Here we go with what could be one of the best Nationwide Series of the season. A wide variety of drivers are set to go at it under the lights at the Richmond International Raceway.
Allen Bestwick will host the pre-race show with Ray Evernham, Rusty Wallace and Brad Daugherty. Marty Reid will call the race with Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree alongside. Dr. Jerry Punch, Vince Welch, Dave Burns and Jamie Little are the pit reporters. Tim Brewer is in the Tech Garage.
Richmond is classic short track racing. The packs of cars battle and run side-by-side constantly. It's up to the director to keep the best action in the camera frame while the producer uses the announcers to tell the entire story of the race.
This track can have red flag periods due to the track being blocked. Cautions usually breed cautions and the TV crew will be chasing the hectic action on pit road both under green and caution.
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Het all, this should be a blast tonight!
"Het" *giggles*
Happy Race Night Planeteers! Love night racin'! Hope to see some good racin'!
I hope the kittehs, bunnehs & little baby seals will love going fast :)
Um, JD, you know this the NW series tonight?
NW pre-race show just started and Rusty is still yelling at me. I guess the booth guys will be showing Bowyer all night so they can talk about what he's learning at the track to help him tomorrow.
You're paying more attention then I am Matt! Didn't notice he put Cup there :p
It was so sad to see todays tv schedule. It would have been cool to see and hear Ray today, but it's just not worth hearing the rest of them.
Phooyeee, I forgot it's 7. Didn't have the DVR set.
Well I guess I have to pay attention to them now
Opps, I forgot Alan would have been good also.
Yea, sorry. Tired and changing it now. Loooooong day!
:( Vicky Someone needs to remind him he has a microphone which would make a lot of folks happy if he didn't :(
Yup that's what I'm afraid of I like Bowyer but don't want him to be 99% of the broadcast nor if Kylie is leading a zillion laps & pretty much has the win short of "mystery" cautions at the end they'll go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about breaking the record/tie and whatever blah blah blah they spit out.
Hey, I only got the title wrong! LOL!
Are there any full time NW drdivers in this race tonight? Haven't seen any interviews yet.
Why didn't they let Ray talk about the new car?
I am having trouble posting. But JD I didn't even notice the column name hey there's my homeboy! My Word verification is axles!
Vicky D said...
Are there any full time NW drdivers in this race tonight? Haven't seen any interviews yet.
What's that?
ESPN has no idea.
They've got a few more minutes, they will interview someone who only races in the Nationwide series.
Thanks for the reminder. Word veri off.
Pink is FAST!!!! Go Kyle!!! and kittens & bunnies & little baby seals!!!
Kyle is pulling it off so far, I have to give him credit. He is having fun with it.
Gee, I just might root for Kyle to win since he's in the pink bunny, kitty and baby seal car!
But he can do it with a pass and a close finish at the very end instead of stinkin' up the show and leading all the laps!
Hey, they interviewed "Little Gator".
Opps, I switched to Sirius.
S&P prediction tonight: 49, 56, 89 and 73.
Carl's mom! This is ESPN!
Beautiful voice, in key and not doing his own THING! That's how to do it.
right guy won the contest apparently. Saw an article where he said he'd always wanted to sing it at a big sporting event. Good for him.
Anthem was well done . . . finally.
Good job on the anthem!!
And was that the little girl "artist" from the commercial with Kyle?
Yes, she hit the media center with him earlier.
Free Trackpass over at Nascar.com for this race.
Still so much about the cup guys - however there's Jason Leffler and Ryan Truex.
Thanks ink!
JD--*giggles* MomCam!
Enjoyed the anthem! RIR did great in their selection :)
Hey, she's in my target zone! Of course, she's married!
Hey, Randy Pemberton pulled through his huge back surgery on Thursday. Hurting, but doing OK says Steve Byrnes.
Well JD, I didn't think you would be the first with a "mom" comment. At least she got bumped to the outside of the wife.
UGH!, Pops Eury SR.
Who is Pops Eury Jr.?
(typo's drive me crazy)
Steve Wallace as the in-race reporter? Please forgive me for wishing that he's quickly an out-of-race reporter.
Steve Wallace as in-car reporter. How would he know how to run well at Richmond (or anywhere else)?
Does anyone really care what the crew chief has to say and does AP really listen to what cc is discussing?
ummm...Steve is 8th in the points, and the top 10 includes 5 Cup guys ahead of him. Just saying.
heheheheh JD! That's how it always is they have the nerve to be married!
