My God does anyone else think NBCSN's coverage is kinda sub-par -- at best. As Pinky said at the beginning of the race when someone was complaining about commercials, "it's better than nothing" but I would vote for "barely." I stopped watching at 5 p.m., set DVR for 9 p.m., looked at scoring and jotted down 11 updates I expected them to cover -- everything
from the 50, 13 & 5 being way behind to the 912 being back on the lead lap from a couple laps down. They did NONE of them well and did nothing with six of them. Apparently they don't have spotters because the biggest crash of the race occurred in Turn 1 while the real network was gone and in the recap they didn't know who was involved, and they still don't --
at least they never told us. Even the Racer hourly recap said the crash was "2 DPis" even though one of them was an LMP2 car. NBCSN went to break with the 55 stopped on the apron, came back from commercial and about 5 minutes went by before they said the car was in the garage. No idea how it got there. Two LMP2 cars got together leaving the chicane
and they called one of them as the "51," which is a GT car. Can't believe they had no usable video of the 55/57 tangle, which I heard about on Twitter and expected to see. I apologize for going off but if they expect everyone to follow constantly on the app, therefore they do a half-a
Rolex 24 Hour 6: Action Express takes the lead; trouble for PR1 Mathiasen
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J.J. O'Malley | 19 hours ago
The fourth full-course caution waved at the five-hour, 41-minute mark for a Turn 1 incident involving two DPis. While Wayne Taylor Racing’s Kamui Kobayashi and most of the other DPis opted to pit under the yellow, Pipo Derani stayed out to give the No. 31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac the lead.That move eventually gave the 31 team five points for leading the opening segment of the Michelin Endurance Cup. It also illustrates why the Action Express Racing team has won the Cup each year since its inception in 2014.
ResultsPrior to the caution, Kobayashi led the green-flag section of the hour after taking over for Fernando Alonso in the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi. He was second at the six-hour mark, followed by Juan Pablo Montoya in the No. Team Penske 6 Acura, the No. 77 Mazda driven by Timo Bernhard and Ricky Taylor in the No. 7 Acura.DragonSpeed continued to lead LMP2 with Roberto Gonzalez behind the wheel, while in GTLM, Oliver Gavin in the No. 4 Corvette and in GTD, Felipe Fraga continued to lead for Team Riley Motorsports in the No. 33 Mercedes-AMG GT3.