Here we go with a very fast and exciting Nationwide Series race from the Lowe's Motor Speedway. ESPN2 is providing the live coverage.
Allen Bestwick will start the day with the pre-race NASCAR Countdown program. Alongside of him will be Rusty Wallace and Brad Daugherty. Tim Brewer will be in the Tech Garage. On pit road will be Shannon Spake, Jamie Little, Dave Burns and Vince Welch.
The broadcast team will be Marty Reid, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree. ESPN has been working Jarrett and Petree very hard. They will already have been on the air for many hours by the time that the race rolls around..
This is one of the most challenging races of the season for the ESPN Producer and Director. Action happens to fast that using the in-car cameras live or playing back recorded features is almost impossible.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 361 of 361Pretty bad when your PxP guy is trying to get the cameras to focus on the action and the director ignores him!
go
blaney!
Why couldn't they show who hit the wall?
Blaney in 3rd ??!!!
Good to see Braun repaying the favor to Dave for last year.
Heard from someone yesterday that Braun also prepared those 87 cars that Conway drove earlier in the year
ok now its getting a lil better for now
GO DAVE!
At least they are bing honest about rain coming...and showing the radar! Much better than being surprised by it.
It's like there's two people calling the camera shots, one wants tight and the other want wider shots. Too un-even for me. Back and forth, back and forth...
You start to think it's going to be good for a while and then it's gone.
What's the status of the attendance tonight. The stands look rather empty to me.
ok, the comments are not good, and I just watched LK for a few minutes...will give the race a few minutes.
MISSING all the online radio streams thanks to HS football..sheesh
SUPER tight shots..or useless slip screen..
Those two boxes of racing on this track are just crazy.
Useless SPLIT screen I meant
Wow, a couple of Odd Wads having good runs. Go Tony & Dave.
I'm getting conflicting comments, anyone?
@Steve - there might be two people - the director at the track and the head honchos in Bristol.
@Andrew: Dr. and Mr.
Damn and I made sure I told work to let me be an hour late, wanted to watch the end of the race but now it looks like rain????? DOH I thought for sure the rain was done for after yesterday but guess not! The weather man has a lot in common w espns Nascar director THEY BOTH SUCK!!!
dear Sophia, it's you.
How close is the rain?
Poor Kasey.
I thought I noticed something weird with that 43 on the side shot.
LOL musta fallen inside the car
Yikes. Kasey just got hosed by that window net.
Go Mike Bliss! Bit of irony tonight, with the #1 already done, yes?
I like Tony Raines, Wish he had a lil better equipment!
looking at the interactive weather on TWC site it looks like rain maybe a half hour out but if you use the future button on the weather map it looks like the rain goes North of there. So who knows?
David - Joey's up to 11th
Those cars aren't used to actually running, so the #01 parks itself.
well, we got AB and Marty in the right slots, we just need a new Director.
These races just start too late for EDT folks that have a job, like me. I'm ready to go to bed shortly.
Tia, I noticed...
LOL, he may just be a factor yet!
I don't think the rain is going to hit in time. Optimism here!
lol @ Patrick
@JD - You volunteering? :D
Got a couple of goog auto racing guys out there right now.
No clue why they are doing this, other than the excuse of HDTV.
oops.........good
Hey, it looks just as bad on HD as it does on regular TV.
Why not show two windows while doing Up to speed. One for the car they are talking about and the other of some cars racing.
thanks jd...I was trying to figure it out....
:)
Uggggggggggh. Helmet cam under GREEN FLAG.
@Charlie - I'm just glad they're doing Up to Speed. Pit stops, on the other hand...
The director is Sergio Leone.
How come they didn't know Keller(?) was in when the crew guy is covering it?
Are we under green? Is there racing going on?
@BADH - LMAO.
Full screen green flag pit stops....are you kidding me?????
Why do Up to speed right before a green flag pit stops?
@ JD, it's in the script. Why else would they do it?
Can we get a close-up on the 99 car in the pits???!!!
Yeah JD, those are the rules made in Bristol - only close shots.
Joey up to 2nd and rain coming ...
Umm, raise your hand IF you did NOT see this coming ...
Guys,
When there is weather in your locale, what do the local stations do? They put a little radar image in the bottom corner, right? So why can't espn, instead of shrinking the action in half and giving us a weather window. Come on.
Tia, you may have called it.
Okay. Now I'm thoroughly confused. Only 3 cars on the lead lap? Was there a caution in the middle of pit stops? Did I miss that?
BRUTAL........
Dot - I got an advance copy of the script ... ;-)
So wwe were just in the middle of green flag stops? Why were they announcing it as if it wasn't going to change as more cars stopped! Arrrrrgh.
okay, I have no idea where anyone is here. Now there is 9-10 cars on the lead lap? ~cringing~
Oh, right, I won't be here tomorrow because I'll be watching the game they just advertised.
ugh, die snuggie, dieeee!
ugh, die snuggie, dieeee!
Caution on commercial ... again ?!?!?
Bet those folks in the stands would each like a water-repellent snuggie huh?
