This is the first race for Marty Reid since being told he will not be returning for the ESPN Sprint Cup Series telecasts this season. Tonight, Reid is with Rusty Wallace and Ricky Craven as the Nationwide Series races for the last time at a track most of us know as Indianapolis Raceway Park.
Shannon Spake, Rick DeBruhl and Jim Noble are going to be the pit reporters. This is a short track with the normal amount of struggles for grip and track position. The Camping World trucks put on a good show Friday night and managed to race side-by-side without much of a problem.
ESPN's goal tonight is simply to follow the best action on the track without once again getting caught-up in the glow of the Sprint Cup Series drivers competing. There is a healthy race for the NNS driver's championship and the field is diverse enough to put on a good show for TV.
The comments are always interesting when Wallace is put on the spot when his son Steven, a driver in the NNS in a car Rusty owns, gets himself in a tight spot. This type of short track is called a "payback track" because spinning another car out often results in no damage and just a loss of position. It remains to be seen if the younger Wallace is going to be on the receiving end of such actions.
This post will serve to host your comments on the Nationwide Series telecast from the ESPN gang. To add your TV-related opinion, just click on the comments button below. Thanks for taking the time to stop by The Daly Planet.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 255 of 255Jim did a radio interview on TV. Not very well done.
60 to fast!!!!!
I was about to say, he sure looked like he was speeding
Speeding was obvious
How does ESPN continue to let Rusty do commentary on a race where he has a vested interest in the outcome? And worse yet, he gets to comment on the fact that us lost money based on the accident? That is the definition of conflict of interest. That's doesn't even account for the fact that he just sucks at his job.
hi...just checking in...anything interesting happening?
We have been screaming since ESPN hired Rusty as lead analyst back in 2007. NASCAR said OK and ESPN told me to go pound sand.
This is what we get....
15 Laps to go.
Nothing better than getting your car to blow smoke rings when your motor goes south.. Impressive.. Tough luck though.
I saw that too, it would be a nice replay....but NO!
Craven is almost Neil Bonnett smooth, if there is a new network I gotta believe he's a first round pick.
I'm surprised ESPN hasn't shown us Carl coming thru the field.
Strange experience with RaceView tonight. I used IE just to be on the safe side. HA! Took 3 times logging in for TrackPass to recognize me as a subscriber.
NW RaceView wasn't available from my TrackPass page. I had to go to the main nascar.com page and get to it from the preview ad. Then I had to log in again.
Got RaceView up and working but the scanner sound is real low compared to the cup races. I think it's on snooooze.
The little dots are going around the track just fine but I keep getting a tab that says "You have been automatically logged out due to inactivity." Seriously.
Apparently nascar.com thinks there is no activity on the track. ;-)
Like Bayne's smoke rings!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME! ESPN! IM FED UP! A CAR IS ON FIRE AND YOU GO TO COMMERCIAL!!!!!!!
31 on fire - let's go to commercial
Car on fire and still driving around the track - great time for a commercial
Neil Bonnett was the reason we have all these drivers as analyst, too bad they do not have his personality to go along with it!
Wow....that was just off the charts.
James, I agree Bonnett was the greatest.
Get that fire out!
GWC, more manufactured racing from BZF!
Had the pleasure of knowing Neil during his TNN time. Great guy, real deal.
Sadler, future day Michael Waltrip.
@jd Neil was the best, Dale Sr had a good friend in him. Never the same after that.
Something like that always happens to Sadler.
you wont post anything that is
telling it like it is...simply put
THESE IDIOTS IN THE BOOTH NEVER
SHUT THE HELL UP ..WHAT A DISASTER
THEY ARE..
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATRHHHHHHHH
@Jerry, agree about Sadler.
Jim Noble didn't even ask Justin Allgier if he was OK.
only two cars finished the race?
BULL FINISH.
This is why I don't want Cup drivers in this series.
That was horrible.
Denny Hamlin confirming what we already knew via twitter. Re: 66
Onward thru the fog!
RIP - IRP !
2 Cup Drivers.. 2 EFFIN CUP DRIVERS...WHY?
If I was NASCAR I would be telling the sponsors go away, these guys need to be banned.
Keselowski put Stenhouse in the wall....
Todd Gordon doesn't look like a crew chief!
I thought ESPN pretty much held their own the first 150 laps. For short track racing, it was pretty boring. But the last 30 laps especially could've made for an epic telecast and they completely dropped the ball.. From Rusty's excuses, to a car on fire and going to commercial, to lets keep a camera on the spun out 11 while the rest of the field races down the backstretch because of no caution. Very bad..
Go ahead NASCAR, move this race over to the BIG, boring Indy track. No one likes racing like this, do we?
Good grief.....
Looks like Sadler will start crying.
