This is the only night where Sprint Cup Series cars race on SPEED. The network carried the Gatorade Duels in February, but the All-Star race is the big deal.
Since this is not on FOX, it will be Krista Voda hosting the telecast from the Hollywood Hotel with Jeff Hammond and Darrell Waltrip. Once things get underway, Waltrip will join Mike Joy and Larry McReynolds in the broadcast booth for the coverage.
One big challenge of the evening is keeping viewers informed of the format and the schedule of the various events. So many things are very different in this win or crash style of format.
Steve Byrnes, Matt Yocum and Dr. Dick Berggren are covering pit road and will have the tall task of trying to explain the wildly varied strategies that teams use in this event. Pit road has always been a very interesting place on this night.
Joy has been dealing with a very emotional Waltrip this season on TV. From his amazing outburst at Daytona during the final laps through his flip-flops on issues concerning race winners and strategy, Waltrip seems to be trying to please everyone. That just does not work on TV.
On this night, action happens quickly and there are usually several stories in progress at once. It will be tough to continue to use the very tight single and double car shots mixed with in-car cams that has become the NASCAR on FOX trademark.
Voda's star is on the rise with SPEED and FOX. Her performance tonight on a very big stage may go a long way toward determining what her future brings. The FOX head honcho David Hill is now also in charge at SPEED. It should be interesting to see if Voda eventually heads onto having a presence in other high-profile events on FOX.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 395 of 395I am not sure jokes about how filthy rich all these guys are is going to resonate with the NASCAR fan base, many of whom are struggling in this economy.
I'm bored with this race!! Maybe the Showdown was just too exciting, though it got single file strung out at the end.
zzzzzzzzzzz
Has CMS installed new lighted billboards, Speed, Zmax etc at the top of the stands or are they temporary to cover seating that is not being used?
I still use FFox but have MANY issues with it. IT's upgrades have been horrible & too much junk in the trunk for the program. It was much more problem free years ago. Some puter geeks like Chrome better but I can't take the spinning adds & harder to enlarge the fonts.
I've had horrible conflicts as have others with FFox upgrades & have turned off the updates ..when something gets messed up, do a restore to before the latest update!
Upgrades rarely mean improvements. How about showing more than two or three cars on the tv.
Need to get the rest of my dinner or something. We had Three ways for dinner.
Sophia,
Barry makes the calls, Artie gives the cameras operators their direction.
But--it's Barry that is ultimately responsible and then he will blame the bad stuff on everyone else.
I just had to listen to them cussin and fighting on the headset all the time.
Help me out on this JD. I didn't hang out in the truck as I was too busy with my own deal.
Racebuddy constantly freezing in Va
NASCAR on FOX is like watching a race through a telescope, with "Romper Room" playing full-blast on TV in the background...
Just a heads up-no prob w/RB in MI on Charter.
Race buddy frozen in SC
Hey Anon, do they have the internet in S.C. yet?
Just kidding, I live there too.
It's a partnership, but clearly this is how FOX has chosen to cover the sport this season.
I did a mercy killing on the FOX race chat from Dover after not seeing or hearing anything on the entire field except the first four cars for over twenty laps.
They paid the money, they can cover it anyway they want. It does not mean fans will watch.
RB's been working much better since switching to IE. (I'm in Tallahassee, and using Comcast.)
Darn dial up again
I have Firefox and even with adblocker OFF I could not get RB to play. I switched to Chrome and it loaded right up no problem!! I find Chrome a great "back up"browser but still haven't figured out how to utilize it yet...hard to read the smaller text & tired of enlarging each page.
But RB working for me in Ohio
Racebuddy works fine in chrome on my work laptop.
Coverage is all over. Which sponsifier car won?
@JD - Just out of curiosity, are you planning to host a chat for the Indy 500? I ask because I have a feeling that the Coca-Cola 600 chat may suffer the same fate as Dover's.
TY Andrew--I missed his tweet went to go find it :)
No RaceBuddy probs here! TWC, W7, FF 3.6.3 several windows open, Twitter going plus streaming
it definitely feels like there aren't as many sold elements in this show.
