Update: ESPN has added a re-air of the Watkins Glen Sprint Cup Series race at 9PM ET on ESPN Classic. Great move.
The RaceDay gang says they are raring to go at Watkins Glen and waiting for 11AM to come on the air. SPEED will handle the one hour pre-race show and then ESPN will start live coverage of the rain delayed Sprint Cup Series race at noon ET.
John Roberts, Jimmy Spencer and Kenny Wallace are the RaceDay panel. Wendy Venturini and Hermie Sadler are the reporters. This program should feature the weather, the Nationwide Series race and reset the grid for the Cup Series event.
ESPN has Jerry Punch, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree calling the race. Down on pit road will be Jamie Little, Dave Burns, Shannon Spake and Vince Welch.
The racing should be outstanding with the new restart rules and hopefully good weather will allow things to go off without a hitch.
This race re-airs on SPEED at noon ET on Wednesday in a three hour timeslot. NASCAR Now is on ESPN2 at 5PM. Will be pushed back if race runs long.
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thay COULD have run yesterday before rain hit.
No Dot. They are clueless.
NP Dar. I pay attention to the sponsors sadly...SIRIUS always promotes the race with it's title sponsor unlike certain television networks
dot Probably trying just 2 or 3 pits stops
I know annon @ 1:16. I know.
WOW, they are actually talking about someone not in the top 5. Good job for Kenseth, my homeboy
Shades of TNT's meltdown in Sonoma if everyone remembers that
ESPN - The role of the play-by-play announcer is to inform the viewer what is going on. Clueless
Tim Brewer & Andy Petree are your expert crew cheifs. Tim is gone, (but I'm sure they have a pre-recorded piece on what a brake rotor is). Andy is lost. Clueless.
I finally found a station with MRN!
OK, do they have to show both the commercials from yesterday PLUS any commercials from Sportscenter, the show they're replacing? Sure seems like it.
bevo, remember when Weber interrupted Kyle saying a team prayer? Priceless...
this race is boring
Mike PRICELESS comment about driving 1700 miles.
LMAO :-)
Multi tasking and in and out of room with radio JD but enjoying MRN...just the VIBE it gives out and the details as they come in.
Tv is robbing us of any good pictures due to camera work that is rubbish at best. What's with all the useless split cams?
K Bu is leading...sigh...Jamie Mc back in garage..not sure what made his car slow...CC says transmission problems :(
I LOVE MRN!!
thank you FM station for stronger signal.
My reply to Marty Smith, "Marty, I feel your pain, I am watching the ESPN broadcast too. I have had the MRN broadcast on since lap 3."
When is the contract up with ESPN?
From MRN: #26 lost a gearbox - to the garage.
From ESPN: Commercial
Garbage like this really makes one miss RaceBuddy...
I wish Marty was there, then maybe I would not be so lost with this commercial block.
This is just gawdawfull
really awful
Joey Logano spins out
Broke transmissions in Texas for Jamie M and now WG
Logano spins in turn 1 back on course now.
Tony Stewart (the man!!!) up to 3rd and we haven't seen him pass a single car...wtf
Stand-by cues, guys!
Give them!
BEVO-
Not soon enough, eh?
Bevo, maybe in 2045? No, I think they signed a 6 or 7 year deal.
What were the crew chiefs of Kahne, Kurt Busch, and Ambrose thinking? If it was just a blatant mistake, I wanna hear it. If not, what is the thinking?
I'd really like them to show some other racing on the track... I'm getting bored watching JJ
Logano gets loose slows, Reutimann runs into the back of him and spins Logano. Logano gets going again.
@JD-remember it well.
Did AP say he didn't know what was going on coming out of the break?
well, tony is now in second. who knew? only those listening to MRN
Wow, DJ and Andy have to be freaking out. This is horrible.
Thanks JPM for dropping f-bombs..B Pattie is one cool customer on the pit box...very impressed
I'm guessing there's only about four cars in the race judging from what ESPN is showing
pass for 2nd!!!!
aw, why bother showing it, right?
I found an MRN station on line that I can listen to....thank heavens!
They spend so much time replaying spins/passes they miss so much green flag action.