OK, how much will Elliot's secret fine be?
Sadler better get his head back together.
Nascar restart rules are crap. Elliott has a legit gripe. I've never understood why if a car has a problem like the 31 did, they allow the row he was in to just move up. No way is that right. But Nascar will say it's just like they do at the start of races if a car has to drop to the back due to an engine change or whatever the case is. I understand them doing the start of the race like that, but it shouldn't happen if the scenario happens after the race has begun.
Confused... why must ESPN always zoom into large packs? Why did they go to commercial when a car was on fire? Why can't Marty take any control in the booth and over his calls.
And why was the 22 ahead of the 2?
I thought they always just moved the line up in situations like that.
Did they EVER show the winning pass from any angle but from Elliot Sadler's in-car camera?! They never really showed the contact between the 22 and the 6.
Also, how could ESPN drop the ball and never once mention how the 2nd-place car could drop out of the race and the 4th-place car would be moved up to 2nd while the 3rd place car stays where he is?! However that happened, Keselowski was handed the win as a result!
I thought the coverage up to the last 15 laps was alright, although the cameras were a bit tight. I felt like the last 15 laps were horrible, they explained nothing about what was going on and didn't even show a non-in-car angle of the winning pass!
Free RaceView was excellent! I wouldn't pay for it, though.
I listened to Sadler's radio all night - boy, were he and Ernie Cope LIVID about the decision to move up the outside row after the 31 dropped out. The word "morons" was tossed around. I'm sure that he was still fuming from it by the time he spun out.
Can't wait for that Joe Nemechek interview - what? They don't do the Top 10 anymore?
they move up the row i think because of how much time it would take to have everyone on the bottome row move to the top row and visa versa
I also forgot to add. I understand that at the start of the race, they move the inside or outside line up if somebody moves to the back, but with 10 laps to go, really?
How can they justify rewarding everybody on the already extremely advantaged outside row with a free two positions just because the 2nd place car fell out???
I'm just really frustrated with both NASCAR and ESPN for the end of that race. Overall though it was a great race of which we will never see here again thanks to NASCAR!
Thanks for putting up with this awful telecast tonight.
Let's see what tomorrow brings.
Oh, also, I think they STILL haven't figure out whether or not Buescher finished 2nd or 3rd. (He finished 3rd, I believe.)
NASCAR.com has this tied at exactly 0.987 seconds behind.
Nemechek finished 7th...no mention of that I don't believe.
Been watching Nascar since 1985...hated Crusty Wallace then, and still do now...but it is funny watching Steven spin out every race...oh the good old days...Bob Jenkins, Larry Nuber, Benny!
Joe Nemechek finished 7th and got no interview, but Michael McDowell finished 10th and got an interview?
Marty seemed lost most of the night. More than normal. No explanation whatsoever about that restart with the fire and why Sadler wasn't moved up to 2nd. Talking about Allgaier, didn't anyone notice that the reporter was waiving to him like wrap it up now to him?
Rusty commentating? Why is he commentating in a race he has invested interest in? It has been said countless times, but ESPN tries to cover it, and fails miserably. The last 3 times he has commentated, he has made it a point that either he is going to have to rebuild his cars and everything, and has done everything but become a cheerleader inside the announce booth. Even Dale Jarrett didn't do that today for the Ned Jarrett car of David Ragan! ANON at 9:23 said it best. Conflict of interest for Rusty!!
And so much for oh something big is going to happen, sit back and relax. It's a dang short track and they are not wrecking! It was like Talladega! Let's ride around for 90% of the race, and the last 20 laps, we'll do something. That wasn't typical short track racing!
And for someone who normally doesn't complain about how the race was presented, the cameras were way zoomed in, even for me. Obviously, you have to put the cameras near the action, but I only saw a handful of cars during the entire race.
Stenhouse was very gracious in his interview. I think he wanted to let Keselowski know how he felt about the winning pass, but I think Ricky was boiling inside that race car and it wasn't because of the temperature. If Brad K is at Iowa next week, I can see some revenge coming from the 6 to the 22.
I'm surprised there aren't more comments on the HORRIBLE [non]coverage of the wrecks that brought out the red flag. All is good, booth talking about Steven Wallace, then commercials run on and on, then back to announcement that in a red flag! AND, no coverage AT ALL of how the first 2 cars wrecked!?!?!?!? Not even an "eye witness" report from someone/ANYONE who was actually watching the track rather than a little black box with a camera feed?!?!?!?? I NEVER heard anything about whether the first 2 drivers' got out of their cars okay (important in the case of the one whose car was then hit in the driver side door by SW), or what caused it, or how they were doing. It was nothing but Steven Wallace all the way. Horrible, unprofessional, frustrating, disgusting.
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