Kim Lopez will control the chaos from the flag stand, but first Krista Voda needs thirty minutes to handle The Setup.
This week Voda will review the Championship fight, offer a feature on the dynamic Angie Skinner and discuss the career progress of driver Timothy Peters. Adam Alexander and Ray Dunlap will join Voda with interviews and news.
Once the green flag flies, Johnny Benson will once again be joining Rick Allen and Phil Parsons in the broadcast booth for SPEED. Michael Waltrip is in Richmond attending to Sprint Cup Series business.
Benson has been slowly getting the hang of this live TV thing and his insights have added to the broadcast. Parsons is easy to work with and Allen has his play-by-play role well defined.
Hopefully, the vast majority of the trucks at Gateway are there to race. As the field in this series starts to thin out, there is certainly a huge gap between the top trucks and those struggling to just keep running the schedule.
Gateway is the right size track for this series and hopefully the action will continue to be fun to watch. The TV challenge is to keep cutting the cameras as the trucks run lap after lap. There is no doubt that Allen can keep up with the action on the track, the challenge is for the TV director.
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Hey all, this should be fun.
ReplyDeleteHappy Saturday All! We're wet here in DFW :)
ReplyDeleteLook forward to a great race today!
Go Rick, Phil and Johnny B. I hope Johnny B. is added next year :). He did great the other week and I know he'll be awesome this week :)
Nice stories on the Setup Krista does a great job! :)
Doesn't anybody know how to sing that song?
ReplyDeleteGymmie,
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping Benson gets a ride, but if not, he's much better than MW, IMHO.
While this girl isn't a "great" singer, she gave the anthem a respectable effort. No over-the-top or making-it-their-own, so nicely done.
I have been volunteering all season long to be the National Anthem picker.
ReplyDeleteNASCAR says the local tracks do it.
Gymmie, I'd rather see Johnny B. get another ride!
ReplyDeletePoor gal couldn't quite hit the notes-had to mute her. Isn't TP the driver that took JB's ride? I don't find that heartwarming at ALL..
ReplyDeleteI can sing the song ...
ReplyDeleteAnd ON key ...
Why is there no Live Leaderboard for the Truck Series?!?!
ReplyDeleteRed-headed stepchild much?
JD - Last week, they had 3 different "named" country acts do it ... and only "Diamond Rio" did the national anthem properly (Too bad they got kicked off Arista Nashville to make room for AI's carrie underwood) ...
ReplyDeleteRick Allen gets credit for his durability and enthusiasm for this series.
ReplyDelete@Patrick--oh yes! I left that out my bad! IF Johnny B. doesn't find a ride I hope he's added to the team That's what I get for responding here and on another forum at the same time! I definitely want Johnny B. racing over being on TV! He's still young even if sponsors don't think so and can get the job done!
ReplyDeleteStill waiting to see what is going to happen with MW next season on TV.
ReplyDeleteThoughts on lack of attendance:
ReplyDeleteThey have moved this race around in past years, has been in April and earlier in Sept.
Trucks at Chicagoland didn't help. I live between the two cities and went to Chiland.
There is a lot to do on a beautiful fall afternoon in the midwest--as in high school and college football...
tia
ReplyDeleteI can sing the song and do good harmony on it as well. Not that tough to do, the harmony..keep it simple. Melody is another deal. Tough. Many of these singers MUST have connections to local powers that be.
Will read comments later. have to go mow the lawn. Thank goodness for riding mowers or I could not do this.
too GORGEOUS day to be sitting inside & will try and listen to race tonight. :-)
I will get all the important info here as always.
Thanks
Sorry, Rick, but that really doesn't look like a great crowd to me.
ReplyDeleteI think JB is getting groomed for the truck booth next year. I think he does a good job telling us what's going on on the track.
ReplyDeletePammH,
ReplyDeleteQuality over Quantity? maybe?
@ dear Sophia, take the blade off and do some racing, lol.
ReplyDeleteIs there another series running with the trucks? Seems like a waste to be just them.
Plus it probably doesn't help the Cardinals are playing a home game this afternoon as well. Some tracks are suited to have races in the evening, and Gateway is one of those.
ReplyDeleteDot,
ReplyDeleteASA Late Models, after the trucks.
Dot - ASA Late Models are after the Truck race
ReplyDeletePeggyAnn - In 2004, the race was in July on the Cup off weekend ... when they had the on-the-side trucks & 4 GWCs
Straight up truck race, tough to pass and good TV coverage.
ReplyDeleteS&P update. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteKinda skews the real differential between how many points someone out of first can expect to make up. Unless Hornaday were to wreck on lap 1, nobody can really expect to make up 100 points on any given day. They'd be lucky to make up 50.
Now that is how to work the triple split on caution flag stops!
ReplyDeleteSure hope it's the third, not second weekend in July next year for Nationwide and Trucks, or I'll have to change my hotel for Chicagoland. The third weekend is off for Cup.
