Here we go with one of the best tracks for the Camping World Truck Series. The O'Reilly Raceway Park is the small oval across town from the Indianapolis Speedway. This bull ring hosts all kind of events and the trucks are always a good show.
Krista Voda sets the table for the race with The Set-Up at 7:30PM ET. Voda has lots to talk about as the trucks continue to have an up and down season. Good racing at the front of the pack is mixed with tough economic times at the rear of the field.
Rick Allen will call the race with Phil Parsons and Michael Waltrip alongside. This is a good combination that has been working hard for truck series fans for a long time now. SPEED has provided a great home for this series and tonight would be a very good time to put on a good show.
Ray Dunlap and Adam Alexander will be covering pit road. SPEED needs a third pit reporter, especially with the potential changes coming to the series. Alexander and Dunlap have done a solid job, but another voice is needed for interviews and additional pit road coverage.
Pictures at night from ORP are great and really can convey the old-style racing that this track brings out in almost everyone who races there under the NASCAR banner. Fans should once again be looking for SPEED to follow the best racing on the track and not just focus on the leaders of the race.
Keep an eye on the live electronic ticker at the top of the screen. Hopefully, this high profile race will not have the same kind of "voluntary attrition" that the series experienced recently. When 13 of 34 trucks pull off the track without a mechanical failure, tire problem or engine failure, NASCAR needs to step-up and solve this issue.
This post will serve to host your comments about the CWTS race from ORP on SPEED. To add your TV-related comment, please click on the comments button below. This is a family-friendly website, please keep that in mind when posting.
Note: Jeremy Mayfield news and the upcoming ESPN news about Michigan will be discussed in a column posted after the CWTS event. Please keep your comments on this post focused on the SPEED coverage. Thanks.
153 comments:
Hi everybody, just a reminder the Mayfield and the ESPN news will be up later. Keep your comments until then on those topics please.
Thanks!
JD
When the Trackside guys did the lead in to the Truck coverage they joked that it might be the last Trackside due to Montoya's comments. It was a very funny interview where Juan used the words A**hole and sucks. I thought since Speed is a cable channel that it was no issue.
Checking on that Nan to see if it was live. Not going to go over well with NASCAR.
Wonder why we never see the Camping World guy anymore?
Marcus Lemonis was his name.
It's sad that in 2008, the truck series had a mid-season review in the form of a 30 minute show. This year, it was a 45-second montage of a guy talking too fast.
Thanks SPEED.
Darn it, missed JPM and his potty mouth...only caught a few minutes with Biffle.. Been fighting tv issues and now wireless did not work unless power cord in laptop..thankfully room mate came home and fixed it. Now off to get food to eat before race. back later.
Hope JPM is not in trouble.
I will focus on race and not 'other stuff'.
JP's interview was priceless. Whatever his penalty, it was priceless.
Kyle just gave a calm, lucid interview. I cannot recall another interview where his behavior was so social.
@Sophia, Juan didn't call anyone a bad name, he was talking about a magazine doing an interviw with him and he said that basically the reporter wanted to know if he was an A**hole. One of the Trackside guys then used the word again in asking Juan more about the interview. I don't remember but it might have been Larry Mac. I can't remember what Juan thought "sucked".
It was a great interview and covered stuff about his kids, racing in Indycars and F1 and about Nascar and fans.
hey gang! seconding west coast diane on the eaarlier column: i'm looking forward to watching caitlin shaw in the red bull toyota #1 truck: she's apparently the real deal! and the goat's running in the #4 tonight so i'm good to go.
jd, you HAVE to pull some "citizen blogger" strings and get appointed to the national anthem singer committee!!
I thought I heard something when JPM was on. I was half way paying attention. Recording the rerun for further evidence.
@ dear Sophia, I hope you can stay with us.
I have yet to get my free citizen hobbyist hat from NASCAR.
No word on a potential key chain.
Daly Planet Editor said...
I have yet to get my free citizen hobbyist hat from NASCAR.
hmmmm. maybe you should check outside for those black helicopters? maybe it's all a grand scheme intended to just keep closer tabs on youse guys . . .
@jd:
"badges? badges!? we don't need no stinkin' badges!"
The anthem wasn't as bad as most, until she went off the rails for the last 15 seconds or so. At least she didn't sing it like it was a dirge, like most do.
Why do people feel compelled to butcher a national anthem like that? Anthems deserve respect, not someone's special "treatment" of the material.
I'm Canadian, so it's not my national anthem that regularly gets mangled, but I'm still cranky about it. Like I said, national anthems deserve respect.
