Dakar coverage 2023

[simonw]

I'm sure I ask this every year, but any ideas where to catch up with some Dakar coverage? Searching the Sky planner I can't see any listing for Eurosport, but maybe I just didn't look properly (not that their 30 minute synopsis of an entire day's racing is particularly good, of course!).

[Hall]

Red Bull TV have great coverage ,just download the free app on your phone and then throw/share to your TV

[Toe]

As Hall said the Red Bull coverage is very good. Look on Red Bull TV on web, app, smart TVs, etc - the show is called "Dakar Daily".
Lots of bivouac action and talking to their sponsored pilots. Obviously lots of moto and auto pilots but I'll miss the behind the scenes and under the covers coverage of the Kamaz trucks, there's something I find captivating about vehicles that size doing what they do!

The Dakar youtube channel has good 2-4 min highlights of the classes separated out as well.

Eurosport are the official broadcaster for Europe but you don't get any additional coverage from the above. Obviously the Dakar/ASO provide the broadcasters with the footage which goes on to youtube and mixed in with Red Bulls own coverage anyway.

[fw750x]

Hello Simonw The Coverage Starts on Eurosport 1 on Sunday 1st of January at 20.00 Hope this Helps Cheers Francis

[simonw]

As usual, Eurosport screwed up, as they seem to do every year with Dakar coverage. Settling down to watch the 8pm show which I'd recorded, I was instead treated to an hour of people running and mountain biking in Argentina or somewhere. They really are an extraordinarily unreliable and incompetent broadcaster,

[catcitrus]

The thing is it has been edited etc and commentary made from the finish ON THAT DAY--which takes time. So although they probably try and hold to the schedule I guess the time constraints are just too much sometimes--would you like Carlton's job!!!!

[simonw]

Granted the time constraints are a bit tough, but it's their schedule - they could put it on later. But to just not show anything about the listed programme is pants. "For all those tuning in to see Bee Keeping With Bill, we're sorry but due to a technical issue we're showing you sailing from Cape Horn instead" wouldn't have gone amiss.

[Toe]

It always used to be the snooker overrunning!
Frustratingly the Eurosport coverage is comparatively quite good this year. Red Bull's Dakar Daily has been disappointing so far and seems like Mike Chen isn't following the bivouac but just reading a script in a studio, videos seem to be under 10 mins this year rather than previous years ~20 mins.