@Pat - Because that would cover a tiny portion of the Almighty Graphics Package
Mr. Extenze just caused a caution spinning. No harm no foul but a caution.
NIce save by Conway!
Maybe they'll use that spin in the next commercial???
I knew there'd be a caution. Right after my GF pit stop.
Does anyone else smell trouble on this restart?
"You saved your car, now save your night" wink, wink.
Did I mention that I HATE that commercial for The Home Depot?? 9 months of it is way too much ...
Now they could run through the top 20 under caution.
This is not fun anymore. Did everybody at ESPN quit and go home?
Why is DJ so quiet.
Marty Reid needs to call this race like he is on the radio.
My sister and I were talking on the phone...I didn't care about the race due to @$#^@&#^@& camera work.
SHE remembers when I would NOT answer the phone during the races...
NASCAR, we hardly knew ye. . .
ENOUGH WITH THE LEADER.
And why was racing in the small box with Steven in the large?
*sigh*
@ Charlie, Is he still in the booth? I haven't heard him in a while.
Will something happen to Kyle Busch tonight???? Should be interesting cause sooo many races in the nationwide series has he been leading like this only to get it taken away in the last couple laps! Here we go woop woop ;-)
props to Mr. Tony Raines!!!
There he was. Then they talk over him.
It is the Marty Reed and pit reporter show.
It's about to start pouring down rain....and ESPN goes to commercial. Nifty.
Man, things sure got really strange really fast.
Now that you guys have some good TV experience, this is a great example of starting out gangbusters and just falling apart over nothing more than TV fundamentals.
Steven Wallace is going to need more than a few points to move into 5th place. He's 150 points behind Alligator. Bye, bye banquet.
Tia, they changed the script on you. Sorry.
Walter Thomas Fred
Don't look now, but Blaney is gaining on Busch...
Or he was until I possted that...
@ dead horse, ;)
Where's the other guys in the booth?
Dale Jarrett shines with Jerry Punch because Dale & Andy bounce off each other to do play-by-play. Jerry Punch just does stats, cliches and commercials.
With a real play-by-play announcer, Dale seems like the quiet mouse in the corner.
I can't type, I'm laughing too hard. Glad Steve isn't hurt.
It wouldn't be a NNW race without a Rusted Son accident. First one wasn't his fault, so he needed to get back out there to make the world right again.
Logano got a penalty? 13 cars on the lead lap? Does anyone know what's going on????
Does not look like rain, but a tip of the cap to ESPN for showing to us all night from the pre-race show.
@ Patrick, oh sure, make me laugh some more.
Sally,
they mentioned that Joey's rear bumper bar was hanging, so he was black flagged to remove that.
Nothing funny about this Charlie Foxtrot broadcast is there.
What's NASCAR Banking?
So can anyone pinpoint when exactly the wheels came off this telecast? My money's on the green flag after the Big One.
Oh, how could things start so well, run sweetly for a time, and then at the end when lucidity and coherence is needed the most-the craft swerves off into the ditch and crashes like a pirated copy of Windows ME.
Andrew: 8:00 EDT
Dale Jarrett has taken a very long snack break...there he is!
Marty Reid is amusing himself...wonder if he has a clue of the crap we see at home...I just blew dry my hair...I've NOT watched more than 15 minutes of this race..and that's in bits while multi tasking.
This is so sad to see the sport treated this way..great night time track..and we see...ON BOARD cams.
Show the PACK!, Please...
Bank of America program Dot. Used to be the BofA 500 the last couple years, now they are promo-ing their program specifically.
LOL, Marty is having fun tonight
Dot: NASCAR Banking is Bank of America's sponsorship of this race. So, tomorrow's race will be brought to you by toxic mortgages.
DJ goes off for a long time then pops up again with a couple of comments. I think RL would have done better - we'll see next week in Memphis.
Ba dead horse
Your Pirated WIN ME comment was hilarious!!..just got rid of ME on old computer..to XP ;)..old spare desktop
@ David, thank you.
@ Patrick...tomorrow is when they pay out the huge bonus', right?
andrew,
It was the full screen green flag pitstops. We all lost our understanding of who was where and it took almost ten minutes.
We got lost and never found.
@ Patrick, read you after. Too funny.
JD...if we all start singing 'Amazing Grace' do you suppose we can get 'found' again?
Blaney gave Bliss a big shot there a couple laps ago.
Love Marty remarking about getting booted from the #1
Great battle for 2nd, good action all around
I bet Bliss, Blaney & Raines weren't in the script tonight. Hee hee.
Time for speeds at the line
What is sad is they have all the stuff to make it work. They shows us that once in a while.
Kyle deserves a break for leading so many laps. Let's give him a caution before the end. please.
damn what a brush of the wall!
What a shame this thing caved. I bet Marty gives them a piece of his mind after this one.
Ya really think they hired Reid to be a leader?
Boooooooooooooooooooo
MartySmithESPN - So, Cup drivers racing NW cars is the best racing we have right now. Hmmmmmmm...
How about that quote from Marty as a final comment on this BS?
what was that, it was like someone said show me racing and the director got mad and said see it is there, and there and there. See.
