The good news is that the weather has cleared and it is going to be a beautiful day in the Las Vegas area. The bad news is that the rematch of USA vs. Canada in Olympic hockey is on NBC up against the NASCAR race.
The NASCAR on FOX team has been having a hit or miss season. They missed in Daytona but rebounded in California. This week, Darrell Waltrip has been on SPEED many times covering practice, qualifying and as a panelist on the Trackside show. His behavior had been nothing short of erratic.
On Trackside, Jeff Hammond actually changed chairs to sit next to Waltrip and could be seen trying to quiet him down while fellow panelists tried to ask questions of guest Danica Patrick. When Juan Montoya arrived as the next guest, Walrip again talked constantly.
Mike Joy is a well known commodity in the NASCAR world. He can deliver stirring play-by-play and knows how to tell the stories unfolding on the track. Joy's booth partner Larry McReynolds provides information on race strategy and crew chief issues. It is left up to Waltrip to deal with the driver topics and call the replays.
Waltrip will begin the day in the Hollywood Hotel with Hammond and host Chris Myers. This week, the Slice of Pizzi feature continues with driver interviews conducted in an embarrassing fashion for the sake of comedy. The pre-race show has been struggling and the race today really needs a strong lead-in.
The FOX Director is a veteran, but the struggle between showing the field and using in-car cameras has been rough. Normally, TV waits until the field gets strung-out to use the in-cars in order not to miss any incidents or key passes. FOX has been going early to the in-cars and has been forced to replay a lot of action for the TV viewers.
Joy has been handling a big commercial and promo load of show elements that he reads from the booth. That has taken away from his commentary duties. It should be interesting to see if the FOX movie promos and the in-race videos continue. While the Digger presence is less, the commercial elements inserted into the races have been distracting this season.
The pit road reporters Steve Byrnes, Krista Voda, Matt Yocum and Dick Berggren are going to be key today. Action at Vegas happens quickly and often involves more than one car. Information needs to be passed along and interviews conducted with drivers out of the race. There may be more than a few.
In a Sunday morning update, The NASCAR Insiders passed along from the track that NASCAR was putting pressure on the "start and park" cars to stay on the track and even do pit stops. You may remember that Dave Blaney's S&P car was taken last week after the race with NASCAR claiming it was a "routine inspection." See if FOX addresses this topic during the pre-race or the live race telecast.
The pre-race show begins at 2PM and the green flag flies at 3:16PM. The telecast is scheduled to run until 6:30PM ET. This post will serve to host your comments during the NASCAR on FOX broadcast of the Sprint Cup Series event from Las Vegas.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 400 of 515 Newer› Newest»@David - McDowell probably just wants to pass Labonte and Bliss to earn 6 more points. Bizarre though, looks like he pulled into the garage again before passing Labonte for a position.
Fox is still showing Bliss and Labonte as laps down, not OFF.
Nemecheck off
yeah yesterdays broadcast was much much better than this??? Fox needs to go grab some coffee or amp and chug it wake up guys!!! WAKE UP
Jerry is going to stay on pit road this season. When Marty goes to the IRL races, Allen Bestwick will go to the booth. Nicole Briscoe will go into the Infield Pit studio.
Vince Welch and Dave Burns will also get the chance to call one stand-alone NNS race this season for ESPN2.
It is nice to see that the Nationwide series commercials are featuring Nationwide only guys this year instead of Cup guys
thank goodness for the mute button and radio PXP.
I didn't have a problem with DW's interview with Danica ... and she didn't seem to either ... She respects DW and the other guys on "Trackside" ...
What I have a problem with is ... Today's horrific tv coverage ... No replay of Bliss / Robby ... No word as to WHY Sammy dropped from a high of 10th down to 28th & lapped ...
Vince Welch has the personality of a stump, seriously they're gonna put him in the booth fot the PxP?
How much longer do we have to put up with these idiots broadcasting the race until TNT takes over?
Kim Kardashian is on the way to the radio booth. No driver interview, but this sponsors seems to um....be in demand.
Haus, I'm with you, it is good to see their faces in the Nationwide commercials. Helps me to make a connection to a driver as a fan.
