It's a night time tripleheader this holiday weekend from the Atlanta Motor Speedway. Tonight it's the Camping World Trucks kicking off the racing action. Ricky Carmichael is on the pole.
SPEED has it's own production team for these races and the vibe is old school. Atlanta's high speeds should leave only a handful of trucks actually running for the win, so it's going to be a challenge to keep it interesting from start to finish.
The trucks are in a tough spot these days with sponsorship and the start and park contingent for high speed races like this has been large. Keep an eye on who leaves the track in the early going and how SPEED decides to relate those facts on the air.
Krista Voda hosts the pre-race show. Rick Allen, Micheal Waltrip and Phil Parsons will call the race. Hermie Sadler and Ray Dunlap will report from pit road.
This post will serve to host your comments on the SPEED coverage of the Camping World Truck Series race from Atlanta. To add your TV-related comments, just click on the comments button below. Thanks for stopping by.
Not watching because i refuse to support NASCAR, a money hungry dictatorship.
ReplyDeleteI'm listening to a high school football game instead.
Hehe....that's funny. It's all about the Benjamins for sure these days!
ReplyDeleteYay for Ricky C finally getting his first pole. Three Cup drivers though, I don't know if he'll be getting his first win. Of course tomorrow won't be much better.
ReplyDeleteHappy Pick 'em Ups Racin' Night Planeteers <3
ReplyDeleteVery proud of Ricky getting a pole! Hope he has some good luck tonight :) <3
Congrats to the GOAT for the pole, this should be fun if MW stays under control, getting tired of his act this late in the year.
ReplyDeleteS&P's should be at a low tonight. I'm guessing there will only be 3.
ReplyDeleteIs race buddy going to be available for this truck race?
ReplyDeletehi folks, just realized there might be a truck race on tonight - sorry JD, I know you have the schedule up but sometimes I forget what day it is!
ReplyDeleteI hope that Mikey has a rev limiter on his tongue tonight.
Gina > you are a gas, good evening to you
ReplyDeleteLots of folks wondering which MW will show up tonight.
ReplyDeleteAlready got some grief for the blouse Krista is wearing.
Yes, TruckBuddy should be up and running at NASCAR.com tonight.
Thanks for the S&P info, great news.
Lots of *&^%$ going on at SPEED right now, going to be fun weekend.
JD
Gina, judging from quals, he's going to be hitting the chip all night.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting, I'm not watching the pre-race, but how much coverage on the fact that Ron Hornaday has been asked to look for a new ride for 2012? It seems like something so high-profile isn't, when Todd Bodine's was.
ReplyDeleteI also want to say something based on glenc's comments last week about putting the series out of its misery. Where do you put the rejuvenation of Johnny Sauter's career, Joey Coulter, Timothy Peters, Nelson Piquet Jr, Ricky Carmichael, etc. Unless you want to let more people into races in the Nationwide Series, I don't think it will happen.
Kyle Busch, Johnny Sauter in-truck cams tonight.
ReplyDeleteA little off topic, but
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What did they get, trucks?
ReplyDeleteVery likely announcement for a Truck Race, yes.
ReplyDeleteKyle Busch was one of the trucks on race buddy last week but you could not hear him talk. Wonder if we will hear him tonight.
ReplyDeleteReal nice National Anthem, done well guys!
ReplyDeleteIt would be great to have races at The Rock again! With so many tracks closing down, Nascar has to come back to some of 'the ones that brung 'em'. Karma.
ReplyDeleteAnthem was amazing. Now I wish we had more male choirs doing this. :)
ReplyDeleteExcellent Anthem.
ReplyDeleteTime to make the donuts! Be nice to see Ricky C. get a win in primetime on national TV. The series could use the pub too!
ReplyDeleteIt would be nice to see a first time winner period, Ricky C, Cole Whitt, James Buescher, Nelson Piquet Jr., Miguel Paludo, Parker Kligerman all stand good shots here.
ReplyDeleteYeah Cole Whitt & Klingerman!
ReplyDeleteLots of *&^%$ going on at SPEED right now, going to be fun weekend.
ReplyDeleteCare to expand on that comment John?
James and Sally, LOL, I just can't help it. there are times when I think the guys in the booth should keep a roll of duct tape in there and use it when necessary.
ReplyDeleteOf course IMO that applies to DW AND Rusty, too!
Hey JD
ReplyDeleteDid you hear that Jimmie snubbed the White House.
John, lots of hot tempers over moving RaceHub out of primetime from 7PM to 6PM and ending the West Coast airing. No clue where that order came from...
ReplyDeleteNo response from SPEED about why the new "reporter" on Trackside with no NASCAR experience being added in the middle of the season.
