DISASTER for Joe Gibbs Racing | NASCAR Sonoma Race Review & Analysis
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Never seen a more caution filled road course race ever!! 💀
2021 Indy rc????
It was great wasn't it
@@timechanger9162still! The first few stages felt like all causing laps
@@spencerwright600 it was a ok race just so many cautions!
Pavement had a lot of Grip and they said hard to pass but Larson proved that wrong 😂
Thankful NBC is back now. There were literally like six cars that fell out of the race today and I have no idea what even happened to some of those guys.
They don’t even bother updating us. They just like guess… They said Austin Dillon had a down tire, then said he was off to the garage. No other mention.
So many ads late even with all the early cautions
NBC is far worse.
@@mattcardarelliit was clear that Dillon was in the turn 11 accident.
@@mattcardarelliI don’t even care for Austin Dillon, but his fans would probably like to know more of what happened to him.
Let's be real, no way that Valvoline scheme wasn't gonna win
Should of done a Mark Martin scheme since he drove the 5 and was with Valvoline so long
@@RAID3R63Mark drove the 6 when he was Valvoline sponsored
Love the red valvoline scheme so much
Valvoline has the coolest logo in history
Nah MTJ had it …
FOX needs to fire the Live Program Director! No one wants to watch the winning crew jump up and down, we want to watch the race finish as the other drivers cross the line!
100%
To be fair, FOX had to hurry up and get off the race. They had that IMPORTANT UFL conference championship game they had to air. Who cares who finished behind the winner? LOL, that's what FOX thinks about your precious sport.
@@im4usm2 NBC will force you to buy a Peacock subscription if you want to see it.
Jeez, you must be old school! Who wantt to watch that?🤦♂️
You wanted to wait the 5 mins to watch Truex drive it in on the starter?
Shoutout to McDowell for that 2nd place run after getting put in the wall partway thru the race. I thought his day was over with that wreck
Agreed, he did a great job after getting turned around
it’s kinda funny everyone wants an action packed road course race then everyone complains, imo this was probably one of the best road races in the next gen era
Sloppy at times, but overall I agree
The race itself was alright. The start though was an absolute slog to get through, very boring when the first 50 laps is an absolute shitshow.
Good thing they got it sorted out at the end.
Some will find anything to complain about.
If you call no green flag runs longer than like 10 laps in almost the entire first two stages good then I don't know what you were watching 😂. It was a mess until the last stage .
@@anthonypray7928 better than a 7 second lead constantly
Clint Bowyer’s race calling has gotten so much better. Today was probably his best work as well. he was, and I never thought I’d say this, fantastic. The coverage, coincidentally, was worse today than I’ve ever seen. Have no clue what happened to 3 DNFs and the last lap chase Elliot passed 4 people and didn’t know how till we saw the top five crawl. They’ve been bad all year, but they must’ve just completely given up today.
They never mentioned why Berry, briscoe and Haley all went to the garage in the last 10 laps. Coverage is SHIT!
Bowyer's call on what could happen on certain turns in the last laps (in theory) turned out to be exactly what happened. Can't get any better than that. Does he have a Magic 8 Ball in his pocket?
_“alright murr, let’s put a little something inside the drivers water bottles today”_
yeah we should’ve NOT let the impractical jokers show up to this race 💀😭
💀💀💀
Glad you're driver blew the engine lap 2 lmao 😂
@@ojtoothpaste2240 your*
@@ojtoothpaste2240ok?
DennyDeliversYT 🤣🤣🤣 that's great!!
The results don’t show it- he finished 33rd- but Justin Haley was wheeling that 51 car up in the top 15 or top 10 once again today up until he had a steering issue that set him off the pace. Just wanted to give kudos to him.
The 15 and the 51 were both up in the top 10 at one point. They were movin...
He’s the best thing that has ever happened to RWR. I still believe when Brad hangs it up Justin will be in the 6 much sooner than later.
@John-kx3ng You could be right. Now that Brad and the Roush organization as a whole has figured it out over the last 2 years and both Brad and Buesher had been running strong, Brad might stick around longer then he may have been thinking about when they all were struggling.
Truex just can't catch a break . He raced his ass off today only to run out of gas on the last lap .
I think the best line on radio was Cliff telling Larson ‘I’ll shut up now & let you do your thing’! I got tickled over that..
CONGRATS KYLE 🏁🏁🏁
He was a zone! Going thru the field was so impressive.
100% agree on Fox director. Show us the race!
