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There is rain in the area and Watkins Glen is a big road course that takes a long time to dry. The good news is that the race itself has the potential to really make some good TV.
Nicole Briscoe hosts the Infield Pit Studio with Rusty Wallace and Brad Daugherty. No doubt these three will be talking about rivalries and the points leading up to the Chase. ESPN has an hour to fill, so keep an eye on the mix of pre-produced features vs. live interviews.
Jamie Little is off working the IndyCar race today from Loudon, NH for ABC. Shannon Spake is working pit road at the Glen with Dr. Jerry Punch, Vince Welch and Dave Burns.
Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree worked the Nationwide Series race on Saturday which produced very little excitement. Luckily, the handful of Sprint Cup Series drivers who dominated the Saturday event cannot do the same today.
Tim Brewer is in the Tech Garage. The normal road course issues include fueling the cars on the passenger side, pitting with driver's side away from pit wall and stopping early to get a break late. It's a road course.
ESPN had a tough time on Saturday telling the stories of anyone except the cars in the front of the pack. Sometimes, the current leader means nothing as fuel will not allow that car to finish. The stories are who can go the distance and what strategies are unfolding for teams throughout the race.
The network has a wonderful aerial shot mixed with all the normal angles we see at the Glen. Saturday's finish was shown from the camera at the far end of the frontstretch. While viewers did see the lead lap cars finish, it was tough to tell who was who at that distance.
While the Nationwide Series has rain tires and wipers, the Sprint Cup Series does not. Rain at this track could well delay the race until Monday. There is no information yet, but ESPN2 would probably be the destination. NASCAR would likely not make that decision until late afternoon. There are no lights at the Glen.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 277 of 277Wow, that looks awful. Glad he's OK.
Wicked lick for Hamlin, of course now all this strategy has gone to hell.
They've got a shutoff switch, wonder why he didn't use it?
Looks like Denny's throttle stuck. Not good to see, especially being a fellow Richmonder.
That's why we need Tim Brewer at the track, to tell us about the cut-off switch!
In fairness to the cut-off switch, it was likely too late, he was headed for the wall, engine or no engine running.
Wonder if Denny will have a little something to say about JGR engines?
It seems the only time amyone hits the cutoff switch is by accident. I don't recall anyone ever hitting it when their throttle sticks.
Think that is really what happened?
Looked at it again. Front tires locked, rear tires driving.
Hey, at least he is OK.
Hope Ambrose can get closer. I'd really like a race in the last 5 laps. Doesn't look like Busch will be toppled at this point.
It's about caution time!
Lap 79, Marcos beat Kyle by .37 of a second. If kept consistently, he will get there.
Listening to MRN at work. I love the excitement in their voices and the word pictures.
Really a commercial?
Brewer is there - or somewhere. He showed us how to clean the grill earlier!
Seeing Ambrose catch Busch would have been fun to see. Too bad ESPN runs commercials every five minutes and we don't see any of this race.
I don't want a green-white-checker. I want an actual, unmolested race.
Having said that, I sense a debris caution is in the cards. Just give me five good laps to the finish.
The AT&T commercial with the guy dancing in public gets the ward for most obnoxious commercial. That ad just grates on my nerves
The grill-cam would be much more useful here than the chest-cam
That was a BIG mistake by Kyle. Ambrose should have gotten him if he was ever going to.
There's your caution, but it was unexpected.
If Kyle is really having brake problems, Ambrose may be able to take him on the restart. Here's hoping.
Caution.....only thing that makes the race interesting.
Ls
The way Busch re-starts races just gave him the win. He'll jump out ahead of Ambrose and be gone.
From my point of view this is the most interesting race we've had all year. But I'm a road course fan.
Tired of these fuel races.
Ls
KyBu is the best at restarts of anyone on the track. He has the edge if he has the gas.
I don't believe that Ambrose can get him on the start. Kyle's got a better engine. The only way to get past him would be to worry him for 5 to 10 and wait for a mistake.
Ambrose had his chance, he wasn't ready or able. If we only have 1 or 2 laps I don't see that Kyle will lose unless he runs out of gas.
They should have gone back to the larger fuel tanks when they added corn squeezens to real gas.
