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If you don't see it, you can't be it...
The Iron Dames ensure you CAN see it.
An all-female team winning an FIA World Championship race.
One day, this will be normal, not historic.
Congratulations on how far you've come... here's to where you're going next...
The Iron Dames celebrate their first victory on their way to the final LMGTE Am podium 👏
#WEC
#8HBahrain
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Oh look... it’s that
@TomCoronel
- wonder if there’s a Touring Car star here, waiting to be discovered... 😆
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Hard to argue… 23 cars in the top class, from 9 manufacturers.
23 in LMGT3 from 9 manufacturers.
Plus a packed LMP2 field that was almost as large as most full Le Mans fields until Group C.
And stellar driving line-ups.
It’s a Platinum era in endurance racing, globally.
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Ready for LIVE coverage of the
@FIAWEC
Spa 6 Hours with
@dsceditor
@antdavidson
and
@LouiseeB
We have cars.
We have fans.
We have snacks.
Join us!
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The pre-chicane Mulsanne was just pure insanity…
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So true!
Until 2024, the greatest number of finishers on the lead lap was…
.
.
.
.
TWO!
.
.
This year, there were nine. It’s never been harder to remain competitive - and yet, see how many did.
Underlines how superbly the cars are being run.
It’s amazing just how perfect a Le Mans-winning race needs to be now. You have to nail it, at least in the big picture.
The cars are insanely impressive. The days of GT2s finishing in the overall top ten less than 20 years ago feel like memories of a totally different race. 😅
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This is utter garbage.
IMSA is 1000x better?
It’s literally the same rule-set.
Le Mans was hit by appalling weather which led to big accidents and the need for long Safety Cars.
Nothing to do with Hypercar, BoP or anything else.
4 hours to repair barriers, 2 laps to re-set field.
@sanmibor
Le système Hypercar de BOP rend forcément le résultat artificiel et peut paraître aléatoire. Il n'empêche que comparer l'IMSA c'est 1000x mieux. On a pas de SC toutes les 10 minutes. La les écarts se sont quand même maintenus à la régulière.
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Two server crashes in 24 Hours, with 175 rigs logging in and out, from 37 countries, in 5 continents.
Nearly 23 hours of green-flag racing.
We certainly wouldn’t have had 23 hours of green flag this weekend in Le Mans… it was wet and grey…
But, yeah, have a pop…
@rFactor2
@24hoursoflemans
Could be a lot better without all those glitches and server restarts
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I remember first meeting him in World Series by Renault, when he was dropped into the
@CarlinRacing
car and rocked everyone with his speed.
“Where’s your new driver,
@TrevorCarlin
?”
“He’s out the back.”
“There are just three skater kids there.”
“Yeah, one of them is him…”
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Porsche guys: How can JOTA be doing that? They’ve had the car a week and we’ve had it a year…
Solid first weekend in Hypercar! Done everything we needed & got through the race with barely any issues. Amazing job all weekend by our engineers and mechanics to be able to achieve that so a massive thanks to them 👏🏻 now time to analyse and find some magic for Le Mans!
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We know out football! Looking forward to this summer’s World Cup, of course…
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Predictable, as night follows day.
Professional drivers acclaim Lewis Hamilton’s 7th World Championship, because they know greatness when they see it.
A certain section of ‘fans’ denigrate his performance as ‘merely being in the best car’ because they’re utterly clueless muppets.
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A little moment of TV fame for one of our favourite cameramen - Jean-Michel Tibi…
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WEC/ACO team will be
@MartinHaven
@dsceditor
@JRollerLM24
@antdavidson
@AhLovejoy
new boy (and Le Mans winner)
@TheGuySmith
with
@LouiseeB
and
@StephWentworth_
Whether you're listening to Eurosport, WEC/ACO or Radio Le Mans, you'll have a fantastic team of enthusiastic announcers
Understand that
@Eurosport
will be taking the
@24hoursoflemans
World Feed commentary overnight, led by
@MartinHaven
and
@dsceditor
.
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The
@FIAWEC
TV crew very much caters for all levels of knowledge and enthusiasm, across our broadcasts.
