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Race: 5 ... it had it's moments but mostly either horrible strung out racing or a caution parade.
Winner: 10 ... Harvick pulled another one out of his ass.
FOX: 1 ... As bad as FOX is, the worst (TNT) is yet to come.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Race: 5 ... it had it's moments but mostly either horrible strung out racing or a caution parade.
Winner: 10 ... Harvick pulled another one out of his ass.
FOX: 1 ... As bad as FOX is, the worst (TNT) is yet to come.
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I actually don't mind TNT so much as I really like Wally Dallenbach.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Wally's the only one on there I like. Adam Alexander puts me to sleep. The camera angles are craptacular. The audio is craptastic. It's just terrible.
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Yeah, TNT is the same way with the NBA playoff coverage, it's like they haven't discovered HD yet
 
8

Some thoughts:

Please have Robin Meade sing our national anthem for every Cup race.
Thank you.

I hope some preliminary reports that are saying some over zealous fans were the cause for the camera rope failure prove to be untrue. Otherwise, this would be sad.

I don't think Mark Martin got squeezed like he said he did. He got passed fair snd square but didn't give Almirola any room, imo.

I think that gyro cam embellishes a bit at times. Tonights coverage convinced me of that.

When Khane passed Harvick on lap 60, and Mike Joy said the pass was "high, wide, and handsome", was that a shout out to the Skoal Bandit?

Finally, glad to see a red, white and blue car take the checkers on this Memorial Day weekend.

The fact that it was a Chevy is just icing on the cake.
Good race.
 
About an 8.
It is the 600, attrition is part of the game and I am glad we have one 600 miler on the schedule. I like the winner, but hate the late cautions
 
The race: 8
NASCAR's decision to let teams work on the cars during the 15 minute fairytale period and making Marcos Ambrose drive three laps around the track for no reason: Zero.
 
Race (7): It had a lot of stoppages, but it was competitive mostly.
Winner (10): Harvick. Enough said.
FOX (3): God help us, it's going to get worse...
 
I'll go a 6.5. I've seen better. IMHO, the racing would be better if the cars were about 20mph slower.

KevinWI said:
The race: 8
NASCAR's decision to let teams work on the cars during the 15 minute fairytale period and making Marcos Ambrose drive three laps around the track for no reason: Zero.
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Marcos had to make those laps to get caught up on the electronic scoring monitors. Those register every time the car crossed the start/finish. If he hadn't made those laps the scoring would keep him 3 laps down. I imagine trying to change that by hand would require changing the database and rewriting the code on the server. Much easier to just have him make the laps.

I happen to agree with NASCAR allowing the cars to be work on during the red flag. What happened was NOT the fault of the track. It was an outside entity and could not be allowed to interfere with the racing --- unlike the incident with Jeff at M'ville.
 
They would have had to change values in the database but not mess with the code. But I'm sure they don't allow anyone to manually mess with the database during the race to prevent a lot of obvious issues that would cause (cheating, deleting the entire database, among other things). It's just easier to have the car make the laps up on track to prevent any problems.

You actually have me wondering if they have any sort of back-up database in place in case the main one crashed mid-race. I'm hoping they do because it wouldn't cost much money. In fact they should probably have a back-up for the back-up too.
 
I felt it was a pretty good race considering the race it had to follow. I would give it a 7 and might have gave it an 8 if I had not just watched the Indy 500. I don't have any complaints about Fox or it's broadcasters. And my hats off to Nascar for the way they handled the unfortunate rope situation. If they had only let one team work on their car then I would have been a little pissed, but they didn't, so no harm, no foul. I was glad to see Harvick and RCR get a win. Now I need to dust off my tv screen, go fill the bbq gas bottle and pick up some meat for the Dover triple header this weekend.:cool:
 
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all of the red flags on top of the already long race dragged it down a bit
 
Greg said:
About an 8.
It is the 600, attrition is part of the game and I am glad we have one 600 miler on the schedule. I like the winner, but hate the late cautions
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I agree with Greg . I love the diversity of the tracks in the Nascar series .The 600 miler is a beast .
 
Since I'm mad about last night, 4. Quit watching after Jeff got in a wreck racing other lapped cars when he never should have gone a lap down in the first place.

Thanks for the fake "debris" caution, NASCAR.

:boxing:

I'm still mad today!
 
everybody notice that the car out front ran away and hid from the rest of the pack? So get used to debris cautions PAS. Most of that debris ends up blown out of the racing line, but at that point when they threw the caution tenth place was over 17 seconds behind first with first place being almost 7 seconds ahead of the pack. Nature of the beast. It is much easier to deal with in other series because they aren't trying to make a brick go fast. Drivers can't apparently can't say aero push anymore, but they are allowed to say clean air because they are talking about the air and not the car.
 
I think that when you are 7 seconds behind the car in front of you , the aero push has a lesser effect than lack of power. But I didn't make it out of high school.;)
 
IMO race was a 6-7/10
C-Ya FOX....don't forget to take the 2 Waltrip clowns with ya..................
 
ted@economy said:
I think that when you are 7 seconds behind the car in front of you , the aero push has a lesser effect than lack of power. But I didn't make it out of high school.;)
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I will even go so far to say that drivers know when they get spread out that a caution is going to come out and soon. I called both cautions long before thay happened. The last caution, they had a big piece to focus on and they did. That was caused( remember"cautions breed cautions") by earlier debris and cable cautions. At any rate, the car that got out front..Harvick this time ran away and hid the last 15 or so laps, might have been one change in position after they got in a line. Not bitching..just the nature of the beast. When asked about the win Harvick said "pit strategy and clean air" if you remember.
 
5.....restarts were awesome but that was really it...the whole cable incident was just a joke...and tony actually got a solid 7th place...:D
 
John c said:
Considering I was in the grandstands I would give the race a 7. Just my opinion tho.
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And you're home already?

I'm with Nitro Dude. I give it a 7, I think it suffered in comparison to the preceding 500, and NASCAR made the best possible call on the cable situation. I would have preferred it if Kenseth had pitted with everyone else, but that's racing.
 
Meh, I'd give it a 6.5. It had its moments but in general it was pretty slow. Damn, every dominant car has issues -- Kyle Busch blew a engine, Kenseth and Gordon wrecked, and Kahne messed up on his pit stop. Kurt Busch did have a good run, though -- would have loved to see him win but 3rd ain't to shabby.
 
For a 600-mile race, I was pretty good during most of the race. I gave it a 7.
 
8, letting kybu repair his car under the red flag is bullsh!t, but all is well, Karma bit him in the ass. In the past TV cameras falling off of the fences and overhead, camera guards falling off the fences and overhead plus other items and of course Jeff Gordons infamous concrete all tearing up cars and the teams were told, lose your spot and no working on cars under the red flag. In My Opinion it's all bullsh!t. It should be the same for everybody but it sure as hell is not.
 
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