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With the Speed channel already gone for most Canadians, the internet is the main option to see most motorsports beyond the F1, IndyCar, and Nascar events carried by TSN and Sportsnet. Even then, indycar.com had already started freely streaming IndyCar practice sessions this year.

Less than an hour from now as I type this, the United SportsCar Championship race from Circuit of The Americas in Austin TX will be starting (at 12:30 pm eastern time) on imsa.com. Already seen yesterday were qualifying and the Continental Tire Series race.
Tonight starting at 6pm e.t. is the FIA World Endurance Championship race also from CoTA, on fiawec.com, although this year they started requiring a paid subscription. They also showed qualifying yesterday.
(Edit: The WEC race is being shown on Speed, despite not being in the TV listings I've seen. It's sort of live -- it seems to be oddly delayed by a few minutes -- and has the Fox Sports commentators instead of the ones on the webcast.)

Tomorrow starting at 5:45 am e.t. will be the Blancpain Endurance Series 1000km race from Nürburgring, hopefully available on nismo.tv as advertised. The Blancpain Sprint Series races have been available live on blancpain-gt-series.com.
The European Le Mans Series has one race remaining this year, Sunday Oct. 19 from Estoril Portugal, on europeanlemansseries.com.

The SCCA World Challenge series has ended for 2014. Their races were available live on world-challengetv.com.

As you can see, I'm mostly interested in sports car racing. Maybe others could post about availability of more motorsports on the web, particularly the type of things that used to be seen on Speedvision/Speed.
 
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Formula E was available on YouTube this week for free - hoping for similar on future races. Search for "Formula E Beijing" on YouTube. As discussed in the Formula E thread. It's on Speed and RDS in Canada.

WRC's site has short snippets available without subscribing. You can get more if you subscribe, but not cheap (5 Euros a month I believe). I haven't found a legal free source on the web.

MotoGP is available on their site if you pay - I believe it's around $100 Euros for the season and they also have an option for the rest of the season. No legal free sites. It may be on beIN, but I haven't found a race yet...

SuperBike is available on BeIN ($15/mo), but delayed a week or more. It's available on the SuperBike site, but not cheap. No other legal source that I know.

Just a reminder that we don't discuss illegal downloads on this forum.
 
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Formula E was available on YouTube this week for free - hoping for similar on future races. Search for "Formula E Beijing" on YouTube. As discussed in the Formula E thread. It's on Speed and RDS in Canada.
Formula E Round 2 was last night/this morning in Putrajaya Malaysia, shown on Speed and can also be found on YouTube.

Speedvision founder to back Torque.TV, will show loads of racing content
Speedvision founder Roger Werner ... announced his backing of the digital performance automotive network Torque.TV, a website providing North American viewers with automotive and racing content from domestic and international sources. The site’s motorsports programming features live and taped coverage of at least 40 international race series and events including European Le Mans Series, Pirelli World Challenge, the British GT Championship, DTM, FIA Formula Three, Blancpain GT Series, Porsche Carrera Cup, Ferrari Challenge and more. The increased coverage will begin in March 2015. In addition to international race series coverage, Torque.TV will feature news, highlights and behind the scenes programming for major domestic race series including NASCAR, IndyCar, NHRA and IMSA.
 
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There is a "This week's TV listings" chart on the racingnorth.ca site that lists some available live streams in addition to the racing on TV channels in Canada.
There has already been some World Challenge series races from Texas today (Saturday March 7), with more on Sunday.

The 24hseries.com site should have its 12 hour race from Mugello Italy next weekend, apparently split into a 4 hour segment on Friday March 13, followed by 8 more hours on Saturday March 14.

The 12 Hours of Sebring will run on Saturday March 21. We might have to wait to find out if imsa.com will have a live stream available for Canadians, or if Rogers picking up the Fox Sports Racing channel will cause it to be blocked until the archived broadcast is made available there a day later.
 
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European GT4 series race from Nogaro, France now on as I type this.
http://gt4series.com/live/
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLKDc9r7EjOtfOpytVbpDyg

The Blancpain Sprint Series qualifying race at Nogaro is scheduled to start at 8:10 a.m. EDT.
http://www.blancpain-gt-series.com/live
http://www.youtube.com/user/gt1world

Another GT4 race is scheduled to start at 5 a.m. EDT tomorrow (Monday), followed by the main Blancpain Sprint Series race at 7:05 a.m.

Next weekend, April 11th and 12th, will be the start of the European Le Mans Series and the FIA World Endurance Championship Series, both at Silverstone, and the Blancpain Endurance Series at Monza (perhaps on torque.tv/live or nismo.tv ? ).
 