And ladies and gentlemen, that ends today's rant. :-)
--KarenB
Krista took a lot of fans by surprise when she said NASCAR has decided that there will be no double-file restarts shootout style for the trucks.
That is really bad news and I am still working on why.
I'm rooting for the #71 truck, it sounds like it's right out of the movie Talladega Nights. The tire changer decides "I wanna race, I wanna go fast!"
ok, please lose the music behind the "in the spotlight" segment: it's not needed and the announcers either have to shout or be drown out by the guitar riffs.
@ JD
Ray mentioned it too. He said they're also not changing the pit road rules.
And he said it's getting a "chilly reception" from the drivers.
--KarenB
@karenb: do you have the leaderboard address for trucks? i seem t have lost it . . .
No DFRs SOS? WTH?
I heard something about a new pit rule, but don't know what it is? Help.
I've been fixing dinner.
I am in absolute shock about 5 NEW truck teams starting tonite!! What is up w/that? k, I am waaay sorry I missed JPM letting go on Speed..and no repeat that I can see. Crap..
There is a leaderboard for trucks? Really, have my prayers been anwered?
No DFR in trucks that just sucks
Pam Trackside reair right after the truck race
@ red
Sorry, I've never been able to find a leaderboard for trucks. I have one for N'wide, but that doesn't help.
--KarenB
BTW, the boys at ESPN are going to re-air the documentary Feel Your Heart Race again in August.
Another good decision by those guys, there might be hope for them yet.
Trackside re-airs 10:30 eastern. It was a hoot,one of the best ever...
Frank in Sebring
I absolutely love the racing at this track. The split screen idea is a good one considering there's so many side by side battles going on.
@karenb: thanks. i was sure someone had tracked down a site for trucks and just assumed it was you.
sorry, nrf: didn't mean to raise your hopes!!
hey jd! there's marcus lemonis! ask and ye shall receive -- so can you ask about a leaderboard for trucks?
three trucks dropped out already and did not realize it was a short field - 35 trucks
Without any yellow flag laps, the rate of commercial breaks will be ramped up.
Isn't 35 a full field for trucks?
--KarenB
Big props to Rick Allen mentioning the start and park trucks tonight.
Thanks for the info on the repeat JD, make sure it's in big letters when you get the specifics so I can set the DVR. I almost called my son to set the DVR on thurs but thought I was going to be OK and when I remembered it was 615p. So sad.
@ JD, doesn't the Series owner have any say so about the pit stops and how to restart? Unless it would compromise safety.
Why is NASCAR doing this? They know how we like the DFRs and dislike the two stop rule. Is that really safer? If it were, wouldn't they force NW & CUP to do it too?
@ KBaskins, 36.
I still have never found a live online scoreboard for the trucks.
Good news is Trackpass is free for Allstate 400.
Nope, it's 36 trucks in a full field. Sorry. I was wrong.
Dang, Caitlin in trouble.
--Karenb
Poor Caitlin.
There is only about half the field that are full time truckers. I wonder if we will be down to 17,or 18 trucks at the end of the race.
4 out now - before wreck and only 35 trucks listed - Miller listed as 35 and last
about the replay on Trackside, I can assure you all it will be edited, the JPM deal....DARN IT I Missed it and I love his firey spirit.
@Nans, thanks for explaining the context of JPM's remarks. It's been a day.
@Dot
I am back, Room mate is filing a complaint with TW and he NEVER GETS MAD!! allegedly a supervisor will call back IN 24 HOURS! Satellite no choice for us either for PLETHORA of reasons.
Dot, no smack talk from me tonight. Unlike the crazy blond & her Tweets last night.
Darn it lap 44....I missed a lot.
Six trucks off. Many laps down.
ty all for the heads up on the TS repeat...older eyes do not always pick up things, esp on a Fri nite..;)
29 trucks running at lap 54
4 off - 2 out
So JD, are you responsible for Rick Allen's change of heart regarding mentions of start and park trucks? If I'm remembering correctly, you guys had an ongoing discussion about it. Or am I remembering incorrectly? It wouldn't be the first time...
--KarenB
I've become convinced that advertisers believe that male NASCAR fans all have erectile dysfunction. I have never seen a greater concentration of ED ads as I have on race broadcasts.
--KarenB
We can NOT escape the "Male" commercials...sigh.
I heard Jr was sick earlier today..anybody hear the details.
Wow, how many trucks are off? Got interrupted again..10 trucks off???
on S&Pers: mccumbee isn't usually in that group. sure would like to know what's up with these trucks . . .
maybe the booth could fill us in at some point?