The Fox director: “Shut up, you’re all just blind haters/keyboard warriors/liars. We are by far the best NASCAR broadcaster.”
@@CJODell12 Also the FOX director: "We just need to put crap on the air between the commercials where we make our real money, it need not be any good."
@@CJODell12😂😂😂
Eric, 100% agree on Fox. Looking at NBC's Indycar coverage for comparison, or F1, it's no comparison.
You get someone to underwrite commercial free coverage and FOX (or any other network) will broadcast it. Let me remind you though, Liberty Media, the American company that owns Formula One, GAVE it to ESPN for nothing (NBC was the previous broadcaster) and all ESPN does is rebroadcast SKY Sports coverage. SKY is owned by the same people who own FOX, BTW.
Super excited for when Leigh Diffey takes over the NBC booth. To add onto what you said Eric, he makes everything feel like a world class event, coneys the magnitude of the moment super well.
Leigh Diffey just makes events sound important. Unlike anything Fox produces. The breath of fresh air is needed
James Small needs to be fired
That’s the last straw for me
I don’t know enough to fine a good opinion but it does seem like silly things like this happen more often than before. I’ve also heard Martin and James arguing in the radio pretty badly at times
Of all the dumbass things he's done, this was the final straw??? If I was JG he would have never seen this year
such a surface level take. must be a new nascar fan
I felt that way last year. I think the reason that Truax has not done any better. This year is because of James small and totally agree. He needs to be fired.
I'm 42yrs old, so in a way, for me it's still Sear's Point!
39... agreed!
39 as well, agreed!!
48 and same hear.
60 😂👍
Yep!!! I'm 57 and it's still Sears Point! Lol.
Kyle probably had enough gas before the Chastain donut burnout.
For real
Too bad Fox didn’t have time for anything post race. 😂
Chastain barely touched him after running him down from 5 sec back. He could have been more aware of the faster car coming and conceded the spot he was bound to lose. Ross was clearly in the preferred line to pass for the corner.
@@jeremyharper3462 Barely touched him? He slammed into the side of his car! That was just as bad as Berry's incident, the only difference is Chastain is more at fault than Berry was with his incident. Berry was just along for the ride once he got tagged when he tried moving inside. Chastain tried to be aggressive and charge hard to get under Kyle, basically the equivalent of Aaron Rodgers throwing a 60 yard Hail Mary to try to win the football game!
@@brandonreder9869 lol!! Yes. I didn't stutter. That was very light contact.
It was nothing like what Berry did. Don't be ridiculous.
He showed him his nose the entire straight leading into the corner, had the inside line and was beside him entering the corner. Kyle could have lifted, knowing he was beat and probably would have finished 6th or 7th.
Kevin Harvick quote of the race:” send him in there like a torpedo.”
Bro thinks he's Seb
@@norandomstuff me or harvick?
Harvick giving quotes like Vettel. I like it lol.
@@jaxson6796 im talking about kevin
@@SixLNii nobody gives a f about Vettel.
I survived FOX Sports’s coverage of NASCAR in 2024 and all I got was this….
nothing
Yeet?
Must have missed what you got. There was a commercial
All I got was a commercial…
All I got from FOX was Yota has a new pace car, Joy must be getting a healthy paycheck from Yota, hope it's in Yen
FOX is infinitely better than NBC. Enjoy having to pay extra to see pre-race, post-race, and qualifying.
I haven't been to a race in 4 years!!!! It was so amazing being in Sonoma and still rn in there, the racing from my view which i saw a lot of the bumping and spins right next to me so it was awsome
The Martin Truex Jr will he or wont he retire drama is just something I did not need for another full damn year. It's so tired, just make a damn decision!!
Hearing everyone at the track cheer when Hamlin blew up was amazing to experience
There are a couple of drivers in the NASCAR Xfinity race I want to give shout out to BORIS SAID what he said in the interview about Greg Biffle & Shane van Gisbergen earns back to back wins and first career pole
Also Austin Green with a top-five in the third Jordan Anderson entry (#32) in just his third start.
AJ Allmendinger has 4 top 15 finishes this year (in 5 races). Rest of Kaulig Racing has 2 combined (2 from Daniel Hemric). When do we admit that Kaulig has just been propped up by Allmendinger all these years? The man has both their cup wins and 16 of their 20 non-plate track wins in the Xfinity series too (Chandler Smith and Kyle Larson last year and SVG's last two wins being the other 4).
SVG has 10 top 15 finishes in Xfinity. Surely hes holding his own atleast in that respect. Its the guys first year. Could possibly have been 3 race wins with COTA going his way.
