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Trackside -> What we learned: ‘Dega, Kansas, Monroe and Spain ->> (No heading)

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Posted on: Apr 30, 2008 11:23 am
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Author: Diana Moss
Joined: Feb 15, 2008 4:00 pm Posts: 37

I recorded the Sprint Cup race & watched it Monday morning ...

The problem with the commercials was caused by the lack of cautions early in the race ... which causes the bumper-run on sponsor shoutouts ... Fox does a better job at commercial control than ESPN/ABC does ...

Unfortunately, Fox's coverage was not their best for Dega ... Sadly, if you weren't Denny / Tony / Jr / Jeffy / Kyle, you were pretty much left out in the cold about your status in the race ... I kept seeing names like "Petty" / "Marlin" / "Hornish" / "Allmendinger" in the ticker, but I don't think I heard about them almost the entire race ... They said Hornish made a pitstop before the rest of the field, but they never said why nor explained why/how he got a lap down ... They never said why Schrader was going to the garage ...

Usually, I listen to MRN / PRN / IMS for their broadcasts to fill-in the holes in Fox / ESPN / TNT broadcasts ... But, that's only when KRKO-AM decides to actually air the races ... KRKO-AM will pre-empt the races for Aquasox / Cougars / Huskies / etc and it's usually the evening races that they do this to ...

"This Week In NASCAR" ("TWIN")on SPEED on Monday tried to explain the increase in mph by the two car breakaway as them being able to hookup better and get a big side draft off the frieght train on the bottom racing line ... At least that was the explanation from Michael Waltrip & Chad Knauss (but they both benefitted from that) ... Whereas the experts on ESPN's "NASCAR Now" where not quite sure how/why the two car breakaway was faster ... ESPN had on host Allen Bestwick with Ray Evernham, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree ...

The one thing that the racecast and "NASCAR Now" / "TWIN" failed to point out ... was the 00 & 44 cars getting together again ... This first happened at Martinsville with the 00 (Michael McDowell) dumping the 44 (teammate David Reutimann) into the wall early in the race ... This time it was at the end of the race with the 44 putting the 00 into the wall & spinning down the track ... McDowell should NOT be in a Sprint Cup car as prior to Martinsville, he had only been in 5 NASCAR races altogether (1 Trucks / 1 Nationwide / 3 Busch) ... Waltrip made a big mistake putting him in that car ... NASCAR made a bigger mistake by approving him ...

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