Nice shot of Bliss & Kez
The finish line (or lack thereof) was un be-frickin-leivable. Thanks Marty for the rundown.
I hate when the original script plays out like this ...
What a junpy last lap! Something happened to Allgaier, he fell from 9th to 12th
Well, I'm done. Busch dominates Cup lite, JJ dominates Cup. Oh my. How exciting. I'm ready for bed now. Peace out.
We could have seen them cross the finish line and Kez & Newman too if they used the right camera.
Outlook not too good for us tomorrow.
BOO KB won.
And The Flying Head Motorsports Network concludes another amazing broadcast. Walter Thomas Fred.
Where is the rain they talked about, over and over again.
Well, glad I did not DEVOTE HOURS of TV time to this race.
Once again reading comments and doing other stuff more fun than the race on tv.
Deja vu all over again with &^$%#*(@ dreck camera work & Kyle carpet bagging, er, I mean winning the NW series.
Thanks JD and everybody for keeping me posted of what I WAS NOT MISSING while doing other things, talking on the phone, watching part of Larry King, goofing off,
Oops, Bliss. Saw yours VickyD.
50 minutes left in this broadcast. what will they do? what will they do?
It is a shame the hard work by Marty Reid is ruined by the tv truck after 13 laps. The pit reporters did pretty well tonight. Andy Petree was solid, Dale Jarrett was there...sometimes. It is the most simple things that drag the coverage down.
@ Sophia: Yes! Carpetbaggers is the best term yet for the Cup car drivers running the Nationwide races. TY.
well, there's one good think out of this night. sophia's hair is clean. sorry, can't think of a better storyline than that.
Got a little time to fill boys!!
America's Funniest Home Videos?
Patrick, there is a lot of fashion pressure here at TDP.
Dot - It was the original script that had Kyle winning (after his "trouble) last week ... They tried to make a last minute change with the "pink" pages, but the pink pages got lost ... ;-)
Jamie - 11 races w/o a win!?!? Gosh, Jamie ... Other drivers have gone longer without a win ...
Now Jaime is asking him about getting out of the car last week???
@Dot--with the economy and bailout mess instead of BOA branding it like they use to it's now NA$CAR Banking something or other.
And Kylie wins again :(
WOW! A blaney siting!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next week is NOT gonna be pretty
Memphis has a history of double digit cautions ... I think over 100 in the last 3-4 yrs ...
@ Tia, don't you hate when that happens?
Bliss, now Blaney. This has to be killing BSPN.
Tia, maybe some other pink pages got through.
I think DJ pulled a Jayski and went down and washed his car about mid-broadcast.
Dot - I hated the original script ... and I hated the edits ... LOL The pink pages are the edits ... I think the green page edits snuck in & ripped up the pink page edits ... ;-)
JD - You better stock up on the Tums / Rolaids / Pepto Bismol ... Next week at Memphis is gonna be U - G - L - Y
Incredible over 300 posts here.
What could I say .. other than to
get rid of Marty Reed forever.
Trying to tell us who is who and
who is passing and who is 2 laps
down and who is going faster.. Do
YOU THINK THE REGULAR FANS CAN
follow any of that ??????
beyond all belief ...At least stop chattering for a few minutes
go back and review the tapes and
then quietly go to the truck and
watch...it is simply out of control
hey didja see that number 4 and the 29 car there and the 6 and they
are well er ah
@ dead horse, is that like Chuck on Happy Days?
Now the rain comes!
Raines????? OK, now I'm shocked.
Much better from the ESPN pit reporters tonight, but man the Director is just nuts!
Talk about a buzzkill.
Patrick! LMBO! yes now my hair is clean...maybe tomorrow night I will do some foil highlights during the race...maybe get out the webcam and send out bubbletweets of that. More entertaining than this stuff.
B A D Horse
YW for Carpetbagger term. So true.
Tonight is PROOF, does not matter WHO is in the booth.
CAMERA work makes or breaks a race and it's KILLING THE SPORT.
@ Gymmie, good point. I didn't even think of that.
Off at 8/11 PM. If this were FOX, Cops would be coming up next.
Jabber jarrett and handy andy do
NOT DO WELL bouncing off each other. They clog up the air waves
We dont need it ..we can see it for
the most part..
We dont need speculation on who will win and what they are doing..
We need great camera work..great
coverage of the SOUNDS OF THE ENGINES..U KNOW like at the track
I GIVE UP..
JD
You more patient than me. I've called the director a buzz kill for months. :(
So difficult to grasp this has gone on for YEARS!! and the past several months even WORSE.
Sophia,
I'm jealous. You have hair.
Ah Patrick, I'm sorry. :(
That's a drag that happens to men.
Interesting night. Good start and confusing finish.
Tomorrow NASCAR Now at 10AM with Mike Massaro and Ricky Craven.
RaceDay at 5PM with the gang.
Pre-race at 7PM for one hour on ABC.
See you guys tomorrow night!!
Thanks as always for coming by.
JD
I got Midnight Madness.
Man at least tomorrow night ACCESS TO RADIO TO LISTEN to the race!!
Shame with Lowes' being a good looking track on the tv.
We won't see it.
Nite all
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