Rutledge Wood is hosting Trackside with Kyle Petty and Jeff Hammond. Let me say that again, Rut is hosting.
Like I said, LOTs of ^&&***!
And the cheaters already 1st and 2nd, at least Newman is slower tonight.
ReplyDeleteNotice they only show the wide shots on the turns where there are no people
ReplyDeleteAll that snubbed the White House stuff is made up. I watched Mike Mulhern work that last night online.
ReplyDeleteEvery year the sports goes for a photo op before the Chase. This year the date did not work for a couple of the guys invited.
No problem from NASCAR. No problem from the White House. The drivers involved are saying "Where did this issue come from?"
The answer is Mike Mulhern made it up. Has nothing to do with politics, hardcore Republican DW went last year for the photo op!
How weird is that?
I really don't understand the fascination with Rutledge. I don't see that he adds much to the broadcast. Not a bad guy, just...not necessary.
ReplyDeleteJimmie is going to the white house, SBTF.
ReplyDeleteKevin Harvick, Tony Stewart, Greg Biffle and Carl Edwards are the 4 not going.
Has there ever been a Truck race at Rockingham?
ReplyDeleteWHY?????
ReplyDeleteLike the previous weeks, 1 by 1, truck drivers fall out of the running and leave the cheaters out of trouble.
Dern, needed a caution but not Cole Whitt!
ReplyDelete...........
ReplyDeletenow Peters. I swear, something is going on.
What a lousy pit stop for the 4
ReplyDeleteRut is hosting TS? Wow, well that doesn't encourage me to watch the show.
ReplyDeleteNo offense but shouldn't the people in the white house be doing somehting other than posing with athletes?
I too would like to see a winner from one of the regulars - ie not a sprint cup driver slumming.
So let’s just dream a minute as to what brought on these changes at Speed.
ReplyDeleteThere's a new boss there and she's supposed to know the sport at least one would think so.
The new manager has a high powered meeting with the middle managers and says something like , people we need ideas, we NEED to liven Speeed up we Need, we need.
So now we have a bunch of middle managers running around gathering numbers. It’s in the numbers, they speak for themselves, demographics.
And they dutifully have another power meeting with graphs, pie charts and Job Justifyers pointing and posturing and making themselves look intelligent and important.
So now here we are, the numbers say this and that Bla, Bla Bla.
Managers canceled RPM2Night.
Managers justifying their jobs.
Gina, the new SPEED types have been messing with it.
ReplyDeleteRemember they dumped Larry Mac this season, then Byrnsey went in studio so they had to rotate hosts.
Basically, it's a mess.
Thank you Editor for posting the real source of the issue on the white house visit.
ReplyDeleteMulhern worked people up in a fever real quick. People can be so gullible. Unfortunately other press steams are picking up the non story. Reading the comments after the articles do not help our sport look any better.
More full screen replays! ARGH! PLEASE show the live racing in a smaller pic in pic? Please?
ReplyDelete17? Looks like a 7 to me
ReplyDeleteWhat's up with the ticker on top of the screen. Unless I'm watching on my 42 inch screen it's impossible to read. TNT and ESPN have very visible scrolls so why does SPEED continue to use this tiny, barely visible running order. I've seen this complaint before but SPEED continues to ignore it. Oh well what else would you expect from a network that gives us Michael Waltrip.
ReplyDeleteAnother NASCAR decision catering to Kyle. M&M's money again?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like there are few folks in the seats. These guys in the booth are dummies, no wonder Speed is putting on another new girl.
ReplyDeleteAnon, it's the FOX graphics package that we complained about sooooo much.
ReplyDeleteThose colors on the top ticker are awful, but the SPEED guys can't change them.
Bummer.
JD, IMO they first started messing with it when they gave DW carte blanche to take over every show. I like DW when he isn't in hyper mode.
ReplyDeleteRut and Kenny the Klown are useless to me so I choose not to watch.
Steve and Krista are the only hosts for trackside that I enjoy. they are fun without being stupid.
Oh well, I'm the wrong demographic for Speed anyway so they don't care about what I want to watch as is evident by the programming choices they've made.
Cup 1-2-3, unless all three wreck, its over.
ReplyDeleteOh Gotcha
ReplyDeleteI saw the snub on Vince's twitter account.
Nothing against KW, but I can't see him hanging on much longer. Kind of like Jimmy Spencer in that last year, he is out of place.
ReplyDeleteI hate Cup drivers racing in anything lower than Cup, but the battle between the 2 and the 18 has been really exciting to watch. Its going to end with one of them in the wall im sure. I hope its both so a regular can win.