Wendy V is sick this weekend, not sure about Jr.
There are a lot of names for the creeping crud when it goes through the garage area. Always gets folks when they are worn down a bit.
@ sophia: from mike davis tweet:
"Practice at Indy... Finally! After a pit-stop of the unexpected sort."
and later from jeff gluck:
" Dale Jr. is absolutely racing. In fact, he was 6th-fastest in second practice just now. He's just under the weather"
27 trucks running at lap 74
8 off or out
Jr flu like symptoms, got IV hydration before practice. Wendy sounds not good too, hope she has a voice Sunday that's if anyone will risk talking to her.
I've been saying for a while the garage area needs to buy hand sanitizer in bulk. It seems like someone is sick every week and it's been going on since Daytona in Feb.
kill the rodent. now. please.
You wonder if some truck series fans don't know who Digger is...
@karen-I'm sure TPTB think that since ALL Nascar fans are redneck-no-nothings, they would be a great area to put ED ads!! Too many commls at this race & I just got a digger update...urg. I hate tha rodent-please someone wreck shrub!
Stupid rodent sighting. Why does FOX have its head so far up its collective butts when it comes to Digger?
--KarenB
Perhaps we can introduce Lucky to Digger, it could solve out problems
Tx everyone for Jr illness updates.
I had read on Twitter he avoided media conference..then read ill..then heard he was on the track today...and a pitstop issue...ugh..that's miserable to be dehydrated and driving.
OMG!!#%!^#% ANOTHER CIALIS commercial. You gotta be kidding me.
It's all over the net people DETEST these adds
That was "our" but perhaps "out" was closer to the truth
Luckily, I missed Digger. However, I am seeing Cialis. Is this a serious drug, or a recreational one?
Back to the race.
too many commercials tonight.
Too many MALE adds
hate to say it but I'd take 50 Digger adds over 'others' if I had kids in da house.
I'm a guy who wouldn't call himself a "prude" but even I want to kick the stupid tv when I see these ED ads. Geez. Is the problem really that widespread?
so, how's everyone feeling about the coverage so far?
when rick allen yelled "they're door to door . . .", all i could hear was bud lindemann's "door to door, beating and banging" line.
short tracks make it tough to get all the racing b/c there's side by side all around but i think they're doing pretty good.
cerainly wish we had an update on the S&Pers, rick.
Well since there isn't a list I guess we'll never know if it's a banned substance ;)
@Dot
those meds were meant to be for 'medical reasons' when first made but have taken off as recreational drugs for most all ..and especially younger men.
another commercial? Chrysler..wonder if the other "C" add will make an appearance
@nrf: you make me laugh!!
Airline pilots can take Viagra house before flying.
Causes temp color blindness.
I kid you not.
how many are off the track..last I counted 8 ?
TYPO
Pilots can NOT take that med B4 flying
so, are the truck series demographics significantly different from n'wide or cup? i've always read that something over 50% of all nascar fans are female. if that's true in the truck series fandom as well, why so many male-oriented commercials? (or are we now deciding that ED drug ads are for "the woman in his life"?)
another thing that makes me go hmmmm . . .
I don't have a hammer in my head, so I can't watch Big Block Thursday. Sorry, SPEED.
--KarenB
@ nrf, Great minds.......
@ dear Sophia, I know. But really? As someone said, how why spread is ED?
Too much partying in Key West for Jr. That seems to be his new favorite place to vacation. According to Twitter's by his spotter, this is their 4th Key West vacation since April. Perhaps this is what Darrell Waltrip means by Jr and his outside activities ruining his racing.
BTW, I didn't catch the JPM interview. Darn !!! Getting an MRI after falling in my bathroom. Have a stress fracture in my knee. Off my feet for 6 to 8 weeks. This is going to be terribly boring !!!!
Kenny Wallace, Kenny Chesney and SPEED President Hunter Nickell all watching at ORP.
@darbar: ouch! that has got to hurt big time! are you stuck in a brace or just crutches?
so what IS a cluster of trucks called anyway: "a wad"? "a gaggle"? "a crash of trucks"?
crowd looks nice: does indy do a package deal for fans this weekend?
lap 104 26 trucks running
5 out
4 off
@Red
There is a DISGUSTING talk radio add for those natural 'pills'. TRUST ME the ladies in the add are PUSHING the med.One said she can make her husband perform on demand? (Like at obedience school for dogs??)
Can't believe what FCC allows.
@ darbar
I have much I could teach you about creative indolence. I've always felt I would make an excellent sloth guru, if only I wasn't so lazy...
--KarenB
@ dar, poor thing.
