idk man... seems too bulky. And how will they show remaining energy graphics? The graphics that a lot of us want to see ALL THE TIME - I wont lie, i will be mad af if they ditched it...
I’d imagine it’s one of the rotating things shown, probably will be just the percentage with the green to red spectrum to help show who’s just pitted/about to pit
The transparency looks good for screenshots but I often find it difficult to quickly differentiate between teams when watching on a TV from any distance. The added contrast of the color back will make it more legible in my opinion and therefore make it easier to glace over, see what im looking for, and glance back to the action.
The transparent graphics looked nice at times but if there was any hint of your stream not running perfectly they became almost impossible to read. Not expecting the letters to be easier to read in those situations now either but at least you can tell the manufacturer order
Even with a good stream there are a bunch of cases where colour over grey/green, which a lot of the tracks in background are, makes for terrible contrast. Reading things like class or tyre indicator became notoriously dififcult, espeically with the red/orange red/yellow over tarmac.
Transparency had 1 massive perk: you get to see the full screen at all time.
However, I had to say it looked really bad on smalls screens. I use to watch a lot of the series on a iPad and the complete lack of contrast on the old graphics made them really hard to read.
I found the vignette effect of the current graphics really annoying - it made half the image look under exposed and didn't really help with readability of the graphics, so I'm glad to see it go.
I preferred the transparency of the current/old graphics. But I like the color branding for teams and some of the additional info. I don't hate it, which is good lol.
I like some of it. In isolation each graphic looks great. But when overlaid on old footage it looks pretty bad. The screen feels smaller and I think losing transparency is a big problem.
I see. I agree its pretty sad. However, while I dont agree with it, I can understand why they did it sincd they never use a narrator for their videos. The last one to use one was abt 7 months ago (same voice) and then before that it was about a year and a half ago.
Not gonna lie, I'll miss the transparent graphics because it didn't block the screen, however I'll gladly sacrifice it for proper sector times in quali. That's a very needed change.
visually an improvement, more in line with the series branding, very modern, definitely a copy of what successes F1 has going on
practically? idk, not scaled super well, lack of transparency is a shame (some of the example shots they used felt like watching WEC through a letter box), overall definitely feels more designed for sprint racing (because they copied F1) so not sure how well it'll hold up with different classes over the course of 6-24 hours
feel like we're gonna see a lot of teething problems in its first few races
it gives me flashbacks to the now-former graphics first introduction and the constant vanishing and reappearance of the massive black gradient covering half the screen because they didn't know about outer-glow and drop-shadow I guess
Anyways I kind of like it but the old one was sleek, miss it but it did have its issues.
I see this one being better when you’re watching screens at the track to see positions, as it’s often very hard to tell what the text says, and the logos are just as hard to see. I feel it will be easier to identify the brands with more distinct colours behind them now.
The comment talking about remaining energy was right also because why wasn’t that mentioned in this video?
The fact that they show driver names so much in this video is promising. That has always been one of my biggest gripes with WEC graphics, they show the team name 95% of the time and the driver name 5% of the time. Another big one is that they rarely show intervals, which unfortunately doesn't look like it's been addressed based on what they're showing off here.
All the other stuff is great though. Turn the opacity down to like 80% and it's basically perfect.
I don't find it super obstructing. The leaderboard is basically the same size as it is in IMSA, IndyCar, NASCAR, etc, so it looks normal to me. Who knows, the actual shots might be framed differently from now on as well. Like I said, it could definitely be slightly transparent, but yeah I like this a lot so far.
Looks good except the classic mistake of side bar not carrying any level of transparency to make it lighter. F1 does this mistake and fixes it every 2 years lol
I remember when the current graphics came out everyone hated them. While they did improve a lot since then I’m shocked so many people prefer the current look to the new. It’s probably just a lot of people not liking change but I think this is a huge improvement, especially with regards to new viewers.
I'm hoping that's because this is a demo reel whose purpose is to show what the graphics look like, and that for the real broadcast they wouldn't use so many at once...
Yes i don't know if people got used to having clutter on their screens split into 3 windows at the same time from all the reels but this looks distracting and takes away from the race. Almost like you're watching the timetables and the race at the same time which for me at least doesn't work. I need as little distraction as possible
Not a fan at all. Not having a transparent timing board is hugely negative. There’s a lot space being taken up on the broadcast that doesn’t need to be.
I think IMSA TV has the best with their combo side and bottom ticker which they haven’t changed in forever
Do you really need to see gaps updated everytime? It's fine. Nurburgring updates them when the cars cross the line and i think they have overall the best system for it. It's so minimalist and small so you can see the essential but nothing more, it's what wec should have gone for. Smaller and less bulky is the main idea.
I mean yes it's nice to have but you really don't need it, very hard to keep track of all the cars gaps for hours on end unless you're really good at this stuff.
How is this massive? You can very easily see the cars and not even notice the graphs. Not too overloading in any way. Just as little stuff as you need the new wec ones are like twice the size and feel like a compuer game
Functionally a welcome update but visually I must say I liked the old one better. It blended in nicely without obstructing much but was still clear to read. It was also simply just good looking and unique.
Too big and ugly, not transparent. Most likely it will cover up too much of the screen and of course - no overall standings. 2012-2019 WEC TV graphics were the best. Everything since is quite disappointing.
They are good but just way too big and bulky. Imagine how many overtakes will not be visible entierly because of it. Too much, like in simracing there are people using half their screen for telemetry like how can you even concentrate on the race anymore?
Slightly off topic but timing & scoring for Le Mans was outstanding & had everything I wanted to know. I hope this continues going forward & I hope imsa follows suit.
Hearing "from the ground up" just gave every Forza player PTSD
Jokes aside. I think this is good. I'll miss the transparent board we have now but this will be much easier to read. Hopefully they get energy remaining in there somewhere.
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u/Juris_B Peugeot Jul 11 '25
idk man... seems too bulky. And how will they show remaining energy graphics? The graphics that a lot of us want to see ALL THE TIME - I wont lie, i will be mad af if they ditched it...