I think Busch would have made it past the line before fuel became a dire situation had it not been for the extra fuel used getting back on track
That’s a cope. Yes the 25 feet to turn around really was the deal breaker.
@@EViLGrEEn42090 No, it's the throttle pulse required for the spin.
Or at least close to it, and even if he ran out just before getting to the line, he likely still gets a top ten at worst with how stretched the field was
@@EViLGrEEn42090 your math isn’t correct, its not that simple.
@@vapinbachelor289 your still coping. Look man tried ran out of fuel as well. I watched every lap of that race. Every lap.
Eric, Idk how you can be as generously critical of Fox's coverage this season. I would certainly be not nearly as generous on their production and direction coverage, especially since I haven't been a fan of Fox in general for a few years now. To me, Fox just sees NASCAR as another host to make money and nothing more than that (which I know is the point of the TV networks). (However) It's like Fox treats NASCAR as a way of marketing first before the viewer's enjoyment and not the other way around. And clearly, it seems like I am not the only one who expresses that frustration.
Ever since that championship in 2022 being a Logano fan has been rough. Bad luck and slow cars galore. I’m not even surprised he got caught up in some else’s mess again 🤦♂️. He might have the worst luck in cup rn this is getting ridiculous 😭😭
The Old Ross showed up today. He has been walking on eggshells ever since he got into Kyle Larson and Rick Hendricks made his remarks. Go to see Old Ross.
Yea I know what you’re saying. I believe he’s one of the best in the field but since the Darlington ‘23 he’s been off. Seems to run almost too conservative, I’ve noticed that he misses out on 1-2 spots on the last lap at the end of some the races, but also at the same time I think that he is out driving his equipment. Gotta be a weird position for him to not be in a top tier ride like Gibbs or Hendrick and have those over him pretty much telling him how to drive.
Kyle Larson was on a zone. I was watching his onboard camera from the last pit stop to the end and he was hitting every line and braking point perfect except for like two corners. He was .5 tenths at a minimum but mostly over a second faster every single lap vs the field. Carved up the field like a laser.
Chase Elliott sure didn’t less Ross get away with what he did to Busch. Aggressively moved him in the final turn for a top 5.
Yeah got bush held him up cost him his two second over Elliot to begin with. Duh.
That was only because he got held up by the Busch. Still finished 5th. Not a bad day.
You notice nobody is complaining about chase doing so either. It's the last lap. You can use a bumper or fender to pass if you're close enough. It's how it's meant to be done.
Cup series points standings (F1 points format minus fastest lap)
1. Kyle Larson 137 (3 wins)
2. Denny Hamlin 127 (3 wins)
3. William Byron 123 (3 wins)
4. Brad Keselowski 121 (1 win)
5. Christopher Bell 102 (2 wins)
6. Tyler Reddick 99 (1 win)
7. Chase Elliott 95 (1 win)
8. Alex Bowman 72
9. Martin Truex Jr. 70
10. Ty Gibbs 68
11. Chris Buescher 65
11. Ryan Blaney 65
13. Ross Chastain 45
14. Bubba Wallace 44
15. Joey Logano 38
16. Austin Cindric 37 (1 win)
17. Daniel Suárez 35 (1 win)
17. Kyle Busch 35
17. Noah Gragson 35
20. Michael McDowell 28
21. Aj Allmendinger 24
22. Chase Briscoe 22
23. Ricky Stenhouse Jr 20
24. Josh Berry 16
25. John Hunter Nemechek 14
26. Corey LaJoie 12
26. Austin Dillon 12
28. Anthony Alfredo 8
29. Todd Gilliland 5
29. Carson Hocevar 5
31. Justin Haley 4
31. Erik Jones 4
33. Daniel Hemric 3
34. Ryan Preece 2
35. Harrison Burton 1
Shows how consistent Keselowski has been
I’m less inclined to give Busch the benefit of the doubt. Man’s been a menace the last few weeks and got it back. Meanwhile, Chastain had the third best car on the track and put on a clinic. Reddick had the faster car but just couldn’t get through traffic. It feels disingenuous to dismiss what would have been hailed as return to form for any other driver because of an overcooked corner.
A lot of these YT videos of post race reviews have been trashing Chastain over and over during the video because of that corner. Had over 1300 corners in a race and one bad corner and people acting like this was worse than Busch wrecking Stenhouse. Just wish they’d come out and just say they don’t like Ross
@@mattshade8472 I've been hard on him myself from time to time. Lord knows he's earned it with some of his antics. But this time? Nah.
well they threw a caution at the end of the race for Truex, i wonder if kyle busch was in 12th when the caution came out, freezing the field b4 he got passed by 5 more people.
