There is an unexpected twist that has been thrown into the mix for the live Sprint Cup race today. The Texas wind has kicked-up and gusts of 40 mph have been blowing everything around at the speedway.
This should affect the race in several ways. First, the COT's at speed are bothered by cross-winds. Secondly, the big bump on the track where the tunnel is located should now upset the cars even more with the wind blowing. Finally, the trash from the fans will be blowing onto the track and the COT is notorious for overheating when the grill is blocked.
Fox is going to have to adapt from the scripted opening to deal with these issues. All the other stories concerning Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards and the potential closure of the 8 team have already been discussed on NASCAR Now and Raceday.
Speaking of NASCAR Now on ESPN2, who from NASCAR is going to make the phone call to get things straightened out for the rest of the season? This Sunday morning, once again NASCAR Now refused to promote the start time and TV network of the very race they were on the air to promote. Instead, the network again promoted the NHRA races...simply because they were on ESPN2.
Chris Myers and Jeff Hammond start the day at 1:30PM from the Hollywood Hotel. Darrell Waltrip will appear on the show and then move upstairs for the 2:16PM green flag to call the race. Mike Joy and Larry McReynolds will once again be alongside Waltrip.
Down on pit road will be the best group of reporters in the business. Dick Berggren, Steve Byrnes, Matt Yocum and Krista Voda will hopefully be used a lot more often to recap the field and follow the stories of the day.
This race features a tough pit road entrance, a dogleg on the frontstretch and a big bump over the tunnel. The challenge for the production team is to track the progress of the teams as pit strategy and gas mileage scenarios play out. Accidents at this track take a while to clean-up, so expect to see the Hollywood Hotel during extended cautions.
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388 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 388 of 388I think JJ will be story for the rest of the race. Especially since KyB is out of contention.
you know I'm probably beating a dead horse here, but I wish the nascar advertisers would realize I'm not seeing one nascar commercial today, with the indycar race on versues, I know I can always swap over during nascar commercials and see live racing thanks to their side by side coverage.
So though I'm getitng the indycar commercials subliminally while watching the race, I'm getting zero nascar commercials other than the in race ads.... when will the powers that be wake up and stop fighting the side by side concept for commercial breaks?
while they do I'll continue to watch other things during commercials... the only way they can get me to watch a nascar commercial is if there is racing alongside of it!
How about all the Bud ads even as the new owners dismantle all the American sports marketing sponsorships in the US and try to sell everything else the company owns? Love those Belgians.
And now we have Digger, can't get much better
We interrupt your racing viewing pleasure.........
Oops I was wrong Hammond under green with a spinning cut away car
NHRA starting on ESPN2.
I thought the wind would be a problem coming out of turn 2 but I was way off
With you JD about the ESPN comparison. I had enough about 100 laps ago and turned the radio up and the tv volume down. This is the first time I've ever done that with Fox. What a complete difference - I'm loving it.
JD, I would even know that high winds would create headaches for the cars and I've never raced a car before. That wasn't much of an update from Hammond I don't think.
Not a word said about Ragan today...he's 5th
Re : commercials.
Tivo on IRL race but switching over during commercial break and have the NHRA on ESPN360 in another window on my laptop.
Having said that did see a bit of that last Bud ad... make a note to start going to that bar. My bartenders never look like that.
A little late on this. Booth was saying the caution helped KyB from going 3 laps down. There are only 18 cars on the lead lap. Is there a difference between 2-3 laps when you're 3X? They can be lame up there sometimes.
Ratings will be down yet again this week, This is yet another boring race. What is it = COT racing?
@David-
They just did 5 minutes ago
Trying to make 2 laps up is still possible because of how fast his car is. Had he went 3 down he would have to race to get 2 of them back. Now he only has to race hard enough to get 1 back then he can put himself in a position for the lucky dog. Theres enough time left to make the laps up if he can get a caution like...oh...say...now! lol
oh, thanks bevo. I was doing some laundry so I didnt hear a word about it lol
okay, let me try this. Hornish 14th. have they mentioned that?!
Why not do a through the field instead of these useless race breaks?
Hammond and Myers are talking, but it is all random conversation. They need a format that rundowns the 15th on back using the pit reporters. Hammond and Myers lend nothing when they do it like this.
reutimann's 3 cars away from being in the lucky dog
NFL RB Reggie Bush @ the Hollywood Hotel: "This is my 1st experience at TMS, nothing like being at a NASCAR race."
