This is a time of the year that Nationwide Series fans know all too well. This is the first weekend of the college football season.
There is a live college game now in-progress before the scheduled start of NASCAR Countdown at 6:30PM. Please go to our comments section for updates as the start time of the NASCAR TV coverage approaches.
Race coverage is scheduled for 7PM. This is ESPN's second attempt at the "Backseat Drivers" concept. Four of the network analysts, Dale Jarrett, Rusty Wallace, Ray Evernham and Andy Petree will be in the broadcast booth making conversation among themselves.
There will be no Marty Reid or Jerry Punch joining the group as the play-by-play announcer. Instead, Allen Bestwick will remain in the Infield Pit Studio after he hosts the pre-race show and help the analysts with information and updates after the commercial breaks.
The idea is that these ESPN analysts will be able to relate stories about their own driving careers and experiences at Atlanta to the viewers during the race. The reality is that ESPN did not carry any of the practice or qualifying sessions for this race and that makes it a perfect target for experimentation.
This is the time of the season when all of the ESPN energy goes into the Sprint Cup Series coverage and the infamous "Race for the Chase." In the blink of an eye, the only NASCAR series that ESPN carries from start-to-finish becomes second rate.
Join us as we watch the live race and see how this experiment unfolds. We will also be discussing the transition between the live college football games and the ESPN2 NASCAR coverage.
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416 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 416 of 416harvick certainly deserved THAT win! amazed that my guys actually made it: he has certainly learned something this year about saving fuel!
*clicks over to speed* i loathe bike racing but i loathe ESPN's reporting even more
That stop almost cost Happy but I'm glad he was able to pull off the win!
And of course once again we don't see everyone finish :(
What an interesting night of TV from ESPN.
There are two new posts up.
One for your comments on this Nationwide Series telecast.
The second is the live blog for the Camping World Truck Series from Iowa.
Thanks to everyone who has to leave us now, see you tomorrow for the Sprint Cup action on ESPN.
JD
*sigh*
And another "how did you feel" question. Oh, well.
Again, they didn't bother to show the cars cross the finish line. The top 13 were covered in the 1 through the field. Everyone else was only seen if they were in a crash or as a lap car getting zoomed by. Yes they were laps down, but not even showing them finish is complete ignorance. We might as well should of had 15 cars in the field tonight.
good night for Jr Motorsports. Abright spot in an otherwise dismal season for Jr fans.
Carl foot - drink
First, the beauty Sharapova loses. Then Roddick. Now, Junior can't pull out the fuel stretch and keep pace to hold off Happy and Grumpy.
The lead lap cars were so spread out and that's probably why they didn't show everyone cross the line.
Alan set Shannon up for a "feel" question
Dangit!
haha did you hear Shannon?
Carl, So what did you learn about your foot that you can use for tomorrows race.
Love it.
Jeez, if Harvick thought that was a good race it's only because he didn't have to watch it on TV. And I don't mean that in a nasty way, like I usually do. ESPN did a very good job tonight. The race itself sucked.
--KarenB
kez says "these cars were evil" tonight.
young mr busch says "that 33 was unbelievable tonight . . . we had a second place car tonight" but he DOES thank his crew and promotes his sponsor.
earnhardt jr "i was fine" with being told to save fuel. "really happy with the run for this team."
burton "we really did work hard all night . . . everyone just kept working."
carl edwards "that was pretty fun . . . we made it a long ways on fuel. i guess w/a sore right foot, you don't push it very hard. . . i'm a little sore but it doesn't hurt that bad."
Nice way to close it out Shannon!
New posts are up, thanks everyone!
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