Agreed. They knew that ethanol got worse mileage.
This will be wild!!
Hey Saltsberg, dont you get the Whoopie Goldberg commo w/ the "sprits"? EW
JM
not sure i by latarte's spin on what happened to jr..that's a mess up
This is better than Bristol these days!
AMBROSE GETS IT!!!!!! 5TH FIRST TIME WINNER FINALLY
Marcos Ambrose!
He earned that one! Another great drive by Kez. Fun race.
That was much better racing than I had anticipated. I'm very pleased.
are those considered safer barriers?
Wow. Some awful hits at the end there. Hope everyone is OK.
Last lap is always the toughest.
Uhhhh...I..I...have no words.
I don't normally enjoy watching road courses but this one was different.
Pet peeve....why do they always 'document' things? can't the just have told us? drives me nuts.
Anyone want to bet that the blue guardrail on the outside exit of Turn 1 gets moved before Nascar returns to the Glen? This is the second time that I can recall that there's been a nasty accident there where the cars richochet of the left side of the track.
KB sounds like he's about to cry...
Bad wreck, hope all is okay.
A KyBu fan trying to follow this at work....congratulations to Marcos!
How did the size of the crowd look?
SAFER barriers at least on the high speed turns would be a good idea.
One of these days Ragan will LEARN NOT to squeeze/pinch off his competition....HE is responsible for what happened with Rooty.....Roush owes Mikey a car, I would think...
What crowd? There was a few fans but I'll say one thing, they were vocal!
r=Rainy2228...DUH......Congrats to the Flyin Aussie!!!!!sell some screwdrivers!!!!!!
That was just huge.
Junior manages a 14th. Should give him some breathing room from Hamlin and Stewart.
I don't know why Jerry Punch is not interviewing the winner, ESPN is doing a disservice to fans by not putting him in VL to interview the winner.
And it wasn't Reagan's fault. someone else should have backed off.
Since I've had 4 back surgeries, I feel for Brad. He looked like he was in a LOT of back pain! This may stay with him for life.
Glad everyone ok
Not a good day to be named David driving a race car.
Weird. Sour taste in my mouth right now despite a solid race.
Don't really know what it is.
BACKED OFF?????..On the Last Lap????...Ragan came IN on Boris....watch the video....Ragan was in the middle of the track coming off the turn, Boris barely over the outside line...and ragan MOVED OVER....CAUSING the contact....Biffle needs to OPEN his BUGEYES before confronting Boris....and Sally needs glasses..JMO
SBTF,
The pit reporter who does the winner inverview is normally the reporter who had that driver assigned to them that day.
Jd
Hmmm. Questions about finishing order. If we had seen the field cross the line, we might have an opinion.
Rainy,
Wish we saw better replay. Never really made it clear from the rear angle what happened.
I would like more info as well.
Sally. The finish line doesn't matter with the yellow. It's where they were when the yellow came out.
So, when exactly did it come out? I think that's what the crew chief's want to know.
I really hope the lawn-mower blade splitter is removed from the redesigned car.
The small portion of ESPN coverage I saw was great. The camerawork on the last lap could have been better. Also have to say I don't miss the infield. I'll watch the whole thing tonight.
Dave Burns hanging out by the NASCAR hauler is pretty cool. Wait...WTF did he just say?
Watching the replay, Boris' tires were on the paint. If it had been a Cup regulsr, would it just be a matter of hard racing to the flag?
I set my Dish network DVR to tape all the "SportCenters" from 10am to 2pm this morning before work. Did ESPN/Dish change the program names before the race? I hope it taped. I wish you could set it for XX amount of time.
Anon. You're in good shape. Dish kept the Sportcenters listed all day.
Seems like everybody , drivers, commentators, are piling on Boris. I don't see how Boris did anything wrong.
Loved DJ's huge grin after Boris' very.. candid comments :)
I'll be interested to watch NN and Hub tonight to hear the latest scuttlebutt.
JD
Did the pit reporters have assigned drivers back in the 80s & 90s
they aint gonna tell you anything...it the truth aint no lie
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That was one hell of a wild finish and post-race. NASCAR Now should be fun..to say the least
And just like that we see the sun for the first time here in Jersey since Saturday.
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