LIVE | Race | Circuit Paul Ricard | 2024 Fanatec GT Europe (English)

[@Speedyey]

The combination of racing and drone footage is simply AMAZING! Cant wait to see the development in the drone tv footage field!

[@JaredR1996]

This is the type of event that needs sell out crowds. The action in this series is unbelievable

[@NikiN1]

Nah, it's just normal GT3

[@goloje6744]

100% agree. F1 is rubbish compared with this. It’s cheaper, nicer to watch, more noise, more fan access, more cars, more action, great tracks they race on, longer races. The LOT. Went to the Spa 24h last year and I’m doing it again this year, had such an amazing time way better than any F1 race I went to

[@Astroman10]

There seemed to be a nice crowd! Unfortunately this event would have been hard to sellout. First and foremost, COVID almost killed a lot of racing since racing requires ticket sells for purses! Secondly, Nürburgring had SP9 GTs running two 4 hours races this weekend. Anyone race fan will choose Nürburgring over Paul Ricard. Building off of that, the Nürburgring races had more popular drivers there. A bunch of WEC drivers were there and drivers from last year’s Le Mans. Not to mention F1 as at Suzuka, another top 3 race track. Americans typically wont travel to these events since we can just watch them online now. Too many factors work against this particular race. Still a good crowd though and great racing as always!

[@Ivanhirano242]

​@@goloje6744 its because GT racing for cheap people

[@billwonders1603]

And, none of those pesky LMP things to get in the way. 😅

[@gruby_spisek]

30:02

[@melanisticmandalorian]

thanks

[@ricanpimp216]

Legend

[@FlyinBlaney]

The intro goes unfathomably hard

[@AdrianParis-pj1wd]

I wish they would adjust the coverage so we could hear the cars a bit more. Such a great racing series!

[@robertmoore119]

Hmm, I was going to comment on the Mustang, I didn't watch the whole race, but it did finish in the top 10. It is a new car still under development so I think that is an excellent finish! There was a comment that I read that said it was slow in the corners. However, though it's straight line speed looked very good, 288 kph, at least at the beginning of the race, it did not look slow.

[@markzebr6463]

Every Mustang GT3 from IMSA. WEC and ELMS in 2024 have had issues with the rear trunk lid blowing off, every and every race. Ford has a serious design issue.

[@hanwa2258]

Formation Lap 25:10 Race start 30:00

[@johnhrichak]

John Watson, an honor indeed!

[@Konstant72]

Please come back to Kyalami🥳

[@Peanutdenver]

2:04:23 Harper/BMW high IQ pass right there boys.

[@sailnick]

Excellent coverage. Sad to see that they still haven't corrected the BMW BOP from last year. Cars with great straight line speed, like the BMW and Mustang, will always have an edge, no matter how cumbersome they are in the corners...

[@Donster2]

True, at least with the mustang it's slow in corners, which allows cars to be able to dive down underneath and pass when it swings wide, we saw it a couple times this race, meanwhile the bmw under sro is one of the best at everything and you can't have that. You have to bop it to be bad at something if it's really good at everything else to balance it out. And it seems to me that imsa is the only ones to figure it out, because everywhere else the bmw is either too fast or too slow

[@zacharywolf2341]

Im just here for the Mustang

[@Fwr942]

Same. (Well...not entirely, but mostly) haha

[@Daytona-wu9xh]

That's a shame in itself

[@Donster2]

@@Daytona-wu9xh nah it's a plus, the only interesting car on the grid this season, last year was the 296

[@mcgoo721]

I've never seen so much glazing for a midfield only car 🙄

[@TBolt1]

2:12:40 🔉🎧😂

[@erickmutuma8005]

Beautiful drone work.

[@danielmargetts2327]

Shame you can barely hear the sound of the cars though.

[@peregrynn5972]

Corvette would be nice in this series

[@Donster2]

Probably next year, GM said they want to make it reliable and more drivable before they give it to customers and definitely now with all the problems it has had this year

[@You068]

Welcome To Macau

[@Fwr942]

Sooo many spoilers in the gt world KZbin page! You see who won pole, who won the race and who wrecked without ever watching a video! Wtf?

[@theflagstand]

one of the first rules of spoiler avoidance in racing is to never casually scroll the series's yt page after a race, so many different series post spoilers of some kind

[@zerogo40]

The BMW just comes to life when it burns halfway through it's fuel.

[@jiipee7491]

Nice season opener! Great variety of cars. And have to say, Audi leaving this for F1... Bwoah... Not for an Audis much, but r8 has burned to eyeballs during years. It is one of those, "they should be there always" kinda thing. In good or bad...

[@Fwr942]

Yes, I can't really understand why they are doing away with their gt3 program. I guess it might have something to do with them going all electric soon(ish) but then why jump into f1 if that's the case? I don't get it either.

[@jiipee7491]

@@Fwr942 No idea.. But they are shooting on their own leg. Going full ev = crap. Going F1 = crap. Going away from GT3 = crap.

[@OsellaSquadraCorse]

Twofold - they hadn't fully gone from it, but the new guy Chris Reinke already pissed off a lot of people who dumped Audi as a result... witness the biggest example being WRT who went from having a WEC programme with Audi to...finding out in the news that Audi weren't going to have one anymore... Reportedly he had a poor attitude that made a lot of teams look elsewhere. The main thing is because they are scraping the budget together for the F1 programme - much like Toyota who dropped out of WRC AND Le Mans to fund their F1 team in 2000 - board level decisions.