Agreed, Jonathan. Marty Reid calling the race has really stepped up ESPN's broadcast.
Fox is so flat right now. Do they waste all their energy in the pre-race junk?
KK and Denny well back...any idea why?
It's weird. Almost like they leave the energy and emotion on the SPEED telecasts of practice and qualifying.
They are like ESPN, big chunks of silence, no PXP from Joy and the two color guys rambling.
What a strange experience.
Thank you for the update on Punch - he's a great pit reporter but an absolute snoozer in the booth. I was hoping Bestwick would get the call to anchor - I believe he will do a MUCH better job.
Do you think the relatively tight camera shots are deliberate to not show the stands? I just saw the big block of empty seats on turn 4.
showing aric and joe nemechek as out several others as "off".
Per Bob Pockrass: Almirola 09 to NASCAR for tear down. S&P with no accident.
How many races until TNT please!
off to rest no sense ranting on all in car cams.
the race is ONE GIANT COMMERCIAL. :(
KILLING the soul of the sport with butchered cam work.
Sally - The caution lights fell off at Fontana ...
So, who is off right now?
I think JD is right about that empty colored section. Either they aren't seats or weren't for sale.
Off is the 71 and 35, out is the 87, 55 and 09
OK, quit with the one car camera deal -- and now, back to commercials. Nothing to see here.
The booth sounds like a bunch of guys sitting in a bar drinking beer and watching TV. Not informative and not interesting.
Sally - Denny says "the car is so so so so loose" ... rubbers, wedge, etc ... not fixing it ...
@Gina - When I commented on it, only Almirola was shown as OUT, all others were shown as "-n laps". Bliss, Labonte and McDowell were not on track at the time.
Caution
wCaution - 77 in grass
Martin - I was going off of the scroll at the top of the track
There's a caution on the track according to the 24 scanner.
Hornish on pit road, spun.
Bobby Labonte coming back out on the track.
Signing off now. I hear the bar calling me......
Uh-Oh Canada! - 2-0 Canada
LVMS has an expanded safety area behind the first catch fence all the way through the dogleg.
What a useless camera angle there! There's no way you could have seen the line in SD.
Thanks for stopping by Garry!
but since Fox was in commercial I didn't catch what the caution was for
2-0 Canada...
Guess the only way to get coverage today if you're not a HMS / JGR car is to spin out across the front lawn ...
I think Vegas, don't quote me for sure, might have bit the bullet on those being seats they could not sell. So rather than have them empty they just got rid of them and moved the lowest seats up to a higher row. So it "looks" like empty seating, but there are no seats there.
Do you guys remember when they did crank it up for the pits? Think it was 2 years ago i thought that was cool. Also i miss the DLP cam they need to do that agian also blimp shots are nice what happened to that? Fox needs help I hate complaining but feel I have to
That 11 is a JGR car and not being covered
@Gina - Hornish mowed the grass.
thanks for catching me up, the 77 was in a spin.
LOL as a KyBu fan that commercial still cracks me up and it sounds like that scheme might win in fact
I want to cry every time i see crank it up.
See, they missed a wreck!
I always like the overhead shots.
Wow, that was big
Bummer! JPM and Jamie Mac in trouble.
Montoya's spotter said the 1 wrecked him
JD, has the FOX group ever given an answer asto why crank it up is always on a restart. I don't mind it but it is those stationary camera angles that just make ZERO sense to me. Great for the zoom-zoom sound but worthless if your actually trying to watch the race.
And while type this I am doing my best to not include bad words lol
double file restarts, yep, they are more exciting.
O.K. The bar can wait. I wanted to see the wreck, but it was all in-car, all the time.
david I aboslutley love crank it up dont cry be happy at least fox lets us hear the cars go by. thats the one thing I love we need more of it, that last crank it up is how it should be not the first one. Id be happy w 5 or 6 crank it ups a race. Espn never never lets us hear cars go by so dont cry. If anything I cry tears of joy when they crank it up. thats the one thing that I love about FOX
I wonder if Jamie Mac is going to suffer the Daytona 500 jinx of not making the Chase that the last few Daytona 500 winners have suffered.