So where did kb finish, 12th or 17th?
@@jeffreybennett8893Nascar has him scored at 12th
Personally, after being at the track with exclusive access I can say this was a great race. I’ve been attending since 2017 and this race had everything from strategy racing to a bit of silly cautions. Thankfully the final stage was straightforward and we got a great three way battle. Getting to see this from the PRN booth was an unforgettable experience and I even had a chance to shake Mike Joys hand. While we all can dunk on FOX and their coverage, just remember all the history and life that Joy brings to this sport.
You can tell by the on board camera that Chastain’s tires did lock up.
That’s what happens when you slam your foot on the brake.
Denny blowing a engine right off the bat made my weekend. I'm happy with the race after that.
money shift
No it didn’t
Made my week that was perfect
When Denise is struggling......I'm grinning like a possum eat'n shit
Man I can’t wait for the uproar and flood of tears after he wins the championship this year
No boring single file silliness today!
Harvick i feel saved the booth this year. Yes Mike is good but adding harvick was the best move they could have made. the insight to the car was very useful
I was at the race sitting at turn 2 where Hamlin blew up. And I can definitely say the loudest the fans got today was when he blew up hahaha
Fun fact: Elliott now has the most top 5’s on road courses in the Gen 7 on the cup grid.
I appreciate your honesty Eric about Fox.
Yep! I'm pissed at Fox for not covering the Bush, Chastain deal.
I watched the IndyCar race. As a dual IndyCar/NASCAR fan, I had to choose between the two. And then I went to main NBC for IndyCar. Everything felt serious. Granted, there were problems, I.E. full screen commercials under green flag laps, but all in all, I enjoyed the coverage. After (spoiler alert) Will Power won (spoiler alert), I tuned into NASCAR just in time to see Buescher win the 2nd segment. Immediately afterwards was a cringe ass Wendy's Commercial and the happiness I felt after watching IndyCar was sucked out of me. EVERYTHING about Fox's coverage from the moment I tuned in to the end was just everything wrong with NASCAR on Fox compounded into 55 laps.
- Was anyone aware that Harrison Burton got hooked by Chase Elliott? No? That's because Fox didn't show it. The ONLY reason I know it is because I had the online stream of PRN radio coverage on.
- Did anyone watching know that William Byron had an issue? No? You wouldn't have known if you weren't paying attention to social media. Yeah. Social Media.
- Real great camera work going to a shot of the back bumper of the 17 car... WHEN NOBODY WAS BEHIND HIM!
- Let's go on the back bumper Kyle Larson while he battles with Hemric... and THEN cut to ANOTHER angle where then, and only AFTER the camera cut, we all find out they're three wide with McDowell
- Why yes, we totally need to see Noah Gragson spinning again... that spin happened ages ago and NOW we're headed to commercial break.
- Blaney's pitting! Now is a good time to actually swap over to a side by side where we show Blaney in one box and Elliott in the other... they cut to Chase Elliott AND THEN they do the side by side box instead of immediately going to the side by side box.
- Why, yes, viewers at home totally need to see the "tailgate kings" according to Fox. This was coming out of a full screen ad break, mind you. You won't be shocked to know I didn't care. I don't watch NASCAR racing to see who the "tailgate kings" are. I watch NASCAR to watch THE ACTUAL ON TRACK
- Why yes, we TOTALLY should go to commercials during green flag runs... *FULL SCREEN ADS*. AND during crucial moments of the race. Why yes, we TOTALLY need a "Toyota all out segment" that cuts another 2 minutes away from the on track action. OH, BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. Let's run a side by side ad break inside 10 laps to go!
And that's just the problems I CAN remember. I'm sure there are other problems that I missed!
Being a MTJ fan is the worst thing ever… years and years of this nonsense 😭😭😭😭 imma go cry in a hole 😢
Had such a good day watching the JGR drivers! 😂
(Sorry I’ve said it on every video about this race)
FIRE JAMES SMALL!!!!!!!
Pls
Cole Pearn should’ve stayed!
@@miketwotwenty yea but he wanted to be with his family, gotta respect that.
This was like those crazy road course overtime finishes in 2022 if they happened in the beginning of the race! Lol
Your stop motion videos were my childhood ❤
James Small should have told Martin to save some fuel …. No mention ! Not a good combo Small / Truex
Chastain is trying to be the next Earnhardt and its kinda working
Kudos on calling out Fox. I'm truly a Fox guy, if you know what I mean, however, their race coverage is woefully sub par... producer /director have NO clue how to broadcast a race.
