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Originally Posted by Jared Jordan
You know, I don't get surprised too often by race coverage, but this race has me perplexed. The Dutch Classic is one of the premier National Opens held in the USA. How it's not on DRC, wasn't streamed by NHRA.tv, and generally looks like a race that was held in a vacuum is astonishing. When it happens to the Sacramento National Open (held in June, with low car counts, and very few records set....), I ignore it as "par for the course," but how does this same phenomenon happen for the Dutch?
It shouldn't...
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I agree the Dutch Classic is a very special race. And like most others here, I wish it could have been covered. Why the NHRA was MIA is not something I have any informaton about, but DRC was included and facts need to be provided.
It seems this has become my designated role here. I haven't talked to Rick, but I'm fairly certain there are 2 reasons that nothing showed on DRC.
First, no one sponsored DRC's coverage. Everyone here knows how much it costs to travel, stay, and eat at a weekend event. When Summit left, if no one stepped up all that money would come directly out of the reporter's pocket.
RIck has been at this a long time, loves and understands the sport, and is dedicated enough to slog through as many races as he can. But in saying that, I wonder if anyone here expects him to pull a grand or more out of his pocket just to be a nice guy.
Second, as long as DRC (and FastNews) has existed, any track that transmits the session data WILL have their event covered. Sadly, not in near-real time, but when the data is received the reports are generated.
The "lanes unknown, winner listed first" tag is an indication that the reports are being generated by the data sent by the track - since that's exactly how the system generates them and does not include lane designation.
Not directed at you, but calling out DRC in this case is pretty unfair. If people want to throw rocks, they are certainly free to try and get NHRA credentials, access to the clock data, type in all the info, and do it themselves.