Key West race coverage
 

You know, I appreciate the best efforts and intentions of the staff on Livestream covering the race, but they really need to cut down on the inside jokes and clowning around, and get on with covering the races.

They didn't even know that the "strange sounding exhaust" note of Spirit of Qatar is due to V12 engines, and have positioned their booth with almost no view of the course. They missed JD Byrider's spin in the harbor, and several other incidents and lead changes. Is this really the best that the sport can do? :mad:

On the other hand, the SuperCat race was probably one of the best-fought races ever. Great show by Stihl, WHM, JD Byrider and all the other boats! :ernaehrung004:

Maybe I'm just a little grumpy because I'm not there.... :(

Man, I loved the livestream coverage coupled w/ listening to the WKWF feed on iheart radio. Great to be able to watch/hear the races live a 1000 miles away. Also nice to see commentary by Chip Fendt on the livefeed popping up. Sure there's room to improve, but I thought it was good overall.

Is there a link so we can listen to and watch the races in real time?

http://new.livestream.com/sbi/keywest12

They'll be streaming more races live on Fri & Sun. The sound is better using iheartradio, so go to the KWKF am website, and follow the iheartradio link from there.

Who won in super cat? And what was the finishing order?

Results were not up on the SBI website when I last checked (about two hours ago) and I did try to call Tony Marcantonio of J.D. Byrider. (By the way, the SBI name for Super Cat is Superboat, no big deal ... it gets confusing ... but thought you might want to know) but could not reach him.

I did get the Superboat Unlimited race No. 1 story via a telephone interview with John Tomlinson of Gasse, http://speedonthewater.com/in-the-ne...irst-race.html.

Jason Johnson, the co-publisher of speedonthewater.com, is heading out tonight on the red eye from Los Angeles and I'm doing the same thing from San Francisco, so it will be easier—and faster—to the Worlds news up starting Friday.

Stihl won it. Not sure about 2 and 3.

Aren't you kinda late? Get your a$$es out there! :D :D :D

Stihl, whm, JD byrider, maritimo, CRC, fastboats, warpaint in that order.

what happened to warpaint? and why

Warpaint had a power steering failure early on and had to drop out of the race. They'll be back Friday with Bob Vesper driving and Billy Moore throttling.

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on friday 3 more races and the final 3 races for the worlds champions sbi


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All Photos 1st day of racing 2012 World Championships sbi By Freeze Frame web site www.freezeframevideo
on friday 3 more races and the final 3 races for the worlds champions sbi

Credit where credit is due: The coverage today was much more professional and informative. Having guys like Nigel Hook and Marc Granet stop by made things even better.

Day 3 coverage:

Race 1: commentators didn't know that tilted kilt completely stuffed it into a wave. They saw it stand up, but thought they stayed running. The cameraman caught the incident on video pretty good. Not sure why they were interviewing Rick M right during the middle of the race; they were too busy talking about aquamania and their turbines instead of covering the race.

Race 2: the camera didn't consistently follow the leaders that, often missing the battles going into the turns. Major feed interruptions, plus the camera went to the sky, crowd, anchored boats, and booth during the racing action.

Race 3: Good coverage.

Not sure why the commercial breaks happen in the middle of the short races. At least the video stays rolling during these breaks.

All in All it was better than nothing. However, audio was horrible and screen froze or buffered at the worst possible time. The start.

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