It’s one of our key remits - not to insult the cognoscenti and to welcome, inform and educate the new fans - with entertainment on tap from our amazing cars, teams and drivers
One argument is that they should just take the
@FIAWEC
commentary.
I would argue not, given that the Eurosport commentary needs to cater for both the aficionados and the casual fan, and therefore should strike a different balance to that of the in-house team.
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Every series/championship that produces its own TV should stream it live, for free.
Otherwise, it’s making it hard for fans to watch. And impossible to attract new fans, if they’ll never stumble across it… Find other ways to monetise it. Paywalls don’t help.
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This dreadfully sad weekend didn’t end
@lxznr
’s life or career - nor did it define him as a man.
He’s still a legend
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The Halo may be unsightly… but a gazillion times less unsightly than dead drivers.
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Whether you’re planning to follow
@24hoursoflemans
on the
@FIAWEC
App, on
@eurosport
or via
@RSL_Studio
Radio Le Mans, TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
No-one should miss out on what is likely to be an absolutely awesome race, with superb, informed commentary all round…
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Father to father: Anthony Hamilton knows how it feels when your son takes his first title…
He also now knows how Felipe Massa’s Dad felt in Brazil…
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The Centenary Le Mans may be full of highlights…
But this will always be the finest moment…
Apart from seeing me throwing myself on the floor in disagreement, You can also catch the second part of the 2023
@24hoursoflemans
on
@RSL_Studio
now and then with
@BlackpoolJonny
and I from midnight CET
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Almost ready to race for the first time in six months…
@FIAWEC
#Spa6h
With
@dsceditor
and
@allanmcnish
- he IS there, honest!
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Not models, actual race cars on their own podium.
Everything about
#Nurburgring
#N24h
is different
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This, too, is sport.
F1 is mainly a long series of disappointments, occasionally interspersed with brief moments of ecstasy - if you’re lucky!
If we only show the ‘winning’ side of sport, it loses all value, all worth.
All humanity.
Because sport IS struggle.
Please, for the love of whoever you worship. Use your heads. Charles (himself) posted a photo one of us took looking sad and dejected…and a MILLION PEOPLE liked it 😂
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So much fun!
So good to work with a great team - on-air and behind the scenes.
It made a brave new experiment really fly!
As Le Mans has always done, pushing the boundaries of what is possible and, hopefully, winning lots of new fans.
An honour to be a part of it...
Thanks, all.
What an experience that was! We made history with the first ever
@24hoursoflemans
Virtual and the racing did not disappoint with millions tuning in from around the 🌍 Feel honoured to have been part of it and work with this fantastic team 🙏 Is an experience I'll never forget
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Traditional piss-weak response from the FIA…
The sport’s governing body has a habit of avoiding the big issues… that continues.
It’s time for the FIA to start reading the room.
This is absolutely not acceptable.
Haas driver Nikita Mazepin will be allowed to compete in F1 this season after the FIA confirmed Russian and Belarusian drivers can race under a neutral flag.
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Just Stop.
Stop getting this irrelevant, racist, windbag on TV.
He has nothing to say that anyone needs to hear.
Just stop it!
Andrew Neil asked Nigel Farage for evidence of US voter fraud and you’ll be facepalming into next week
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The FIA demonstrates it’s finger-on-the-pulse relevance yet again.
Hopeless, inefficient and doing the sport absolutely no favours.
Dear
@fia
,
If the news I am hearing is correct, and you have appointed a racer with no notable results, who does not believe we compete as equals in this sport, to represent women in racing, I am incredibly disappointed.
Sincerely -an
#Indy500
qualifier,
#IndyLights
race winner.
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Come back to me when they’ve done a few Spa24 and N24 night shifts…
No cars for 6 hours?
In the dark?
In torrential rain?
Without a pit camera?
Stay on air?
Been there, done that.
Having seen commentators fill rain time for most of Friday during the
#EifelGP
coverage and a lot of today at Charlotte, I can vouch that "vamping" during rain delays / cancellations are a dark art & nowadays a prerequisite for the job.
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.
@TomCoronel
@pechito37
#selfie
@FIA_WTCC
Press Conference…
#Papa
gets third place in Race 2,
#Pechito
2nd and a win
http://t.co/gIEp38xAKD
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Selfish fuckwit.
