No Sebring 12 Hours Coverage on Speed, Goodbye Lee Diffey, Calvin Fish, Dorsey Schroeder Options

[Vysoc]

It really did'nt dawn on me until I actually read an article in Auto World about what ALMS had done. They struck a deal with ABC, I assumed ESPN or ESPN2 would be covering a good portion of the race. They have decided that long duration coverage of races is "a thing of the past" and they will tape portions of the race and then build it into a 2 hour show to be shown at a later date.

I love to go to Sebring but when in 2008 we saw the undercover cops jumping out of cars to arrest underage drinking and all of the other stuff that we saw ...enough. I took a 2 year hiatus from the madness in Green Park and we had a great party in the garage with Speed Channel and enjoyed the telecast. It is now over unless you want to try the live feed on ESPN3.com on your computer...live streaming, how good can that be?

My friend that goes to the races with me was diagnosed with stage 4 Lung Cancer at 50, we are now going to try and go up for a couple of hours on Saturday, but it is really going to be difficult.

BUMMER. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bs.gif)

Vysoc

[Vysoc]

Sebring 2011,

The day began at 4:48am when I went to pick-up my buddy battling cancer, the cancer won today and he was too sick to go, and I could not go up there without him...it just would not have been right. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

Well necessity is the mother of invention. I had nothing as my cable service does not offer ESPN 3 and every other way I could think of to get the live stream failed. I went to ALMS and watched the scoreboard update every 30 seconds I had to reset it about every 45 minutes as it would report a server error and then I would start over, but by accident I stumbled upon a live radio feed on the Flying Lizards Web-Site that is available every race. This would allow you to hear every word from the Drivers to the Crew chief as well as Race Control & Spotters. Just having the screen with positions and current lap times and the actual team radio I was able to have a reasonable Sebring with the help of plenty of COLD BEERS in my office at home. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

It was not the best but it was enough to piece together what the hell was going on.

Now, if you want to here about a guy who has it tough try being the crew chief for the 045 Flying Lizard car which dealt with an early spin, and multiple, 20 or 30 resets of their electronics throughout the race,you could here the horror in Patrick Long's voice as he was explaining what happened! One time even heard Joerg Bergmeister drop an F-Bomb! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)

I got so much more out of the race, you also got to here the spotters calling out when the prototypes would be approaching the 044 & 045 Lizards from the rear to overtake... especially at night.

They fought back from being way back to 6th & 7th but the 045 will actually get 5th place & 044 6th place points because the AF Ferrari does not run in ALMS point events.

Next race go to the Flying Lizard Motorsports web-site and listen in on the team radio, it absolutely saved me from the bummer of a very sick friend not being able to go to Sebring to a bearable day.

Sometimes you find a rose when you step into a pile of (IMG:style_emoticons/default/stromberg.gif)

Sebring 2011,

Vysoc (IMG:style_emoticons/default/flag.gif)