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FOX announces 2012 Broadcast Schedule: FOX Sports gears up for its 12th season of NASCAR coverage by unveiling the 2012 NASCAR on FOX broadcast schedule featuring 13 NASCAR Sprint Cup points races and 15 events total, highlighted by the 54th running of the Daytona 500, live on Sunday, Feb. 26 (1:00-5:30 pm/et) from Daytona International Speedway. Coverage of the "Great American Race" begins that day with a special one-hour pre-race program (12:00-1:00 pm/et) from the DIS infield and a completely remodeled Hollywood Hotel. The flag officially drops on FOX Sports' 2012 Speedweeks coverage with the Budweiser Shootout, live on Saturday, Feb. 18 in prime time (8:00-10:00 pm/et), followed by live coverage of Daytona 500 Qualifying on Sunday, Feb. 19 (1:00-4:00 pm/et).
Michael Waltrip, driver, owner and pitch-man extraordinaire, joins the FOX NASCAR SUNDAY prerace team, taking a seat in the famed Hollywood Hotel alongside big brother Darrell Waltrip and host Chris Myers. Darrell and former champion crew chief Larry McReynolds return to provide race analysis for all NASCAR on FOX Sprint Cup events, and Mike Joy returns as race announcer. Veteran analyst Jeff Hammond takes his extensive experience as a former championship-winning crew chief to the action in the garages and on pit road. Dick Berggren, Steve Byrnes, Matt Yocum and Krista Voda also return to cover pit road. NASCAR on FOX "storm scout" and meteorologist Rick Dickert of FOX-owned KTTV in Los Angeles rejoins the crew to provide weather updates to viewers on the FOX NASCAR SUNDAY prerace show as well as during race coverage.(FOX), see the full schedule on my 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Schedule.(2-7-2012)
 
Thank GOD that the Waltrip brothers won't be in the booth at the same time during the race.
 
Stewart Fan said:
Just another reason to skip the prerace shows.
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Exactly (not that I needed one)

Imagine the time saved over the 36 cup races alone! I bit more post-race coverage would get my attention, however.
 
What surprised me was that there was no mention of that rabid rodent, Digger in the announcement.

DW's people are slipping (just like DW's brain...).
 
I think that the 'W squared' pre-race show can somehow be turned into a drinking game. Maybe everyone can take a drink when MW mentions NAPA or Toyota. And..... another when DW says the word boogity or mentions Digger, although Digger seems to have slowly faded away. Oh well, I'm sure that you can come up with sever other examples.....
 
I'll never understand the hatred for a computer animated gopher.
 
MOEJOE said:
Because he's much less entertaining than watching drivers race cars against eachother.
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But your still seeing them racing when it goes to that camara.
 
Why can't we all just enjoy the race instead of making a big deal about this
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MOEJOE said:
Because we would rather watch racing than some little animated F_____G rodent.
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Your still getting the racing its not like Digger fills the entire screen, you miss nothing.
 
kkfan91 said:
Your still getting the racing its not like Digger fills the entire screen, you miss nothing.
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Yeah..... The quality of the digger cam sucks, and watching digger animation while I could have a full screen of cars racing around a track sucks even more.

If I thought digger was cute, I would watch him on YouTube, or maybe Fox could make a show out of him and do it on Sunday nights with all the other animation shows. It would be great.

Digger is not an announcer, a car driver, owner, crewchief or race car. Why would I want to watch Digger? It's a race.
 
I think all the networks are guilty of going overboard with graphics and stuff. We don't need Digger, we don't need the draft graphic that ESPN loves. We don't need the ghost car, or the slow motion cam. All I need is the cars on the track and a running order at the top of the screen.
 
New race fans would be better served if the networks spent some time explaining and even illustrating the real racing going on for racing room. Choping, holding down, running up and much more side-by-side terminology is lost on the casual fan.
Too bad, because that's where you'll find all the lap after lap action unique to racing stock cars on an oval.
 
Stewart Fan said:
I think all the networks are guilty of going overboard with graphics and stuff. We don't need Digger, we don't need the draft graphic that ESPN loves. We don't need the ghost car, or the slow motion cam. All I need is the cars on the track and a running order at the top of the screen.
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ESPN stopped using the Draft Track graphic four years ago.
 
The kid in all of you wants to kick you in the walnuts from the inside.
 
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