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Motorsports: Where will you be watching?

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The weekend of the 16th/17th May I , like many settled down for the evening armed with a small arsenal of technology and proceeded to watch the - excellent I must say - coverage of the Nurburgring 24hr race, live by way of the Radio Le Mans internet page and YouTube. Now, this is not the first time that I and many other people whom I know via the various social media platforms have viewed an event, in fact this year so far I have watched, The Dubai 24 hour (in my lunch break at work!), The Daytona 24 hour, Bathurst 12 hour, Mugello... and so on, not to mention utilising various on boards from the various squads via, yes, you guessed it, the internet or YouTube. Now, I know these series / races are endurance events and so it would be hard to cover these in this much detail on a standard TV broadcast for events that wouldn't bring in the viewers that maybe the Le Mans 24 hr does, but I'm slightly straying from the point i'm trying to make. And that point is: Where will we