Please give Jeff Burton the old heave hoe, his voice is irritating, like finger nails on a chalk board.
DW was a good ole boy with lots of knowledge but I did not like his boogity boogity Lets go racing boys.
I like Kyle Petty but not as an announcer. I do not like Jeff Gordon, he is pro-Hendricks racing, announcers should not be rooting for one particular team.
What ever happened to Allen Bestwick ?
Dale JR doesn't make it as a full time announcer, I think he could ad some insight, but not be the lead announcer.
I think NASCAR and many race tracks do not fully understand just how important announcers are. Look back at Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons, they had insight, good voices, and did not talk too much.
Look towards pro baseball and pro football, or better yet College football and you can tell the difference between fantastic announcers and bad announcers. It "do" make a difference.
The better the announcers the better the telecast becomes.
But again, NASCAR needs to make changes to help produce a better product.
Personally I believe they have diluted auto racing coverage by having too many divisions. Its like the local tracks going to more and more divisions, fewer cars in each class which usually lessens the competition.
Do we really need a Truck Racing series, looking at the empty seats at the larger tracks one would think not.
If these teams switched to the Sportsman series it would make that series more competitive, and some of those may more up to the Grand National series.
I still refer to them in these terms as the sponsors keep changing and its kind of confusing, Is the Monster series and the Infinity series the top class ? I know the answer but do the new fans that Nascar needs understand the difference ?
I do not understand how NASCAR makes their rules, it seems like if a Grand National, a Sportsman or an ARCA car are all safe enough to run at the Super Speedways, why have so much difference in the rules ?
These difference in rules only drives up the costs of building these cars.
Nascar has a reputation for only having a small number of drivers capable of winning a race and these drivers are provided the most expensive cars that can be produced. These Super Teams have a garage full of dozens of race cars for one team, and each year they build more, actually they build new cars all year round. They build cars for specific tracks. They are all the same except for a little something different here or there. NASCAR has to do something to control the costs of building and maintaining these race cars. If it were not for teams getting tens of millions of dollars per year from sponsors to offset their costs these race teams would go broke.
Sure the race fans want to see cars go fast, but how many can see the difference of a half second on a Super Speedway ? Fans have no idea how much it costs to go just one tenth of a mile faster.
Money buys speed is the old adage from the beginning of racing.
But I digress.
What fans want to see is a very competitive race that has interesting announcers.