ReplyDeleteSportstravel seems to be a good place to find out the schedules; they have Chiland being the second weekend.
It is HOT in St. Lo in July; hope they race at night.
over 30 minutes without a post during a race (3:14 - 3:46). No TV complaints here. All the haters should witness this for a satisfied group. so far.
ReplyDeleteFugly restart. Flagperson not too ambidextrous. She couldn't shake the yellow with her left, needed to be in the right hand for effective waving.
ReplyDeleteBig pit stops...
ReplyDeleteLap 104 - that's the third wreck that's been right in the middle of the shot when it happened. One part luck, one part good direction, one part good camera work.
ReplyDeleteGood thing the Boogity Toupe ADD Spaz-fest RaceDay is next. This race cannot finish in 30 minutes, can it?
ReplyDelete3 and 4 wide and no one there watching...shame.
ReplyDeleteWhat's with the teaser for RaceDay during green flag racing?? The show doesn't start til the top of the hour ...
ReplyDeletetiamatsrevenge,
ReplyDeleteJust in case you just joined us...
JD, re: 3 and 4 wide: That's why I'm glad Darlington is rumored to return to next year's Truck schedule. Trucks were always the best race of a three-day weekend at the track closest to me.
ReplyDeleteThere are 15 trucks OUT of this race, which means only 21 are running, with only 15 now on the lead lap. That's a pretty large attrition rate, even accounting the S&Ps. While there have been too many cautions, this broadcast has to be one of the best in a while. Just look above at the LACK of complaints. Benson is much improved over last week, more comfortable interjecting his opinion on the young drivers, scenarios, etc.
ReplyDeleteWe need a major overhaul of the truck series and they know it.
ReplyDeleteThe bullrings need to return and the big tracks need to go away.
Darlington would be great even with the high speeds.
Jeezzz...how many trucks are left running???...can't be 15. Did that many just give up? I know there were about a dozen S&P's, but this is awful.BTW, Onion deserved that!
ReplyDeleteToonces is not happy!
ReplyDeleteMike,
ReplyDeleteI count 19 still running. 13 on the lead lap (assuming no lucky dog inside 10 laps, right?).
Maybe NASCAR Now would take the CWTS seriously if more than a couple dozen fans show up for the races. The attendence is horrible.
ReplyDeleteCRAP! Grampa!
ReplyDeleteBlock some more Ron.....and Onion. Maybe they should start penalizing for blocking like in the IRL and ALMS!
ReplyDeleteAbout tiem Nascar put their foot down about Matt Crafton. He's a menace-no wonder KH got rid of him!
ReplyDeleteHorrible call by NASCAR. Wish some guys in the booth would have the guts to rip NASCAR.
ReplyDeleteShould get to RaceDay at 20 after the hour.
ReplyDeleteBad call for two reasons. One, Crafton held his line both times. Two, moving to the rear just gave him more targets!
ReplyDeleteHuge difference between holding your line by not backing off, and outright wrecking people. NASCAR is just bending over for Hornaday.
ReplyDeleteWish there was a "SPEED Classic" so RaceDay could start.
ReplyDeleteBoth those trucks cut across Crafton's bow. If your leading the truck points by that much, why in the world not give the guy a little room? BAD call by Nascar IMO.
ReplyDeleteSeems that I missed a good race. I thought I'd have to read a 100 comments.
ReplyDeleteDan had it paused. Don't know who won yet.
Please don't cut away until we hear from Crafton and Hornaday.
ReplyDeleteHappy that Tayler got himself a Top 5 today :)
ReplyDeleteThe Principal wins again :)
he didn't just take out Bodine and Hornaday...there was a lot of collateral damage. AND...he was arrogant about it on the radio--NASCAR often listens to that stuff. If he'd done it on a straightaway it would be different...going into the corner you do what Sauter did. But I will say, Johnny Benson & Phil bent over backwards trying to make explanations. Whoever thought JB would be bad...he was great...
ReplyDeleteAnd we got to hear from both of them.
ReplyDeleteDidn't someone say Hornaday was going to take that truck to Loudon? Not any more...
Idiot redneck track officials around the country get this call right every Saturday night. I'm blown away by the milquetoast tone of the commentary on TV. Just pathetic that the Truck Series officials are such Hornaday sychophants. Sad and pathetic. Maybe they're getting a cut of the sales of testosterone cream.
ReplyDeleteWell, at least it's over. On to live blog Raceday. There is a new post up on the main page.
ReplyDeleteJD
Dang, I got caught up on phone & finishing cooking.
ReplyDeletewish I knew the story on the wreck and who did what.
Am glad RD starting late...2 hrs is TOO LONG. needs to go back to hour.
Hornaday seems to have taken credit for bad restart but did not make friends in the comment section.
Had no idea this wreck was such a crash fest...glad I missed it and everybody was ok.
at most of our local tracks, if you wreck a guy, you and the car you wrecked go to the back, intentional or not. The Principal got it right.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the great comments.
ReplyDeleteJD