For the 3 late pitters
no mistake...2 stop race...pitting under green is good on a road course
If you were listening to MRN/Sirius you would understand
NO Smoke on Hotpass either this week.
Only Mr Ed, Shrub, Big Daddy and Montoya - sorry no nickname for him - any help?
Bob, how about John Paul?
Jr missed his pit sign again...
Dale JR into the wall head on
CRIPES!!!!!!!!!!
:(tire barrier turn 10
Phathead, but found the tire wall
Caution 3, Lap 41, Dale Jr. in the tires. Dale Jr said he lost his brakes. Dale Jr hit Sorenson with no brakes.
boyd - good point lol
MRN said Jr lost his brakes I thought :(
Since this blog is about TV I'm not commenting much - TV is muted & I'm listening to green flag racing on MRN
Someone, anyone that has an MRN stream please share!
Hit up the email
Okay, not a JR. fan, but couldn't he have downshifted when he knew he didn't have brakes?
Sirius got the Stewart channel fixed.
boyd - downshifting woulda most likely caused the rear tires to lock and he woulda went spinning uncontrollably on the track. Woulda caused a lot more problems that way
Thanks Phathead.
So no one can critize Kyle Busch when he pulls his whiny BS on a weekly basis, but Ambrose's crew makes one questionable call and they throw them under the bus repeatedly?
How does THAT work?
Most cars are staying out. Marcos does pit.
I am not really watching closely
but are the pit reporters actually there?
not used much as usual.
The pit reports aren't need, JP is asking all the questions of the driver (DJ) and the crew chief (AP)
Phat, just like in 2007 this Cup season on ESPN is now all about controversy.
Even DJ's scripted question to Marcos about being ready to "ruffle feathers" for the win was lame.
Hope they remember last time the drivers revolted.
Never mind they're not actually racing on the track.
found MRN! Thank God!!!!!!!
With the lack of useful info we get, be glad they aren't depending on the pit reporters!
From JGR media rep:
Almost every car in the top 15 coasted down the front stretch! It was completely silent - strange experience.
I don't know how many times under this caution JP has said "we're under caution". When he keeps repeating himself like that, he's about done for the day.
JD -
Oh I get the controversy part, I'm just wondering why the never acknowledge when Busch pulls crap yet Ambrose is up there for a change and they're ripping him to hell.
Makes me wonder just how jilted their agenda really is
JD said "last time the drivers revolted."
Please refresh my lousy memory.
Makiki
Honolulu
these laps under caution would be a good time to rundown the entire field but NOOOOOO...gotta have commercial
That Sprint ad was actually kinda cool... but then again I like numbers lol
Jr tried to miss the 43..he went to brake and they were gone...he tried pumping them and they were gone.
gravel trap and barrier and HANS device helped...asked if that was his hardest hit he'd taken...he said no...
can't help but think of his Dad at these times...those sudden stops :(
MRN said Jr was disappointed but still gave them a smile at the end of interview. he sounded disappointed obviously.>TOUGH year for Jr
First race at Talladega drivers revolted for real lol.
Glenn Jarrett interviewing Jr. Great interview. Man, these Jarrett's cover races like nobody's business!
It's interesting to hear Jr.,s interview on MRN. Much more forthcoming and chatty than he is with the ESPN crew.
Pretty much a lap behind but beats what I had.
Did they just think KB was the leader?
I have 18 channel on HP and they had him as #2 during caution
huh?
We might as well be watching rush hour on any freeway in America with the insight ESPN is giving us on these cars
I think I'm going to take a nap.
I'm sure not able to watch a race.
WOW, HUGE difference between the MRN and ESPN interview. Nuff said.
David,
Glen is such a good guy. I really enjoyed him on TV and wish he had returned somewhere in the new TV contract.
MRN interviewed Jr before espn. just saw video
me too JD. He is always a pleasure
Wouldn't it be nice to hear a driver just say, 'it was a piece of crap, and I'm glad I don't have to drive it today'?
ESPN sound with Jr interview can't hear it? volume up all the way
just as well...he sounded more dejected there..guess reality is sinking in or ESPN vibe or both.
Tone of Jr's interview between MRN and ESPN completely different. wow
That's because Glenn and Dale grew up in the sport and know how to talk to the drivers
Does anyone else think that ESPN has three cameras mounted on donkeys? With the bad shots, it wouldn't surprise me.