@Glenn--yup I was SCREAMING at the TV! It's just POPS! NOT Pops Eury Sr.! Cousin Tony is NOT Pops Eury Jr.! UGH!
oops forgot "You and Me Both Jr."
Glad it seems they've killed that commercial! It got old FAST!
Caution - lots of action going on in the back of the back.
back of the pack.
few weeks back one of them (Larry?) called Ryan Truex 'Ryan Truex Jr' Just a habit I guess.
Whats with all these commercials - arrggghh
You are watching a good battle and flick your watching the race for 2nd.
These poor cup guys are just having a terrible time in this NW race.
The darn race is interupting the commercials.
did they missed the restart?
Little tight track for two video boxes, what do you guys think?
I would rather see one window.
here we go again I had audio on the scanner now I have nothing. I've restarted etc etc guess its time I disappeared for the night and watched the lightning over the ocean - at least there are no commercials there.........
I've sat in some of the areas that are blocked off tonight. Not a great crowd for them.
Just got a msg from the NASCAR.com guys, they switched the audio to the right channels. Close and open it again, it should work fine and is free tonight.
Oh wow Elliott Sadler is having an outstanding run - oh yeah, he's a cup guy - but where's Kligerman? Well he's a little behind & a NW guy so we won't hear about him.
Thanks JD mega tantrum averted. Lightning storm still ongoing though if I'm desperate in the next commercial!
These new cars might be sweet looking, but they are single file on a track where racing is usually side by side.
Tires maybe?
Kenny Wallace and Nemechek are both doing good.
It looks like the new cars will bring the same excitement to the Nationwide series that it did to the Cup series.
The look is just great on TV!
RW is watching the rotors! Lucky us!
Did Dr. Punch just say "#00 Ryan Newman"?...
Big box should have the two to three cars in it not the small box. Small box should be for one car, like pit stops.
To me that makes sense.
Yes he did! LOL!
Love that aerial shot!!
Why have the pit stop in the big box and not the racing?
Everytime something about the coverage starts to bother me, I remember that there are no Waltrips and it doesn't seem so bad.
Makiki
Honolulu
Missed two restarts so far.
Espn has no pride in what they do.
Espn doesn't care because they have no pride.
OH no, a cup guy has tire rub! Let's watch him go around the track for a hundred laps!
Really Rusty? It's not a tire rub? C'mon now.
Pretty sad to miss not only the restart but the lead change. Just sad.
Poor Chickenman :(
Nascar preaches safety, but yet they'll let a guy run around lap after lap with a tire rub. I don't get it.
This race appears to be ESPN's promotional tool for upcoming football games. Is there any doubt where their heart is?
Man, I was just thinking that. It's the red headed stepchild among the stick and ball boys.
With 62 laps to go Espn finally figures out how many sets of tires the teams were able to buy.
So we've got a new NW car on its first short track, with no one knowing a lot about how it will need tires, and Nascar does not allow Goodyear to sell the teams an extra set or two?
Poor Brian :(
I wish ESPN would use a rule of thumb on their split screen coverage. Put the battle that is closest to the front on the left side and your other battle on the right. Seems goofy to me show a battle for 3rd place on the right smaller screen while showing the battle for 13th on the left bigger screen..
These last 50 laps on TV have really stunk in terms of coverage, especially pictures.
ESPN (main) just did a side-by-side promo of the final 10 laps on ESPN2 after a Marshall TD.
How hard is it to hold the camera on the finish line??
ESPN:
you couldn't show the final lap???
Makiki
Honolulu
You would think there would be more viewers watching Nascar when you read that yesterday's NFL game was the most watched regular game in 14 years.
So people do have Tv sets out there.
You just wonder what it is we have to do to get the freaking lead lap cars to cross the finish line on camera!
Thanks for stopping by folks! See you tomorrow night. TV schedule is on the main page!
JD
Congratulations to Happy :)
Nice to see Trever and Ricky battle it out for 3rd and them getting some TV time! Nice post-race interviews :)! Good kids they are!
Forgot to add very nice of Clint to go over and chat with Brian about their incident
Just one more comment - ESPN did a fine post race show and lots of interviews. Still missed the cars crossing the finish line but I've been complaining about that for over 10 years! See everyone later!!
hey JD, the pre-emptions start already: 6abc in philly will not be showing nascar countdown, instead they will be showing a weekly eagles pre-game show (for a game tomorrow). I am glad ABC is only used 3 times, cause the affilliates clearly disregard and disrespect nascar fans... pathetic..
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