Le Mans on ITV4 (a bit)

Jake | Friday 12th June 2009 | Other Motorsport, Touring Cars

The Le Mans 24 Hour is the big jobby this weekend. After extensive and impressive coverage of another legendary event this week – the Isle of Man TT – ITV4 has coverage of it. Sort of.

Qualifying highlights are on Saturday morning from 11.20am to 11.55am. The race gets under way on Saturday at 2pm UK time. ITV4 has race coverage only between 10.30am and 11.45am on Sunday morning.

After that Le Mans makes way for the British Touring Car Championship from Croft.

But it means that ITV4 won’t be showing the end of the race, either live or in highlights form. Unless it’s going to interrupt the BTCC programme, or highlights are going to be broadcast later than next weekend – which is when we have TV listings until. It’s all a bit odd.

In any case, Eurosport naturally has hours and hours of coverage.

And don’t forget that MotoGP is in Catalunya – for its second of three visits to Spain in 2009 – too.

Another busy weekend, then.

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Comment by Phil G, Saturday 13th June 2009 @ 11:05

Mate, have a look at this http://www.btcc.net/html/generalnews_detail.php?id=1502&month=0&year=2009&form=&searchterm= . Check this quote from it “ITV4 will broadcast the event from 11.45am through to 6.00pm including, as a bonus for motor sport enthusiasts, around half an hour of coverage dedicated to the closing stages of the world-famous Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar race in France.” Looks like they’ll be showing the final little bit.

Good blog as well :-)
Pingback by Where is Le Mans? – 2or4.co.uk – a motorsport blog, Saturday 5th June 2010 @ 20:35

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