Saturday, October 15, 2011

Live Blogging Truck Series From Vegas (SPEED - 3PM ET)


Here we go with an afternoon delight from Las Vegas. The trucks are splitting the weekend with the Indy Cars. Ron Hornaday is the story.

Same SPEED story of coverage tactics is in place. Ray Dunlap is covering pit road with Krista Voda once she finished the pre-race show. Rick Allen will be in the TV booth with Phil Parsons.

The trucks are going to be interesting because none of the Cup drivers are in the field. Pay attention to some of the names at the back of the starting grid.

This post will serve to host your comments on the Camping World Truck in Las Vegas. To add your opinion on the coverage, just click the comments button below. Thanks for stopping by.

128 comments:

Daly Planet Editor said...

Stop watching that college football. Racing is on!

ChrisK said...

"Watching" Better Half Dash on Twitter. Sounds like chaos!

Daly Planet Editor said...

Women drivers!

Daly Planet Editor said...

"Dumbest Stuff on Wheels"....why?

Charlie said...

I like your blog post for this race JD.
Simple and to the point, just like how they do this telecast.

Buschseries61 said...

My ears.....

Sophia said...

twitter seems broken.

LOVED Dean Martin but daughter does not have same set of pipes...or maybe their tuning needs tweaked. Wanted to love her! :-/

dvring race.

dean and jerry said...

I always liked Dean ... but come
on folks the girl can not sing a
note... but it is ok this time.
Graci graci

John in Chico said...

We'll have a real Race Buddy with this race.

ChrisK said...

Can we get a few more gambling references in?

ChrisK said...

From Twitter status:

"Users may be experiencing issues with tweet delivery; our engineers are currently investigating this issue."

Daly Planet Editor said...

Nice time for Twitter to bite the dust!

ChrisK said...

TweetDeck working with some delay.

Sally said...

Awww. Our troll mascot is back with his same limited vocabulary and topics.

Jonathan said...

Alright time for a saturday double header! Race buddy for both races always a big plus!

JD I feel you on the dumbest stuff on wheels comment! WHY???!!!

Speed is turning its back on Nascar now a days and reminding me of MTV... The music videos are Nascar (less and less of em) and the programs like Jackass and Real world are like dumbest stuff on wheels and so on

Speed needs to remember if it wasnt for Nascar speed wouldnt be what it is today!

Daly Planet Editor said...

That boy needs a girlfriend in a big way. Here we go.

Daly Planet Editor said...

I did not have MW on the talent list for this race. Kind of surprised he is not in Charlotte today.

Daly Planet Editor said...

Rich boy in the wall!

Jonathan said...

Damn that sucks for Austin!!!

Daly Planet Editor said...

That had nothing to do with a flat tire.

Sally said...

That's probably the only really dumb thing I've seen Dillon do. Bummer.

Roadgeek Adam said...

After rushing home from northern New Jersey in a beeline to make the telecast, I see the points leader wreck. That can make a major shift.

Daly Planet Editor said...

I hope that guy's mommy gets home soon.

Jonathan said...

Yeah Austin is a lucky kid but he has shown me that he has what it takes in Nascar! Heck he even impressed me with his first Sprint Cup start last week in Kansas.

Jonathan said...

Worst Announcer I recommend going to Nascar.com and the race buddy app if you put on the in car 1 or 2 and blast your speakers... its nice :)

Anonymous said...

Didn't Dillon finish 3 laps down in his first Cup race??

Sally said...

But he finished. stayed out of trouble all day, came back without a scratch. Not bad for a kid in his first race.

Daly Planet Editor said...

Not too sure that Max Papis is getting this NASCAR stuff.

Jonathan said...

yes but he was impressive in a car that wasnt up to par with most.. Was on the lead lead a good chunk of the race ... TV dosent tell us much but he stayed out of trouble and finished the race

Roadgeek Adam said...

That one wasn't really his fault either. Gresham wrecked him

Roadgeek Adam said...