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FIA European Formula 3 race from Silverstone on now as I type this.
In the race is Canadian driver Lance Stroll, son of Lawrence Stroll who owns the Mont-Tremblant track.
http://www.fiaf3europe.com/en/livestream/index.html

Edit: He finished fourth, after finishing sixth in the earlier race.
Each weekend apparently has three separate races. The third from Silverstone is on Sunday morning, 4:15 a.m. EDT.

The European Le Mans Series race at Silverstone is about to start as I am typing this, scheduled for 9:30 a.m. EDT (Saturday, April 11). It is a 4 hour race.
http://www.dailymotion.com/ELMS
http://www.europeanlemansseries.com/en/elms/live/8/20
 
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Well, yesterday's race was, so I assume today's (Sunday, 7:30 a.m.) EDT will be. Qualifying is on now as I type this at 5:49 a.m.
Edit, 7:50 a.m. : Nope. Live youtube of today's (Sunday) race is geo-blocked for us in Canada for both the English and German commentary versions. Only the onboard camera views appear to be available live. The DTM website also has the three onboard camera views along with a "seat" view and 'data' showing timing and scoring.
http://www.dtm.com/de/live/data

FIA World Rallycross was also at Hockenheim this weekend,
http://livestream.com/fiaworldrallycross

and the third F3 race of the weekend is after the DTM race, at about 11:30 a.m. EDT.
http://www.fiaf3europe.com/en/livestream/index.html

IndyCar testing from Indianapolis,
http://racecontrol.indycar.com/

and the Mazda MX-5, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, and United SportsCar races from Laguna Seca should be on later today (Sunday May 3).
http://www.fanschoice.tv/
http://www.motortrendondemand.com/live/
http://imsa.tv
 
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Radical European Masters races are also on youtube from Barcelona this weekend along with the series mentioned in the post above.
http://www.youtube.com/TheRadicalExperience
http://www.gtopen.net/contenuti/files/2015 Season/7 - BARNA/Horario.pdf

VLN site has some sporadic live coverage with German commentary from their event this morning (Saturday Oct. 31) on the long (combined) Nürburgring layout.
Live - VLN Langstreckenmeisterschaft Nürburgring

There is a Super GT race from Autopolis circuit in Japan, I think at about 1 a.m. ET (tonight/early Sunday) on nismo.tv.
 
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Macau Grand Prix weekend includes motorcycle, F3, and GT races. First practice session for motorcycles on now (7:05 pm ET, Wed. Nov. 18). Commentary in Chinese.
MACAU Grand Prix 2015 HD on USTREAM: MACAU Grand Prix 2015 Live!. Racing
schedule - http://www.macau.grandprix.gov.mo/gp/62/schedule/index.php?content=138&lang=en
(They are 13 hours ahead of North American Eastern Time)

Also, Lamborghini races at Sebring
http://squadracorse.lamborghini.com/en/live-world-final
schedule - http://www.sebringraceway.com/images/2015/2015lamboTimetable-Sebring.pdf

BTW -- Since I don't think it's been mentioned yet in this thread, and there may still be some who don't know -- you should be able to connect just about any computer or mobile device to your TV to watch this stuff, if you get the right kind of cable and/or adapter.
 
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Night practice on now for 24 Hours of Dubai.
Hankook 24H DUBAI 2016 :

A few minutes ago Alex Tagliani was briefly interviewed. There are some other drivers on the entry list with a Canadian flag beside their name, although Tagliani is by far the most recognizable.
I believe the race starts at 5 a.m. ET Friday morning (and of course finishes 24 hours later at 5 a.m. ET Saturday morning).
 
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As March has many racing series now about to start their seasons, the racingnorth.ca site has re-started its Weekly Canadian TV/streaming Listings, with World Challenge at CoTA in Texas and Nascar in Las Vegas this weekend,
This Week's Canadian Motorsport TV Listings | RacingNorth

and now also has a separate Motorsports Event Calendar for the year.
RacingNorth Motorsport Events Calendar | RacingNorth

Starting in April, Alex Tagliani will be co-driving a Mercedes GT3 car with Jean-Frédéric Laberge in the five round (Monza, Silverstone, Le Castellet, Spa, Nürburgring) Blancpain Endurance Series in Europe, hopefully with the live streaming of the races available as they were last year on blancpain-gt-series.com/live and nismo.tv .

Tagliani to Test Zakspeed's Mercedes AMG Car in Europe
 
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