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[FrankCanada97]

It's time for GT racing's most prestigious race on the calendar, the Spa 24 hours. GT3-spec cars from a wide variety of manufacturers compete over 24 hours at one of motorsports great circuits, Spa-Francorchamps. This year's entries comprise of 66 teams composed of drivers from across the globe and with experience in many different racing series. The organizing body SRO will be livestreaming the event on their website. If you are geoblocked, Nissan will be livestreaming the race broadcast on their Nismo TV youtube channel.

When: July 29th 4:30pm GMT+2
Spotter's Guide (What the cars look like):
http://www.blancpain-gt-series.com/images/results/83/SpotterGuideTotal24HoursOfSpa-2.pdf

Livestreams:
Official Site
Alternate Official Dailymotion
Nismo TV

The circuit:
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 7.004km
Stavelot, Belgium

The cars:

Aston Martin V12 GT3

Audi R8 LMS GT3

BMW M6 GT3

Bentley Continental GT3

Emil Frey Jaguar G3 GT3

Ferrari 488 GT3

Lamborghini Huracan GT3

McLaren 650S GT3

Mercedes AMG GT3

Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3

Porsche 991 GT3 R

"I was promised Hatsune Miku, you lured me into this thread under false pretenses!"
Alright, here you go:
#00 Good Smile Racing Mercedes AMG
A perennial fan favourite in Japan's Super GT series, Good Smile Racing was invited to this year's Spa 24 hours for the first time. This team is partly funded by fans who purchase various Good Smile Racing merchandise, most notably figurines. Featuring a striking "Racing Miku" livery, this car is hard to miss. Joining the Good Smile Racing regulars of Nobuteru Taniguchi and Tatsuya Kataoka is former F1 driver and current WEC Toyota factory driver, Kamui Kobayashi.

 

[FrankCanada97]

Kamui Kobayashi wrecked the Hatsune Miku car during qualifying. Mercedes sent Good Smile Racing a new one overnight. They will be starting from pitlane for the race and will have to serve a stop and go penalty. As usual the team is leaning on support from their fans by offering various Good Smile merchandise for sale.

Miku was able to make it onto the new car.

Final qualifying for the race starts in 2 and half hours. The top 20 starting postions will be determined in a half hour qualifying shootout.

 

[Mobius 1]

Finally. Let's do this.

 

[dubc35]

Nice OP, subbed...although I'm not sure I'll be able to watch any of it.

 

[Quonny]

Tony Taka Miku can fuck right off.

 

[FrankCanada97]

James Colado driving the #55 Kaspersky Motorsport Ferrari 488 GT3 has scored the pole position for the main race.

Top 12 starting positions:

 

[Trojita]

Tony Taka Miku? Ewww

 

[KennyLinder]

Will this be on Eurosport again?

 

[FrankCanada97]

Will this be on Eurosport again?

Yup, I don't know which Eurosport though.

 

[Chris R]

Stuck on CBSSN here in America A channel I don't get

 

[FrankCanada97]

Stuck on CBSSN here in America A channel I don't get

Watch the livestreams! The Nismo TV youtube stream is region free I believe.

 

[TCRS]

oh neat

trying to watch as many 24h races as I can this year. already watched Nurburgring and of course Le Mans.

Kobayashi is everywhere! hopefully he can make up for his bad luck at le mans. also fucking anime..

 

[FrankCanada97]

oh neat

trying to watch as many 24h races as I can this year. already watched Nurburgring and of course Le Mans.

Kobayashi is everywhere! hopefully he can make up for his bad luck at le mans. also fucking anime..

His team is starting from pit lane and he is driving the anime car. Guess his bad luck streak continues.

Just 20 minutes until race time.

 

[Han Seoul-Oh]

2 minutes in, and already a yellow.

 

[Teknopathetic]

"Watch the livestreams! The Nismo TV youtube stream is region free I believe."


Watching the Nismo stream in US right now.

 

[TCRS]

shit missed the start

oh well still got 23 h and 48 min in front of me

I'm watching this stream on my ps4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXVITVknP_Q

 

[TCRS]

kobayashi on 61..

 

[Graphics Horse]

kobayashi on 61..

60 now and unlapping some cars.

NISMO's GPS camera seems to be dead, but I've never seen a youtube multi camera stream before, pretty cool.
edit: gps map back up as I was typing

 

[Tempy]

Ouch.

