Darlington: TV coverage, indestructible cars

ToTo - I have thought that for quite some time now. It's not just FOX but all of the coverage today. They feel the need, for whatever reason, to show things like that rather then what we tuned in for, the race!

My conclusion is that with all the "new" fans that don't have a clue they feel they must show them this. I guess I can see what they're trying to do but don't do it during green flag racing...bluejay

Bluejay/ToTo

you also have to keep in mind that there aren't as near as many gear heads in the world either.  A lot of the new fans don't even know how to change the oil in their own car.  So they are trying to inform these fans of what they are talking about each week.  But it does seem like with each passing year we lose seeing another 5% of the race. 

This is the best race car we have had in a long time.  One little dent in the fender doesn't ruin your drivers chance at a win.  This is the way it's supposed to be. 

 I do have to agree about the coverage.  While Larry MAc and DW were babbling about the significance of Jr paint scheme, I heard biffle say it's not going to last much longer and all the while, DW had to go on and on about his glory days in the Mountain Dew car.   I figured, OK, they will come back to it.  It wasn't until several laps later and when he was headed into the pits that they even mentioned hearing it on the radio. 

 I think the actual coverage FOx does is better than ESPN but I have had my fill of Jaws and his slant towards all things MW and Toyo. 

Gee, Mikey, Toyota has exactly one solid team in JGR.  Somehow, I have a feeling that JGR could make Yugos work in cup also.  That is the only good team that Toyota has.  If Gibbs stayed with GM, I  doubt that most of the Toyotas would be as sucessful at making races as they are this year.  None of the other teams are exactly competitive.

As for Jrs Retro colors, the second I saw that car posted on JAyski, I knew that DW would drool over it the whole race.  Its one of the main reasons I didn't even bother to watch the race.  As much of a Jr fan that I am, I can't stand to hear DW moan about the olden days for 4 hours forgetting that t heres an actual race going on.

I can't wait until Fox goes off the air.

Mikey, here is the deal... Mountain Dew is a straight up affilitae w/ AMP. Yes Gatorade is distribuated by PepsiCo too, but you see why they chose Mountain Dew (Daytona 500 & all of the other wins).

The intial rumors was that Jr was going to drive a Mountain Dew car but they upped it up by going w/ AMP. Gatorade is doing fine w/ Tiger and Jordan. They do not need to get more spokesmen for it. I have been drinking Gatorade forever since it was created at the University of Florida. GO Gators.

I am glad to see the cars take a good hit to the wall and keep rolling.

Mikey,

Gatorade is not an official sponsor of the 88, Mountain Dew is.  Hence the Mountain Dew retro colors.  JJ is the spokesperson in Cup for gatorade.  I don't know how Mears isn't a sposnor of any Pepsi product.  Maybe Pepsi wants a driver who can actually drive a race car. 

Another thing I've noticed all year is that anytime fuel is mentioned, it must be mandatory that the announcers add "Sunoco" to the sentence.

Goes something like this... "Yep, (insert driver here) can't have too much Sunoco race fuel left in the tank. He needs to get down on the apron during this caution to make sure there's some Sunoco race fuel getting to the pick-up. If he runs out of Sunoco race fuel, he may not be able to coast all the way back to his pit to get that splash of Sunoco race fuel."

Ridiculous. 

I totally agree.  If I want to watch precision cars that are ultra-sensitive to bumps & dings, I would watch IRL.  Nothing wrong with IRL, I watch plenty of it, but I watch Nascar for a different reason - to see some bumpin & bangin!