ReplyDeleteHere we go, getting dizzy with this dummy camera work
ReplyDeleteJosh Richards = Future Truck Star. If he was in the #18 every week, I'd be very happy.
ReplyDeleteBruton must have slipped Rick a few bucks before tonights broadcast
ReplyDeletereal debris hits the track and they wait on throwing the caution.
ReplyDeleteFor the first time in a long, long time,I'm not really watching the Truck race. I'm going back and forth between SPEED and ESPN.
ReplyDeleteMikey and Hannah Storm both hitting the chip so often, it drove me straight to the snack shelf in the pantry.
I am seriously over the limit; but, don't worry, I'm not driving tonight!
Sugar cookie anyone? :)
Weird for me that MW can run so hot and then so cold. I muted it for a bit, sorry. Can't take it.
ReplyDeleteI just went to the kitchen during a restart and it didn't bother me.
ReplyDeleteRoland, i agree it was an exciting battle to watch. However as you also said, they shouldn't be in this series on a regular basis, so I am hoping that they will manage to bump each other into having wrecked trucks so one of the regulars win.
ReplyDelete:| I feel like the outlier who can ignore the camera angles and pain in the necks in the booth. It's not NASCAR to mute the TV.
ReplyDeleteI must be immune to the talking heads. I mentioned before listening to Jackie Stewart call out Cale Yarborough with both hands holding the left side of the steering wheel at Daytona.
ReplyDeleteBut the best was the Indianapolis 500 having to listen to Bobby Unser and Sam Posey argue for three and a half hours.
I just tune them out.
We’re going to have a good finish with mixed up fuel stops.
Good race tonight.
Nice the way SPEED has kept us looking at the best racing, not just the leader.
ReplyDeleteJohn in Chico said...
ReplyDeleteI must be immune to the talking heads. I mentioned before listening to Jackie Stewart call out Cale Yarborough with both hands holding the left side of the steering wheel at Daytona.
Stewart also called out Neil Bonnett one year at Pocono when Neil was in the 21 car.The Wood Brothers had a nice chat with Mr. Stewart the following week to straighten him out.
Hey John in Chico
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Hard to stay listening to Mikey when Baylor is trying to pull the upset of TCU.
ReplyDeleteMan, I wish we had RaceBuddy for the NNS and Cup races.
ReplyDelete15 Laps to go.
ReplyDeleteGood old Ron trying to steal one!
ReplyDeleteThe question is - Do college students like Race Buddy.
ReplyDeleteThe RaceBuddy U Crew!
ReplyDeletemy 22 yr old daughter at UNC Charlotte does
ReplyDeleteHave to agree with you JD on KW.Both he and Spencer should have been put out to pasture many years ago. I think poor Kenny means well but he's just so overbearing. Spencer would like to be funny but he's just boring.
ReplyDeleteSPEED just outgrew them. Happens!
ReplyDeleteSplit screens no? Come on man.
ReplyDeleteOK, i don't usually like fuel mileage races, but I DO like having a truck series regular win it!
ReplyDeleteHey! They stayed on the finish line!
ReplyDeleteAt least a Truck regular won! Even if it was a KHI truck
ReplyDeleteWell, we saw it and it worked out on TV.
ReplyDeleteWeird angle to show the finish line.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up, my favorite driver was Ron Hornaday. That would be Ron Hornaday SR!
ReplyDeleteCharlie, we are trying to get the networks to show the winner crossing the line and then go back and follow the other lead lap cars as they battle for the finish.
ReplyDeleteOn a big track like this, that would have been perfect. They still don't quite get the fact that when the leader crosses the line, the race is not over.
A Ron Sr. mention! That sums up our TDP demographic!
ReplyDeleteStayed on SPEED for the last 30 laps. Great to see Hornaday win!
ReplyDeleteWishing everyone a safe and fun holiday weekend!
As always, thanks JD.
Ryan McGee from ESPN just said it's trucks coming back to the Rock. Nice.
ReplyDeleteHey Lis, that was fun!
ReplyDeleteI get to walk out tonight with vindication. :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Ron, who might be a free agent in 2012.
Yea, love to know what the heck KHI is going to do next year.
ReplyDeletePersonally, let Ron and Nelson keep their rides, and give the #2 to David Mayhew permanently.
ReplyDeleteIf Kevin and Delana need extra funding, go look to Childress, who will probably have Coulter and Ty Dillon.
Thanks for stopping by everyone! See you tomorrow night for NNS. TV schedule on front page.
ReplyDeleteHave a great night!
Whoa...anyone else think that pic of Ricky G.O.A.T. looks like Benny Parsons? Freaked me out.
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