Blue Balls-a-dega (Cup/Nationwide/ARCA)

Racefan4ever · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:46 pm

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Final Richmond TV Ratings: Fox Sports earned its lowest NASCAR television rating in 13 years televising the sport last week. NASCAR Sprint Cup racing from Richmond earned a 3.3 final rating and 5.6 million viewers on FOX last Saturday, down 11% in ratings and 8% in viewership from last year (3.7, 6.1M), and down 8% in both measures from 2012 (3.6, 5.9M). The 3.3 rating is the lowest ever for NASCAR Sprint Cup racing on FOX, falling below the previous mark of 3.6 set on multiple occasions. Of the sixteen lowest rated Sprint Cup races ever on FOX, fifteen have taken place since the start of the decade. Of note, ten of the sixteen lowest rated races have taken place on Saturday nights, including five from Richmond alone. Last week's 3.3 rating also ranks as the lowest for the spring Richmond race 2004 on FX (2.9).

Dead fucking Sport. NO ONE HAD FX IN 2004 AND IT STILL GOT A 2.9 Now they can barley get a 3.3 on fucking FOX?

Dead fucking Sport

codename_47 · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:46 pm

Racefan4ever wrote:

Seriously, everyone give up on this shit and watch Indy Car or something.

Yeah they never have yellow flag finishes at their biggest races either eh?

OldAsphalt · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:46 pm

Jeff wrote:

Racefan4ever wrote:

Is it to much to have the same god damn rule that arca has where the race MUST END UNDER FUCKING GREEN?

NASCAR changes every other god damn rule, why not do something as simple as that?

NOPE GOTTA END THIS SHIT UNDER YELLOW.

The one thing I really like about ARCA. Green flag finish no matter what. They even mentioned that last week at Salem. "GWC till the cows come home".

Ray Dunlap on Twitter wrote:

The ARCA racing series has the right policy. Re-start as many times as it takes to finish the race under GREEN. Not hard to do.

Joe4345 · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:46 pm

I have a real, honest question here; after the whole pack is far away from the debris.....WHY THE FUCK CAN'T they send a cleanup truck out there to grab that piece of bumper and get the fuck out of the way, quickly?

zippy · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:47 pm

Or we could go back to the rules they had before the GWC and what IndyCar uses then the Edwards wreck would have ended it. :wave:

That was really good racing, no single file, you had your wrecks, and unfortunately safety takes the win today.

Biffle 2nd again by the way lets blame him, because Hamlin was going to get there first anyway.

dr dog · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:47 pm

I know they "had" to throw the yellow. I know it was the "right" call. But it is just so disappointing. All that racing for that. And Denny wins.

The racing was great all day. There was literally no point at which they went all single file. When was the last time we had that? And then this finish.

The last lap crash at a plate track finish is the worst of them all and it happens at least once every plate weekend.

Temiree · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:47 pm

On the bright side, at least we didn't have issues with the weather this weekend unlike almost every other one this year.

Tommy Vercetti · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:47 pm

Joe4345 wrote:

I have a real, honest question here; after the whole pack is far away from the debris.....WHY THE FUCK CAN'T they send a cleanup truck out there to grab that piece of bumper and get the fuck out of the way, quickly?

That would pose an even bigger problem: the timing. The last thing you want to see is a racecar colliding with a safety vehicle.

Gaara · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:48 pm

codename_47 wrote:

Racefan4ever wrote:

Seriously, everyone give up on this shit and watch Indy Car or something.

Yeah they never have yellow flag finishes at their biggest races either eh?

People complained and NASCAR boasted about making sure the race finished under green *cough*

But TK fucking won, who the fuck cares that it finished under yellow.

tickyour · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:49 pm

Man. this really sucked. They should have thrown that caution before they took the white flag ..

Ian-S · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:51 pm

Racefan4ever wrote:

Quote:

Final Richmond TV Ratings: Fox Sports earned its lowest NASCAR television rating in 13 years televising the sport last week. NASCAR Sprint Cup racing from Richmond earned a 3.3 final rating and 5.6 million viewers on FOX last Saturday, down 11% in ratings and 8% in viewership from last year (3.7, 6.1M), and down 8% in both measures from 2012 (3.6, 5.9M). The 3.3 rating is the lowest ever for NASCAR Sprint Cup racing on FOX, falling below the previous mark of 3.6 set on multiple occasions. Of the sixteen lowest rated Sprint Cup races ever on FOX, fifteen have taken place since the start of the decade. Of note, ten of the sixteen lowest rated races have taken place on Saturday nights, including five from Richmond alone. Last week's 3.3 rating also ranks as the lowest for the spring Richmond race 2004 on FX (2.9).

Dead fucking Sport. NO ONE HAD FX IN 2004 AND IT STILL GOT A 2.9 Now they can barley get a 3.3 on fucking FOX?

Dead fucking Sport

Talk about Debbie downer, I guess whoever wrote that was instructed to ignore the fact that no other broadcast that night beat it...

As for dega, right call, but a pita with their present white flag rules.

zippy · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:51 pm

The white flag was already in the air if you go back and watch it. So it wouldn't have mattered.

The bumper wasn't resting in the middle of the track until after the whole field had gone by.

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:51 pm

dr dog wrote:

I know they "had" to throw the yellow. I know it was the "right" call. But it is just so disappointing. All that racing for that. And Denny wins.

Exactly. And of all fucking people, it had to be Hamlin out in front.

Then we can talk about illogical rules and slow officials.

NASCAR is a show, and this show was the worst there was.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:51 pm

This is all good fun but TBH I'm really enjoying the restrictor plate package atm.

Finish was regrettable but overall the racing was what we've wanted from plate races for so long but rarely got.

Oh well, there's always TONA and DEGA2

I mean, NEVER WATCHING AGAIN, WORST FINISH IN HISTORY, TERRIBLE SERIES, WHITE FLAG BULLSHIT etc.

We are witnessing the pussification of NASCAR.

dr dog · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:52 pm

I can't remember being so disappointed after a race. I know we have seen this before (dega 04 when they yellowed it for a single car spin with no damage and gordon won as jr was setting up a pass comes to mind) but something about this one today just feels extra shitty. Gonna gather myself and watch the rangers beat the penguins.

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:52 pm

zippy wrote:

The white flag was already in the air if you go back and watch it. So it wouldn't have mattered.

IIRC, at Martinsville one year, the white flag was out, but Gordon hadn't crossed the line yet when the yellow came out. Another GWC.

Hamlin won that one too.

OldAsphalt · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:53 pm

Why wait so long for the yellow? That bumper wasn't going to move itself anytime soon.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:53 pm

Oh well, there's still TUSCC to cheer us up

*runs out of thread at top speed*

Joe4345 · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:53 pm

Tommy Vercetti wrote:

Joe4345 wrote:

I have a real, honest question here; after the whole pack is far away from the debris.....WHY THE FUCK CAN'T they send a cleanup truck out there to grab that piece of bumper and get the fuck out of the way, quickly?

That would pose an even bigger problem: the timing. The last thing you want to see is a racecar colliding with a safety vehicle.

It doesn't help that Nascar only hires crew cab long bed F350's and 300lb track workers that can't get out of their own way.

Tristar 7AT · PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:53 pm

Well when all else fails there's always jerkin off to save the day.

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