Albeit losing quite some time in the first hour of the race, the Manthey Porsche is already 5th... Their speed is unreal, let's hope the car can take it to the finish...
Yeah, it was better last year... Onboard-shots in the night, more pit-interviews and generally more operating cameras (they have like 4 different cameras: pits, T1, entry Nordschleife and the helicopter - that's it )
last year they broadcasted onboard vids with music in the night, and like last year they only focus on the ~10 top teams, why didn't they send out like three camera/journalist teams interviewing every team from time to time
Their goal was to achieve as much experience and data from that race, they drive a prototyp, and they seem to be way better than the
"HEINZ-HARALD FRENTZEN HYBRID Gumpert Apollo, which is on the last place atm (smashed two diffs)
They had Frentzen for a interview an hour ago, that guy has no idea, he couldn't even name the diffrent track parts ("Thats Flugplatz", "Sorry Harald, thats Pflanzgarten")
Still, when they could make it interesting last year, why was I falling asleep way before the halfway-mark this year?
The sound was utter shite, you missed the first part of an interview because there was no audio while only having one of the 4 cameras as video feed - but somehow you can watch the associated video on the website now... You hear two questions, then the audio is gone again, but can hear the interview still going on the track speakers - masked over by the engines, so you don't understand anything... Don't get me wrong, I love engine sounds, but I can hear them the rest of the time enough... You had to constantly adjust your volume, as the interview mics were incredibly loud while you could barely hear the moderators in their cabin at times... Then at about 22:00, we obviously got feed from a camera outside, way too loud... I was glad I had my volume turned down almost completely or I'd been deaf... There was absolutely no moderation at night, nothing but the same camera angle for hours and there were hardly any statistics to be seen... The only thing we got was a planned stop here and there...
Either the technical crew consisted of idiots who didn't know what they were doing or worse, they didn't care for the spectators tuning in via stream...
I didn't watch it at all so I don't know/care about the coverage itself, I was just talking about the amount of cameras during the night.
It's actually incredible that even in Le Mans, which is obviously much bigger event than this, they shut down most of the cameras except the few on the main straight. Altough in pitch black you wouldn't see much anyway, only a huge light ball when the car is coming towards the camera and then nothing when it has passed but it would be still better than nothing.
I think something went wrong, normally the stream should have broadcasted the cameras + the live audio from Radio 1 Nürburgring, which is the main broadcaster for the fans around the ring.
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, which is on the last place atm (smashed two diffs)