IMSA Explained: Everything You Need to Know!

Buckle up as this video takes you through everything you need to know about the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship!

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00:00 A Brief IMSA History
5:15 Race Weekend Structure
6:51 IMSA Class Overview
11:42 BOP Overview
14:44 Quick Notes
15:09 Pit Stop Overview
16:35 Yellow Flag Overview
17:35 Safety Car Procedure
21:18 Championship Points Overview
23:07 IMSA 2024 Schedule
23:31 Learn about IMSA’s Classes!

[AM-turc]

You are the best motorsports YouTuber out there. You are the reason I got into IMSA because nobody else simplified and explained it as well as you did. I hope this video can reach new audiences and explain IMSA to them and turn them into fans just like your earlier explainer videos did for people like me!

[robertharvey]

I didn’t realize how much I missed IMSA until I remembered a new season is upon us.

[HowRuud]

Love your channel man. PLEASE never stop

[johnvandeventer]

And Continental was a tire supplier in IMSA until 2018 for P (the final year for that class until the DPI and LMP2 split), PC (until it was removed in 2017), and GTD. It was also a tire supplier for the 2 higher support series. And also, there was a GTLM car that ran Falken tires until like 2015

[chuckzechman]

Great review/update. I've been a longtime IMSA fan and saw my first race at Pocono in 1981 (whale tail Porches and BMW M1's, those were the days). That being said I never fully understood the yellow flag procedures. I do now! Safe Travels and God Bless. See you at Sebring and The Glen.

[richardbrizzolara]

Wonderful video…just subscribed…..hope you do these videos thru out season

[powcar]

I remember when American lemans came to Miller motorsports park. Now Utah Motorsports Campus. They did a 2 hours of Utah Grand Prix.

[tylermishtawy]

Thanks for doing this, I was wondering what the story was with ALMS and Rolex. When I was a kid I was running around with APR. It bugged me how I never really knew about IMSA until I was older.

[templarlyrics]

13:08 US sports teams are so used to tanking that they try to do it in sportscar racing too lol. Also, important to note that i have always felt like the BoP in IMSA is a lot stronger than in WEC. Underperforming cars like the Lambo or the BMW early on the season do a lot better on IMSA than the WEC, maybe they use different systems to balance the cars out

[dylan]

Glad to see we are getting the 24 hours of Daytona back. Didn't like the 23 Hours and 58 Minutes of Daytona as much.

[CobraFerrariFth]

The BMW win at 24h of Dubai could be a good Omen for Daytona

[HowRuud]

Do you have any videos about the mustang challenge?

[Eagleracerx]

Hum, GTP and GTD only at Detroit sounds like a recipe for destruction and twisted metal... That might have been the same recipe of last's Detroit's race, but I've deleting that race from the memory banks.

[justinkids]

The safety car procedure is THE weak part of the series easily.