Relive all the action from the 2022 WeatherTech Championship qualifying race to set the field for the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season opener from Daytona International Speedway.
Dusting off the snow up north with a huge exhaust blast from a fully revved up IMSA Official. Thanks for the excellent coverage again and looking forward to 2022 right here.
Like what they did dropping the GTLM separation and making a broader GTD Pro field. If they can keep up this participation level for all races, this is going to be one helluva season to watch. Thanks IMSA!
IMSA. You are the goat. I know this racing year just started, but I can’t wait for 2023 and 2024. That’s when you merge with WEC officially (I think). The car lineups will be full. LMDh is exciting. It’s will be this centuries golden age of racing.
@@Zarroc0215 I understand that some cannot pay, but hopefully Eurosport has global rights for most countries. At the moment, at least in Finland is 40€ for the year for Eurosport Player. Not bad, if you ask me. Plus WEC RU-vid channel shows the action afterwards, for free.
Man I've been so excited for IMSA to be back underway!!!! I watched on TV yesterday but it's just not the same without the LEGENDARY IMSA commentary and pit reporting!!!!!
Yeehaw!!! Here we go for 2022. That really got exciting toward the end. Westy was giving it everything he had but Ricky had the legs in the banking. Great stuff. IMSA never disappoints. As always the great commentators are always on point.
Thanks for posting this IMSA!!! I cant wait for the 24! I will be there to take in all the action. Its going to be COOOOOOLD for us Florida folks but I cant wait!
I missed hearing the three of you SO MUCH! So happy to hear you all again and start enjoying some IMSA broadcasts. Thanks to everyone involved in getting these posted so quickly, as well!
Thanks mate hopefully this year my wife and I can work some racers this year. We were stuck at home in Canada and couldn't travel from race to race. S.C.C.A MEMBERS FOR EVER
Wow ... That # 5 Cadillac DPI Was Doing All He Could To Get Around The # 10 Acura , He Was Really Trying And I Like That ... Good Luck To Cadillac Racing & Especially Jimmy Johnson & Richard Westbrook , Coming From A Proud Cadillac CTS Owner 👍
Thankyou for posting this, As a Canadian I can not get the NBC feed, ( Peacock is locked out of Canada ) and could not watch the race live. Posting this less than 24 hrs after the race is amazing. As I can not get the 24 Hr race live either , I hope you can post the race in the same quick manner. Shame on NBC for locking Canada out of this race feed. Long live IMSA ...
so it finally begins, thanks again IMSA for the great coverage, probs to the Radio le mans team for their exciting coverage as always, looking forward to seeing IMSA, greets from the Netherlands.
Welcome to 2022 I.S.M.A.. Looking forward to the races. You might bring Jeremy Shaw's mike up a little bit. He is soft spoken & hard to hear while effects mikes are drowning him out
So moved for the pole of Mirko bortolotti in Daytona 😍😍😍😍 The race was great but he worked his *ss of for that pole 🤙🤙🤙❤️❤️ And the GTD Class will always be my favorite.Thank you for uploading the race
@@imsaofficial thanks for link. Watch every year. Love imsa, last year’s Petite was awesome. Will miss the Cadillacs next year or do they stay under LMPh?
Hello, everyone. NASCAR fan, here, and I want to say that this is the first time I've seen GT cars compete in the same event as Le Mans cars. Even though they're at least 10 mph slower. 😂 I can't wait to see what the 2022 IMSA season has in store.
Guys you need to add an overall gt classification on the live timing because yesterday it was impossible to follow the gt field. GTD cars are elected to win the GTD Pro if they finish the 24h ahead of the Pro field? Hopefully yes
There is not an 'overall' GT class podium, it's specific to each class. You can always deselect classes on the live scoring page that you do not want to see, imsa.com/scoring.
That's a bad decision. There should be an overall gt classification and the GTD subclass, like in WEC or SRO. I was following a GTD Pro cars yesterday but there was no way to see the gap with the GTD cars ahead
IMSA.com/scoring displays 'Behind Class Leader' as well as 'Behind Next In Class'. If you have feedback you'd like to share with our Competition staff how how they should handle classes, please feel free to email info@imsa.com
Imagine in 1980, starting 72nd on a provisional, drivers Lynn St.James, Tom Winter, Mark Welch, and finishing 5th in GTU, 17th over all, that was my prepared #81 Trinity Racing Mazda
GTD SLO debut! All jokes about sub-GTLM pace aside, the class looks really good on the screen and doesn't seem to harm much of the show of IMSA racing, can't wait to see how the class evolves and if it'll make itself distinct in regulations to cater to these pros a bit more!