Kyle B says that all the time!
boyd, thats pretty much what Harvick said after it got wrecked.
Lap 49, Boris in pits, over heating problems.
Boris going ultimate retro with an authentic Stanley Steamer :)
Cleaned grill on Boris car. he is back out.
David, did he say that on ESPN the world wide leader in sports?
Darbar
my theory for camera work is still a dart board in the truck.
Wherever dart lands, that's what camera they pick.
pitiful.
Yeah. They asked him if they could get it back out and he said "I hope not."
What a difference in this race and Saturday. This race been shown now would make you think why go to this race. It is boring.
Maybe it is not the race but Marty Reid vs. Jerry Punch.
David, did he say that on ESPN the world wide leader in sports?
He did.
Went like this:
"Can they get you back out here?"
"Man, I hope not"
Outdated This Is SportsCenter promo, bet they don't even know what's wrong with it.
My bad
Lap 53, Newman gets tapped by Carpentier, Newman spins but keeps going.
Johnson spins by himself (I think) No replay by Tv.
I had to rewind the broadcast to see if what I heard was correct. Vince said "you can see where the water is coming out of the car. On the side that's overheating". I had no idea a car can overheat on one side only. LOL
The reason pits are so busy "all of a sudden" is because they count backwards. Nice way to be prepared ESPN
Find myself tuning more and more out of this ESPN kindergarten performance and 70% listening to the radio. Bummed ESPN might ruin the race for me today. Wow, big calls for these guys that made it to pit road. Bummer for Reed.
Sorenson in the gravel. May not be able to get out. No reason given on Tv. Tv to busy covering pit stops.
Good to see the brand new interns are picking the camera shots today.
Nice of the Director & Co to give them experience.
Now could the real Director please take control back?
stewart is out of fuel...
Just got an update from ESPN. They have added a re-air tonight on ESPN Classic at 9PM ET.
Good deal!
Fuel only for Vickers. Very interesting call.
Anyone watching ESPN have a clue whats going on in the race?
I sure don't.
Heck they cant even run a 1.5mile oval and keep us up to date on a race, what was I expecting out of a road course......
I'm out, going to listen to the rest of the race on Sirius. Yall have a great day!
Barney Hall says Sorenson gets car back to garage
i bet those of you who are only watching ESPN don't know that Kevin Harvick is back on the track.
Bill
totally lost. Wish Marty was there to keep us up to date.
according to MRN Harvick back on track.
Kurt Busch pits, Tv just shows pit stop of Busch even when the race is still green.
Didn't the 47 just pit a few laps back?
I think ESPN missed it.
Reporting Ambrose needs to save 2 laps. 2 laps short on fuel
thought rule for road course is pit when you can make it to end?
More in car/single car /dash cam.
The donkey must have overheated on 1 side Sheesh.
If not for MRN I'd be lost with these camera shots. Could they do a few more single car shots!
J Gordon and Mark Martin have been invisible on TV today, haven't they?
Lot of questions out there to be answered and no answers on Tv.
I cant get radio coverage in my building. Finally had to go load the live leader board from nascar. At least now I know whos were and so on.
Race Buddy where are you???
18 short on fuel too. Coming back from break going to updated ALL fuel situations. Why can't ESPN be this efficient?
I'm out of here too.
Can't take ESPN even on mute as the camera work is totally disjointed.
As usual.
Why are ratings down? Try watching the race on tv.
no thanks if you have MRN or online choice
47 Marcos pitted on lap 44
Bout to go out to the car and listen as much as it pains me because Id rather have SIRIUS with pictures but at least there I have driver audio.
HUGE WRECK! 77, 24, 39
14 car can go 3 laps past the 90 mark
Missed another on track incident because of too many commercials.
will we get a replay?
Commercial??
BIG INCIDENT!!!!
Thanks ESPN
hornish looks shook up
We just missed a crash on ESPN. They were in commercial and came back to the damage already complete. Jeff Gordon one of the involved.
Not surprising.
Wow, that was bad
Wow! least they got a camera right there off 9 now
Oh man, what a horrible hit !!! Hornish was just spinning and really hit Gordon. That was nasty
Evidently, that's not enough of a violent hit for Jerry to get excited about.