Um, anyone know who Kim Kardashian is? Enough said.
j there is a lot of track between him and the other lapped cars
Reut cant get the LD. lost his lap by penalty
I'm taping the race for the roommate who's at the dragstrip. I'll bet he'll get through it in about 30 mins.
Oh no, Marcos. :(
47 got lapped yet no mention on network . I am learning more by watching crawl on sprint mobile on phone
JD-
I'll resist making a comment about first experience and KK for young Mr Bush
They just cut away from someone having trouble in the pit, anyone see who that was?
It was dinger =(
My day is done.
Poor Dot & Marcos :(
someone blew up, caution
@ Gymmie, thank you my friend. I'm still going to watch and post.
marcos is done
What timing.
Commercial starts, yellow comes out.
Hopefully, Marcos won't take a too big of a points hit. Others around him aren't doing all that well.
Ok they really need to set the field I am so confused and you should see the stuff I have up on the laptop.
Oh Dot I'm sorry that sucks.
Sorry Dot.
JD you following Mike Mulhern on Twitter. Too funny and Too true
Typical scenario for Fox this season. In the second half of the race, the coverage of the stories stop and they just show the obvious on the track.
Who is leading, who crashed, who messed up in the pits. But, no point of reference at all.
Sorry Dot, he sounded upbeat on PRN tho. They had a great car
nrf,
Yea, he is a wildman. At least he stopped talking about me on his site!
Thanks to you all.
I really think JJs the one today.
Junior is going to have to make some lifestyle changes pretty soon.
JD...you guys aren't pals? lol
Oh, that sucks for JR. Wth was the sign guy doing?
What relative holds the sign?
Perhaps he needs glasses
Yeah, I cant fault Jr there. The crew's effort sucked to say the least
IRL is more interesting...odd day of crashes which I HATE to see in open wheel...some with impact.
Texas is a snoozefest.
then again, I am tired and sleepy...good news, Kyle ain' t leading.
Other good news, with Artie back on FOX I did not DEVOTE HOURS to the race just to get ripped off at the end with "Winner car only over finish line then flagman, then crew". :( I am still not watching hardly just reading comments and one eye on IRL
Someone could have keyed the radio and told him to turn in. Geez, what a mess.
Dot, too funny.
Dot, that sign board holder for Jr relative has been dis-owned.
Guess Fox hasn't noticed JPM today
Well, mentioned Sam now...
@ Dot lol.
He sounded a little bemused on the radio- at least it was all under caution.
hey look! they caught something as it happened!
Dot,
In your honor (and Marcos's), this week I'll get a package of Little Debbie Fudge Brownies. (I've never seen the Racer Brownies out here.)
I'll use any excuse to eat brownies.
West Coast Kenny
Alameda, California
quad pits = useless
@ David, I was going to comment when he was 12th but, I didn't want to jinx him. Like he needs help. Sorry. ;)
So I hear Danica went all Jimmy Spencer on some dude in the IRL race. At least they are having some action in that tilt.
David I agree quad pits huge waste of time
And I hate to beat a dead horse, but Fox needs to put the lap they are running, not how many laps are left in the race.
@ Kenn, thanks. I haven't found them in LV yet. But, I do buy other LD goodies.
I still love the old Kenny Schrader LD commercial lol
Need quck caution for Reut to get back on the lead lap.
We'll be able to see the IRL hilites on Speed Report. I wish I would've watched that race instead.
Hey, good for Sam, on lead lap.
Reuti has to race for his lap back, he cant get the LD
well, the back yard's cleaned and i believe i have missed almost nothing by not being tuned to fox. so now i'm back to prn on the radio, reading the closed captioning and wondering why, dear lord in heaven, WHY is it so difficult to find out what's going on all around the track and not just at the front or with the top 5 drivers?
i despair.
I thought if you lost your lap by penalty you couldnt get the LD.
clarification someone
David that's not true remember JR lost a lap pitting outside the box then wrecking Vickers Nascar said he was eligible for the free pass
JD, instead of Mike Joy's feel good story about Jeff Gordon winning the race, I'd go for Reut instead.
David I think it depends on the penalty. Really bad race for it, really stupid will give it back
Yeah....thats true.
But then again they docked someone laps before and said they couldnt get the LD since they were taken by penalty.
So I guess it depends on the infraction lol
nrf, i must be channeling ya now lol
I keep losing the HD feed. They'll go to an incar shot and it'll switch to standard and never go back to HD until they go to commerical. Rather annoying.
