NASCAR 'Battle at the Beach' short-track races returning to Daytona in 2014

Comments section for that article doesn't seem too happy.
 
KevinWI said:
Comments section for that article doesn't seem too happy.
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I guess they shut it off, or my anti wanker stuff is doing it's job..badly.
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StandOnIt said:
I guess they shut it off, or my anti wanker stuff is doing it's job..badly.
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Do you have Facebook? They're Facebook comments. Maybe they don't show up if you're not logged into Facebook. Either way, you're not missing anything compelling.
 
Nah, no facebook, that's probably it. I was curious is all. I'm so race starved at that point I will watch anything. Yeah, they aren't the best races out there, but I think the 24hrs @ Daytona comes first and who knows how that will be covered with SPEED gone, and these are the second races of the season.
 
StandOnIt said:
Nah, no facebook, that's probably it. I was curious is all. I'm so race starved at that point I will watch anything. Yeah, they aren't the best races out there, but I think the 24hrs @ Daytona comes first and who knows how that will be covered with SPEED gone, and these are the second races of the season.
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ARCA 200 and Budweiser shoot out or whatever its called these days was before the Battle at the Beach this year.

Is this article actually credible though? I have not seen any kind of announcement from NASCAR or Daytona making any mention of the race and Feb isn't very far away. I'd like to believe this article but i'll wait until NASCAR or Daytona make an announcement before I get excited about it.
 
toledo47 said:
ARCA 200 and Budweiser shoot out or whatever its called these days was before the Battle at the Beach this year.

Is this article actually credible though? I have not seen any kind of announcement from NASCAR or Daytona making any mention of the race and Feb isn't very far away. I'd like to believe this article but i'll wait until NASCAR or Daytona make an announcement before I get excited about it.
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Yeah I hear that. So many bogus "reports". Checked K&N's site, Nascar home tracks, nothing there so far.
 
Yeah, last year they did promotion throughout the whole year. After every K&N and Modified tour race they mentioned it. It was constant on the Home tracks site, I still very much doubt it will happen, but it will be cool if they do!
 
toledo47 said:
Yeah, last year they did promotion throughout the whole year. After every K&N and Modified tour race they mentioned it. It was constant on the Home tracks site, I still very much doubt it will happen, but it will be cool if they do!
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I hope it's true. Last I had heard, it all depended on Fox Sports 1. If FS1 doesn't televise it, there's no point in running the races. Fox Sports did refuse to air the Denny Hamlin Showdown at Richmond.
 
toledo47 said:
Why pointless? Its better if they televise it, of course, but untelevised races arent pointless to fans in the grandstands and the teams.
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The whole point of the race was for the short track stars to stand out on a national stage, on national television, so the sport could build towards its future... even if NASCAR changed their rules on-site when Kyle Larson dumped CE Falk so the Nationwide Series superstar could get the credit and glory.

The race being on SPEED was a big deal and a deciding factor for many of the Late Model teams to make the drive down for that race. It doesn't mean much if the race isn't televised. It doesn't matter to the K&N guys since the race would probably be televised on a tape delay anyways since they're still on Fox Sports 1 until NBCSN takes over.
 
The thing I enjoyed most about it was watching NASCAR experiment with trying to make the Perimeter and Straight Rail chassis equal. Last year, it seemed like the Perimeter cars had an advantage.
 
Maybe it's something they'd do online. NASCAR Home Tracks has been experimenting quite a bit with live online streaming quite a bit. I never caught the K&N West stream but the stream for the Charlotte Modified race was pretty bad.
 
On fox puke one. BTW they are saying they are the number 1 news for Nascar station now (in their own mind) , podunk basketball is more important. Sounds about right.
 
From Speed51:
Race Hub Announcing Battle at the Beach Info and More Thursday
Battle – 11/19/13
This Thursday, November 21 at 4pm ET, Race Hub on FOX Sports 1 will announce details on the Battle at the Beach at Daytona International Speedway, events at New Smyrna Speedway and information on the NASCAR K&N Pro Series and NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour involvement in February’s Florida Speedweeks. Tune in live to Race Hub Thursday for more and Speed51.com will have additional details following the broadcasted announcement.
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AndyMarquisLive said:
Enter Fox Sports 2, or a web stream. They've been doing streaming coverage of K&N races lately.
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I saw an article mention they were doing a live stream of the Bakersfield, CA race. Do they have an archive of that or you had to watch it live or never? Is ARCA still doing any of their live streaming video or did they give up on that?
 
toledo47 said:
I saw an article mention they were doing a live stream of the Bakersfield, CA race. Do they have an archive of that or you had to watch it live or never? Is ARCA still doing any of their live streaming video or did they give up on that?
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I can't find archives of the streams. They did a live stream of the Mod Tour race at Charlotte and it was really bad (low quality, one camera angle, choppy) - hopefully they got things together at Bakersfield.

ARCA gave up on video streaming a long time ago. Of course, they were overpaying for that, by a lot. Think someone told me they were spending more than $10,000 per race. That's way too much for one camera on a rooftop. I think ARCA's going to sign with NBC to air whatever Fox Sports 1 doesn't air. Last I heard, ARCA wanted live coverage of the dirt track races, some short track races, and they were trying to get CRA coverage thrown in. Also heard that NBC broadcast coverage of a couple ARCA races was possible.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
I can't find archives of the streams. They did a live stream of the Mod Tour race at Charlotte and it was really bad (low quality, one camera angle, choppy) - hopefully they got things together at Bakersfield.

ARCA gave up on video streaming a long time ago. Of course, they were overpaying for that, by a lot. Think someone told me they were spending more than $10,000 per race. That's way too much for one camera on a rooftop. I think ARCA's going to sign with NBC to air whatever Fox Sports 1 doesn't air. Last I heard, ARCA wanted live coverage of the dirt track races, some short track races, and they were trying to get CRA coverage thrown in. Also heard that NBC broadcast coverage of a couple ARCA races was possible.
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Wow can't believe they paid $10,000 for that. I'm pretty sure ARCA always documents the races with a camera on the rooftop anyway, they used to always show clips of the untelevised races on Speed news. Don't see why they couldn't have just done that as usual except feed a video output from the camera to a PC with a quality professional mobile broadband connection and stream onto whatever website. The most expensive part should have just been getting a quality internet connection at places like Salem. Makes no sense...
So, is ARCA having to do a time buy on NBC sports like they did with Speed? Or NBC actually wants ARCA content?
 
toledo47 said:
Wow can't believe they paid $10,000 for that. I'm pretty sure ARCA always documents the races with a camera on the rooftop anyway, they used to always show clips of the untelevised races on Speed news. Don't see why they couldn't have just done that as usual except feed a video output from the camera to a PC with a quality professional mobile broadband connection and stream onto whatever website. The most expensive part should have just been getting a quality internet connection at places like Salem. Makes no sense...
So, is ARCA having to do a time buy on NBC sports like they did with Speed? Or NBC actually wants ARCA content?
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NBC paid ARCA last year and, last I heard, NBC is willing to pay for it again.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Enter Fox Sports 2, or a web stream. They've been doing streaming coverage of K&N races lately.
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That kinda sucks if FS2 isn't in more homes by then. It was good to see them race live on a major platform this year. Hopefully you're right about the stream.
 
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