Caution 4 lap 61, Kahne gets into Hornish and sends Hornish into the tires. Hornish bounces off the tires and spins, taking out Gordon, Burton. Lagaon involved to.
31, 24 and 77 out of the race. red flag to clean up short chute
WOW. saw a replay of the wreck. glad Sam and Jeff are ok.
Poor guys...Jeff's back.... :(
Frightening wreck
That Armco just catapults cars back into the traffic.
Why under caution?
Dot
Lets see if they are smart enough to talk about engine damage from shutting the cars down....
oh wait, another F%$&ING commercial
Jerry wake up that was bad, bad. Was it not on the script.
GEEZ
petree has been exposed as a joke today. ESPN has always been one in regards to their nascar coverage since their return.
i know more about the race from Race Trax and TDP. Feel like I'd be better off following this at work and not at home with the TV.
Good report by MRN, saying JPM got a piece too. Admitting they have to use sprint vision because of where it occured. love full disclosure!
Wonder what's going on....as Petree and DJ have not been able to follow the strategies correctly. I wonder if it's because the cameras are focusing on just certain cars or what the deal is.
It's not the armco that bounces the cars back onto the track, it's the tire wall at the outlet of turn 9. The same thing happened to Jason Leffler in Nationwide practice. The issue is that the track narrows up there because of the armco at the other side of the track, Gordon hit the armco at the right side of the track.
Can't believe they missed Ambrose's gas-and-go stop on Lap 55...wish there was some online timing feature that told you when each guy pitted and how long they were stopped for.
N.com didn't even say. Thanks guys.
Dot
Red flag lap 63 for cleanup.
Are the ESPN annoucers doing this race from the studios in Bristol? They are so detached from what is going on they must be in another state, right?
That's twice now that Hornish has been involved in a hard wreck. I wonder if it was better hitting the sand barrels last year?
Red flag. Now I can catch up w/comments. Sorry if I asked things before reading.
I love TDP.
MRN guy said Hornish fell to ground on his own volition after the wreck? I take it he meant after he got out of the car?
Lightheaded maybe..did they mention that on ESPN...am watching the reply...OMG..vicious indeed...poor Sam
Sam was overwhelmed obviously
THANK GOD he is ok we hope
Can someone give a detailed account of the crash? I'm stuck at work.
I actually feel a little dizzy from trying to follow ESPN's coverage.
That's the kind of incident you jump out of commercial for
Sal, probably was because it doesn't rapidly change the direction of the car like the tires do. The Gordon hit was probably just as bad as the initial hit though. Bad day for my fantasy team. Dangit.
With all that NASCAR has done for safety, will they do something about this section of track?
This is the third wreck this weekend in this turn, and they were all bad.
not defending them but they are sitting at the start/finish line and cant see most of the track so they have to use the monitors.
Sharp pit reporter talking to Marcos crew chief. He says they aren't using fuel while the car is shut off.
ESPN has completely missed the pit strategy several times. Petree has kept saying Ambrose has to pit again about 10,000x... and the team obviously said he was done pitting. We coulda figured that out a long time ago. ESPN is useless, missed the road course pit strategy big time.
Kahnes car stepped out made Hornish loose - Hornish could not recover - into wall, then airborne across track collected the 24 and others. Hit on Hornish was so bad it ripped fuel cell out of car. Jeff walked to ambulance. 31 was also involved.
2 straight years, 2 straight huge wrecks at the Glen, didn't think that was going to happen.
Anonymous said...
Can someone give a detailed account of the crash? I'm stuck at work.
The 9 pushed the 77 off the track. The 77 hit the wall, then came spinning (violently) back across the track hitting the 24. Causing the 24 to go HARD into the metal wall and the 31.
Hornish did 3 helicopter spins
Burton comes out of care center, Glen Jarrett is going to give him a moment but ESPN swarms in
Thanks all for the MRN reports. No MRN outlet here. I am sooo lost watching ESPN.
Makiki
Honolulu
Wow look at that 77. Complete rear of the car gone.
Another nice line of questioning by Shannon Spake...
YES, he (Kahne) got loose. That's what led to the wreck!
We should know. We're watching, aren't we?