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Taught my son to say this, every time we heard a siren, from early days.
He still does it.
He’s 17.
One of the all time funniest lines and one that I persist in using every time I hear sirens despite the inevitable eye rolling
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Booing at Nico when he's about to be interviewed?
Total bloody disgrace.
Sort yourselves the fuck out if you think you're fans of racing...
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Pictures? ☑️
Audio? ☑️
Timing? ☑️
Start Lists? ☑️
COFFEE???? ☑️
We are 10 minutes away from the start of the
@IBSFsliding
World Cup Season starting…
#squeeeee
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Compare and contrast:
@ArianaGrande
and
@realDonaldTrump
One is representing America and humanity.
The other is President of the USA.
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Either you see the decision to reinstate the FA/RB car as a generous gesture, in the spirit of this race, or you don’t.
I don’t have the inclination to persuade you otherwise.
Enjoy the ride or alight at the next station.
And have a good weekend.
We will, with the
#VirtualLM24
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Oh, do f*ck off.
Go and watch Villeneuve vs Arnoux.
Then tell me how much better it’d have been with penalties.
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Synchronicity brings old colleagues together in the ACO TV booth. IMSA’s John Doonan and former Mazda driver Harry Tincknell…
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Very strange to be here at Le Mans without the sound of Radio Le Mans in my ears.
I’ve been coming here long enough to remember having to get to a tannoy at half past every hour, for
@BobConstanduros
to tell us what was happening…
See you guys again next year
@specutainment
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No. Daft would be trying to tow a Bentley with a Kremer Porsche...
This way round is totally sensible...
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With the demise of Concorde and now the 747, the two most iconic airliners of all time have vanished from the skies, forever…
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Thanks to 200 drivers, 50 teams, Gerard Neveu and his
@FIAWEC
team,
@allanmcnish
,
@BenConsty
,
@hayleyedmonds
,
@ChrisMcCarthy32
,
@LewisMcGlade
, the ACO and the countless viewers and fans - old and new.
What a fun weekend.
Congratulations for making it happen!
#VirtualLM24
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Fun times with a bunch of dedicated enthusiasts, producing some great output…
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There is no ‘opposition’.
We are all voices in a choir… just in different sections of that choir.
And all singing from the same hymn sheet…
The
@FIAWEC
TV crew,
@RSL_Studio
and
@eurosport
are all enthusing about something we love… and trying to make other people love it too!
@MartinHaven
"The Opposition" (Eurosport UK... I really missed you and your usual cohort's voices on that stream) covered that thing briefly.
It's utterly bonkers, but utterly brilliant!
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Very much missed…
Such a lovely guy.
Genuinely really quick, a great sorter of cars and a cornerstone of the Scottish motorsport fraternity…
Oh, and a Whisky connoisseur.
He only raced for us once in the
#BTCC
- at Thruxton in 2000 - but today we remember the late David Leslie, on what would have been his 67th birthday.
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Whichever best fits the lie I happen to be telling at any particular moment.
So, either. Or both. Or neither.
And when you were talking about Grenfell you said you'd have had enough common sense to ignore the officials. So which is it?
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Anything that encourages more viewers / listeners / fans is great by me and absolutely to be encouraged.
Not only is there space for us all to cover the same event, it helps grow the audience, from which we all benefit.
@MartinHaven
@FIAWEC
Apologies, I wasn't trying to imply that you don't, just trying to explain why
@Eurosport
*may* opt for a different team given the higher potential of floating viewers 👍
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How can that possibly have just happened?
I have never, ever seen the like...
#heartbreak
#LeMans24
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Exactly what you hope to see outside a chi-chi Parisian Hotel…
Choices, choices.
The DS is the de facto choice but that CX Prestige is utterly stunning!
Nnngggggg…
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Two of the three major food groups.
Beer later.
A preparatory 'Belgian salad' for the Crowdstrike 24 Hours of Spa commentary night crew
@martinhaven
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Good to see that
@BMWMotorsport
’s race car designers managed to make the distinctive kidney grills look attractive.
Are you looking, in the road-car design department?
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Govt confirms a total of 50 visas have been issued to Ukrainian refugees.
