Fox Coverage of the Gators
 

I've been sitting here watching the coverage on Fox, and can't help but notice that for the last half hour or so, not one car has gone down track.

Instead, I'm hearing commentary after commentary, interview after interview, etc..

Is it too much to ask to have even some coverage of sportsman racing in that half hour?

Surely, having actual drag racing take place would be more interesting than the pointless crap that they're showing.

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That would make too much sense. I doubt they'll ever do it.

Given their aversion to sportsman coverage during the pro telecast the only real solution, I think, is to show only the finals live. Compress the rest of it so they're showing the last of the delayed semi-finals maybe 15 minutes before the finals are scheduled. Then they could go back to normal turn-around times for the pro teams as well.

This would also allow them to get back to the more comprehensive first round coverage we had in the past.

I can dream anyway.

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You would think that if they are trying to broadcast the full NHRA "experience" then they would include Sunday sportsman coverage instead of those inane interviews and sportscaster "insights."

You could run a lot of sportsman cars in that wasted half hour and still have time for other "filler."

If you're trying to sell NHRA, why wouldn't you at least make an effort to show viewers the sportsman classes. You know, classes that the average person could participate in.....

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In addition to all of the talking to kill off time, they had all of these little segments about how to do this or how this works, while if you could see over their shoulders there were cars going down the track. Also, don't mention too many parts mfgs.that you use to help you win 'cause they will shut you off.It would have been nice to see the '67 'Bird go a 10.67 even if she did breakout. Outside of a few things I wanted to see/happen, it was as lame as a 3 legged mule. John Kissel K242

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I noticed that too. What a joke.

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I was thinking the same thing. You could see class cars running in the background. Why not show them racing? The announcers could still be talking...

BTW, Tony Pedregon is no Mike Dunn in the booth, that's for sure.

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The problem was that they were only into the 2nd round of eliminations at the Gators when the Pro's ran the finals. It will be interesting when everything aligns at once and maybe they can show the actual finals.

I must say I caved in and bought the All-Access deal and you can call me what you want but, it was great. I think we've gotten so coddled by the likes of Motor Mania and Bangshift with it being free that people have that sticker shock of "Oh my God $99.00, I'm not paying that" but, in reality it's 22 National Events Live (You can go back to Pomona & Arizona if you want to watch those events) for about $1.50 a day. I had it on my computer during the day and went out to dinner at night and watched it on my Iphone and best about it, you hear the PA announcers during the Pro's and Not Tony P. telling me that Carbon Fiber is fiber made of carbon....really???. The best part about it the sportsman stuff is that is also hooked up to the PA announcers so you actually got to hear the races and find out who won and since the sportsman guys ran way later into the day after the pros they kept the live feed going. They just didn't cut it off because the "Pro's" were done for the day. I know with ESPN 3 you never had announcers and I know at a few tracks I had to look for the win light bulb in the corner to find out who won because they just panned out to the end of the track. I thought it was great, I know some people said as a member of NHRA you should get it for Free or a discounted rate but, hopefully they will work out the bugs and do something for the NHRA members in the long run but, I give them 2 thumbs up.

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I think NHRA has had bad luck with running other classes before pro finals.

Indy nats a couple of years ago, 1st pair sportsman after Semi's Stocker blows rear off line and gear oils track to 1/8th mile, had to send all other sportsman classes back to pits. Cleanup took longer because of gear oil.

PRO,s, Fans in the stands, and TV crews had to wait for track cleanup.

Was not good for sportsman racing.

Etown nats last couple of years they have run Finals of sportsman down track between Semi,s and finals of pro's

Just my 2 cents

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Is it really that important to have a "live" show? It makes for some awfully boring TV.... We'll never see sportsman coverage .

NHRA TV has become boring

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NHRA makes the point that people find out who won right away via Twitter, Facebook, etc. anyway. That makes a delayed final result somewhat anti-climactic for some people. Not for me but I can understand their point.

I too would prefer they just give up on the live idea as it really just makes the show worse, but I doubt they will. I still think having only the finals live is the best we can realistically hope for.