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This weekend, the ARCA Racing Series presented by Re/Max and Menards invades the beautiful Palm Beach International Raceway road course in South Florida.

Casey Roderick was fastest in the first practice, over Justin Marks and Robb Brent. Menards Pole Qualifying is set for 4pm EST. The skies are clear and the weather is cool but perfect for racing (no rain).
 
SpeedPagan said:
Any chance of this being on TV?
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No. ARCARacing.com will have live timing and scoring and live audio on their website for free.

The only televised races are the races they run with NASCAR (Daytona, Texas, Talladega, Pocono I, Michigan, Iowa, Pocono II, Chicago, Kansas) and the season finale at Rockingham Speedway.

I'd love to see Versus or somebody pick up Toledo, Mansfield, New Jersey and the short tracks. The problem is that costs money that ARCA, quite frankly, doesn't have.
 
Spike said:
Why would ARCA have to pay someone to televise their races?
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Because that's how it works. Every racing series except NASCAR and IndyCar have to pay to have their races televised.

ARCA doesn't bring in the ratings and advertising revenue to justify a network paying to air their races.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Because that's how it works. Every racing series except NASCAR and IndyCar have to pay to have their races televised.

Because ARCA doesn't have enough fans to watch the broadcast to make the companies want to pay for commercials to make the broadcaster happy, so the series must bridge the budget gaps of low commercial income vs high broadcaster expediture for equip, transportation, and lodging for staff
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:fixed:
 
ARCA just ran a cleaner race on rain tires than the Nationwide Series did last year and the year before. So, all of you ARCA haters can put that in your pipe and smoke it.
 
that was a great race, i figured that it would be filled with cautions. good to see justin marks get his win too, he was really close a few times before.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Because that's how it works. Every racing series except NASCAR and IndyCar have to pay to have their races televised.

ARCA doesn't bring in the ratings and advertising revenue to justify a network paying to air their races.
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Not just in motor racing, most "minor sports" have to pay to get their games broadcast on TV or radio. The local AAA baseball team, and college basketball teams, for example. I'm not sure, but I think the NHL is even relegated to doing this on network TV?

Anyways, that was indeed a clean race, the little bit I saw on the internet.
 
I dont think that happens with college basketball. Regional networks pay for the rights to broadcast games(such as FSN, MASN, NESN, etc).
 
Spike said:
I dont think that happens with college basketball. Regional networks pay for the rights to broadcast games(such as FSN, MASN, NESN, etc).
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I'm sorry. I meant my LOCAL college basketball teams, to go along with how I was talking about the local AAA baseball team. I'm talking Mid-Major, and they need to pay the radio stations to be on.
 
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