The Le Mans Series organisers have released a short video clip showing some of the action of the Le Mans Series Official Test Days that took place on the Paul Ricard HTTT circuit last Sunday and Monday.
Jean Alesi, Jaime Melo, Danny Watts, Nigel Mansell and Giancarlo Fisichella invite you to follow the Le Mans Series in 2010, starting with the opening race of the season, the 8 Heures du Castellet, on April 10 and 11.
And if you’re not in a position to travel to Paul Ricard Le Mans Series General Manager Patrick Peter confirmed on Monday that several deals with new TV channels had been signed and that there would be more focus on the Le Mans Series audience! Stay tuned for more info on that subject!
lets hope on some decent coverage. Especially shorter races deserve some good coverage
Shorter races?
The 6 hour races as opposed to the 8 hour races :p
yeah thats shorter 6 hours is a good nice afternoon on the couch. 8 12 hours you need lots of yellows to keep it intresting or be there yourself imho
“several deals with new TV channels” – Believe it when I see it. Eurosport have been pathetic when it comes to the LMS. Start of the race, finish of the race and crap tennis or bowling in between?! That dosent even take into account the amount of adverts aswell. ITV4 would do a much better job. Sort it out Pat!
Very polished video.
With the LMS’s longer races they can use the web to offer more coverage and fund it with advertising. I’m sure the team sponsors wouldn’t mind helping out if it means more coverage to fans. It just needs to be well put together by a solid team.
The ALMS offers web coverage of Petit LeMans qualifying and Speed TV has extra coverage of the LeMans 24h when off the air.
But they need the six hours because they have less rounds so the longer races makes it more worthwhile. Less rounds make it easier for privateers to attend all the races.