Fox doesn't help themselves either. They hype these races up so much that it would be impossible to live up to expectations. Add the lusy camera work, and they aren't going to grab many 'new' fans. Heck, they're driving away most of us 'old' ones.
Anon 9:51PM, it's the SPEED cable TV ad rotation and not the FOX broadcast rotation.
It's fundamental. They just cannot stay wide to give us perspective. It's embarrassing.
We all saw the truck race. It makes a huge difference.
9:51 here again- Think that's why Mike Joy seems to be more on top of it? He can just deal with racing and not a different promo or something every 3 minutes?
*sigh*
Mike Joy is done. This is a bog-standard FOX race now.
I think that I shall be watching only one race next week. And it's not the one being hosted by this crew.
Kyle Busch spotter: "At least flip him off out the window"
Wow, all of DeeDubbayoo's favorites are running into each other so much, he can't decide who to absolve blame for. Laughing my butt off...
Opened Race Buddy on the wife's new emachine netbook when the first segment started. I'm really impressed with the little computer, and I'm wireless.
I've not had one sputter since the races started.
Happy with Turner and emachine.
Not jumping for joy about the tv broadcast.
TOO MANY IN CAR CAMS!!!
Wow, Barry almost missed the pit entry's.
Sorry, but if this is going to be another JJ runaway, I'm going to watch something else. This domination is really getting old. Why can't the others keep up with the 48?
So far, this race doesn't feel at all special. It looks and feels like a typical Fox disaster.
By the time the checkered flag waves, DW should have who's going to be tough to beat down pat.
actually i thought they showed it well from the blimp... wide, and you saw what happened....
BTW, Ms Go Daddy is losing her luster. She cried about how bad her car was for Indy qualifying and she's in something like 16th place in the IRL. Should be an interesting return to Nationwide. Maybe Scott Goodyear was right---you can't do both series and not have a negative effect on each of them.
Darcie, two words is why.
Chad and creative engineering.
OK maybe three words.
OsbornK, I agree with you. This race is absolutely nothing special. Same old, same old.
This race always gets over-hyped. All we can hope for is the sparks fly during the final 10 lap segment.
Same sub-par race coverage from Fox, but all in all, a pretty good race.
Will try to ignore the coverage, and just focus on the racing.
The drivers are putting on a good show, but the Fox guys suck as usual.
TVtrucker, by creative do you mean Cheatin' Chad??????
They always tease us about how the drivers will let it all hang out and talk about how great the All-Star races have been....but the footage we see of the great All-Star races were those that were run some 20 or so years ago.
Darcia, sure you can if you can drive.
Looking good ain't driving good.
@Mike - I don't think it's the race that's overhyped, I think it's the track. Charlotte is the home track, but the Budweiser Shootout always produces more excitement than the All-Star Race.
Darcia, it ain't cheating until you get caught.
I've had enough. I'm sure I can find something to do that will keep my attention. See ya later guys.
Have a feeling the Coke 600 is going to be a long long long race for TV.
Denny Hamlin spotter: No pressure, we'll beat him on pit road"
Denny Hamlin: "I'll beat his *** on the track"
I'm really getting tired of replays and bumper cams.
seems to me like all the cars are strung out. the 48 is way out in front. Is that what other people are hearing? basically a boring race?
is the audio play by play on the racebuddy mrn?
re: INDY
Park Milka Duno
Danica is a diva.
Root for Sarah Fisher & her other car.
Sarah was voted one of the most popular drivers years ago but you can't find her with a search warrant now...& she's had to beg for sponsors.
I root for her & Dario & some others :)
Will save my viewing for Indy 500. NASCAR ain't worth 600 miles of &^%$*#( camera work.
My housemate gave up on this All star race & I'm reading news online.
Elin Woods wants $750 mill & custody of kids & no confidentiality clause.
I think I'm bored trying to watch a race live on "Fox"
I am sooo OUT for the 600..:(. Hurts me, but I can't handle the awful coverage. RB is making me very happy tonite!