[@D3M0ify]

The ford made it ..... will need a new engine now!

[@bills6093]

Engine is built by M-Sport in England. Car is built by Multimatic.

[@Donster2]

The mustang has already completed a 24 hour race, 3 of them finished a 12 hour race and 2 finished an 8 hour race. I'm sure a 3 hour race was the least of Ford's worries. Now that I think about it they are one of the most reliable new cars(so far) in recent years. They only have two retirements this year one was a rear wing problem that they already solved and the other was it got hit by another car and the floor/defuser was unfixable during the race. And both of those problems were in its very first race.

[@dannyj653]

Too many adds on the live stream

[@redspacecase]

Any chance we can get better quality? 1080p just looks terrible.

[@08cwbboards]

"the car hops, doesn't hit the curb" as the fucking car bounces over the curb... These announcers can be so annoying

[@michaelh6743]

During the driver introduction, the commentator didn't point out the nationality of any driver except the israeli-American.. Lol

[@markzebr6463]

The Ferrari 296 is a step backward from the 488 in styling. The nose and the rear are ugly. The engine is no longer visually appealing as, you cant see it. Darn shame.

[@OsellaSquadraCorse]

Hopefully the Mustang is disqualified! It should also have its homologation withdrawn until they can prove that it can actually run in compliance. For it to run with a major body panel missing "coincidentally" in every major endurance race so far shows either duplicity or more likely incompetence. With Multimatic's record, who knows which! In any case, if the GT3 Mustang is not within homologation and/or unsafe with panels unable to stay attached, it should not be permitted to race in any series, until resolved. It's beyond a joke now.

[@Donster2]

Cry, fia sro and imsa already know about it, and they are working on a fix, there is no way in hell any of the series gonna kick out a manufacturer over a Peace of useless bodywork, and bmw had a defuser problem back when the m4 debuted in 2022 and you didn't see anyone kick them out until they rehomoligated it. Instead they let them work quietly behind the scenes and got it fixed. Also how the hell is anyone supposed to know about this problem if it only happens when a car gets tucked up right behind it and pulls out to pass. You can't find that until after it's been homologated and runs with other cars. also just told me you don't pay attention to how this works. Literally almost every car has problems after the initial homologation and has to fix it after. If I remember right Ferrari or Porsche had to fix something as well when they debuted their new car. Can't remember which one rn

[@SwingAxleLover]

You euros always want hard earned results to be punished. It's definitely not helping their performance and Ford will definitely be working to fix it

[@Fwr942]

There is absolutely no way that a missing trunk lid is BETTER for aerodynamic performance. If they removed every new car from homologation due to ONE faulty part there would be no cars on the grid. The fact that Ford got his program together and ready in time for this year clearly shows how much they want to be competitive. Its amazing that there is only one small issue! They didn't have time to "engineer" a part to dis-attach for some supposed hidden gain. The car did not go faster on any lap in any of the previous races or this race, after the trunk lid came off. 😢

[@OsellaSquadraCorse]

@@Donster2 It didn't happen at Daytona when a car was behind it, it happened independently the first time it happened there... Porsche's issue wasn't homologation but was ABS sensors so teams were told to run without ABS until it could be fixed. The bodywork isn't useless if it hits another car, or spectator.... And yes, series do kick teams or manufacturers out when there are issues over homologation - they are though usually resolved pretty quickly, when they can be. BAR were barred from F1 until they could redesign their over-capacity fuel tank, in 2016 every Lamborghini was penalised by IMSA (5 minutes, plus a drive-through!) for allegedly mis-informing IMSA about their specs, leading to an unfair BoP adjustment; 4 Lamborghini Evos were disqualified in 2020 also at Daytona for not running the correctly-mandated gear ratios; Cadillac last week got disqualified for an out-of-spec diffuser. Many of these were post-race, but BAR and the Lambos in 2020 they were stopped from racing until their problems were fixed. Here it's not a performance issue - idiots seem to think that's the suggestion, read again.... it's actually a safety issue and a clear design/manufacturing flaw. Also, jeez, learn to spell!

[@OsellaSquadraCorse]

@@SwingAxleLover Who is "euros"? Because I got news for ya......

[@VRossi4Life]

This shouty announcer is the worst. Really no need. The racing is exciting enough.

[@theodom1858]

have you ever considered the announcer is just shouting *because* the racing is so exciting? This happens with almost every sport and just shows the announcers are passionate about the sport. I've also seen broadcasts with almost monotonous, disinterested announcers and let me tell you, it's much worse. But I guess people will always complain.

[@mrsossie]

​@@theodom1858 True plus the Combination of Addison and Watson are so experienced in GT racing their stats and insights are always valuable. Passion and knowledge is the best combo for a commentator in any sport.

[@Fwr942]

​@@theodom1858some people will complain about anything, even if they have to make something up to whine about.

[@theflagstand]

david addison is literally the best announcer in the business, yes he is loud but his voice is far from being annoying compared to most others, he is exciting to listen to and knows his shit