Daytona 500 Live Free on Sky Channels 428/462

[ZX10R NIN]

As above on the Premier channel

[stephen300o]

Stumbled across this accidentally. I haven't watched it for a few years.

More preamble than the Super Bowl!

[DiscoColin]

I am watching it, but I don't know how much I can take. The feed is Fox Sports, so it spends a lot of time going quiet when they repeatedly go to commercial breaks... It is painful. :-\

[stephen300o]

I gave up. It's not grabbing me.

[MondeoMan1981]

First time I've watched a NASCAR race live and whilst the pack is close, doesn't seem a huge amount of action up front.

[old'uns]

never mind, the F1 borefest will be along soon
no doubt someone will be along soon to shoot Danica down as well, moan about Oval racing etc but at least the win was only decided 5 secs from the end and not on Sat lunchtime

[eastlmark]

DiscoColin said:

I am watching it, but I don't know how much I can take. The feed is Fox Sports, so it spends a lot of time going quiet when they repeatedly go to commercial breaks... It is painful. :-\

you would prefer the adverts then? no pleasing some folks.

[DiscoColin]

eastlmark said:

DiscoColin said:

I am watching it, but I don't know how much I can take. The feed is Fox Sports, so it spends a lot of time going quiet when they repeatedly go to commercial breaks... It is painful. :-\

you would prefer the adverts then? no pleasing some folks.

I'd have prefered either an international feed of commentary to match the broadcast or them to pipe in the stadium announcer or simply the full trackside noise feed rather than everything going quiet. If it had the US adverts I wouldn't even have turned it on.

[stephen300o]

old'uns said:

never mind, the F1 borefest will be along soon
no doubt someone will be along soon to shoot Danica down as well, moan about Oval racing etc but at least the win was only decided 5 secs from the end and not on Sat lunchtime

f1 is ruined, not watching that anymore.
I like Danica, done a lot to inspire ladies to go racing.
This just didn't grab me, but I have moved away from nearly all racing now,

[eastlmark]

DiscoColin said:

eastlmark said:

DiscoColin said:

I am watching it, but I don't know how much I can take. The feed is Fox Sports, so it spends a lot of time going quiet when they repeatedly go to commercial breaks... It is painful. :-\

you would prefer the adverts then? no pleasing some folks.

I'd have prefered either an international feed of commentary to match the broadcast or them to pipe in the stadium announcer or simply the full trackside noise feed rather than everything going quiet. If it had the US adverts I wouldn't even have turned it on.

Back in the days of Eurosport covering NASCAR they used to fill in with a euro based commentator who new nothing of the sport and in SKY days they would switch back to the uk studio again for some ill informed and annoying comment. As it is now we don't miss anything and are getting a better service than those in the USA who are probably seeing Mcdonalds adverts every 5 minutes or so.

[Camaro]

Premier Sports coverage is top notch, they even offer it in HD. The live track action when the states goes to a break means you never miss a second of the race, the commentators know what they're talking about. You can't be Jeff Gordon giving you the latest insight into what each driver will be doing or thinking.

[eastlmark]

MondeoMan1981 said:

First time I've watched a NASCAR race live and whilst the pack is close, doesn't seem a huge amount of action up front.

That's true and as there are always regulation changes every season, they don't really know how good the racing will be until they get to Daytona. If the racing is boring then the aero regs are tweeked to improve the show. At least there wasn't a run away winner and the cars look quite difficult to drive given the spins by some experienced drivers. Having said that, there was no "big one" which usually spreads the field out a bit more.

[entropy]

eastlmark said:

MondeoMan1981 said:

First time I've watched a NASCAR race live and whilst the pack is close, doesn't seem a huge amount of action up front.

That's true and as there are always regulation changes every season, they don't really know how good the racing will be until they get to Daytona. If the racing is boring then the aero regs are tweeked to improve the show. At least there wasn't a run away winner and the cars look quite difficult to drive given the spins by some experienced drivers. Having said that, there was no "big one" which usually spreads the field out a bit more.

Apart from tandem-drafting from a few years ago, pack racing is crap; no proper slingshots as you need a push from behind be it drafting or bump drafting. It's been like this since the late 90s.

Pack/'plate racing was better in the early 90s when you had smaller packs; peleton/breakaway pack.

The reason NASCAR continues with stupid pack style racing is because when it 'works' you get artificial close racing and therefore close finishes that makes headlines - especially more important now that NASCAR has plateaued for a number of years and waning interest.