As a side note, the 11 car of Hamlin hasn't been shown much since Hamlin called out DW a few weeks ago. Sort of wonder Hamlin not being shown as much is the result of some sort of payback.
Montoya just leveled the s-bomb on PRN. He's really upset with Jamie.
Montoya's gonna get fined for dropping the S bomb on PRN ... Teed off at Jamie Mac ...
Mike C: What happened between Hamlin and DW?
david the restarts are the best time to crank it up double file cars side by side is much better, last year the crank it ups came mostly after the cars were all stung out and it was somewhat lame i wanna hear em all out side by side for a god 40-50 sec let em get up to speed
LOL. He won't get fined tho. It wasn't national tv.
Yeah Montoya was furious on the radio. spotter and Pattie were too
Kyle Busch saying power steering might be going out
Mike Joy finally woke up, he's actually calling the action -- now if DW would just shut up!
Jonathan, ok true but what is more valuable? Cars going zoom-zoom or seeing action on the restart? I want to see the passing and RACING. You want to hear the cars, head to the track. JMO
why does JPM put his sunglasses back ON for the interview?
toss Jamie under the bus
As is the saying we have at work:
"The wheels on the bus go thump thump thump"
Kyle saying he never wants to race this car ever again.
@Gina - I would have too. I like Jamie Mac but that was a dumba** move.
Also: Racing in the big box, please!
LOL, Jonathan, I have to agree, the sound of the cars going by together does make me feel more like I'm there at the track. The sound of heavy metal thunder baby
Racing in the big box would make...sense!
JR managing to stay in or near the top 10 today. so far.
@Gina - My guess is JPM and Kyle Busch want everybody to buy the cool sunglasses they wear because they have an endorsement deal.
I bet Carl Edwards doesn't have a sunglasses deal, he takes his off when the interview starts.
glitch again on caution lights
daivd i feel you but they dont do crank it up every restart what maybe 2 or 3 of them thats it. and its not for long so you dont miss much. Whats up w the lights today>>>>>???? Spookey
Caution lights, potholes, and David Hill, oh my!
If they can't fix these lights, NASCAR should pull this race date.
Caution lights without NASCAR triggering them? Weird
At Daytona it's the pavement coming up. Cali had rain. LV can't keep the caution lights on or off! So far, Nascar is having 'JR' luck this year!
Oh yeah, I can't blame JPM for doing that, but it does kinda make me laugh. It's not like JPM has never made a dumb move on the track in his life
Denny complaining no top end power. Kyle sounding like he has a similar gripe flat out in center of corner losing ground. Rogers bring him in for 2 tires
while we have time I just put on the hockey game to see how much time is left cause when its done im going upstairs to the hd tv and kicking my dad out lol. Why are we playing Canada for gold didnt we beat them already???? Im lost shows how much I care about the olympics :)
Maybe NA$CAR has decided to use the caution lights as TV timeouts like they have in College Basketball.
I know NASCAR likes phantom cautions, but this is a new one. Does someone keep hitting the jackpot at the casino or something?
Jonathan, I disagree. Daytona we missed some passes, Cali we missed 6 wide, here we missed the Montoya wreck. The first lap of the restart is the most exciting and eventful. Save CIU for 2 or 3 laps in.
Hey, anon 4:36...RELAX! Stuff happens. There's no way in he-double hockey sticks NASCAR will pull one of its most popular stops.
Don't even go there. And please have the stones to give your name if you give an inflammatory opinion like that.
Hey, anon 4:36...RELAX! Stuff happens. There's no way in he-double hockey sticks NASCAR will pull one of its most popular stops.
Don't even go there. And please have the stones to give your name if you give an inflammatory opinion like that.
@ Andrew....LOL!
That is pretty stupid that the lights keep coming on for no reason. What a joke.
I find it interesting Blaney has been on pit road a few times so far and put tires on. Has yet to park...
Message received? Limit being 1 start and park per organization?
Whelen has the contract for the emergency lights at the tracks.Musco does the speedway lights. I wonder if they'll get ripped, or the electricians who installed them?