 

[TCRS]

holy shit that destroyed ferrari

full course yellow

 

[Tempy]

Black Flag. I'm confused.

EDIT: Ah, the car didn't follow the safety car through pit lane.

 

[Tempy]

Wow. Car 14 Black-Flagged. But now allowed back on track (presumably after talking to race control).

 

[Teknopathetic]

All of these track limit penalties are hilarious.

 

[FrankCanada97]

Just got back from work, was the #55 Ferrari leading since the beginning of the race?

 

[Teknopathetic]

"Just got back from work, was the #55 Ferrari leading since the beginning of the race?"


No, the #63 Lamborghini undercut them in the pits, I believe after the first stint and led for a few stints before the Ferrari returned the favor and undercut them in the pits.

 

[FrankCanada97]

Field is bunched up for a safety car. Two cars died on track at the same time.

 

[TCRS]

damn that is dark. more like nurburgring. le mans has lots of light.

 

[TCRS]

Battlefield 1 merc out

also lol at that unicorn mercedes

 

[FrankCanada97]

Martin Haven has taken over the commentary. He's a good commentator, I enjoy listening to him.

I like the coloured lights emanating from behind the grille of some the cars.

The Good Smile Racing car with Kobayashi driving is P29 and 3 laps down. Not too bad starting from last place.

 

[Juicy Bob]

Wait, this race has its own thread?!

Why did I not know about this!

 

[FrankCanada97]

Wait, this race has its own thread?!

Why did I not know about this!

Probably because I made the thread at a low traffic time of day.

Haha, the chat in the Nismo stream is discussing Good Smile Racing Figmas and Nendoroids.

 

[Jezbollah]

Just tuned in.

Motorsport.tv still doesnt have an HD channel on Sky? Dafuq is this shit?

 

[Han Seoul-Oh]

The only thing I enjoy more then night racing is rain. Any idea if there might be some on the next 16 hours?

 

[FrankCanada97]

The only thing I enjoy more then night racing is rain. Any idea if there might be some on the next 16 hours?

Should be some rain starting at 10AM local time, nothing heavy though.

 

[Tempy]

BANANA

 

[sems4arsenal]

Still surreal seeing Matt Simmons in a race on TV. I've raced him at the final gtacademy race. Bit gutting as well.

 

[FrankCanada97]

Still surreal seeing Matt Simmons in a race on TV. I've raced him at the final gtacademy race. Bit gutting as well.

Wow, you were a GT Academy finalist? Must have been a great experience, still an amazing achievement.

Safety car for a car buried under the tire wall.

 

[sems4arsenal]

Wow, you were a GT Academy finalist? Must have been a great experience, still an amazing achievement.

Safety car for a car buried under the tire wall.

Best week of my life easily.

 

[amar212]

Best week of my life easily.

Seroius congrats man!

And congrats to OP.

 

[FrankCanada97]

Race director declared a wet track, we have rain! Things are about to pickup.

 

[Tempy]

And there goes the Goodsmile Racing car.

 

[FrankCanada97]

RIP Racing Miku. That Kobayashi bad luck was too much. The Audi looked like it had something broke and it turned into the #00.

 

[Han Seoul-Oh]

I leave for a bit to play some Dota 2 and not only is it raining, but Miku is gone. I assume they crashed out due to the rain?

 

[FrankCanada97]

I leave for a bit to play some Dota 2 and not only is it raining, but Miku is gone. I assume they crashed out due to the rain?

Nah, this happened a bit before the rain. An Audi lost it braking into the chicane and crashed into the Miku Mercedes. The rain has let up a little bit now.

 

[Han Seoul-Oh]

Nah, this happened a bit before the rain. An Audi lost it braking into the chicane and crashed into the Miku Mercedes. The rain has let up a little bit now.

I should have edited my post because right after I posted it, I saw that you had already said why the #00 was gone. Thanks for answering it though.

 

[Chris R]

Daylight coming now

 

[FrankCanada97]

Pretty long caution period, it must have been a pretty big crash. I'm going to head to bed and hopefully wake up in time to catch the final two hours and the F1 race.

 

[Han Seoul-Oh]

#55 Kaspersky 488 looks to be done for. Contact with a Mercedes appears to have caused steering issues making the Ferrari go off on Eau Rouge.

 

[chadskin]

OMG

 

[Juicy Bob]

Morning guys! Just catching up with last night. How's ma boi Kobayashi doing in the #00...