ESPN has Rusty Wallace in the TV booth as Dale Jarrett is off this weekend. He will be joined by Allen Bestwick and Andy Petree for the race. The Infield Pit Studio returns with Nicole Briscoe and Brad Daugherty. You just never know who might be a guest on the pre-race show.
Dover is a place where it is tough to get pit reports in except under yellow. The action happens so fast that it is also almost impossible to zoom tight on one or two cars. In the past, using the in-car cameras live meant missing key passes and incidents.
In terms of restarts, keep an eye on the information that Bestwick tries to relay when the network comes back from commercial. There will be lots to update. Depending on the flow of the race, it is tough to integrate the Infield Pit Studio once the racing gets underway unless there is a long yellow.
Dover has two bridges across the track and the TV challenge is to cut around them for the entire race. That is what makes using the aerial shots so tough to do. Viewers should also notice the orange traffic cones stuck in the catch-fence as markers for breaking points as the track has no lines for reference.
There are a number of start and park teams in the race as well as unsponsored cars. It will be interesting to keep an eye on just how many depart prior to the first pit stop.
This post will serve to host your opinions on the ESPN telecast of the NNS race from Dover. We will also be live tweeting the race on Twitter. Looking forward to your comments.
Anthem intro how cheesy does it
ReplyDeleteget ? They told us her name and
the fact that SHE JUST released a
New Single. If it sounds like the
Anthem - they need to go back to
the CHEEESY drawing boards. Ugh
Really interesting to watch the S and P teams. The 46 and 47 immediately followed the 08 to the garage. The 10 of Lepage raced out of the garage with the windownet down, parked in his teammates pit for a crewman to put up the windownet and came back out to run 2 caution laps, gain 3 points, and back to the garage. The 42 and 71 is also behind the wall now
ReplyDeleteThe racing on the track is pretty much single file. The garage is a crowded parking lot with the 10, 74, 71, 75, and 47 with their hoods up and NASCAR officials looking with crew members. The 42 and 15 traveled back to their haulers, the 08 team just pushed the damaged car back to the hauler
ReplyDeleteScott Speed brought the 47 down pit road literally to stop and go, having a brief convo to the one person in his pit stall.
What you didn't see on tv:
ReplyDelete- Mike Bliss was pushed behind the wall by 5 crewmen wearing 5 different firesuits lol.
- Erik Darnell on pit road with the hood up.
- contact between the 19 and 41 around lap 47
- the Queen of Hype losing spots to Joe Nemechek, Mike Wallace, and Timmy Hill
ESPN is in a mad dash to the garage, DANICA!
ReplyDeleteJeremy Clements overwhelmed running in 5th on old tires.
Rusty had some guts to call Joey out like that. Seem to recall Mr. Wallace doing something similar to a Waltrip in the late 80's...
ReplyDeleteJoey came up on a slow lapped car that was running in the racing groove, kinda feel that was a racing deal.
Pretty awful coverage unless you're a fan of the mega-team folks. Cuz generally, that's all you got to see. As for the rest...proof that if you throw enough money at a car, a toddler can probably drive it to the front. Can't speak as to how much ESPN may or may not be getting paid behind the scenes to continually ignore 30+ cars for entire races.
ReplyDelete"Shocker. Real shocker," Patrick was heard saying on her team radio after the wreck.
ReplyDeleteUhhh, sparkle pony.... when you are a moving chicane... racers will take chances to get by you!
If you ever learn to be a racer and not a driver you will understand.
"Anonymous said...
ReplyDeletePretty awful coverage unless you're a fan of the mega-team folks. Cuz generally, that's all you got to see. As for the rest...proof that if you throw enough money at a car, a toddler can probably drive it to the front. Can't speak as to how much ESPN may or may not be getting paid behind the scenes to continually ignore 30+ cars for entire races.
June 2, 2012 4:17 PM"
If that was so, Danica would be running in the front.
I,too was a little surprised how Andy and Rusty quickly assigned blame today in a number of incidents without seeing all the tapes. Truex and Joey were racing to the finish and two lapped cars were racing each other side by side with the leaders bearing down on them. Anyone notice Ty Dillon's performance today? I think this was his first NNS race. He qualified I believe P3 in front of his brother and finished in the top 10. Danica qualified mid-pack, went a lap down at the one-third point in the race before wrecking out. She'd raced here before,but Eury Jr lobbied to have her be given rookie status Friday which gets you an extra set of tires. Nevertheless, the booth continued to make excuses for her dismal performance. I thought there was a lot of racing throughout the field.
ReplyDeleteI also thought there was quite a bit of racing on the track. At times, the camera coverage wasn't all that bad. Sometimes they would fall into the habit of a tight one or two car shot.
ReplyDeleteA lot of drivers were ignored which is silly when it only takes a second to mention them. I don't need a big speech from the pit reporters about someone. Just a quick mention is fine with me.
Ty did seem to be ignored. I tried to keep an eye on him and his brother on the RaceBuddy tracker just to see who was ahead of whom.
If I'd been in the grandstands, I think I'd have found that the Nationwide cars put on a pretty good show today.
BTW, I rode around most of the race with Ryan Truex on RaceBuddy and I think we are seeing a future star in the making.