LVMS had trouble with the Truck race last year ...
They couldn't get the majority of the track lights to come on in Turn 1 ... Delayed the start of the race ...
Week 1 - Pavement
Week 2 - Lack of crowd
Week 3 - Caution light issues
Week 4 - ???
If not for bad luck, NASCAR would have no luck at all.
Gina maybe theres a glitch. it happens remmeber when the lights went out during the Truck race last year. Nascar is having some troubles w things out there control so far this year... Pot hole lights lol DOH
Bad luck for NASCAR trying to garner new fans. It's like watching AAA baseball....
LOL -- maybe whoever is triggering the lights thinks he's a goal judge and is putting on the lights for a score.
Jonathan, we beat them but it wasn't in the competition rounds. It's like winning "practice" unfortunately, it doesn't count. The US team has played really well though, so I'm not complaining.
Generator also took a dump on Friday too
Scott Speed stayed out, I guess?
Garry: Hamlin a few weeks ago through an outlet (might have been Twitter) something to the effect of DW needs to quit telling the drivers how to drive their cars. It was something along those lines.
Nearing halfway, want to see if the 66 parks at halfway
Garry new fans are probably watching the hockey anyway. I feel the ratings will be down untill next week no olympics and back to noon start times in Chicago so wooo
They are DYING to get this Crank it Up in there, aren't they?
2-1 Canada....I think the only people watching the race are on the Daly Planet!
Wouldn't DF restarts be a perfect time for an overhead shot from the blimp?
p.s. I lied. The caution lights problem..pitiful.
Still the PRODUCTION BOOTH is missing everything.
FOX DIRECTOR is not even remotely thirsty for knowledge on how to show a race. :-(
Paging Mike Wells
&^%#$@!%$RESTART with IN CAR CAM !~^@%!^#%!^#%!^#%!^#%!#^
what was that camera shot supposed to be?
One of the most important parts of the race is the restart and Fox always wants to put some other fancy stuff in the way - Why?
Zoom out for a restart and call the race.
Fox dont abuse a good thing then people will have a nother issue to complain about and then watch there will be no more crank it up... Sometime to much of a good thing isnt good
Should we have a caution soon, Dave Blaney is up for the Lucky Dog.
Juan is back on track
LOL - Sophia -- you said it so much better than I did! you go, girl.
@Anon 4:44 - And some of us are flippin'.
Andrew - I'm flippin and flippin out, too
Thanks Jonathan and Mike C.
I just saw Bill Webber operating the Zamboni at the Olympic Hockey Finals.
He was supposed to perform a magic show during pre-game.
How about an update as to WHY Sammy spun ?!?!?
Better yet ...
How about updates on cars that are NOT owned by HMS / JGR ????
Even PRN has problems today ...
Andrew: Great game - Canada's goaltender was shaky in the 2nd-3rd period should be classic!!!!
Regan Smith still on the lead lap
tia, FOX hasn't even talked about Kyle's power steering problems or Denny's struggles. They have talked about HMS and RCR but no JGR in that mix lol.
2-1 in hockey game third period set to begin. The FOX NASCAR ratings will stink - at least they have an excuse this week - GO TEAM USA !
Almost forgot about Bill Weber, Lightenup. A magician!? That back story must be incredible! I knew that NBC didn't renew his contract. And when I read that, I thought, WTH? Also, how many commercials are stock piled here? CawsandJaws must be getting writers' cramp counting these commercials...
Any explanation of the caution light problems on TV yet?
Halfway home
Ooh, 3rd Period is on. See you in 20 minutes! :D
Another commercial free period of hockey coming up...amazing how they can do that.
Something just doesn't sit right with this broadcast. It seems like the farther into the race we go, the smaller the range of the director. We were watching Kevin Harvick go through the field in 30th at the beginning. It seems like now the director will not leave the top 10.
Is there a backup system to the caution lights?
A series of flaggers like you would see on a road course, perhaps?
Yes, Weber is now a Magician.
He is regularly performing in Hotel lobbies cutting desk clerks in half.
