The NASCAR on Fox crew is now several races into their season and hitting full stride. The TV veterans are going to once again be at one of the favorite tracks for good NASCAR racing and even better telecasts.
The Atlanta Motor Speedway promises a better scenario than last season's tire problems and single car domination. The CWTS race on Saturday set the tone with good action and no tire problems.
This week, there is no overlap with RaceDay on SPEED and the Fox pre-race is only thirty minutes long. That should solve a lot of the problems that viewers saw last week, including two Fox TV networks on the air from the same site at the same time live.
Chris Myers starts the day in the Hollywood Hotel with Darrell Waltrip and Jeff Hammond alongside. There will be a feature involving Bobby Labonte and Larry McReynolds makes his annual visit to The Weather Channel.
Once the action starts, Mike Joy will handle the play-by-play with Waltrip and McReynolds alongside in the booth. Down on pit road is the best group of pit reporters in TV. Steve Byrnes, Dick Berggren, Krista Voda and Matt Yocum will once again be front-and-center with the stories of the race.
Fox continues to use a quad-split (4 video boxes) during yellow flag pit stops. The other NASCAR TV networks use three boxes, which enables them to keep a wideshot of pit road on the screen. This lets viewers see the cars pulling in and out as the stops are in-progress. the quad-split covers pit road and fans lose the perspective of who is where and what is going on.
The good news is that Fox has changed the final lap of the racing coverage to give fans a clear view of the lead lap cars crossing the finish line. This includes a new graphic element at the top of the screen that shows the finishing order as the cars cross the line. That was long overdue, but a welcome addition to the telecast.
There is a new dynamic in the Sprint Cup Series with independent teams trying to make a name for themselves. There are also former top teams struggling in the middle of the field and seemingly unable to get the COT technology to work for them.
This demands that the TV coverage go back in the pack much more often and update the stories of the race throughout the field. Fox struggled with this in Las Vegas, but Atlanta should give the TV crew an opportunity to look back and keep the fans of those teams updated.
The green flag is set for 2:16PM and the Fox TV stations are scheduled to continue the coverage until 6PM. The weather is good and the track is fast, the potential for an outstanding NASCAR on Fox is ripe for the picking.
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«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 435 of 435Red, I didn't say he was in the 12 -- or were you reading my mind cuz I was probably thinking that? LOL I did say he's a pain to pass and I stand by that.
2 tires with 50 lap lefts?! Not gonna work. someones gonna wreck
50 laps? Count again GWC
The J - No one would stand a chance with old tires. They were running almost 2 seconds a lap slower with old tires.
i meant roughly. i mean they actually have close to 70 laps on their left sides
Phat it was 3 seconds slower
but what about someone running 15th staying out and getting a quick caution and winning? i would at least try it
David, my bad miss understood your comment
eh I guesstimated lol
1 to go and 1 attempt at GWC. Scary and exciting all at the same time.
No way. You spin those tires on that restart trying to get the jump. You need an instant caution because they would be passed before turn 1.
They're gonna make it half a lap under green. Twenty bucks. Any takers?
Clean up guys and trucks are yellow, guess they didn't but commercial coverage on Fox. Remember when they first got NASCAR and wouldn't show the sponsors on the cars for the starting grid if they didn't buy commercial time?
kurt has it
penske is back!!!
That was anticlimactic
Creative way to celebrate there
lol i like his victory lap
Phathead it wasn't that bad, 24 and 99 were pretty loose I really thought they were going to wreck.
Thanks everybody, that was at least good in the end.
ESPNEWS will have post-race coverage, then Victory Lane at 8PM on SPEED.
There will be a new column up about this telecast later tonight.
Thanks again for hanging out with us here at TDP.
JD
Man awesome run by that 2 car! That was impressive. Nice creative touch on the victory lap...takes care of the networks too lol
I'd rather KuB win than KyB. KuB did a good job today. Good Victory lap. What will NASCAR say?
Well that's a new take on the Polish Victory Lap :)
LOL!! Carl's response on the PRN interview was great when Kurt went by backwards..
I like Kurt's lap better than the donuts.
@ VickyD, or the snow angels.
Different type of victory lap. Kind of neat
Good coverage of the last 2 laps.
It's good to see the dominate car actually win the race.
That was exciting. Thanks for giving us a place to talk, JD!
Bye everyone.
I agree Glenn. Just saw the points. Stopped at 12. Surprised me since JR's not in top 12.
Anyone watching ESPN news, bad really bad if they don't know what to talk about don't talk at all. I feel like I'm watching TMZ
How can someone correctly pronounce Teixeira, but not Pujols? The baseball stuff should be left to to the commercials.
weathermen broke in SIX times on Cincinnati station of the race.
thankfully we were able to see the race on Dayton affiliate. We never got storms but the sirens went off twice. Mercy.
Anyway, folks in this house asked "what's up with this digger junk" and all agree the "male adds" should be on TV late at night.
But we did not get pic in pic when weatherman broke in either. major bummer.
Also we totally lost the HD signal towards the end...otherwise it switched around to working one minute and not working the next. But we had another tv to watch but it was interesting seeing the diff side by side when the HD WAS working. :)
I have yet to hear the final word on the crew member who walked out to get the tire. Will he get suspended?
Thanks
John D
checked in here to see who won
I turned FOX on around 1 40 pm et and there was a digger cartoon.
I tuned to college hoops and never went back to Fox
ARE YOU LISTENING RUPERT?????
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