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The Entire World Endurance Championship Season Is Coming To American TV
The Entire World Endurance Championship Season Is Coming To American TV-September 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:43

Good news for endurance fans: we can finally watch the entire WEC season this year on television in the good ol' U-S-of-A and Canada. Not only will we get our usual 24 Hours of Le Mans coverage, but Fox Sports inked a deal to show the whole season. That's multiple hours of motorsport deliciousness at a time.

According to , the races will be split between Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2, bringing us over 70 hours of live coverage in total.

FiA WEC, FOX Sports ink landmark TV deal for 2015...

All Six Hours of Silverstone will be broadcast next weekend, and a minimum of three hours will be broadcast for each race thereafter. That's hours of racing to veg out to at a time, and it's perhaps my favorite series on the planet right now because of all the and among top-level manufacturer teams.

Modern top-level prototype racecars have notoriously bad, gunslit visibility. The Nissan LMP1 GT-R…

The WEC hopes that it will actually let North America know the championship exists.

"This is a significant agreement for the brand awareness of the World Endurance Championship in North America, which is very important market for our partners and manufacturers," WEC CEO Gérard Neveu said to .

We're kind of a big deal, I guess. Also, we have our own round of it, and it's connected to an entire year-long schedule, not just Le Mans.

"This will also increase the visibility and interest for spectators at our US round, the Lone Star Le Mans weekend, in September, where the event will be one of the sporting highlights at the Circuit of the Americas," said Neveu to .

Lone Star Le Mans may be my favorite local event of the year (), but it's had a bit of an uphill battle when it comes to attendance. The venue may be the United States' only Grade 1 circuit, but it lacks the history that places like Watkins Glen or Sebring do. It's new. There isn't a crazy camping scene. It hasn't really found a place yet. WEC hopes that by being on our TVs, they'll get better attendance at our round of the championship.

If you are a Porsche fan and you weren't either in Austin at Circuit of the Americas this weekend…

Either way, I can't complain unless Fox cuts away to . Then I'll complain pretty loudly.

Hey, guys, do you like watching motor racing? On TV? When the schedule says there's going to be…

Also, I may be less productive on WEC weekends when it comes to other stuff besides watching racing. Fair warning.

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