His BIG finale is when he pulls Digger out of a hat then makes him disappear.
If Rod Serling were alive today, he wouldn't have to go very far for story ideas.
"Submitted for your approval. A giant pothole eating cars. Mysterious lights coming on and going off. And in the middle of all this:One class clown, a director with no shame, and an endless array of interruptions during a sporting event."
2-1 canada in the 3rd.
LOL Lighen
3rd period of hockey game is commercial free sponsored by DirecTV
Did I just hear DW admit that the original configuration at Vegas made for dull racing???????!!!! After telling all us fans that we were crazy to say ANY track has dull races. Hmmmm.
They really can't do commercial free periods of hockey. NBC Universal is losing a lot of money on these Olympics.
Said off track MV
I wonder if NASCAR wants to "go back to their roots", then we can just have one flag man, and the drivers would be responsible for watching what he does.
Garry, love that comment. You have entered the twilight zone.
DW is flavor of the day Sally!
The old Vegas config was actually pretty good, it finally came into its own when they destroyed it. Jimmie and Kenseth had that awesome photo finish on the old design
@Garry...Now THAT brings back some memories. Well done!
@David - Any word why the #26 is off?
wow, great save by the US goalie
I agree, DW is a master of revisionist history. I keep expecting to see someone's hand up his back when his lips are moving.
I could have added,
"And a track that holds a race, and no one shows up.", but I figured California doesn't need any of my help.
Garry, you should apply to Fox for doing the pre-race gig -- you're much funnier than the people they are paying to do it.
So appropriate, since Fontana seems to be in a Twilight Zone as far as race fans are concerned.
David: Thanks for the updates on cars off the track. I wonder if they are practicing for the new rule: "You must complete 50% of the laps or else."
This race broadcast is an embarrassment to all our neighbors watching in Canada. Oh, no one is watching in Canada.
Who performed at halftime?
Nope MV, but they were 3 laps down and slow. Radio is silent.
WOW a Blaney mention on FOX?! There to run all day?! I thought they had to scramble to prep an unfinished backup car?
Amazing how a story can change. Last week DW says they won't run all day if the quarterpanels are blank, now he is here to race.
Someone got the iron fist behind closed doors
Gina, ALL of us here are funnier than the people Fox is paying to do the pre race.
NP Garry, that was what i was thinking would happen with the 66. But they are still chugging along...
Wonder who stopped by the truck to get that Blaney mention?
I would like to get a feel of this race but tight shots on one or two cars, bumper cams, and roof cams don't do it.
If you are going to show two boxes on the screen put the race in the bigger one and the pit stop in the small one. Makes sense to me.
Maybe Phil stopped in and told them a mention on TV would help in the sponsor search...
5 laps to stops
I'd apply to FOX, but they would have to get a restraining order against me, because David Hill would be my boss.Besides, actual cerebral humor wouldn't cut it in today's "pull my finger" crowd.
1 and 12 on pit road
Just what I was thinking, Garry. We're much too sophisticated to appeal to Fox!
@Lightenup - I'm watching in Canada. :)
Maybe we need for NBC to start broadcasting races. Class act! It would have to be better than the quartet of networks we have now. The shows are run by kids so that is why it looks like a cartoon. Right?
Bliss back on track finally. 115 laps down
Has anyone noticed Mike Bliss is back in this race?
MV, beat ya to it lol
NO! NBC did it before and messed it up horribly! Turner took a huge black eye for it. Turner does better when they can concentrate their effort on a short season, not over a large chunk.
@David - What's your source? I'm using NASCAR.com's Leaderboard and I know they've been a little slow at times.
Great hockey coverage on NBC. Camera work, announcing, replays and no commercials. Boy will the NASCAR ratings suffer on this one.
Good for you Martin. Makes me proud.
@Sally, so true!
@lightenup
When we had NBC, they replaced Bestwick with Weber in the booth.
If I look up the word "disjointed" in the dictionary, would it say "FOX broadcast of pit stops."? They were all over the board with camera angles, incomplete pit-stops, etc.
My attention span on pit command. I saw the speed was moving again, therefore he was back in the race
Yeah, no way I would ever want NBC back covering the races. Weber, yuck.
