart at 5:09:10. Checkered flag at 6:05:50.

[@Vladi306]

My father and I drove out to Indy, from Missouri. We went to the race last year and HAD to come back for this one. I was ecstatic to be saturated in the experience and felt super invested throughout the whole of the 6 hours. Every moment was a blast, even getting rained on. 😂 I felt pretty bad for the Cadillac. I was on the back stretch for about 20 minutes at one point and saw the 01 limping by with a blown-out tire and I could hardly believe it. Even 4 laps down, that thing seemed to be the car to beat, in its class. The whole weekend was the most fun I've had all year. Congrats to AO Racing, going from 1st, to last, to 1st!

[@that_random_goto_statement]

5:54:24, holy sht, the BMW coming from both side

[@Pewnhound112]

TV coverage be like: Showing a pass/battle for the lead ❌ showing a random car in 13th place in class serving a drive-through penalty ✅

[@ibbopaul]

Thank you for the coverage, sadly sometimes the music is too loud and cant hear the lady in the pits talking, but you can work on that.

[@John-jl9de]

10 minutes into the race and their rubbing on each other, awesome racing for every inch, it's brutal out there.

[@ronnysvanmo9133]

Love to hear your voices! Some i have had the privilege to be listing to for nearly +30 years now. The motorsport would´t be great like this with out your empathy. Keep up with your good comments! I love you all. Always love to hear your analysys and comments. BIG LOVE TO YOU AL! From Sweden

[@dylanp9211]

AWESOME RACING 🏁

[@davidsutarik1223]

This race had everything , very entertaining. I hope that IMSA does something with the pit stop procedure. It brings the race to a screeching halt every time. Please work on it IMSA…..

[@realcubeguide]

The 60fps is back!!!!

[@agenthoini]

Wasnt a huge fan of indy getting a 6h race (would much rather see it at road america or canadian tire motorsport park(!)) but gotta say this was a nice one to watch :)

[@mattdamon653]

Thanks IMSA ❤

[@ZeonBarker-Herbert]

Wish Ford did a gtp car, bring back the good old 2014 days

[@Ohtechnik]

Pretty sure Ford supplied the engines, it was Riley who did the prototype.

[@ZeonBarker-Herbert]

@@Ohtechnik that was it I forgot it was them who did the prototype

[@Steve-yr5vi]

10:14 #19 Lamborghini decides to drive off the course to take a position, changes his mind and wrecks a competent driver. As commentator noted it's not the first time by any means, Max isn't quite up to being in this level of racing.

[@markhunt7434]

He's still young so he still got time to improve

[@tescoshortage]

5:40:58

[@DarinGC]

77 was last into pits and first out some how. Thought maybe that was the difference but nobody had anywhere near the pace of the 77 at the end.

[@luissosa7698]

6:04:33 momento en que RLL Y BMW logran salvar el año🥇🥈

[@mangledriffs]

I swear IMSA as a series spends more time under yellow than any other series I watch lol

[@tomm6752]

Of course it does because of bigger grid size and greater discrepancy between drivers given the 4 different classes

[@mcgoo721]

WEC has the same issue too. There's valid reasons as mentioned above, but there's also things they could improve. It'll take them 25 minutes to remove one bumper from the track. They'll bring out a physical safety car every time a VSC is used, negating the use of VSC completely. Multi lap minimums before pit lane opens. Endurance car racing has the most ridiculous, head empty yellow flag procedures in racing.

[@Sp4mMe]

Good thing about watching youtube replays is that you can just skip the yellows. But it still stinks that early leads are basically meaningless. Nasr did great in difficult conditions in the first stint, gaining almost 6 seconds on the field. But you're just sitting there, shrugging your shoulders because you know with 100% certainty that yellows will wipe that lead out. Why even bother ... ? I really hope VSC will be used more in the future. Preserve the gaps!

[@theflagstand]

​@@mcgoo721 tbh I like the "honest" and simple procedure here in imsa, just put the SC out there right away if you're gonna put it out anyway at some at some point. The elms/wec system has so many redundant parts. Also I kinda like the simplicity of not having to wonder if something is worth an fcy or an sc. Though the yellows seem to last too long, but that seems to be an universal american thing bc sro america has a similar issue. It's frankly unvelievable how wec/elms used to have pretty much the best and most efficient system like two years ago and they managed to turn that into pretty much the worst one.

[@torque-drive2488]

I was here gang ----> 👍

[@christreadwell7701]

5:22 GTD Pro GTD START

[@CMH-aviation]

Congrats to JDC on their podium after post race inspections demoted the 6 which is never good to see

[@JoshuaB_offical]

I was there

[@Greenhellfarmhouse]

Love it :)

[@colorado8avalanche]

2:19:56 Whelen Car

[@seneshanujaya9284]

if commentry is a little bit improve this is best as wec ! unfortunately i hear only john hindhaugh 🙁

[@christreadwell7701]

4:25 GTP LMP2 START

[@smartiesnestle6679]

Y is none posting bmws comeback

[@orlandoquirante2157]

The ford 64 driver wbat are you doing

[@Dethmeister]

Timestamp? 64 got second place in GTD Pro.

