Confusion at the Checkered Flag! 2024 Rolex 24 Post Race Report
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- The 2024 Rolex 24 was fantastic but it featured an ending that left many fans confused. Let's talk about the winners and what happened at the end of the race!
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Bit of a different format for this video as I was at the track for this race! What did you think of it? Do you like the detailed recap videos or prefer me giving my thoughts on the race? Comment and let me know!
Why not both? A recap video and one about your personal takeaways?
Great format.
Was a pleasure meeting you at the track last week. You really are as chill as you appear in your videos.
Thanks for the great content and hope to be there again next year 😁.
@@larquefausse3623 if I had unlimited time I certainly would do both!
@@BrianRoediger Hey Brian was nice meeting you as well! I will hopefully be back next year!!!
I can’t wait to enjoy the 11 hours and 58 minutes of Sebring!
Hopefully not lmao
You know, after last year..... with that big crash.... I really hope that Sebring is smooth running this year.
Connor Zilisch is no joke. Just over two weeks after he signed with Trackhouse in NASCAR, he wins the Rolex 24 in his class at the age of 17, and he was actually really competitive. It’s not like he was carried. No.
He's also the youngest TransAm champion! I think he could definitely get a seat in F1, perhaps with Andretti?
He’s decent but I wouldn’t say he’s gonna be the best race car driver in the world, money is lot of it, there’s drivers as good as him who won’t make it because of that factor
Connor is the real deal! Great driver and great guy, I think we’ll be hearing about him for a long time!
This exact thing happened in (I believe) 1988 at Portland when I was working for Nissan in the GTP series and we were just passing the leader when a “honorary starter” threw a checkered flag one lap earlier than the schedule distance but everyone continued on racing to the scheduled distance and it looked like we had won because the official starter threw the flag again but IMSA said the first checker ended the race! Because we were in second at that time we ended up second!
That's the exact situation. A year later ESPN did a recap, to add to what you said, it went through the appeals process and Jag's win was upheld because of the very same rule. In a bit of gallows humor, as Bob Varsha I believe it was, described it, they had a plan to give everyone mock checkered flags and have them waved at some point during the racee.
Good on IMSA for admitting their mistake as well in this instance, it's amusing to me it happened both times with the GTP cars in the fieldBo
Rolex 23 and a bit
thanks for the shout out for MX5 cup ... best racing you can watch today IMO.
I probably need to start following it. And the VPR series, too...
The MX-5 cup is insane! Some great racing in that series!
A bunch of angry bees! So much fun. Those guys drive like they've got nothing to lose. Tons of action and strategy. One of the best parts of the 4-day pass at the Rolex 24 😊❤️.
I found your Chanel and got interested in wec/imsa because of you, I watched the race with my dad and we both loved it, thank you so much!
Love to hear it, that’s the goal I set out to accomplish with this channel! We’re in for a great season!
They really need to try the slow zones and Code 60/virtual safety cars. It was a caution-fest for a long point and the caution protocols are too long as well. And, the commentary team for NBC was a bunch of NASCAR commentators who stated they know nothing about sports cars or the IMSA rule set... Why are they there then? Get the IMSA team and the IndyCar team to do the commentary. All the IndyCar people have had sports car experience. It was a bad look for NBC...
NASCAR is blind and try the nascar formula on long distance racing with reshuffling the grid almost every time but it takes 45min to get 1 crashed car off track..
This race had so many good memeable moments. The Rolex 24 is the best race of the year to get back into my addiction known as Auto Racing. Cheers to a great 2024 Season
I definitely prefer hearing your personal thoughts on the main race, but its nice to have a quick recap of the support series.
Nice job on this video man, editing and presentation were really nice! 👌
Ayyy thanks man!!
Really like this video of a quick review but please also do a longer breakdown video later. Also the camera change for light settings made me think you did the CGI background. Will you review the actual event like transport, food, ease of access and such for races. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
Not sure I’m going to do a full regular review as I won’t be able to get the completed for a week+ but I will be doing some videos on different aspects of the race over the next few weeks! I’m going to be at more races this year so I’m trying to refine a post race report style and improve it as the season goes on!
Off Topic: The fact that the 296 won 2 24H Race Is awesome ❤❤❤
3, actually. The nurburg 24H was claimed by a customer team driving the 296
@@hypezzyyWhat's the other race?
@@aitch8237Nurburgring 24h
Was defo a bit crazy that they messed it up that much, they might need to buy a better coffee machine for the officials :)
I really thought the Cadillac was going to catch and pass Nasr but with new warm tires the Porsche was faster on the straightaway and that was barely enough to keep the lead.