It's not Fox's fault when the race is a runaway. They just capture it not create it.
What do you want them to show when JJ runs away?
racebuddy is just car sounds, no play by play that im aware of
Though ABC camera work leaves something to be desired (WAY too much wife cam towards the end) Please show your SUPPORT for IRL and watch it. Many don't get Versus but all get ABC.
Course, years ago I forget who, but I hear Robin Miller say they either missed a major Indy pass for lead or crossing of finish line due to showing a wife on camera.
Still it's HISTORY & you can watch online if sitting outside on nice day :-D
Not gonna watch the 600 -Indy is it that day here & I'll do thumb calisthenics if the radio sounds good & leaderboards agree. The yopes ain't getting me to watch the snooze fest, not even on tape. I can get better coverage reading about it
JD, that's what I saw most of the last segment. Static low angle shots, superwide shots showing the distance but I couldn't figure out what cars were in it because it was so far away and I'm watching on a 52" LCD. You can expect them to really create something out of nothing. Seems like no one is getting scoops on twitter tonight either (or aren't sharing them on here). Is it not possible that they are just showing us the race they are given like TVTrucker said?
Sure JD, but there is nothing happening on the track. What do you all expect them to show in the pits? Hammond and his toys?
You cannot create the excitement on the track when there is none.
This race is EXACTLY like last year, it ain't a race till this last segment anyways.
We'll see.
I agree with others---I'll watch Indy and pass on the 600. If that race is going to be nothing but straight line racing with the 48 running away with it, why bother. And then you're going to have the crappy Fox coverage, and that spells BORING
Wait... this was listed as a race? I thought it was "Yip-Yap TV" with close-up shots of cars on a track? That's what I tuned in for -- three mentally unbalanced bobble-heads jabbering randomly, about nothing in particular. Aside, of course, for those few moments of rare silence when, after waxing orgasmic about Kyle, Denny or , they are focused on replacing their super-absorbent booth-chair towels...
Watching the aerial screen on RB is use for tight shots to and that is a shame. It would be great following 10 close cars in a wide shot.
Going to listen to both the Indy 500 and the 600 next Sunday on the radio.....going to grill out and spend the day listening to 1100 miles of racing, as long as the weather is good in Indy, Charlotte and here at home.
Some of you folks are coming down on our sport when it's the presenter that's the issue.
Lucky for us Speed didn't show the tech center describing a carberator change!
It can't be both. It can't be the race and then the presenter. Either / or.
Tonight it is the race that is just plain boring. In every single shot they are strung out and single file through the entire field.
I've seen every all star race since 92 and this is by far the worst and it has nothing to do with the TV coverage for me.
This 4 tire stop before they go green could go a long ways to determining things....time for the guys to bring it home.
@TVTrucker - You're right that FOX is a large part of the problem. But I've been to the Coke 600 several times and it's just not a great race. The COT simply does not make for good racing on the 1.5-mile tracks. The All-Star Race's first three segments are the Coke 600 in microcosm, as nobody wants to risk tearing their cars to pieces.
This next segment will be a thriller! Stay tuned race fans!
exactly tv, this is par for this race anymore. nothing happens until the last segment.
TV trucker,
I could not disagree more. Cars running at speed at CMS are a spectacle. That is why fans attend and we watch.
NASCAR has a long history of having dominant cars, not passing on every lap.
The entire approach of blaming the lack of passing for bad TV is BS in my world.
These boys make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and I want them to work as hard as the drivers.
Most of the stories the drivers are relating were never reported by FOX. No in-car radios. Horrible camera selection.
This has been the story of the FOX season. Let's blame NASCAR while we stay at the Ritz Carlton, play golf and book an early flight
The truck and NNS coverage has been blowing FOX out of the water with a much less racey product on the track.
Just like any other job, hard work has a reward. Just my opinion.
@TVtrucker - not coming down on our sport. Sick of this batch of presenters, lousy camera shots and their abuse of fans time & intelligence. We have been fans for 3+ decades, not gonna quit being a fan, just not watching slop. There is a difference
Andrew, you are correct. The 600 is over-hyped to sell tickets and Bruton is the best at hype.