[@danielvandersall6756]

Sad to see so few people in the stands for this in one of the capitals of Motor Racing. Lived here for many years--it's simple. Go to Long's Bakery as soon as they open, stand in line, get the best donuts on earth (Just basic Yeast, and bring cash.) Then continue to the track. Their update and improvements for the 100th running of the 500 really improved this venue, and it's a nice place to spend a day. One of the Cathedrals of Speed.

[@W123KartSport]

Went to longs race day morning to get my mom some birthday donuts. I flagged and she got to watch the race. As for attendance, the rain scared some people away but it still looked way better than last year. Lots of people hanging out up in the covered stands in oval T1

[@tomm6752]

Did you consider the weather might have something to do with it?

[@danielvandersall6756]

@@W123KartSport Yeah, always a great space to watch. Wife and I would usually try to get into the Penthouse Paddock seats. So nice with the upgrade.

[@danielvandersall6756]

@@tomm6752 I'm sure it did. But I can't tell you how many days I sat in the stands for the 500 watching the rain come down. Heck, most of the stands are covered, at least. IMSA needs a Netflix series...

[@W123KartSport]

@@danielvandersall6756 my mom is a freelance writer and she bartered with a client for a few seats in 1 for payment in 2019. THE BEST SPOT I have ever sat in for a 500. The client's family she wrote has had those tickets since the 30s.

[@haryosoo]

3:03:51 Ferrari moment lol

[@pw_jc]

JG Wentworth cash out award for the first DNF?

[@Dethmeister]

Why does the 24 BMW always have just one nostril lit up in every race?

[@sunnyjay1]

Love the race in challenging conditions! I just wish the lead announcer didn't feel compelled to babble incessantly! He announces as if he was on the radio, ie "no dead air", and has awkwardly fumbled for irrelevant or the obviously observable .... remember... this is tele VISION!

[@Dethmeister]

It is primarily a radio broadcast for Radio Le Mans. They just put it over the video feed.

[@Illuminacent]

Forza lobby at its finest

[@clubbusiness0718]

bmw the power

[@endimious]

There in no energy being filled in to the cars why you keep talking about energy... yes it is a splash of fuel and that is it.

[@OsellaSquadraCorse]

Science!! Fuel is converted to energy. So yes, they are being filled with a value of energy.

[@smartiesnestle6679]

BBBMMMWW

[@paulgering7703]

I’m sorry, but I just don’t like this track. I don’t think it’s suitable for endurance racing.

[@mcgoo721]

This should be the 24hr race honestly. Daytona's layout is the most boring, hard on the eyes track I've ever seen. Including Sochi.

[@theflagstand]

idk I prefer daytona by far

[@zacklewis342]

I love the Daytona banking and long high speed runs.

[@mcgoo721]

@@zacklewis342 I think it might be a decent sprint/2hr event. The banking is kind of cool for an hour but then you realize it's just a straight. Like le mans isn't the most complex, technical track either. However at least some of the turns are connected. It's not 5 or 6 turns, all with straights before and after and all the same radius. And even though it's a lot of simple turns and straights, there's visual differences. The start/finish feels like a conventional race track with a modern feel. Stadium lights, grand stands, signage. Then the back half is French countryside. Especially at night you can really imagine what it was like 100yrs ago bombing through the forest. No lights, just the cars. Imagine sneaking into that woods at 2am hearing the field go by. Daytona is all concrete all the time. Daytona 500 looks cool with the packed stands and whatnot, but 24hrs at Daytona just looks so ugly. I didn't see one compelling camera angle either and I'm only on part 2. Indy has some grassy areas and a couple different shaped turns. I could look at this track a lot longer.

[@coliimusic]

I dunno, I like the dichotomy of Stadium and Outfield on track at Daytona, a lot of modern rearrangements of rovals just feel like any other flat track, which isn't bad, but I'd rather us actually USE the ovals to emulate those long straights since we cant seem to build any big tracks aside from Road America

[@mcgoo721]

@@coliimusic idk I'd say COTA is a beast of a track. But I'll give it to Daytona for the banking. It's just an ugly infield with no technical sections for me at the end of the day.

[@tomescover1166]

How can one guy, supposedly the lead commentator, make so many missed or erroneous calls in one hour of racing? Pathetic.

[@tomm6752]

You know the commentary is done live right? It’s not like they have a script they can learn.

[@Sp4mMe]

tbf there's definitely commentators that confuse cars less often ... e: at hour 3 the commentator actually talks about this. Big respect for that.

[@theflagstand]

​@@tomm6752tha does not negate the fact that some commentators do a better job than others. It is perfectly possible and doable to make fewer mistakes than hinghaugh.

[@dreadpirateroberts3909]

Murray Walker did the same things for years and he's considered one of the best. It adds colour to the broadcast.

[@tomescover1166]

Wanker keeps going on about the BDO No Strategy award. WTF?

[@tomm6752]

It’s BDO knows strategy award. They give it to the team with best strategy call in the race.

[@theflagstand]

It's one of these things they have to mention during a broadcast, kind of a sponsored segment. Not their fault.

[@Sp4mMe]

@@theflagstand There's probably a few signs posted on the walls of the Ford Performance Global Broadcast Center to remind them ...