If the final stint was 15 mins longer then I think Caddy pulls it out! They had a great long run car!
The greatest race I've seen in quite a while. A good hard-fought battle! I was very pleased to see my team Porsche Penske come away with the victory after some phenomenal driving by the #7 car, especially Nasr and Campbell. Anyway, love the channel bro! Would have been great to say hello but unfortunately I didn't see you 😄
Yeah it was a great race with some intense battles in all of the classes!
Sorry we couldn’t meet up! I’ll be at some more races this year!
I have a question. This was my first race and while im understanding the sport more Im wondering..
Why during 90% the coverage of the race were they only focusing on the GTP class and not the other 3 classes? For a race with 4 classes I assumed they would focus equally on all 4. Is this normal?
It's because teams and manufacturers are pushing these hybtid systems to the absolute limit. They did that at the 24H of Le Mans last year. It's new technology and they wanna see how far it can go. They actually did show a large proportion of the GT classes in this year's Rolex. Great battles everywhere, and the same goes for LMP2.
Personally had way more fun and interest both with Le Mans 2023 and the Rolex 23.53 this year tuning into the radio coverage, I'd say if you want a broadcast that isn't sucking the GTP exhaust, give the radio crew a shot and see how you like it. JOhbn Hindhaugh explained the isue you had a while ago in that on TV you are bound by what the cameras show, if you get an awful director, you are stuck with that feed and that director and can't really go off script so to speak, whereas with the radio side of it you don't have that limit, you can hop around and talk about what is going on at that moment no matter if the cameras caught it or not
This is why they should do more splitscreen feeds. It's a monster to direct, but it's definitely worth for the fan viewership especially when there are slugfests happening at the same time.
For now though, having access to live in-car feeds is a decent cope IF the car is equipped with one. Fans watching replays are SOL, though.
the top class and top talent will always get the most coverage, unless of course the leader was multiple laps ahead of the others
Unfortunately that’s just the way the broadcasts go. Lots of eyes on the top class prototypes so that’s where they tend to focus the attention. Hopefully IMSA’s increased push of the GT categories will trickle down to the broadcasts covering them a bit more!
Super happy for my fellow Scot, Ryan Dalziel (pronounced Dee EL. Yes, really)
Ah shoot I mispronounced his name again didn’t I 😅 ERA ran a great race though, super happy for them!
Good on IMSA for being honest about this, hopefully they can shake off their NASCAR side.
I’m so happy that they released a statement about this so quickly and didn’t just try and ignore it! Sucks that it happened but we can now move on to Sebring!
Definitely like this format and your thoughts on the race.
I’d be interested on your take about how the new Fords did.
As far as the finish goes, I feel bad for Doonan. I’m still new to this but I love what he’s doing with things and more so the excitement he has for racing. It’s a shame the race will be overshadowed by it. Like you said let’s move on to the next one. I can’t wait.
Yes I will be covering some more takeaways from the race in the coming weeks and the Ford’s will be front and center in some of that!
Can we have a Daytona 24 finish without controversy again. Please? Lol
I quit watching NASCAR racing years ago for this type of finish. Disappointing the NASCAR blood is carried over in the IMSA 24Hr. You had 364 days 23hrs and 57 minutes to get it right.
I couldn't watch this race because of Peacock showing commercials so fingers crossed IMSA has a non-commercial PPV/subscription deal like F1TV. I would gladly pay $80 per year for IMSA w/no commercials instead of $12mo (PeacockTV) WITH commercials. I canceled Peacock and won't be back.
Try watcing on IMSA TV, use VPN and set it on Eu or Asia server. No commercials only racing all time.
Ok no one cares that you're not watching...was this just to stroke your ego ??
Couldn't agree more. I was actually timing the race coverage vs commercial for the last hour. On average it was 3-4 minutes of "race" coverage then 2-3 minutes of commercial. Never have I seen so many commercials
Just use a fking VPN mate. Commercial free everywhere outside the US. Come on man use your head it’s cheaper than Peacock
Just use a fking VPN mate. Commercial free everywhere outside the US. Come on man use your head it’s cheaper than Peacock
I knew something didn't seem right when they waved the checkered but all the cars were still going full speed after the flag
I thought it was a matter of a couple of seconds and the leaders were a smidge too slow to start another lap. Oops.
This was a door banger from start to finish. Campbell and nasr were absolutely nuts out there. Derani, aitken and derani were incredibly consistent. And i cant believe im even mentioning him but ive gotta tip my hat to felipe massa. First time ever in an lmp2 and he helps to pull a P3. Looking good for him. That ending was a bit silly but hey at least IMSA admitted the mistake unlike a certain other motorsport organization a few years ago...anyways, this is gonna be a banger of a season
Yeah glad IMSA admitted the mistake and released the statement! Helps us move on from it and not have it lingering as we head to Sebring!