A real race is Daytona Talladega bristol, Darlington and?????
Fox has to deal with it and try to make a bore exciting.
Audio on race buddy sounds like its the track announcer.
What is Mike talking about when he says "as we talked about on qualifying night" did he forget qualifying was rained out and was referring to production meeting? Geez!!!
Gibbs pit crews are awesome.
I wish DW would lose his voice!
JD, we agree to disagree. Barry is the main problem.
Not the race, not the talent.
And not Artie.
YEAH!!!!!! HELL YES!!!!! JGR!!!
I'm stoked now.
TVTrucker, lets get ready for a show!
Hey all - been reading along with the commentary for a while now.
TVtrucker = thanks for bringing some sanity to this group. You've said it exactly right - JJ and Chad are simply a cut above. He's the best at his job, and like it or not, people - JJ can drive, as he proved when this race started and he tore through the field.
It's up to the rest of the field to figure out how to catch up - Seems Hamlin has done a decent job of it tonight - maybe he'll give JJ a run for his money.
Everyone who's complaining - I've been checking out the free Race Buddy, and it's the showing basically the same camera shots as Speed is offering. I'm not sure what you expect - when there was something interesting to offer, this crew certainly had it on the screen, but there's only so much they can do.
Plus - this is a race that's all about the winner and points don't matter, so I don't care what's going on in 15th place. They kept us up on Hamlin and Keslowski climbing through the field when that was happening.
And I forgot about the real gopher that digs down in hole.
David Hill------
TV, I think that is what JD is saying. The network's presentation of the race is the problem, NOT the race itself, not the cars, not the drivers
COME ON MARK!
Put Johnson and the Gibbs boys in the wall!
Hope we get to see this part. It should be interesting.
Rbuddy SLOW to switch cameras & poorer choices than with TNT Wells directing. But they tried.
Site could be busy & slowing things down.
Thank you Soloman.
I know where the issue lie. Lived it breathed it for over 3 years.
Pit crew competition set the stalls.not race qualifing
That is NOT what I meant. Oy.
HA! hoped nobody tuned out and missed that.
Trucker, this is my blog. You got that?
Thanks FOX....Twitter had told us about the 11 issue....
OK JD. I'll leave.
I still don't think DW and Larry have this sorted out.
I concur, hope no one skipped this segment. This race is always a snooze until the last few laps. Very few exceptions. The only part of last year everyone remembers is the final segment.
Bummer for Mark there. good angles capturing it, BAD analysis
Lots of folks been here talking about NASCAR TV. Everyone has an opinion. That is all you need to remember.
Just because you and I happened to work in TV, our opinions are not more valuable than anyone else.
That's all. OK?
And that is the story of Mark's season so far, captured in one restart.
I think he must have gotten an advance on this year's luck for last year's season.
If the Fox coverage is not up to whatever subjective standards that fit a particuliar perspective, as has been driven into the ground hard by TDP majority the past few months, so be it.
This is a good (show), regardless of the presentation.
They're too busy twisting themselves around trying to keep from blaming any of their favorite (Toyota) drivers -- same as always.
David,
This is what Kyle and JG asked about in the driver's meeting.
They wanted to know if the leader or the flagman was going to restart.
Guess we got our answer.
Coaching up Denny to where starter has dropped the flag.
Long night, hope this holds together to the end. DW has been all over the board on his strategies, lines, etc.
the real problem with the 600, is that it is 600 miles, there won't be racing until the last 100 miles..they need to either shorten the races or some sort of incentive to want to be racing the whole race.
slander,
Could you believe DW on that? He just could not bring himself to sort it out. That was just weird.
Wow! JD not sure what Trucker said to set you off, but whoa buddy we all know the work you put into this and appreciate it, But I think he has had some pretty good points and he has every right to disagree with you and express it even on your blog if you are gonna open the blog up for opinions.
Thanks to both of you and keep on expressing!
