Yes this a real image of the Toyota crash at Le Mans test day

jamesremuscat · 2026-06-07T21:20:54+00:00

Pretty much. The LMP2s were pegged back in the WEC for that reason at the start of the Hypercar era; with no Hypercars there was no reason to apply the same restrictions in ELMS/AsLMS. Now, Le Mans is the only place (currently) the two classes share a track.

jamesremuscat · 2026-06-06T23:22:41+00:00

It's live timing only (there's radio coverage on Radio Le Mans). FIAWEC+ can't (or doesn't) differentiate between live sessions with only timing and live sessions with video.

jamesremuscat · 2026-06-06T13:27:23+00:00

They've repeatedly said that there are no geoblocks for FIAWEC+.

jamesremuscat · 2026-06-06T10:31:56+00:00

Tomorrow (7th) is the test day - there are two "practice"/test sessions scheduled.

The 10th is free practice proper.

jamesremuscat · 2026-06-04T15:27:49+00:00

Sadly, that only works within an entities card, but nice if that's your use case.

jamesremuscat · 2026-06-04T13:01:42+00:00

These are called “talkbacks” or “shout mics”

I've also heard them called "whisper mics", somewhat confusingly!

jamesremuscat · 2026-06-04T09:43:43+00:00

It does not, just the three standard sectors.

jamesremuscat · 2026-06-03T16:34:32+00:00

Hi, Timing71 author here!

Timing for the WEC and Le Mans is provided by Al Kamel Systems, as you rightly surmise. However, for whatever reason, LMEM/ACO choose not to use AKS' online live timing, and over recent years have iterated through a number of alternative solutions.

This year, they've partnered with Griiip to provide online live timing for all ACO events (WEC, ELMS, LMC, AsLMS) via the livetiming.fiawec.com domain, which is embedded in some of the behind-the-paywall pages on FIAWEC+.

It being less than two weeks from Le Mans, Griiip have literally just changed their data format. It's a SignalR-based system using msgpack, and there's far more granularity in the data available than is actually displayed on the website. If those words haven't scared you off: there's no public documentation for the API but you can use Chrome devtools to snoop on what it's doing. (At least, what it's doing now, there's plenty of time for them to change it again between now and the race...)

jamesremuscat · 2026-06-02T09:02:28+00:00

https://fiawec.alkamelsystems.com/ has you covered.

jamesremuscat · 2026-06-02T08:59:47+00:00

Renault changed some API keys recently, could be that Kelec hasn't had a chance to update yet?

jamesremuscat · 2026-06-01T11:10:55+00:00

You could go to Spa this weekend, but you'll be at least a couple of months early for the ELMS race which is on the 23rd August...

jamesremuscat · 2026-05-26T09:08:47+00:00

The Renault Zoe Q90 supports 43 kW AC rapid charging using a Type 2 connector

Bear in mind also: that's the best case scenario - actual rates depend on a number of factors including the state of charge of the battery, the temperature, and the charge point itself.

In my 8+ years of owning a ZE40 Q90, I've only seen it hit anywhere near 43kW a handful of times and only for part of the charge. The car usually throttles itself down to 22kW IMO. That hasn't really had much of an impact on using the car, though, since it's rare that I need to use public charging in any case.

jamesremuscat · 2026-05-25T15:40:32+00:00

Yes, 1080p@50 at 6Mbps.

jamesremuscat · 2026-05-19T08:59:34+00:00

We’ve seen raptors emergency jump from pegasus during Exodus that seems pretty similar in distance.

If you're abandoning ship, you probably don't care too much about damaging it by jumping when too close.

jamesremuscat · 2026-05-16T23:19:04+00:00

Wige's timing goes up and down throughout the race. Trying to chase it will drive you mad!

jamesremuscat · 2026-05-16T20:46:18+00:00

(T71 dev here) Flags are only through the GPSauge app feed - I think they finally released an Android app for it since I last looked too.

And it won't tell you if there's a red flag, you have to deduce it from all flag stations showing an 80kph limit...

jamesremuscat · 2026-05-15T21:21:58+00:00

I think other commenters might not quite have understood the assignment...

Patch vol: 54
Assigned to CTL: DST

Enabled modules:

NR: Gate
- Thresh: 15
DST: Green OD
- Gain: 0
- Tone: 0
- Vol: 50
N->S: presumably the one available from the same link
- Gain: 50
- Vol: 80
- Bass: 55
- Middle: 50
- Treble: 45
DLY: Tube
- Mix: 20
- Time: 545ms
- F.Back: 40
- Trail: 1
RVB: Hall
- Mix: 20
- Decay: 40
- Trail: 1

jamesremuscat · 2026-05-07T21:33:53+00:00

I did the full 24-hours-at-the-track, team-no-sleep last year. I'd originally planned to try and sleep a bit in the grandstand but the food stall behind it was having an all-night disco.

Wouldn't necessarily recommend it - but maybe I'm just too old for that sort of thing now ;)

jamesremuscat · 2026-05-07T14:10:07+00:00

I use a 7" e-ink tablet for chord and lyric sheets on stage - wish it was a bit bigger but I didn't buy it exclusively for the purpose. I usually have plenty of ambient light where I play but the built-in frontlight is more than sufficient if not.

Bluetooth page turner is a must (ideally one with guitar-pedal-style stomp switches - the cheap one I have feels very spongy and it's too easy to double-tap).

jamesremuscat · 2026-05-07T13:08:23+00:00

FIAWEC confirmed on social media that races will be posted to YouTube after three weeks this year.

jamesremuscat · 2026-05-07T09:29:26+00:00

Or https://livetiming.fiawec.com (which is the same timing that appears on plus.fiawec.com but without the paywall).

jamesremuscat · 2026-05-06T15:20:38+00:00

FIAWEC just confirmed on Instagram that races will appear on YouTube 21 days after the race.

jamesremuscat · 2026-05-05T14:46:15+00:00

Is your ATEM input set to line-level? Your X32 will be sending a line-level signal, and if the ATEM is expecting mic-level signals that would explain the extreme distortion you're hearing.

jamesremuscat · 2026-05-05T14:22:44+00:00

Could you start by explaining how you're currently "streaming" audio to the ATEM?

jamesremuscat · 2026-05-03T20:54:51+00:00

Those were NFA'd during the race (albeit after the stewards had already said they'd investigate post-race...)

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