Background: I watched F1 during the 1990s and early 2000s. It was easily available as one of the only things worth watching on Sunday afternoons on public TV. After Ferrari started dominating with Schumi and Alonso I gradually lost interest and followed Montoya (my favorite driver) over to NASCAR. After a couple of seasons watching stock cars going at it, I moved onto WTCC, but it wasn’t super fun so I mostly stopped following motorsports. After more than a decade of hiatus this year I got into it again. I don’t watch F1 (nor have I watched DTS). Here’s what I watched, and my thoughts on it.

FIA WEC - Endurance racing series with 8 events (6H, 8H, 10H, 24H). This is where I was most invested in. The drivers are good, the cars look cool and the grid is awesome (and growing in 2025). This is what drew me back to motorsports and with good reason. I happened to catch the Qatar 1812 km on Eurosport and started following the season from there. I watched the highlights of previous years and WEC Full Access 2023 and was hooked. I usually follow the races live on Eurosport, over several days if I don’t have time in one sitting. I’ll definitely continue to follow this one.

(+) WEC Full Access series is quite cool, if biased to Hypercar class

(+) Interesting storylines unfold and there is a great level of competition

(+) Unpredictability of winner

(+) Lots of official manufacturers involved

(+) Easy access to full races, if you can wait for a week, on the official FIA WEC YouTube channel

(-) GT racing in the form of LMGT3 is a support act and it’s unclear to me if it will have even less cars in 2025

IMSA SportsCar Championship - Endurance (6H, 10H, 12H, 24H) and (long?) Sprint (100, 160 min) racing series with 11 events overall. This one is a mixed bag. On the one hand, it’s an opportunity to watch some circuits in North America. On the other hand I don't think it accomplishes everything that it could be. The GTP class is not as good as the Hypercar class in WEC. The GTD Pro/GTD classes are maybe on par with the LMGT3 on WEC, but not as fun to watch as GTWCE or DTM. The LMP2 class is okish for me. It’s hard to root for any particular car since they’re 99% Oreca, and since the class doesn’t exist on WEC anymore and I don’t follow the Le Mans series I don’t get enough screen time to get to know drivers, so it’s not much interesting to me. I’d say IMSA was good for when there’s nothing on and I had an itch to scratch. I may watch some events, but if I miss them, I won’t be bothered.

(+) Multiclass racing is still fun, and it’s the best alternative to WEC

(+) Easy to follow on IMSA’s official YouTube channel

(-) Full Course Yellow happens too much

(-) Lacks depth on the GTP grid to make it interesting

GT World Challenge Europe - Two series in one, with five Endurance (3H, 6H, 24H) races and five Sprint events (two 60 minute races per event/weekend). Some of the best GT racing there is. The Sprint Cup series has some great driving, if not very competitive at the top. Ultimately only two cars were real contenders for the title, but there were some great battles at different levels. The Endurance Cup series is more interesting, in my opinion, of course, offering more unpredictability with the same great level of driving seen on Sprint races. I appreciate the variety of circuits and racing this series offers and overall, will continue to watch it. It’s also interesting to contrast the races, for example the 007 Aston Martin did really well in Endurance, but barely registered on the radar during Sprint races, while Dries Vanthoor was a loose devil during Sprints but very tame during Endurance races. I think the fact that Bronze drivers are paired with Pros sometimes makes it look like an upset is going to come, but then the car goes to the pit and the Bronze driver can’t keep pace, making it a disappointment to me. On the other hand this can be also considered a pro if you want to check out different tiers of drivers.

(+) Great GT racing in different styles

(+) Many different cars

(+) Easy to follow with races live on GTWorld’s official YouTube’s channel

(-) Not only pros on the grid 

DTM - Eight Sprint events of two 60 minute races each. This is the one that got away. Races are only available on DTM’s official YouTube channel in Germany (I think), so I only followed the highlights for the first half of the season before trying out a VPN for the rest. From what I saw, these sprint races seem to be the best GT racing one can get. I believe it’s also one of the few GT series with a single driver per car, which is a good contrast to most series. I think I’m going to get a VPN to watch 2025. This, to me, seems like the F1 of GT racing, if F1 was actually competitive. It came down to the last race and I feel, if I had to choose only one series, this is my top choice to watch instead of WEC because it’s just concentrated fun (Rene Rast is guaranteed to cause mayhem while overtaking almost half a grid in a single race).

