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I still think that NASCAR should offer a PPV or subscription based service that offers you the live feed, with options of natural sounds, MRN, or corresponding commentary.

It's safe to say that the "too many commercials" argument is a bit pointless these days; it's obvious they aren't going away anytime soon.

What's been bothering me lately though is the amount of sponsor plugs during the race itself. It seems like once they finish up one sponsor plug, they almost instantly go to another sponsor plug. Then you have situations where they cut to a faraway helicopter shot of the track from 10 miles away where you can't see shit, while they talk about Monday Night Football for 2 minutes, or to show their "Motorsports Calendar" for the 100th time, and all you're doing is hoping they don't miss a fucking wreck during that time period.

Worst of all is when the sponsor plugs stop being plugs and turn into mini-informercials for whatever product said-sponsor produces. Instead of "The Race Rundown presented by Sprint", they give us "The Race Rundown presented by Sprint. Be sure to check out the new HTC EVO 4G XT7490Z Deluxe Twin-Turbo Platinum Edition© Smartphone with Push-To-Talk and the Nation's Largest Wireless 4G Network. For the latest NASCAR news, stats, highlights, cheesecake photos of Miss Sprint Cup, etc. be sure to download the new NASCAR App only from Sprint, only on the NOW Network. Get it today at sprint.com/speed. Did we mention we want your money desperately? Buy our phones and half-broken overpriced apps, please!"

For me, the final straw was the TV coverage becoming unwatchable. I'm a late comer to NASCAR (2002) but even in the 8 or 9 years I've watched, there has been a very visible down turn in the quality of the presentation. Now I've had enough.

I'd love someone to do the maths on how much of the coverage is commercials and how much is racing. And I don't mean a simple "There was 30 minutes of commercials", I mean take into account all of the commercials covering your screen the whole time.

When the racing is on, the top and bottom of the screen is commercials. Then when you go to commercials, they give you outro commercials. Then you watch your commercials and when you come back to racing you get intro commercials, telling you about the official female body spray of NASCAR and who is associated with the broadcast. Then during the racing you get more commercials, but they try and hide them by calling them Aflak facts and shit like that. If you take into account all of this, then you're getting to the point where you tune into commercials, and every so often a motor race interupts them.

And this is before you get into all the other crap like how the commentators are cunts. Rusty Wallace is a moron, and Kyle Petty spends the entire time looking for things to have a go at Montoya for. It's just awful.

I know that the TV presentation is relativly small compared to all of the issues Paul mention (I agree with almost everything that has been said), but for me that is the biggest factor. Even if the racing was awesome, you can't possibly watch it.

For those NASCAR fans that like stats and love to hate commercials, here is the breakdown for Sunday's race. Began recording the times at the Invocation of the race at 2:02 PM, and stopped at the waving of the checkered flag at 5:02PM (all times are EST). Did not keep records for the pre- and post-race coverage. ESPN was the broadcast team for this event.
Total number of traditional commercials: 63
Total number of 'Side-by-Side Commercials' (split-screen): 74
Total number of commercials: 117
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 37
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 36
Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 5 min. 10 sec.
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 2:02 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 5:02 PM
Total minutes of complete broadcast: 180
Minutes of race broadcast: 155
Minutes of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 25
Minutes of 'Side-by-Side' commercials (split-screen): 19
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of 'mystery cautions' (debris not shown): 3
Total race brdcst time 155 Total comm. brdcst time 25

Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2012 Quaker State 400: For those of you NASCAR fans that like stats and love to hate commercials, here is the breakdown for Saturday’s race. Began recording the times at the Invocation of the race at 7:29 PM, and stopped at the waving of the checkered flag at 10:32 PM (all times are EST). TNT was the broadcast team for this event.
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:29 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 10:32 PM
Total number of commercials: 129
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 62
Total minutes of race broadcast: 183
Minutes of race broadcast: 125
Minutes of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 58
Minutes of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials (split-screen): 0
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 0
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 50
Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 6 min. 10 sec.
Total race brdcst time 125 Total comm. brdcst time 58

FOX just signed a deal to host NASCAR races till 2022..best thing I saw out of the deal was that they are going to be doing the entire CWTS season. get possibly the only entertianing series a lot more coverage. Smart thinking.

The only big network to show a truck race was CBS, correct?