Cup, NNS, @ The Brickyard ARCA @ IRP

Racefan4ever · PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:46 pm

Brickyard Weekend in my home state!

The shit that is TNT is no more for 2012.

Now it is time for ESPN.....

Jeff · PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:58 pm

Dan Belcher and I will be at IRP again. Maybe we'll end up TV again this year too.

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:03 pm

USAC Midgets at IRP too.

SecretAgentHarvick · PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:16 pm

I'm looking forward to Grand am at the Speedway... other than that...

Philthy82 · PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 2:05 am

Most boring series of the year at the most boring racetrack on the calendar. Maybe it'll be a double-negative and we'll have a HOF race?

SpeedMaster14 · PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 2:40 am

Jayski wrote:

Sprint Cup Racing Coming to ESPN for Second Half of Season: The Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, one of the premier events in NASCAR, will be the launching point for ESPN's live, flag-to-flag telecasts of the final 17 races of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season on Sunday, July 29.
ESPN's multimedia platforms will surround the race telecasts on television, radio, online and on mobile devices. Of the 17 races, 14 will air on ESPN and WatchESPN and three Saturday night events will air on ABC, and ESPN's flagship news and information program SportsCenter will follow the 14 ESPN race telecasts with additional post-race interviews, highlights and information.
Beginning Sept. 16 at Chicagoland Speedway, the final 10 races will comprise the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, NASCAR's playoffs, culminating Nov. 18 at Homestead-Miami Speedway with the crowning of the series champion.
For the 10 races in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, ESPN will again utilize NASCAR NonStop, a split-screen commercial format that brings more racing action to viewers. The format, which ESPN used for the first time in 2011, shows the advertisement on the left side of the screen and a continuation of racing action on the right side. ESPN's scoring ticker continues to move across the top of the screen, allowing NASCAR fans to follow the running order of the race during the breaks. NASCAR NonStop takes effect at or near the halfway point of the race, with the first half of the race presented in the traditional commercial break format.
ESPN's NASCAR Sprint Cup coverage team will include four former NASCAR Sprint Cup champions, led by analyst Dale Jarrett, the 1999 driving champion, who will work with two-time champion crew chief Andy Petree and lap-by-lap announcer Allen Bestwick in the booth. Rusty Wallace, the 1989 driving champion, and three-time champion crew chief Ray Evernham will be analysts for NASCAR Countdown with host Nicole Briscoe and analyst Brad Daugherty, a NASCAR team owner.
Pit reporters during ESPN's 17-race NASCAR Sprint Cup coverage will be Dave Burns, Jamie Little, Mike Massaro, Dr. Jerry Punch, Shannon Spake and Vince Welch while Marty Reid will be the lap-by-lap announcer for the remainder of ESPN's NASCAR Nationwide Series race telecasts beginning with Indianapolis.(ESPN)(7-23-2012)

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 3:29 am

Of all the races this year, Indy is the best chance for a caution free race, hasn't happened since 1998 in Nationwide and 2003 in Cup

Mitch the Bitch · PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:24 am

I hope to god the Nationwide race will be the worst race in the history of motorsports. It'll serve them right for removing IRP, which had awesome racing like this, from the scheudle.

Woodski · PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 4:31 pm

The Brickyard is going to look laughably dead for the Busch race.

Starlancer · PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:35 pm

15,000 people at a track that can hold 500,000? They'll have to work some fun camera angles for that one.

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:15 am

Why NASCAR decided to take a race away from a really nice short track and put it at Indy in this most boring of seasons is beyond me

Shane · PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:35 am

The Nationwide race is gonna make the Indy Racing League races of the late 90's early 2000's look packed and spectacular.

Fuck you NASCAR and fuck you Tony George.

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:52 am

Less spectators than this?

Speedworx · PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:36 am

Nationwide is gonna rock!

Big draft down the straights. Once again it will be better than Cup series.

Joe A · PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:55 pm

Speedworx wrote:

Nationwide is gonna rock!

No, it's gonna suck. It's at the wrong track.

Hell, I hope someone leads that race from start to finish. I hope there's no passing to speak of.

Tommy Vercetti · PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:08 pm

It probably won't suck if it weren't for the damn tapered spacers...and even then, it'll be boring.

SecretAgentHarvick · PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:24 pm

Joe A wrote:

Speedworx wrote:

Nationwide is gonna rock!

No, it's gonna suck. It's at the wrong track.

Hell, I hope someone leads that race from start to finish. I hope there's no passing to speak of.

Joe is spot on here I believe. More Cup drivers racing in the NW race at the Brickyard that normally wouldn't make the cross town run to IRP. It's going to suck donkey balls.

Andre · PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:45 pm

I think the quality of the racing would take a big jump if you eliminated all the Cup regulars. Buuuuuut that won't happen, and Saturday will suck.

The 400's one of my favourite races of the year, though. I'm hoping (again) the trend of boring races ends this weekend.

westracing01 · PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:54 pm

Joe A wrote:

Speedworx wrote:

Nationwide is gonna rock!

No, it's gonna suck. It's at the wrong track.

Hell, I hope someone leads that race from start to finish. I hope there's no passing to speak of.

^ This.

Unfortunately, it can suck balls all day long for the next 20 years and they'll never move it back to where it should never have left.

Sprints, Trucks and Nationwide... That used to be a great Thurs, Fri, Sat of racing. Speaking of which... I do wish they'd move the Cup race back to Saturday afternoon. There's just something kind of cool about Saturday afternoon racing for the big guns.

Chris A · PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 6:00 pm

Nah, Joey's is a bitter, petty post. Of course I agree about preferring the Nationwide series at IRP, but why hope for a race to suck? And Speedworx actually even made a decent argument for why the race might be good.

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