Pet peeves of Nascar TV coverage

WAY better than The Who. They were on about 10 minutes before the start of the race. I am really feeling NASCAR this year. Jeff didn't do too well this week again but there is always next week. The 31 looked like a wild ride all day didn't he.

 

I think the racing is much better this year than last, and will probably get better when they ditch the wings and go back to spoilers.

However, I'm a little tired of all the gimmicky rules. The "lucky dog" rule (which started after they ended racing back to the yellow, a wise move in my part) has become the "all cars a lap down can get their lap back if they don't pit, if they chose the wave-around and pit they get black flagged under green" rule.

Green/White/Checker, one attempt has become G/W/C, three attempts. except when the caution comes out right at the end and there is a restart with three actual laps left, when you in effect have 4 G/W/C attempts.

overall, the rules are starting to a) become overly confusing and b) the drivers know there's a good chance at a manufactured finish, so you see all sorts of nonsense, particularly with 20 laps to go.

I'd like to see a return to simpler rules, and if someone waxes the field and wins by 25 seconds, so be it.

 

I agree the best car and or driver should win. There are lots of good drivers but really only a handful of good racers.

 

I thought nascar bought/owned speed channel?

 

We have in our little grubby fingers, the power to eliminate these nusences! Its called a DVR, you record the race, adn the fast forward through the parts you don't like (commentary, comercials, up front and personals',...). I watched the 3.5 hour Cal race in 1 hour and 3 minutes a couple days ago, after a nice long drive in the country wiht the F355.

 

I ain't got none of that fancy DVR stuff

 

I tried watching a cup car race once.

They lost me at the "scheduled" pit stop.
A *scheduled* pit stop?
A *mandatory* scheduled pit stop?

A seven MINUTE scheduled pit stop?

I think they then had one racing lap, then another yellow flag, and everyone went back into the pits.

No wonder Speed broadcasts NASCAR drivers playing poker. They're never on the actual track.


I found that I was watching Versus far more than Speed channel.
(That's why I switched from DirecTV to Dish, recently.)

I don't think I've watched Speed channel since the F1 season finished.