(+) Only pro drivers on the grid

(+) Hard racing down to the wire

(-) Hard to watch online outside of Germany

Porsche Supercup - Eight short Sprint races (~30 minutes). This is a support series for F1, taking place on the morning of the GPs. Overall it’s a bit of a snoozefest. There’s like eight pro drivers in the grid, and only three were title contenders, if you want to call it that. The second half of the season was more interesting but still predictable.

(+) Races are very short, usually taking 30-40 minutes to complete, so there’s not much in terms of time investment

(+) The Porsche 911 GT3 is a good looking car I guess

(-) Not many pro drivers, mostly rookies and guests

(-) Not many interesting battles during races, overtaking is done by opponent error

(-) Not the easiest series to follow, watched in Eurosport, but some events were not shown due to conflicts (Olympics)

Iberian Supercars/CPV - Six events with two 45 minute Sprint races each. This is the only GT4 series on the list, and it actually has some TCR cars on the grid. I watched it because 1) it’s close to me and 2) it’s easy to watch. Some races I caught on a local channel but mostly I watched online on YouTube. The whole season technically counts for different series, with some races counting for the Iberian Supercars (Portugal and Spain), some counting for the CPV (the Portuguese series) and some for the Supercars España series (Spanish only). This one surprised me. I went in thinking nothing of it, of course, but there were some really good races, with the winner overtaking the leader on the last lap, some big upsets (due to safety car, but still). I’ll keep an eye out next season and see how it evolves. 

Stuff that I very briefly looked into:

• TCR World Tour - I watched one race mostly for nostalgia, to see how TC racing has evolved after WTCC. It didn’t grab me, and in the interest of time, decided to drop this one.
• Mazda MX-5 Cup - This one looked promising, but ultimately I dropped it due to lack of time. Maybe I should watch this instead of the Porsche Supercup?

What do you guys think of my choices? What should I drop or add?

Thanks!

The Final race in the World Endurance Championship is currently running, and as you all know, we have the Hypercar championship on the line! It's already been quite chaotic, a spin for the race leader has led to some early race drama already, so it won't be one to miss.

The drivers are just making their first pit stops, with around 7 Hours remaining and much of the drama yet to unfold, so if you are ditching WEC for Formula One later on, there may be some helpful links to stay updated here as well.

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Like Albert Costa, Vincent Abril, Dennis Lind…

So I just stumbled on DTM in the states on this MAVTV channel while looking for the Michigan State vs Wolverines CFB game. I mean the camera work is varied and there are driver coms… However, the audio balance is 10 track/ 90 commentary, and the commentary is just ok. Is this just another money and ratings thing, where they just can’t afford the talent, with stereotypically boring Germans on the side? Also, the broadcast is prerecorded.

PS: Supercars is on it too, rather than just Motor Trend+

Edit: Looks like they are getting the audio balance right on the 2nd round of the Red Bull ring, might’ve just got a bad broadcast.

The FIA Motorsport Games is running right now and it's basically the olympics motorsport version with almost all categories from the major series and national teams but i feel like there is no or at least very little interest in this event, the stream corrently running right now has 1000 viewers and i see that absolutly nobody is talking about this event, on social media, on forums, on youtube damn even here in this sub i don't see anything, why the Motorport Games is largely ignored; poor marketing or other reasons?

The 720 is infamous for being "hard to drive" but why is that? What design philosophies and and car factors make it harder to drive than its peers? What other gt3 cars are known for being "hard to drive" ? All answers appreciated!!

Obviously the supposed return of the Holy Trinity but beyond that it feels like Hypercars are obsessed with modern Motorsports technology. Plus prototype racing is the most popular it's ever been proving that this could financially make sense. Also an electric class would be cool to me but I'm weird and actually like electric cars so forget I said that part.

Hi there, I've got a guestion for some professionals here. I am looking for part of video and I cannot find it. Can someone help me? Here is little info which I have

1. I think it is from GT World Challenge, maybe even Blancpain, how it was called before. I don't know if it was sprint or endurance event. It could be from race held in Italy (Monza?), but could be from other race from probably 2020-2022 season.
2. The moment I am talking about is that someone maybe hit and spun Audi car I think, damaged his suspension and left him facing wrong way with wheel at the back of the car totally twisted. It was unable to continue in race and even get of the race track.
3. I've been searching in YouTube highlights from season mentioned and I could not find anything. Closest example was incident of young Panis from Misano 2022, so maybe it could be possibly this crash (Audi, spun, Italian race track), but highlights does not contain the right angle of incident I'm talking about, so I could not say if it is or is not that crash. I am searching image where is this car solely in the middle of track behind these conditions.

If anyone knows from which race is this moment let mě know please or comment with screenshot, thanks!