This caution is going unusually long.

ChrisK said...

I hate it when they run a bunch of commercials, then come back for 30 seconds, and then go back to commercials.

Jonathan said...

Chris id rather em get em out the way now than during green flag racing...

Sally said...

I wondeer if there will be more or less fans in he stands for the Indy race tomorrow?

Sally said...

Wow. This race is getting ridiculous! Do the Cup interlopers keep these guys from getting squirrely?

Roadgeek Adam said...

Ouch. Painful wreck.

jerry said...

Between Carmichael and Lefler no wonder Turner is downsizing.

Sally said...

At this rate, Austin may end up on the lead lap in no time...and have a top 10 finish!

jerry said...

Sally, the rodeo clown has been comping the heck out of tickets for Tommorows race, if it's empty, he predicted 70k.

Roadgeek Adam said...

There's something I don't get. Ryan Sieg spun out there. I like move to get him in the field, albeit he went backwards fast. I don't get why anyone other than myself sees potential in him. He's worked hard to get some good finishes, the equipment he's in is far from the best.

Daly Planet Editor said...

jerry, I will be surprised if he comes back.

188K for the last race is awful. He said 70K for tomorrow's race.

Not gonna happen.

Buschseries61 said...

I haven't been able to watch much of the race so far, but the broadcast seems fine so far.

Mike (Detroit) said...

"Rich boy in the wall!"

I love this place.

Sally said...

OK, did he really say, "When the yhave to deal with diversity'?

ChrisK said...

Did he say "they have to deal with diversity"?

Daly Planet Editor said...

That was awesome, the diversity program at work.

Sally said...

I guess he's been hanging around Kurt Busch. He makes lots of 'Malapropisms'. Can be unintentionally very amusing. That one was a dilly.

Jonathan said...

If Indy wants any success its needs to stop trying to be F1! I never followed Tony Stewart but I remember them saying when he won the Indy championship it was all on ovals! F1 isnt popular in America and the way Indy is going it isnt looking good either

Just my thoughts but unless they go back to all ovals and bring in some American drivers that people know of it is going to remain the way it is. Its only going downhill from here with less ovals, no Danica, and god awful coverage on Verus!

Daly Planet Editor said...

See "adversity" and "diversity" are both from the "sity" family of words.

Sally said...

Seems like Austin aught to have gotten al least 3 laps back by now!

Roadgeek Adam said...

Norm Benning 13th? Wow

Sally said...

Guess you just gotta watch the 'sity' boys, don't you?

ChrisK said...

I hope Speed decides to show the whole Better Half Dash. It sounds like it was pretty entertaining. I guess the longer this race takes, the less chance there is of that though.

Roland said...

My plan was to flip back and forth between this race and the Tennessee LSU game. But this race has been so good I stuck with it till the red flag. Speed has had some techincal problems so far with audio, not surprised happens all the time. At least a Cup driver wont win today.

Roadgeek Adam said...

Brent Raymer was in the Top 10 a little while ago too...

Daly Planet Editor said...

Chris, Wendy V slaps the wall hard!

Roland said...

They really have to change the camera view going into turn 1. I see theres a camera platform in front of the light poles but I guess they would rather use the obstructed view.

Charlie said...

I guess Jen was 9th the last restart

Daly Planet Editor said...

Man, this is like an ARCA race!

Roadgeek Adam said...

Yeah Jennifer Jo was 9th at the restart. Norm Benning 13th. All this wrecking, and the truck (Benning's specifically) has not been its abnormally off.

ChrisK said...

"Wendy V slaps the wall hard!"

Saw that, but she came back to finish top 5!

Mike (Detroit) said...

Yes it would be cool to see Jenny Jo and Norm have great runs today.

Sally said...

Ray Dunlap gets good info. He knows how to work the pits.

Roadgeek Adam said...

And more shifting. Johnny, Ron and Timothy have work to do.

Sally said...

Good Grief! What is with these guys today?!

Sally said...