Great race. I was impressed with the on track product.
Fox...oh Fox... Mike Joy is overall great, glad he will be around. Harvick is good as well. Bowyer I dont feel fits very well, and the back and forth can be a bit much.
I think Regan Smith is great, as well as the rest of the reporters. I actually have really enjoyed Daniel Suarez being in the booth as well. He is great as a driver analyst in the way hes able to paint a picture for the viewer, alomst like a behind the scenes look. Unfortunately a lot of fans bring his accent up and are not welcoming to that. I also enjoyed the other drivers theyve had rotate in the booth. I think Fox does have a good thing with that for Xfinity series, mostly.
My god though, the broadcast. Thank god the onboard cameras dont have a zoom, because Fox would surepy telescope the hell out of it. I dont understand why they CONSTANTLY zoom in and out, even within the same shot constantly. They are slow(if they even address it) to react to requests from the broadcasters to view something..
they dont show full replays or jusy show a short clip from a bad angle as they go to break. Like id rather see multiple replay's, or an interview with a driver that wrecked or their crew, over some B roll footage that they dont seem to ever cut away from when things happen (and that theu seem to cut to JUST as action picks up ans we get stuck with side by side). Those were thing that back in the day were reserved for the pre race show, practice or rain delays.. not the race.
Whats disappointing is that these issues have been VERY publicly addressed now for a few years, and Fox hasn't even seemed to try to address it. In fact, it almost at times seems like they are doing it purposely.
I hope they right that ship, if not, I really hope NASCAR can findnsome way to address it
I was at the race and it was great. It’s just fox broadcasted that race horribly they somehow did not catch Elliot spinning Harrison Burton like WTH they had beef all race and they did not catch that at all.
A nice top 3 finish for KB was looking likely on lap 99/100, but it all slowly fell apart at the end..
Ross definitely screwed Kyle but Ross got screwed by his crew chief. Went to the back to pit and then pits in the same cycle as the guys in front of him. Should have stayed out with Larson and they would have battled. Watching their lap times the 1 and 5 were a tick faster then any other car the last run.
Noticed this too, and Ross and Larson drive each other like there is this enmity between them, would’ve been a great watch between those two
Ross was keeping pace with Larson as they went thru the field but once Larson got some clean track he pulled away from Chastain.
@@frevazz3364 Ross never left his bumper coming thru the till he hit pit road. They were running p10-11. Once Ross came out he ran 74.3-74.5 the only other car to hit low 74s was Larson on new tires. Point being, Ross runs the right strategy he has the same if not better shot than Larson did.
Any other time I would feel bad for Busch. Him throwing tantrums the past two races makes me not care
still love Mike Joy. Harvick was better than expected while Boyer was... well... Boyer. your comments about production were spot-on, Eric. watched the SkyNews F1 broadcast right beforehand and the differences were jarring. CW and Amazon Prime joining the coverage next season will hopefully bring improvement.
Larson is the points leader with missing a race. Tells you how good he is.
Yup
Man, this was an emotional finish as Truex fans. He didn't get to finish 2nd! Dang!😭
Busch needs to join the NBC booth in place of Jr. It's over.
Chevy sweeps Sonoma Kyle Larson today and Shane van Gisbergen yesterday congrats to both. I am not giving up on Kyle Busch yet not until there's 26 races in the books there is a glimmer of hope. Also I wish that Kaulig Racing would have ran Shane van Gisbergen instead of A.J Almndinger.
Anytime the junkyota drivers have trouble it’s a great race especially Humlin and Little baby Jesus. So I thought it was very entertaining!
eric if you mind , what do you use to edit your videos?
I use adobe premiere software
@@EricEstepp Gee, so does FOX. What a co-incidence. Why are your videos so much better?
@Eric Estepp, I asked the same thing about Hamilin's motor earlier on Jaret's post race
About time the Next-Gen had a great road-course race such as this.
It was Sears Point for a very long time. Then for a short while it was Golden State International Raceway. People still called it Sears Point and the name returned. Then Infineon, Then Sonoma. It's SEARS POINT as far as I'm concerned, always will be.
Next week it's finally time for Iowa!
Strategy made it fun to watch. Still don't understand stage breaks at road courses. We talk about how important stage points and wins are....yet on road courses people just don't care for them in exchange for track position. Good race though. Loved the final stage honestly
Totally agree with your criticism of Fox. They have been going downhill. Eliminating Racehub
makes zero sense!
