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May 31, 2011 8:01 a.m. scardeal HalfDork

So, I'm planning on getting rid of cable tv, and just having internet soon. Do you guys know of any place I can find streaming (live or taped delay) coverage of racing? I'd prefer it to be all legal-like.

I'm pretty much looking for coverage of the following:
ALMS
Grand-Am Rolex
Grand-Am Continental
24 Hours of Le Mans

However, I wouldn't turn away coverage of:
24 hours of Lemons
ChumpCar
SCCA racing
NASA racing
Aussie V8 Supercars
Time Attack
BTCC
DTM
etc...
May 31, 2011 8:48 a.m. e_pie New Reader

In for answers.

I do know of a torrent site that has most races after the fact.
May 31, 2011 9:17 a.m. Maroon92 SuperDork

ALMS streams live, but you have to have both cable and internet to view it.

Pretty much everything else would be "illegal". (redline time attack does have their own streaming web channel.)
May 31, 2011 4:43 p.m. SupraWes Dork

ESPN3 on the Xbox 360 streamed the whole 24 at daytona, i'm not sure what else they show, Im hoping they carry the LeMans. It does require a gold Live account with a monthly fee. I think a lot of times big races get streamed on justin.tv not so legally, but its live.
May 31, 2011 5:44 p.m. z31maniac SuperDork

^Or if you have an HTPC or laptop to hook up to your TV, it's FREE!

Seems like right now the schedule has mostly NHRA and Rallycross.
May 31, 2011 8:00 p.m. Maroon92 SuperDork

SupraWes wrote:

ESPN3 on the Xbox 360 streamed the whole 24 at daytona, i'm not sure what else they show, Im hoping they carry the LeMans. It does require a gold Live account with a monthly fee. I think a lot of times big races get streamed on justin.tv not so legally, but its live.

That's not true. the Daytona 24 is on Fox and SPEED. They did stream the full 12 Hours of Sebring though, as they carry the entire ALMS season. Like I said, though, you have to have internet AND cable to get it.
July 12, 2011 11:53 a.m. scardeal HalfDork

Okay. I just turned in the cable box... sniff, sniff.

We'll see how I make out, especially since I've been following Grand-Am Rolex and Grand-Am Continental Tire pretty closely.
July 12, 2011 12:48 p.m. Tom Heath Web Manager

It's not on your list, but if Continental is on there, World Challenge probably suits you as well.

www.world-challengetv.com

All streaming, all legal. Not just this season, but a few seasons back as well.
July 12, 2011 1:57 p.m. scardeal HalfDork

Thanks for the link, Tom

I like the Continental Tire one because it seems a lot more GRM'y, so I'll definitely check out the World Challenge stuff. (It also helps, though, that they've got 370Zs this year...)
July 13, 2011 12:09 a.m. griffin729 HalfDork

Maroon92 wrote:

ALMS streams live, but you have to have both cable and internet to view it.

Pretty much everything else would be "illegal". (redline time attack does have their own streaming web channel.)

Not true. I don't have cable either, but I do get ALMS over Xbox. The deal with ESPN3 is you have to have an approved ISP. AT&T DSL counts.

Overall, I've been pretty content with no cable. With Hulu, Netflix, and for some shows you do have to go directly to the individual networks site. Thing that suck the most are the networks that have shows that I would like to watch, but do not offer their show via internet at all.