Are they driving over their heads because they have a chance to win one without the Cuppers being there?

jerry said...

Unfortunately a lot of wrecks but that's what you expect in a developmental series. Not near as bad as late 80's nationwide races on super speedways.

hey John the cowboy has lowered his estimate from 70 to 40k.

Roadgeek Adam said...

Norm Benning is 17th by the way.

Ryan Sieg 12th. BJ McLeod 19th.

Sieg Racing is going to get some money today.

Daly Planet Editor said...

Sally, when trucks break loose like this there is something going on that the TV boys are not talking about.

These big heavy things just don't spin for no reason.

Sally said...

RGAdam...the way thingshave been oing, I wouldn't count on anything yet! There's still lots of chances to wreck!

Anonymous said...

You have to remember they haven't raced during the day at Vegas in years. So racing on a hot slick track there is difficult since their set up notes are for night racing.

Sally said...

I can't remember the last time we've seen this much wrecking in the trucks other than a GWC.

ChrisK said...

Why isn't there a leaderboard on nascar.com for truck races?

Charlie said...

They say on Tv that they usually race this track at night and since this is during the day it is a lot slicker.

You would think they would have prepared for the day race.

Sally said...

What happened to Nelson Piquet? He was running up front earlier.

Daly Planet Editor said...

Chris, the truck series does not have the computer/Internet interface in the field.

Told they will have it for next season.

Roadgeek Adam said...

Caution #7 on the day.

Anonymous said...

He's running 13th (Piquet)

Roadgeek Adam said...

We're definitely getting a show. Wrecking or not, we're definitely getting a show. However, I'd like to see someone other than Sauter or Hornaday in VL.

ChrisK said...

It's strange that the announcers almost never mention sponsors, but every time they mention Cole Whitt, they say "the Fuel Doctor number 60." Do they have stock in the company or something?

Roadgeek Adam said...

I've heard Champion #2 for Hornaday several times today. Hornaday's sponsors in general seem to get a lot of mentions.

Buschseries61 said...

Really not into this broadcast today, don't know why.

Daly Planet Editor said...

Chris, SPEED has no such issues but the Cup guys do for every telecast.

Sometimes drivers or PR guys will ask the TV guys to help out with sponsor mentions if they are trying to keep or renew a deal.

Charlie said...

Do you notice when they talk about a driver they do not zoom in on just that truck.

Daly Planet Editor said...

Just thinking that Charlie! Have a feeling tonight on ABC is going to be kind of rough.

Buschseries61 said...

Really wish we had more than 19 trucks within 5 laps of the leader.

ChrisK said...

Classic MW. "a tire track out of whack."

Anonymous said...

Shoot we'll be watching a commercial marathon and get a few breaks of racing. Not to mention the race will be going up against some big CFB games tonight.

ChrisK said...

Buescher, who is 32 laps down, tagged for too fast exiting pit road.

Charlie said...

I think they should still have on the graphics how many laps have been completed.
When the announcer says they pitted on lap such and such you have to then know how many laps make up the race and then subtract that from the laps to go.

Roadgeek Adam said...

Would love to see a caution or Hornaday is going to run with the show.

Michael Stoffel said...

Just got home from Mass, and turn on the Trucks and see position 20 is 14 laps down, and the rest of the field is gone.....was there a Talledega like crash?
(Nothing on NASCAR dot com recapping race so far like they do for Cup.)

ChrisK said...

I agree about the lap numbers, Charlie.

Roland said...

Speed has broadcast this race like ESPN would. They came here with a script, a script centered around Hornaday, and Hornaday has followed the script. Speed is getting exactly what they wont, Hornaday is going to get what he wants in another 30 laps, and the fans got a good race for the first half.

Daly Planet Editor said...

Roland, good observation. Something was bugging me about this one.

Roadgeek Adam said...

Finally 9th caution of the day.

Roadgeek Adam said...