Kevin is an Ivy League Grad and Clint & Mike Joy graduated with a 2 year degree from Junior College….
Completely agree with you on the Fox coverage! Great race!
Got to be there. The repave made it an awesome race
Love the vid. Great review, Eric. Enjoy the week. Hopefully, it’s full of silly season updates!
Hate to see Justin Haley run top 15 again before his car giving out on him 😔
Busch would've made it to the line if not wrecked. He had to use what he had left to get restarted again.
For a repave race, it was an actual delight today.
Chance's are Kyle would of made it on fuel if he wasn't spun out.
All the cautions reminded me of early 1990s Sears Point races. The first 3/4 of the race was like amateur hour.
Race was better than I thought it would be.Larson misses a race and took the points lead back.
I dont you'll get this comment but KB was slow because of his tire issue not gas I belive I could be wrong but over the raido busch had tire down due to the spin.
I was listening to the prs audio doing homwork all I could hear was caution caution caution 😭
Chastain spins out Kyle Busch :
Eliott Punts Chastain on the same lap:
That’s what I call “Karma”
I feel like it’s gone under the radar that Chastain has used up Chase several times this year. Bit of payback lol
Would have been nice to see it on the broadcast
and not one camera on that action.
Eric, I might be wrong but according to Kyle’s spotter he had a flat from the contact from the no talented Ross that cause him to limp around. If he had ran out of fuel to me he wouldn’t have finished 12th because of the caution they threw for Truex running out of fuel. I don’t think he would have made it back to the start/finish line, he would have finished back around where Truex finished.
I’m glad the FOX portion of the season is done because we are going to hear the “Fox commentators are not live at the track and are in the Steve Byrnes studios in charlotte for the rest of the truck season” comments including myself
100% agree on fox. It's SOOOO casual, give me some energy.
The fact larson is the points leader while missing a race
Eric is there anyway to subscribe to the magazine in the UK?
Like that Larson ! Started that last fuel run 2 weeks behind then time warped the field..
Hi Eric, I thought Fox did an Ok job this year, One comment to make that really upsets me and it is not just Fox. What ever happened to the Banner at the top of the screen showing driver positions that ran continuously. There are times when I look for drivers I am interested in, and just the way Fox shows the top 10 pretty much all the time they flip the rest very fast or not at all. The banner I feel has always been consistent and can always find your favorites fast. As always thanks for the content
I like that the best car won and wasn't screwed out of it by a late race caution. So often the leader with 5 to go, and clearly the dominant car, gets taken out by a late race over aggressive restart. It seemed like for a while every road course was decided this way.
To each their own, to me Gibbs had beautiful day.
Ok get this I'm doing the standings using S1apsh0es points format minus the stage points, and bonus points for fastest lap, fastest pit stop. Chase was leading Denny Hamlin by 55 points heading into Sonoma but after Hamlin's engine decided to die and Chase wound up 4th the margin has grown from 55 to a whopping 230.......the max point total in a race? 215, Chase could take next week off and still be the points leader.
Fox has gone to the dogs.
Nice to see a team pay respects to the Ocean Gate Titan as we approach the anniversary of the implosion. Very respectful by JGR.
10:30 Kyle Busch results today 17th 12th 17th 12th
This is what was happening on the icebergs post race stream and it was getting really annoying as a kfb fan
Network TV, aka the executives, pencil pushers and bean counters couldn’t care less about racing, NASCAR or the fans. It all about the money. Once the checkered flag waves they can’t wait to move on to the next program. Why do you think they’ve switched to doing a front stretch interview with the winner. They want you to think it’s about connecting with racing’s roots, but in reality it lets them get off the air faster than waiting to do the interview in victor lane where it belongs.
Agreed on the snarkness of Kevin, he needs to stop that and then when Client was right twice in this race Kevin just blew thru with a kinda apology.
Noah gragson got bullied today. Got pushed off the track 3 times today.
Awesome to see Ross running up front, he was following the 5 up through the pack at the end. He gave bush plenty of opportunity to give way. Bush chose to race with a third tare team and hes getting third tare cars. Probably going to end up putting a early end to his career.
I can't watch FS1 in real-time, but here's what I do know about FOX - when you watch the extended highlights of the race, and LITERALLY NONE of the major highlight short-clips posted during the race are in the final highlights cut, and there is ZERO sense of narrative, the broadcast can't be any better. I swear that stuff has to be put together by interns.