J.D.,
Hot Pass has been switching the network feed and driver feed location from bottom left (the biggest and usual location for the driver video) to top right since the beginning of the season. So I guess they have someone handling the channels.
The audio mix is just right, though. They have also used a graphic showing the driver's position in relation to the leader which stays on most of the race, which is excellent.
Junior made some derisive comments about Hornish not being able to hold his line.
West Coast Kenny
Alameda, California
uh oh: dale's "really looking forward" to catching up with jpm. hmmmmmmmmm.
JD
What did you hear about Danica? I just heard her interview that the area was a poor place to pass..but I would not call it "jimmy spencer"
Heck when she yelled at Milka DUna last year and got a towel thrown in her face, that was more Jimmy spencer :-) lmao..that was funny.
7 blew up
Nascar on FOX vs. Indycar on Versus is like day and night. I switched to Versus & can't stop watching, and I'm not even an Indycar fan! The FOX boys sound like they want to go home...or take a nap.
caution
What's Hamblin's story today?
reutimann lucky dog!
No "b". Good move for JR?
Excuse the IRL criticism.
How about a LARGER FONT on the ticker. Might work for gnats but not for humans on 20 inch tv. even my room mate with great eyes can't.
LAPS TO GO IMPOSSIBLE to see? I need binoculars. We don't all have tv's the size of a Honda.
ok, back to NASCAR..sorry for the digression JD. You needed to have Dueling COmments for both races today. :)
ok YAY! Go Jr!
Danica yelled at some IRL driver named Matos who wrecked her in a bad place.
Hey, I am going to be at Barret Jackson in West Palm on Saturday.
Maybe I should buy a TDP car!
WOW. I missed Jr's pass for the lead!
JD of you get any tv time let us know
dang, sirius switched the kyle busch channel to biffle without warning.
I guess the roush boys had some glue issues on their lugs. didnt have enough time to set
Sophia,
Junior only took right-sides and came out during the caution in first. You didn't miss anything.
West Coast Kenny
Alameda, California
Sophia said...
WOW. I missed Jr's pass for the lead!
our dear spohia, i bow in your direction: well-phrased sarcasm is a wonderful thing.
oh wait? were you serious? : )
What kind of varmint is Lumpy?
Bite of the race??? huh??
Did Hammond change his clothes? Or was it no hat?
jd: any particular car catch your imagination at barrett jackson? how 'bout this: instead of buying TDP a car, we all pitch in and sponsor part of one of the many under-sponsored cars?
@Sophia- I thought it was sarcasm too!
But I'll take getting to the front via pits over nothing.
really? the 18 "lost the car" and just happened to hit the leader -- who happened to be the 88? really?!?
J.D.,
Chris Myers needs to watch the race or fire his writer. Junior did not fight his way to first.
WCK
wild thing strikes again
Kyle B into Jr, again! It's Richmond all over again.
Hi gang - been reading your posts, catching up. Too beautiful a day to stay inside, got the race on DVR. Now I'm up to date - lots of FF thru the commercials.
@ Tracy, I suspect some of the race too.
go Kyle go!
Kenn,
Myers has been out to lunch this entire race. He just reads what he is given. No clue.
Lug nut sabotage?
Penske got a win in St Pete.
Danica was taken out by a rookie trying to pass in a corner he had no business trying. She didn't freak out or anything but I'm sure ESPN will try to make something out of it.
wow, Kyle stepped it out on Gordon
have fun JD! Hope you get on TV! Then we can finally know what you look like :). You should bid on Mr. H's car
J.D.,
Hot Pass switched the Junior driver video from left to right (and used a Chryon wipe to transition it) just as the 18 side-swiped him. So I missed the driver video of it.
West Coast Kenny
Alameda, California
Dont think Kyle actually hit jr. I think he reacted just in time and went up before Kyle got him
red and others.
No my Jr comment was NOT sarcasm..not paying attention....as they went to commercial I saw he was leading..just watched the end or IRL race.
Didn't know it was a pit thing. :)
@bevo
Thanks..I did not see Danica freak out either...just upset IMMEDIATELY after the wreck...but she was no in her Diva mode at the moment. :)
Just frustrated and honest.
David said...
Dont think Kyle actually hit jr. I think he reacted just in time and went up before Kyle got him
so, david, just to clarify: are you saying that young mr busch missed wrecking the 88 but it wasn't for lack of trying?
i'm just sayin' that if you're gonna drive like a kamikaze, you sure better have the car control to bail you out when you overdrive like the #18 car did there.
i agree with you: if the 88 hadn't moved up to avoid the 18, both cars would have been scrap.
may just be my tv but the announcers sound really muffled. the noise of the cars are totally overpowering hte booth announcers.
sophia: "we kid because we care." no insult intended, my friend.