Aha about DW re JR. He sounded like he knew something. Makes some sense now.
Shaw still on track. Good for her.
@darbar
OUCH! sorry about your knee. Get soft pads for crutches under your arm pits.
I wondered if Jr partying nature hadn't been played down in recent years. From what I read and after what DW says..AND a bar named "Whiskey River"...Jr needs to focus.
Dar my sympathies. The Fractured ankle a few years back was how I got hooked on Nascar. It was Daytona Speed Weeks or the same Law and Order 5 times a day. Now look at me.
Go Todd GO.
@Dot
Ed not widespread but think about it. It's a modern day version of Martini's.
(there's a joke in there but I ain't touching it!)
It's no longer "just"a medical problem (tho it has it's purpose!!) and has caused serious problems in elder marriages in the last 10 years...if you know any therapists, that's common knowledge.
Back to the race.
Hey what do you know..Kyle Brat Busch is leading?
Huh. something different.(sarcasm)
11 out/off only 24 on track lap 132
Hit 'em, hit 'em, HIT HIM!!!
9 out 2 off
Coming back to caution.
Wow! the Onion didn't have to hit vile Busch to pass him. I would've liked it if he had, but great racing right there.
No crutches, but a scooter. I had polio at age 2, so my legs are shot to heck to begin with. My dad went out and bought me one of those small three wheeled scooters. My house is pretty much on one floor and my dad built a ramp from the garage to the house, so now I can pretty much get around everywhere. BTW, percocet is GOOD !!
Maybe not.
red, a group of trucks should be a "murder of trucks" like a murder of crows.
@darbar: and i think we can all agree that perocet IS on the banned list so no racing for you! keep that scooter under the speed limit!
@ dar, too funny.
Here's the caution. Just in time for Weed to get his tire fixed.
Now the real question will be 'Can Speed get an interview with vile Busch?' or will he throw another immature tantrum and stomp off to the trailer/helicopter/mommie?
darbar
Sorry to hear about the polio...I remember getting the sugar cube vaccine as a little kid.
Glad you have a scooter.
Percocets can help the mood for a bit..and the pain. ..least I hope.
I avoided the Percocet after the first few days, made me paranoid and couldn't, well never mind, that might be a little too much information
@patrick: jeff gluck has a series of tweets about an interview w/ young mr busch and his attitude. interesting comments.
@ Patrick, Weed has a new attitude. Read N.com.
He can try it out when he loses tonight.
red, can I get someone to donate a sample for me? I wanted to race tomorrow, even have a sponsor---GoGo scooters. I don't think they'd let me race on percocet, but it's not really performance enhancing.
@red
I saw those comments about Kyle's therapeutic interview.
Wonder if Gibb's finally had a talk with Kyle or at least teaching him the P.R. spin. :)
@Patrick last comment should've been to you too.
= :-)
Dang it.
Bummer for Bodine!
Thanks Dot. Interesting stuff there. However, he's got a looooong waaaaay to go to turn me around on him. His brother has made leaps and bounds.
@darbar: jeremy mayfield might be available to provide that sample for you, if'n you want . .
@sophia: in re: young mr busch and the coach: i'll believe it when we see it on a consistent basis. young mr busch has a whole bunch of maturing to catch up on, in my opinion.
and can i just say: what GREAT racing! it's so discouraging that the media partners don't give this series the attention it deserves!
the onion is done for the night.
yes if only this series got as much promotion as SPEEDS Thursday BLOCK of shows.
A week or so ago that BLOCK PROMO LOGO was huge and intrusive on TWIN. Interferred with seeing graphics, and faces of the panel.
Speaking of commercials, I really really really hate this GasWatch commercial. The guy doing the voice over is annoying beyond belief.
--KarenB
I will say I'd rather see the ED commercials than that one with the little gift from mother nature (it might be a local), it always makes me gag and that's hard to do.
hmmm....todd wrecked himself according to the replay? or just a racing deal
Carmichael having a nice run tonight. I might be agreeing with Jenna Fryer---dump the Nationwide and put all the effort into trucks. Interesting that the sponsors for the trucks aren't huge, well known national companies.
Patrick, thanks for showing up. They had me surrounded for a while there.
Todd was trying to pudh around a youngun, didn't work
JD noticed that; which is why all those ED commercials were too funny
@ nrf, I like those gift commls :).
Dang it Ricky.
@ dar, you jinx. I didn't know you were in home reporting :).
darbar! you and dot have to go sit in the corner together: first shaw, now carmichael! argh.
Could use one of those DFR SOS right about now. What is Nascar thinking anyway, is the savings on the number of guys needed for a pit stop really that much money.