Garry, you are so right about your level of humor and I wouldn't want to see you in jail for giving David a little headslap from all us race fans.
Mike Joy is BORING.
David, I love my pitcommand. between that and the radio calls it's the only way I know what's going on in the race. I prefer MRN to PRN though.
Edwards is about to go a lap down....wonder if we'll see a yellow for debris?
I'm not defending Fox, and definitely not the pre-race show, but a comment- There are what, roughly 20 people making comments on this board, mostly ripping Fox. The 20 people on this board are diehard racing fans who are going to watch anyway. Any network would be crazy to cater to just the core fans. Fox (and ESPN, and Turner) are trying to get a more mainstream audience. Everything they do may not appeal to you, and it may not appeal to them, but the fact remains, they need more than the diehard fans to watch in order to make any money. Along the same lines, it's those commercials that are paying for the race. When it comes to Fox, an over the air broadcast entity, they get very little revenue from sources other than advertisers, and that income from Time Warner only came in the past few months. The sponsored items, the commercials aren't a function of the guys in the truck. They're from sales people who are in an office. I'm sure the guys in the booth and in the truck would love to be able to show you a broadcast commercial free, but it's just not going to happen.
You really have to wonder what is going on behind the scenes. Mike Joy is never like this and so far this season, he is mailing it in.
Is Mike Joy going to be on-again, off-again every other race?
this is not his normal way of calling a race, It's a lot more like he called or didn't call, the Daytona race.
isnt this ironic dont you think??? last year we couldnt wait for Fox to come back and now we wish we had ESPN and Marty! whats next???
I wish we had PRN or MRN out here in Colorado. We had it for years (it was on AM), and then last year some nitwit decided that talk radio on a Sunday was more important. Denver, Colorado. A big city. Furniture Row Racing. A city that wants to build a track for NASCAR.
4 1/2 minutes left in 3rd...2-1 canada
Jr. about to go a lap down...time for a caution
Okay, what did I miss? Did Gordon have such a huge lead that all these cars are going a lap down now? I don't understand. WHY don't I get the info I need to keep track of the race!!!!!!
Anon, I understand the need to appeal to a broad audience, but wouldn't it be better to appeal to the highest level of effort, rather than the lowest common denominator?
Commercials are a necessary evil, but there's no excuse for terrible camera work and bad PXP every week. I don't see how that appeals to any fans, casual or hardcore.
Heck, we need competiton cautions. Makes for better racing. I wish NASCAR would just be upfront about it so stuff like that can be planned.
OMG, team USA just pulled the goalie for 6 attackers. Last minute to play. exciting stuff
On a nice note - did ya hear Mike Joy mention Mark Martin & Not use his age?
Haus - waiting for it, but no call so far to save Jr
Gina V24: I agree. I can't put rose colored glasses on and pretend that a mess doesn't exist. Two years ago, I sang praises about FOX.
I figure Rick will get on the radio and tell Jeff NOT to put Jr down a lap if NASCAR doesn't throw the caution
We probably won't see a caution for debris until after the Hockey game finishes.
The US just scored to put it into OT!!! yay
no cautions for spread out racing that would be like saying ok this baseball game thats 12-1 needs to be closer lets make it 5-1 nah
USA ties the hockey game!
SCOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRE!!!!!!!!!
GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL USA!!!!!!!
Kenseth just came in again.
Kenseth cannot make it on 1 more stop. Everyone else can. That is not good for 17 fans. Deserves to be mentioned over this "race break"
Im sorry but I didnt want them to score now I cant watch the end of the race in HD oh well. jk go USA And that means Nascar ratings just went wayyy down.
WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!! US scores 24.4 seconds to go in 3rd - tie game!!!
OVERTIME FOLKS
oh yes time to go to JRS Hotpass channel this will be interesting
BYE BYE NASCAR ratings now.The entire country just flipped over
Sorry guys, I just realized i was a few minutes behind on the DVR. LOL!
Do they have a Green White Checkered finish in the hockey?
did this turn into the USA Gold Medal game live blog???
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