David,
Anyone is eligible for the free pass. Only when the driver in place for that causes that particular caution, he would not get it then.
Please, anyone, correct me if I'm wrong.
mr edwards about to take the lead
@ red
I dont think he was trying to wreck Jr at all. His plan was simple because he has tried for 100 laps to do it with no success. Get in front of whomever was leading and stay there. They know they can get back on the lead lap but they need to get the 1 lap back first. He saw a hole, went for it and the car stepped out a bit. It happens.
@ Karen
If NASCAR sits you for rough driving, you cannot get a lap back via LD. I thought that applied to any NASCAR issued penalty where you lost a lap but that is not the case.
Jr off the pace
I don't think these drivers "put them in the wall" just because they can, as DW just said. DW continues to be a COT cheerleader extraordinaire.
I just found a roll of film I'd forgotten - had it developed, and lo and behold, it's a race before the COT. The cars looked so pretty.
Jrs in the pits.
Tire and maybe track bar.
I'm going to go ahead and blame Kyle.
Jr hit the wall, came to pit road
Sophia,
Tony Eury Jr. says the 88 will pit about 20 laps before everyone else takes their green flag laps.
WCK
I feel your pain JR fans.
Okay, maybe the clone (JJ) won't win today.
@david.
Dang. I really wanted to blame Kyle.
I only had the in-car via DirectTv...not the overview.
Cousin Carl has something to say about this race :)
confirmed cut rr on jr
the track girl: you make me laugh!
david: i don't think the 18 was intentionally trying to wreck the 88. i just think that he "ran out of talent" just then. but it will give conspiracy theorists something to rant about this week.
dale may be my driver of choice but it's more about the racing for me than it is about a particular driver.
Ah Dot, not you too.
interesting popeye analogy there DW, wow...
red
no insult taken. :)
Jr hits the wall.
Kenn THANKS for Jr info on pitting.
Anybody know where to get a new LAPTOP with XP. Matte screen, put off getting one two weeks ago and it's discontinued. Wah. Acer Extensa 4620. Darn should got it two weeks ago.Don't like my room mates overly GLOSSY (eyestrain) 16:9 VISTA hog.
Back to the big tv.
Thanks for the clarification, David.
Bummer for Ragan. JR needs a rookie stripe on his car today. I'm pulling for Tony Stewart now.
reut in 12th running some good laps
YES Kyle has new life!
sophia: in re: laptop: i have only two words for you -- think apple.
Caution? Really? How convenient.
Totally off the NASCAR topic, but does Jack Arute still also work for ESPN/ABC?
His Wikipedia entry seems to say so, but I'm not sure Disney and Comcast would agree like that.
Good save, Stremme.
Go
Beak!
@Red :D
And me too. I love my driver, but I -love- the race.
And I like Kyle, actually. He's got some fire. Just not so much when he's ruining my day.
Since the IRL package is split between Versus and ESPN, it is possible that Arute will work for both.
Matt Yocum and Larry McReynolds do the same thing for Fox and TNT.
Man...99 big trouble. 14 right there but that 48 is lurking.
I need a good day in my yahoo league but newman and marcos have ruined my day thus far...
Sophia, my daughter took an Averatec to college - it took a lot of abuse (thrown in backpack, hauled everywhere) and kept on tickin'. No problems at all.
My other daughter took a very expensive Toshiba to school, and it's had battery problems from day 1. My HP lt lost keys when I took it out of the box. Because I tried to put them back on, HP said it was "user error" and wouldn't replace the keyboard. So I use an external one. Won't buy HP again.
acer is a good laptop
I may retract my prediction on JJ. I hope he JG make it a good finish.
Those Dupont guys are psyched, LOL.
@Sophia-
Lenovo (IBM) ThinkPad. You can hammer nails with the damn thing :)
Going to be tough finding anything with XP instead of Vista though.
Sorry, still not a fan of the COT racing on these tracks. It looks like practice.
not a big fan of the 48 but i just have to say: chad knaus is a genius. period. end of quotation.
(by the way, tony jr apparently told his driver "turn the 18 over if you want to." pretty certain helton, hoots and darby will frown on that strategy!)
bevo: do you often hammer nails into walls with your laptop? just wonderin'.
changed rooms weatherman came over DURING GREEN FLAG to say end of the world storms coming.
