With the big one only a couple of weeks away now, I thought you all might like to know how Motors TV UK will be handling this year's 75th Le Mans 24 Hours.

Following the success of our debut 24 Hours broadcast last year, Martin Haven and I will be presenting live coverage live from scrutineering in the city centre on Monday and Tuesday, bringing you the rites of 'le passage' together with interviews with drivers and team managers.

We are joined by David Leslie and Diana Binks live at the track on Wednesday and Thursday nights for qualifying, then on Friday Carlton Kirby will bring you the Drivers Parade.

Our race weekend coverage starts at 08.00 Saturday with the 24 Hours warm-up, followed by the Le Mans Legends race which will be covered for us by historic experts Neville Hay and Chris Parsons.

Motors TV will be live on air for the rest of Saturday and Sunday, our core commentary team joined by drivers and personalities as we bring you in all more than 50 hours of coverage. Martin is threatening to go for 24 hours non-stop - bets are being taken on this forum...

Note that the 24 Hours starts at 15.00 local time, 14.00 UK this year.

MARK COLE

UK Timings at present are:
Monday June 11 Scrutineering: 13.30 - 17.00
Tuesday June 12 Scrutineering: 07.30 - 16.00
Weds June 13 Qualifying 1: 18.00 - 23.00
Thurs June 14 Qualifying 2: 18.00 - 23.00
Friday June 15 Drivers Parade: 17.00 - 18.00
Sat June 16 Warm-up, Legends, Race: 08.00 - 00.00
Sun June 17 Race: 00.00 - 14.30[/b]

Thx Marc & ofcourse MotorsTV for bringing us a week of endurance joy
dates and times bookmarked!! although i hardly need remembered

hopefully we'll see a great battle with the Pug's & Audi trucks

But also really looking forward to the Legends race

can't wait for it all to start, nordschleife 24 as a warm up the week before

my money says martin will make 24 hours and i will fail about 1am ops:

does anyone else have a sky+ box mine has started turning it self off at about 2.30am anybody else have the same problem??

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ummm not sure

Mark, If I see you at Le Mans over the week I'll be sure to say hello.

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Thanks for the times Mark, looking forward emenssly to le mans week

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Mark Cole, thanks for letting us know.

I'm looking foward to Le Mans, not long to go!

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Thanks Mark, hope to see you Friday night the 15th on Maison Blanche!

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Further to the schedule I posted earlier, the good new today is that Marino Franchitti will join our Motors TV commentary team at Le Mans, to add his driver perspective to our coverage.

Marino was the star of the second round of the ALMS at St Pete when he put his Andretti Green Acura Honda out front ahead of Porsche and Audi and kept it there for much of the race.

I have had the pleasure of working with him before on Motors TV when he joined me for Super GT, and we are all looking forward to his dry Scottish sense of humour - we just have to make sure we don't leave him and David Leslie together by themselves on-air for too long....

MARK COLE

Oh, great stuff.

The commentary line-up is even better than last year! It will great to hear you guys. We have a mix of expert commentators and racing drivers, perfect!

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Agree with Sav, thats great news, good one motors tv

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Anyone who has the latest software version on their box.

Sky have introduced a power-saving feature, which basically sends the box to sleep if it detects that the TV is switched off and you don't have any recordings scheduled.

It will wake up when it has something to record, or if you switch it on again.

Yup, also it was great commentary last year from Motors TV, I was very impressed. I'm sure this year will be even better.

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thank you very much, it was causing my box to crash so i e-mailed them, turns out you can turn it off
Servives ---> System Setup----->option 5 and it's on that page.

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ummm not sure

Is it only in the UK or LIVE for whole europe?

Live over the full network !

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