There's nothing wrong with "the show" when "the show" means the race. When "the show" means whatever random thoughts pop up in the booth monkeys' heads, then there is a problem with "the show."
If the Indy guys put on a good show, the 600 is going to be rough.
JD, I saw it as everyone trying to gun the start, Joey got in the grass then skated up. Saying the 1 or the 48 or whoever hit Mark and all that was overkill. Joey was racing for a million bucks and made a mistake.
my 2 cents on it
Racebuddy is sponsored by BK today isnt it?
Some of the opinions tonight are interesting
One post .. .It's not the truck is the racing. How can the truck show something that isn't there... Next post same person the truck is making the racing look bad.
The booth analysis is wow tonight. You are a looking at replays like the rest of us and not getting it right. 10 replays later you get closer to the right answer. When there is action it takes them a while to get it right.
JD...just remember-last year's 500 was a follow the leader fest.
JD, we're cool. No prob. I just get excited about racing.
I enjoy your blog too.
Thanks for providing it.
Enjoy the rest of the race, chow.
I agree with Annon, Trucker had some good points, dunno what he said that was horribly off. Hopefully we can all make it to the end of the race and through victory lane
don't know if any of you watch golf, but nascar needs an announcer like johnny miller who calls it as it is and doesn't care if he pisses of a current driver or not
HE PUT HIM IN THE WALL!!!
No, he shut the door. Kyle drove into the fence. And I love Kyle
DW changes his tune every lap!
amen anon@10:56
Can not wait to hear DW say "#2 was my man all night"
This the new Kyle coming to the garage?
Kyle Busch: "Someone better keep me from Denny Hamlin. It's all his fault, we had this WON"
Rogers going to keep him under wraps
david, i was just replicating the screams that came from the FOX booth from I believe Larry Mac
Kyle not only blames Hamlin for his own mistakes, he's gone and possibly ruined the race for his brother. Again.
18 and 20 crews being warned not to talk to anyone
im sorry, 11 and 18
debris in the stands turn 1?
WOW WEEEE!!! Could this get any better???? This is going to be one heck of a finish!!! Hope you all enjoyed this as much as me wow this is pure Nascar Ecstasy!!! Great All-star race
kyle busch, he aint happy
going into the 11 hauler?
i have a feeling that he would have done the same thing, in fact most drivers would, especially in an all star race for cash
I love how the booth backpedals after I saw this live. What happened to guys like Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons who could see those things and not need replays?
if they have an in car in kyle's care this is when you need to have in car..see if denny move's up
And Kyle just went into the FedEX hauler?
any update on the fans in the stands???
kyle busch is really mad...listen to his radio!
Kyle Busch has an onboard....WATCH FROM KYLE'S ROOF JESUS!
Gotta love Shrub's enthusiasm, but he's just like Montoya - always blaming someone else for what is usually his own mistake.
HOW is that Hamlin's fault?
That was an excellent use of an in-car camera, by the way. They're awesome for replays. NOT for green-flag racing.
Taylor Gibbs.."Please keep Denny & Kyle from killing each other"
today, it's everyone else's fault but yours that you didnt win lol
these guys are nuts he cut off the lane..it wasn't about contact..he squeezed him, idiots! Old kyle would have wiped him them both out.
@Jojaye:
Blinded by his tears?
Don't know how Joe Gibbs is going to like Kyle saying he is going to kill that MF'er Hamlin on the team radio.
Did a window fly into the stands?
did hamlin cut him off? i believe so
can you blame him? no because every driver in this race including Kyle would've done the same
YEAH!!!!!
I hope no one tuned out lol
so close to the race being over, the white flag was almost flown
@JD - If I were Joe Gibbs, I'd be asking Junior Johnson for some of his private stock.
JJ GETS SPUN! It's about frakking time.
Bet this is driving Kurt crazy...
exactly b, everyone is out to win, nothing else matters.
JD you said in Darlington they cheered because JJ was okay...they doing that tonight? LOL
Think JJ has Hamlin on his mind?
Looks like everyone hates a winner... fans cheering because JJ went around.