Did I miss anything? had a phone call and forgot to switch to other Fox station. :( 19 to go
KyB is 19th!!!!!! Amazing. Too bad he won't think so.
Chad is going to be on TWIN Monday night at 8PM with Mikey and Steve.
Baseball season is underway, so the Monday NASCAR Now has been bumped and will air at 1AM ET.
Got to love the stick-and-ball.
48 fan but I so want the 24 to win just so we can stop hearing about it and move on to something else
@ nrf, ditto.
JD-
This week I give ESPN a pass on Nascar Now
Its opening day on Monday, ESPN has about 10 games to cover or something ridiculous like that.
Better not happen every week though.
Hopefully Nn isn't live ;), I think I will add the next show or 2 to my DVR just in case. Mike M even promoted it as a set your DVR. Something is just not right about that.
@red-
Of course... can't very well use it on screws now can I? :)
That must have been the "ten to go" Digger. Hope we get the wideshot at the finish.
red: Apple shiny widescreen except maybe the $3000
Way out of budget. I found one for $550 and guy with computer business said it was a good one amny clients used. He is so good to my financial situation, he said not to get warranty and he would fix big things at cost for parts plust $49.(say hardware, screen and such) And he knows what he is doing.
I am not a MAC elitist nor can afford. Even with my nephews 15% discount, I would get 13 inch tiny screen for $1300?? no way..and I need larger screen for larger fonts.
Thus no apple in this girls budget. :( I love XP and am kicking myself for not buying that good deal.
but I appreciate your suggestion.
Mike please don't give the win to him yet there's still laps left and this is Nascar after all.
This 24 is gonna be TOUGH to beat this season
Glad I passed this race up. If the 24 wins they'll be turning cars over in the parking lot and setting them on fire
@ Bevo, you're killing me. Twice.
i'm not sure the 48 has anything left with which to race. sure would like to see the 24 get this win so everyone will "just move one; there's nothing to see here" and leave him and letarte alone for a while.
Biffle not giving up...
Congrats to the Gordon fans.
wow! The whole field!!!
good. now the "when will he win again?" stuff will end
haha, where'd he come from?
congrats to all the 24 fans: catch y'all on the flip side.
Is Ingrid there? I want to see her hair.
There will be a column up shortly for your comments on the race coverage.
Thanks again everyone for stopping by, have a good week off!
JD
Thanks JD. XOXO
Congrats to the 24- See you all at Phx!
@Red
What does turn over the 18 car mean? :)
Bevo
Hammer nails with Lenovo? Hell, I just had to put duct tape on loose hinge I fixed one year ago NEVER BUY A DELL. So many 'big names' get brainwashed but this computer business guy says Acer is great and good customer service. Got 5 pcs for business and one had bad ram chip. No shipping the part back. Acer had a dude on the site the NExT day to replace the bad part.
can't say same on DELL or HP Customer service. ACER was bad years ago but cleaned their act up.
Congrats to Jeff Gordon.
I wanna see Ingrid's hair, too, Dot.
:-)
Hinges are a Dell problem but otherwise working good for me.
Nascar.com streaming some of the postrace press conf, that should be fun.
Son't know if Ingrid is there, oh by the way Larry Mac, Ella Sophis was in VL at Jeff's last points win, she was quite young
Dang it. Maybe that's why he won, Ingrid and Ella weren't there.
sophia: i believe that eury jr was extending his professional permission as crew chief of the #88 car for his driver to exercise his option to cause the #18 to have all four tires lose contact with the racing surface simultaneously.
in other words: tony jr was telling dale it was ok to take off after young mr busch and cause him to make contact with the wall.
NO Ingrid and Ella bummer,I still haven't see her hair and it has caused quite a stir. Cell phones during the VL interview too funny
I wonder if Miss Sprint smiles while she sleeps?
red: LOL! Gotcha on the Tony jr and Jr comment.
:-)
yeahhhhh, she looks completely out of place
@red thats almost as funny as my commercial i ran earlier in the blog lol
I sure wish it was Krista in the Hollywood Hotel and Wendy on pit road. The Myers act is wearing thin.
Gilliland(sp)and Lagano may be tied for 35th, I wonder if we'll get a top 35 update?
Why don't they say the CUP RACE is off for Easter weekend? NW races, correct?
Soph Yes NW racing Friday
There is a new post up for your comments on the Fox coverage of the Sprint Cup Series race from Texas.
JD
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