I hope Newgarden will be @ Le Mans too.
The “early checker” rule is there for one reason: Because drivers start cool down laps when they see that flag. In either situation, someone is getting shafted, so they decided it would just be better to call the lap the checkered flag came out the last scored lap. I happen to agree.
Ferrari 296 taking all 3 spots of the podium, what a beauty of a car ❤
you must be confused, the 296 won GTD Pro, 2nd was the Porsche 992 GT3 in GTD Pro ( Rexy ), then 3rd overall, first in GTD, won in the Merc AMG
@@amarokdcs1062well the gtd pro ferrari got first and the gtd ferraris took second and third. So one ferrari car was in each spot, just split between both pro and non-pro
@@adenkyramud5005 yeah but thats not p1, p2, p3 all ferrari, split between gtd pro and gtd thats p1, p4, p5
@@adenkyramud5005 just because all the places of the podium in different classes are covered doesnt mean they came p1-p3 all together
With help from the BOP! The Ferrari were dramatically faster (1.1 second / lap) than the 77 Rexy (2nd place in Pro). The Ferrari also pitted 3 more times than the Porsche and still finished a lap ahead. 730 laps with a 1 second advantage for each makes it a pretty easy win for the Ferrari.
A rogue flagger could cause a Rolex 24 (minute) race 😂
great video
Thanks Connor!
I just realized that if this had happened in Le Mans in 2016, Toyota would have won and the intense finish would have never happened...
Cadillac won Sebring last year; it could happen again this time around.
At this point they would be my pick as well!
It was nice meeting you there!!! It was a hell of a race
Nice to meet you as well! It was a fantastic race!
@@offintheesses I didn't wanna bother haha I was the one in the line to enter the infield in the morning! Nonetheless it was awesome meeting you! Love your work!
@@samscast was no bother at all! I loved meeting anyone that came up and said hi!! It’s great to be able to meet people and put a face to the viewer!!
@@offintheessesik samscast in person, I REALLY hope you washed your hand after if you shook his, lord have mercy😭
@@rodrigoguillen8063 LMAO 🤣
I loved watching this year's 24 Hours of Daytona. I had an opportunity to watch about 12 hours of the race all in total. The ending was a disappointment with the checkered flag coming out early and the announcement of the winner with what was supposed to be 1-2 laps to go. It was broadcast multiple times during the race about how long it had been since Roger Penske had won Daytona. Wouldn't you know it , his car is in the lead, Cadillac is challenging.....and they drop the checkered flag EARLY. That's not a mistake, that's a fix for the win. Major disappointment. IMSA can say all they want and put out the press release for "Oops, our bad!" but shady is shady. Shame on them for taking away what was up until that point and exciting race that was yet to be decided.
It was a mistake, I was rooting for the Caddy at the end as well but they weren’t making up 2seconds and making the pass on the final lap. Had the run to the finish been 15 mins longer I think caddy takes it, they had a good car in the second half of a stint
@@offintheesses I understand your logic, but stranger things have happened on the last lap of races. The lead car brakes too hard and goes off track, turns in too late and puts a wheel in the dirt causing a spin, gets too close to the wall hitting it and scrubbing speed. No the Cadillac wouldn't have made up those 2 seconds if it were run without incident, but we'll never know because the flag was thrown early. The win is tainted for Penske & Porsche.
Maybe they should put an “*” in the books for this one!!!!
In GTD across both Pro and non the Ferrari's places 4 of the top 7. How does that happen with 11 manufacturers? The Ferrari was 1.1 seconds faster per lap vs the 77 Rexy. The 62 pitted 3 more times than the 77 (who finished 2nd in Pro) and still finished a lap ahead. This BOP is a joke. It was dramatically faster than the Porsche around the track. A second faater for 730 laps. 😂😂😂. A gift from the officials I guess.
Somebody needs to lose their job. I've done scoring and been an official for half a decade now. I'll do it and not fuck up 👍
Responding to a situation like that by firing is just a sign of a poor manager. Smart managers fix the operation that allowed the issue to happen in the first place. It might surprise you to know it's incredibly difficult for a professional pilot to lose their job when they err yet it's the safest industry by miles. Likewise, there're countless small businesses that never grow because egotistical owners fire everyone but themselves.
Lmp2 is the most disappointing category as usual. Gtp only category that was worth watching
Did you see the battles in LMP2 and GTD throughout the race?!?! They were great!