I am...sound off on TV, radio turned up to MRN.
That was a bit of sobering crash for me. I was run off of the left lane of the interstate this past spring and came back across 3 lanes of traffic. Fortunately, by the grace of God, I wasn't hit by another car and just went down the embankment off the side of the interstate. Totaled the car and I was sore, but that was it. Obviously, I wasn't travelling quite that fast, but it is sobering to think of what could have happened had I been hit by a semi travelling at 70 mph.
Why does Jerry keep saying 'Marcus' Ambrose?
Glen, love what he did. He led Sam by saying he had a great car and let Sam talk about his race then talk about what happened. One simple line then let the driver take over. THATS how its done!
Jerry Punch making me look bad. When they came out of commercial Punch said it was lap 61 when the wreck happened and it was really lap 63.
Did the crash happen where that camera isn't?
Dot
was lap 63
27 laps to go
Dot, good angles you can catch it on the DVR
this is the most they have talked to the in-race reporter this year - 4 times so far i think.
lol nice remark about cash for clunkers on mrn
That Gillette commercial with the young guns is one of the best I've seen
They had 2 camera angels of the accident Dot (one obscured due to the dirt tossed up) And then they had 4 or 5 on car angels. So good coverage.
OK, I am going to try something a little different today.
There will be a new post up right after the finish without any comments from me.
This will let you all offer some longer-form comments without having to agree or disagree with me.
I think that should be fun, so put your thinking caps on.....
JD
Do they have any room to widen the run off area of that turn? Looks like it could use a wide gravel trap and a thick tire barrier beyond that.
I love how Andy completely blew off and ignored the bean/gas joke by Punch. Not even a sympathy chuckle.
Lost the problem with that is it is actually the opening for the boot which is the excess of the course that is not used. So putting gravel there is impossible. Unfortunately the tires are the simplest, easiest thing to clean up in event of a wreck. Remember how we had foam off of 11 in the past and how much of a pain that was to clean up?
Tv has talked to all the drivers involved and all are ok.
back under caution
rain on the radar......
Have a question, from a radio standpoint.....they're showing Glen Jarrett interviewing the drivers after Shannon does....what's the idea of him having a headset with a microphone on it, plus having a hand-held microphone?
Darian Grubb: "Thunderstorms starting to pop up 17 - 18 miles away."
The other mic is for the drivers or whoever he is talking with.
the headset is probably to talk to producers as well as to talk directly on the radio where the hand held is specific for driver interviews
at least JP knows how long the red flag was 19 minutes, 36 seconds. Good to know, eh.
20 minute red flag and still no full field rundown..freaking amazing
lol nice remark about cash for clunkers on mrn
La Joie said it last week re: start and parkers.
I guess it is still accurate to say let's go down to the ESPN Craftsman Tech garage...Bristol is south of Watkins Glen...
thats true, randy did.
still amusing this week.
Once again the weather could play a role in today's outcome.
Let's see if ESPN production team will show the radar and add this element in these closing laps.
Line of storms already developing between Buffalo and Watkins Glen.
This red flag only allows these storms to move closer to the Glen.
Is ESPN on top of this ??
so the rest of the race will be commercial free, right? I mean we've just sat through 20 minutes worth of them
MRN full field rundown.
In case I get busy again (how dare customers call and come in while I'm trying to keep up with the race), I'm hoping Tony or Marcos wins. ABW.
Dot
This full throttle thing does nothing! sheesh.
Lets try full throttle with just one radio
Haus
how frightening! I am glad you are still here and ok..but yet, wrecks are scary as time seems to stand still yet things happen quick at the same time, sometimes.
I don't know why, maybe my age is showing...I got tears in my eyes when Sam was interviewed on ESPN..then when the girl walked away, Sam's expression changed like he was still shook up at what he went thru...then he was ok for MRN a bit later.
Glad those cars are safer.
Green flag..and the useless full throttle...tv on mute
I will be back if something else happens but I hope not.
This isn't an MRN blog :)
Funny how the guys in the booth were talking about how bad Marcos' strategy was, yet the 47 is now 3rd.
rear bumper cams do not work on a road course.
Stuff the in car cams, the bumper cams and just show the freakin cars !!!!!
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