Michael, there was numerous wrecking (hint 9th caution). Austin Dillon wrecked on Lap 2 (currently 20th). The worst wreck of the day was Carmichael, Paludo and Ickler wrecking on Lap 30.

Daly Planet Editor said...

RaceDay is next and then Cup on ABC at 7PM.

Roland said...

What on earth was Cale Gale thinking?

jerry said...

Seen lots of tweets about tv folks at the track this weekend. What's going on?

Daly Planet Editor said...

Man, two knuckleheads in that one. You don't see that at the local track on Saturday night.

Roadgeek Adam said...

I don't feel the wrecking is over.

ChrisK said...

Hornaday love fest. :(

Daly Planet Editor said...

Jerry, ESPN has brought a ton of personalities like Michelle Beadle to the race.

They had to find a way for these folks to get a clue to racing.

ESPN is in this for three more seasons and there is ZERO knowledge of NASCAR in Bristol.

Charlie said...

15 Laps to go.

Roadgeek Adam said...

The corrected 10th Caution.

Daly Planet Editor said...

This is like amateur hour now.

Buschseries61 said...

These guys and girls were strong at Kentucky and proved they could put on a great show without Cuppers. Today has been embarassing. At least the points are tighter up front.

Anonymous said...

This pathetic race reminds me of that old saying....'be careful of what you ask for because you just might get it.' It's common to hear complaints on this blog about the Cup drivers infiltrating the Truck and Nationwide races. What we saw here today was a ton of rookie mistakes. They bring back memories of the races I threw away by doing stupid things. This has got to be the worst race I've ever seen in the toip three series in Nascar. Mikey and Rick Allen were equally as bad.

jerry said...

Wow you know it's been a long day when NASCAR wont even throw a caution on a spin.

Charlie said...

You would think that would have been a caution when they throw a caution for no nothing debris.

w17scott said...

amateur hour? sure, but you're watching and talking about it ...like those Saturday night runs at the local track, an old vet is at the top

Sally said...

The need this to finish quick to get the Cup race going on time.

jerry said...

Only thing worse than a cupper sticking up the show is a has been.

Buschseries61 said...

It bugs me that we would not be in this situation if NASCAR did something before Benson, Skinner, Crawford, Cook, Sprague, etc were forced out of the series. Now we have rent a rides like Feese making a fool out of the series.

Charlie said...

No post race ?

Anonymous said...

WOW just left the truck race with no interviews VL or anything!!

Daly Planet Editor said...

Going to take me a little while to digest that one.

Daly Planet Editor said...

Anon, stay tuned. SPEED only has one hour to do RaceDay until the ABC race starts.

They will include the truck interviews in the show.

Charlie said...

So the cup is more important then an interview with the winner of the truck race.

Buschseries61 said...

That was really awful. First time in years I remember no live post race. Do we really need more pre race tv? If you add up NASCAR Now, RaceDay 1 and 2, Espn countdown the pre race will be longer than the race.

Daly Planet Editor said...

Charlie, not even close! Truck is still AAA Baseball to NASCAR TV.

Charlie said...

I am switching to college football and be back when the green is about to be thrown. I am not one to watch this stuff on speed for an hour just to see an interview.

w17scott said...

SPEED ...shame, shame ...why treat your
most entertaining series this way ...you should learn from the screw-ups at BSPN, not imitate them

52 yr. fan said...

What a lousy way to treat fans who
have watched the truck race!
Guess Speed thinks someone is going to watch all the commercials
on Raceday.

Buschseries61 said...

Just the winner? With the points all shaken up? ESPN deserves a standing ovation for their telecast compared to this.

The shame it all said...

Truck Race ,,,, theeeeeee worst
ever ... and that is saying
something.
Mikey was pathetic and uh they
are were.
When my nephew says ...
" why do they talk all the time "
u khow how hideous how horrid it
was. No surprise tho...brutal.

ChrisK said...

Always harder to get a caution in the last few laps of a race. Things that would be an instant call at the beginning of the race get ignored at the end.