@ JD 9:45, too much Estrogen for you?
Isn't it great where the TV crew has the right level of emotion to keep up with the action on the track? And they know everyone's name? Gee, doesn't really seem all that hard, does it?
and, I was just wondering why GOAT was fading. Could he have cut down a tire prior to trying to knock down the wall?
Sorry, that sucks. I like that kid Carmichael. I'm in the corner.
Imagine, two truckers fighting for the lead. Weed in 10th.
Love these trucks !! Great racing !!! Go Aric !! Love four guys racing for the lead.
i'm think almirola has found a racing home in trucks. nice to see him do well tonight.
Great race !! Setting a record for Hornaday. This is what Nascar should be !!
way to go, hornaday! woo hoo!!
never saw the flag stand miss the white flag lap before: very weird.
YAY!! Horn. YAY!! KHI.
@ red, ditto.
Wow that was just fun, the trucks belong on this type of a track.
I kept track to how many laps was shown to us and we got to see 106 laps, 94 laps were under commercial.
This may not be super accurate but it is close.
This win says so much for KHI. So happy for them.
Great race, great ending
No wrecks
YAY! Ron...4 in a row.
Yay skinner...2nd
good night for KHI
@ Charlie, did you breakdown the ED ones?
@charlie: now that's one interesting statistic and it has to be a factor in explaining the overall excellence of the truck series broadcasts.
everytime i see/listen to hornaday, i get ticked off at espn all over again!
@Dot, ha ha
I had no idea this room ratio was so high in estrogen.
Those stinking commercials.
Ron looks hot.
I like Ricky Carmichael! :)
How did Weed finish 10th? Unusual for him.
red said...
everytime i see/listen to hornaday, i get ticked off at espn all over again!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I was THINKING that but wasn't going to go there. GLAD YOU DID!!!had to second this.
Kyle Busch
THIS IS HOW YOU SHOW CLASS finishing 2nd.
Sophia said...
Kyle Busch
THIS IS HOW YOU SHOW CLASS finishing 2nd.
And, I'll second that.
I third it.
and i get to be fourth in a row supporting it -- which seems appropriate tonight!
There will be a new column up on the hopefully final Mayfield legal decision shortly.
Later, there will be the first of several columns on the huge ESPN decision that will be front and center for the network during the race from Michigan.
Thanks to everyone for stopping by, see you tomorrow for the Nationwide Series.
Hope you feel better Wendy!
Thanks JD I was thinking of you when I saw the Tweet's about Michigan. Interesting concept
Re; Aric. From a lap down to 3rd. Good job. Ditto at who said he found his series.
It's really a shame SPEED is not on basic cable in most areas..we pay extra for it for these races, and room mate enjoys F1 and we enjoy IRL NOW on digital Vs.
This was good night. Guys that know how to be grateful even if not coming in number one.
THIS is a great example of why I can't stand Kyle b...the attitude of gratitude..and that's a choice.
@jd in re: mayfield case: i fear you're being far too optimistic.
in re: espn/michigan decision: verrry interesting.
Ok..I forget what the change is for MIS...can somebody refresh my memory so I know what JD is gonna be writing about?
never mind, I googled it and ESPN MIS came right up. INTERESTING
and before it gets swallowed up in all the other racing stuff this weekend:
many thanks to the truck gang AGAIN! this team continues to put together professional, informative and exciting broadcasts and do this series justice.
tonight's short track broadcast was solid and the only negative for me was the lack of information about the S&Pers. it was refreshing to have the issue treated so honestly last week and disappointing that the same issue wasn't covered as comprehensively this week.
still my favorite of the three series and, far and away, my favorite broadcast team!
(and wendy: hope you're feeling better!)
@Red
Your verry interesting made me think of that character on Rowan & Martin that used to say that..short guy. :)
@sophia: fully intentional, i assure you! by the way, his name is arte johnson and he played the little german soldier who was always trying to pick-up ruth buzzi's handbag lady.
sort of an update of jd's favorite, sgt schultz's "i see nothing!"
and here we are with a full post-race show for the trucks! thank you, speed.
@red
YES! Arte Johnson, whew..mental memory dictionary let me down. Now I can sleep! I loved Ruth Buzzi, Goldie and the entire gang. (Love Sgt Schultz line as well, my room mate and I use that sometimes)
Yes SPEED thank you for interviews. I love seeing these truck guys geting some tv face time. REFRESHING as opposed to yodeling sponsor, sponsor, sponsor.
Great wrap up.
Thanks everyone, have a good night.
Post a Comment