12,000 applications are ‘in the system’…
Patel says ‘this is the first scheme in the world…’
Other EU countries simply allow Ukrainian refugees to escape from the Russians.
Fuck Brexit, fuck these Tories.
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You're not having my line.
And THOSE are my kerbs.
And that's MY AstroTurf.
AND you can stay out of my runoff too...
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Available everywhere you can find regular Rich Energy.
Right next to the Unicorn Tears.
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He’s going to be really annoyed when he finds out who the FIA President who didn’t step in to cancel the result was…
Jean Todt has backed Felipe Massa’s claims that the result of the 2008 Singapore GP should have been cancelled when suspicions of wrongdoing first emerged
Full
#F1
story ⬇️
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An inspirational athlete.
Battling injury and multiple surgeries to step onto the block at her first Olympics.
@BroganCrowley
somewhere, a young girl will go out and start competing, inspired by you.
And not just one young girl.
Dozens. Hundreds.
That’s your Olympic Legacy.
🗣 “A few years ago, I didn’t expect to be here. I’m so happy and so proud and I just can’t thank anyone enough for the support at home”
An emotional Brogan Crowley reflects on Olympic debut 😭🇬🇧
#beijing2022
|
@teamgb
|
@brogancrowley
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Took the opportunity to take a quick selfie with this trophy.
Come next June, doubt I’ll be able to get within 200m of it…
@24hoursoflemans
@FIAWEC
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Sauber Honda deal slightly confuses me.
Haven't both got enough problems?
Is it a case of 'misery loves company'?
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Yawning gaps between our three
@fiawec
Hypercar makes in FP2… 77/1000ths covering the top three…
Think Group C was fun?
Wait until Porsche, Ferrari, Cadillac, BMW and the rest arrive…
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Lots of interesting thoughts on this… from established fans who don’t want the racing messed with… to potential new fans who struggle to find/watch
@FIAWEC
The likes of Ferrari, Porsche, Cadillac will draw in new fans - how to hook them is the quandary.
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@Mark_Aldrich
@TomGaymor
@Twitter
@24hoursoflemans
@eurosport
Delighted to be reunited with the regular
@FIAWEC
crew,
@dsceditor
@antdavidson
and
@LouiseeB
, boosted by
@BenConsty
@AhLovejoy
@jazemanjaafar
and
@DuncV
.
Full coverage on
@eurosport
@discoveryplusUK
and
@MotorTrend
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So, finally, we come to the whole reason for Brexit.
Blue passports.
That was their entire plan, wasn't it?
Blue passports.
After that, they had nothing...
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Will keep retweeting this. Because it’s still correct.
The Government have been taking our money and throwing it at friends for a decade and more.
They need an ‘enemy’.
Now it sort-of isn’t Brussels, it’s people in tiny boats.
Oh look - squirrels!
@a_webb
@secrettory12
There is no huge influx. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries. This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s, and I’m out of order?
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That is exactly what we aim for… that you feel you’re watching with friends who know all about it…
Test Match Special for petrol-heads…
@DarrenTurner007
@24hoursoflemans
@dsceditor
@addison1972
@MartinHaven
@olivergavin
@allanmcnish
@LouiseeB
@DuncV
Loved the dynamic of you lot.
At times it felt like we were all down the pub watching it… 👌🏼
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Simon Arron and now Andy Hallbery.
This has been a very sad few weeks.
Love to their friends and families, especially.
Two guaranteed centres of fun and gossip have been taken far too soon…
We’ll all miss you guys…
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Careful there,
@JimmyBroadbent
… no punterooney, Jimmer
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Very sad news…
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EPIC camera angle… makes the climb out of Eau Rouge look fake…
It’s not!
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I wonder how Steph is doing in these strange times…
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The best thing about F1 is the team Twitter crews...
I'm looking at you
@MercedesAMGF1
and
@RenaultSportF1
especially.
Keep it up.
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After two seasons of Covid racing, it’s still good to see fans at the track.
When
@fiawec
was in Portimao, in 2021, we raced behind closed doors…
Not today!
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Olympic Champion Steve Holcomb with the 2- and 4-Man World Championship trophies that he held concurrently...
#RIP
Photo: Charlie Booker
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