Every Hendrick car involved in an incident. I don't care who wins now that that Ricks's boys are gone.
especially with money on the line everybody will do what they can to win
i love how kyle busch said he had this race won when he was not even in the lead before his crash
I hope everyone in the stands is ok! That would be one rare item to get~ A baseball from a MLB is nothing compared to getting a window from a Nascar stock car how cool would that be???\\
Oh yeah here we go I love this
TV trucker was right. Too bad for the people that left.
This is great. Fox covered it well.
The show keeps getting better and better.
why no update on SPEED from the window in the stands from the KB wreck? Has MRN said anything?
JD -
I don't think JJ will blame Hamlin - that was just aero loose.
Cup drivers are going to have to deal with that again now with the spoiler instead of the wing.
Did something fly into the stands? We thought whatever it was bounced off fence back onto track?
Is somebody hearing something went in the stands??
has FOX resolved wheether there are 2 or 3 laps to go? Larry and Mike seem to have different opinions
windows have flown into the stands before....no certainty it actually got into the stands, and im not sure that was a very popular section to sit in. i missed where it came off so dunno if it was turn 1 or turn 2
Reminder: RaceDay on SPEED is next live once the race is over.
Anon
how did you hear about the window? How would that fit thru a fence??
There are 2 to go
Why doesn't the booth acknowledge about the window flying over the fence?
there were severeal large pieces of debries including the window heading straight for the stands, it looked like the fence caught some but not all
Congratulations to Kurt Busch on winning!
I don't think I'll be able to put up with this crew for the Coke 600. If there's no Indy blog, I'll see you guys in a couple weeks, when TNT starts up again!
Should be some interesting post-race sound.
Man I hope these guys get a camera on whatever happens between Hamlin and Shrub.
CATFIGHT!!!
DO you think Speed will save the 18/11 stuff for Raceday as opposed to the race coverage show?
Hamlin has been told to stay out of his own hauler until KB gets his diaper changed.
racebuddy aerial hanging out over 11 hauler
How 'bout a Victory Lane show after the race JD?
(lol)
should be an interesting post race show to say the least
Victory Lane is live. This is the one where they come out on that goofy flatbed truck and drive around the track.
Kyle b is SUCH a drama queen going to the hauler while the race is still going on? What is the point besides drawing attention to yourself??
you think kyle will say denny cut him off? should kyle have hit denny?
that would be kyle petty on the race show saying...
great race by marty truex jr.
napa know how lol
Do they not have a camera on Denny and Kyle???!!!! Unbelivable.
Denny DID cut him off lol. I would have done the same. Kyle has a brake pedal....
any other time they have camera on angry Kyle but not tonight? bummer
kyle busch has a lead foot though lol
Steve Addington on Victory Lane should be interesting.
Speed is acting like Denny vs Kyle never happend. This is embarrassing.
they said they asked the 18 to talk and he declined...
No cam on Denny's hauler? Man...
live nascar victory lane!
Fox/SPEED tends to shy away from controversy.
Fox and NA$CAR will milk the Hamlin/Busch "disagreement" until we are all sick of the whole thing.
Have to be happy for Steve Addington - he got to leave the crybaby Shrub and move on to a much matured Kurt Bush. What an improvement for him.
if it wasn't a team mate, kyle hits him and any other driver would have hit him... don't know what's right, denny protecting lead, but does that mean kyle can hit him whether he's a team mate or not
Well, that was a very long day. Thanks to all who stopped by. HoF induction tomorrow. Victory Lane ends the night for SPEED.
Have a great Sunday.
Kyle sounds like me he must of been yellin at the extreme amount of excitment we had tonight wow awsome race!
Press Conference on race buddy has some decent questions.
wonder if the drivers ever think twice about having the wife up there taking the pictures - think about jeff gordon if he has photos from his first wife and winning...
Jenna Fryer: "Logano declines several of my requests to go over to the 11 and report back to us what's going on."
WOW, Race Buddy still on the air. Media center interviews going on.
To bad it won't last.
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