WEC App

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Great Dane

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2,723 posts

166 months

Wednesday 9th April 2014
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Was I imgining things that the ACO announced that would be a WEC app?

eps

6,297 posts

269 months

Thursday 10th April 2014
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There's a great Live Timing App for the Le Mans 24hrs, Android only. I think it might be replicated for WEC as well.... and there's a Le Mans Guide, with photos of every car and driver listing. Just search for Le Mans in Google Play.

Great Dane

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2,723 posts

166 months

Thursday 10th April 2014
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I make my own Spotters' guide - I just thought I heard something during the press launch of the 2014 LM invites etc

Oldwolf

935 posts

193 months

Thursday 10th April 2014
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I think Radio Le Mans said the WEC were releasing the App on the Friday before Silverstone

Great Dane

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2,723 posts

166 months

Thursday 10th April 2014
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thanks... will keep an eye out for it

loudlashadjuster

5,123 posts

184 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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Adding this for any future queries because PH is well-regarded in terms of Google.

The app is OK and functional in terms of being able to access timing/position info, replays and live video/track positions, but that doesn't mean it is optimal.

The lack of adaptive portrait/landscape viewing is dumb in this day and age, and the layout of the timing info leaves a lot to be desired, on iPhone at least. Proper re-orientation would help this enormously.

It's also pretty battery hungry and I watched my phone go from 58% to 47% in about 15 minutes of heavy replay, live stream and live timing action.

£3 for 1 race is a bit steep (or £16 for the season - WTF?!), but then if you've already paid £7 for a mediocre baguette and £4.30 for a pint of fizzy piss it seems almost reasonable.

Parabola

1,849 posts

197 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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They were promoting this app heavily at the 6hr WEC race yesterday.

Unfortunately the woefully bad EE mobile coverage at Silverstone meant I couldn't send a tweet or picture message, let alone download an iPhone app.

Craikeybaby

10,411 posts

225 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Parabola said:
They were promoting this app heavily at the 6hr WEC race yesterday.

Unfortunately the woefully bad EE mobile coverage at Silverstone meant I couldn't send a tweet or picture message, let alone download an iPhone app.
Exactly this. Unfortunately I think it will be more useful for following the race at home.

FartKong

897 posts

183 months

Thursday 24th April 2014
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Its not very well designed but it was still useful for keeping up to date on how many laps the cars were behind the leader etc.