Totally agree. It is possible, but they have an existing system with works (even though it didn't for me on mobile this weekend 😭). It would take a few changes, not sure if it'd be worth for them.
woohoo! raced this exact configuration (minus the Chicane) in my enduro kart in Dec 2017. full size cars always make the track look so much smaller but man those banks are serious business.
Hey, question for you. Why are the Vettes and BMW struggling? I thought they would be faster. Are modified to a point where it put them at a disadvantage?
@Dillon Alexander possibly a setup or bop issue for the bmw since its new. Corvette I think are struggling with the commercial Michelin tires in gtd vs the confidential tires from gtlm last year. They just haven’t got on top of that
can someone explain to me why the LMP3 class gets its own pre-show race in the Prototype challenge while also racing in the big race (where they don't fit in at all?)
It's not the same drivers. In the previous race it's purely am drivers who are usually rich enough to afford it. But LMP3 is kind of redundant when you consider they are around as quick as the GTD cars while being worse overall.
@@adamb3129 LMP3 cars with full AM drivers are 1-6 seconds faster per lap than GTD cars depending on the track. LMP3 cars would probably be faster or roughly as fast per-lap as the old GTE's if they had pro drivers, depending on the track. Next year, LMP3's are the natural fit for the LMDh era unless they slow down next-gen LMP2's in 2024. This can be seen with the problems that WEC has had with LMP2's being roughly as fast as the LMH's.
Good morning IMSA. How and where fans in Brazil can watch live ? There will be live link here? We don't if Foxsoports / ESPN will show it. Thank you very much!
I hope I'm wrong, but... Are we going to have to wait for the posting of the Pilot race here until after USA/NBC/Peacock FINALLY gets around to broadcasting it - almost a month after it happened - thanks to the Olympics taking precedence for them? If so, here's an idea for the next time network rights are negotiated: a "snooze and lose" clause whereby the races can be posted on here no later than 10 days after occurrence - regardless if they've been broadcasted/streamed by then.
IMSA.com/tvlive (Unavailable in Denmark, New Zealand, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Poland, Baltics). Please visit www.imsa.com/internationalcoverage/ for more details.
Horrible camera work at the start of the sprint race. Didn’t show 1 but of the prototype start and instead what he’s the GTD field pace around under the safety car. Wish Saturdays qualifying session has been uploaded as well.
You guys should unblock the official stream for US viewers. It's a shame you guys and NBC make it so complicated to watch IMSA in the US. Good race though.
@@austinobambino1360 But if you're outside the US you don't need a VPN. You can watch the stream free. That's my point. Why can't I in the US watch the stream for a US racing series that's available everywhere else?
@@adamb3129 Oh, that's wierd. I watched the last couple Daytona 24 hrs by just finding sketch websites streaming it. Mostly because the amount of ads on NBC was ridiculous. Guess I was probably just tuning into the world feed.
@@adamb3129 because licencing. Yes it sucks, but NBC are probably paying a lot of money and contributing the the visuals we're seeing now. IMSA are a lot better than most other racing series because, as others have said, get a cheap/free VPN and you're good to go. Not to mention VPN's are great for avoiding tracking cookies and the like. As someone who loves WEC, believe me, this is the lesser of two evils by a country mile. (Sorry, didn't realise I didn't answer your question). In regions where there is no TV deal (some countries outside the US do have TV deals for IMSA) the only way to watch would be dodgy websites/"illegal" streaming. This way, those without a TV deal do still get to watch even though they aren't covered. Hope this helps.
A manual gearbox still burns less fuel than an automatic transmission, but your car insurance is higher for a manual gearbox because of the insurance companies theory clause you are at higher risk of an accident shifting the car and less time of your hands on the steering wheel. Was that law written pre paddle shifters on the steering column?
I just wish IMSA would get on board with the live, commercial-free RU-vid streaming that GT Challenge already offers. Watching a race days afterwards is a bit deflating, but don’t ask me to watch TV commercial marathons (I mean, TV “sports coverage”). Happy to see IMSA - eventually. 🏁
IMSA.com/tvlive (geo-blocked in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Iceland, Baltics, New Zealand). You can always visit www.imsa.com/internationalcoverage/ for more info.
