2012 NASCAR in HDTV - Page 5

Point Standings After Sonoma (Infineon) 16/36

Matt Kenseth (Leader)
Greg Biffle (-11)
Dale Earnhardt Jr.(-14)
Jimmie Johnson (-25)
Tony Stewart (-63)
Kevin Harvick (-64)
Clint Bowyer (-67)
Denny Hamlin (-73)
Martin Truex Jr. (-76)
Brad Keselowski (-106)

Wild Card

Kyle Busch (-31) Behind 10th (1 Win)
Ryan Newman (-37) Behind 10th (1 Win)

Wins

Tony Stewart - 2
Denny Hamlin - 2
Brad Keselowski - 2
Jimmie Johnson - 2
Clint Bowyer - 1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. - 1
Joey Lagano - 1
Kyle Busch - 1
Greg Biffle - 1
Ryan Newman - 1
Matt Kenseth - 1

Does anyone else dislike the TNT broadcast of Nascar. A. Alexander is just horrible, over enunciating every other word with his [fake??] southern drawl. Pitching the stars and social media constantly.. I'm probably in the minority, but I liked Bill Weber much better. Mike Joy was also doing some of the same things on Fox this past year. Manny Yocum is still solid...
Kyle has gotten better, and Larry Mac is always insightful, he should be in the Booth... Picture quality, at least on Cox Cable has def. taken a step backward, fair to poor at best.... Direc Tv looks and sounds better.....

I can agree on what your talking about A Alexander, i rather hear John Roberts (Nascar Raceday) in Alexander's spot.

"Johnny" Roberts would also be better than AA.... Just don't bring "Toyota" Wallace with him, he nauseates me...

The best days of race announcing are long over. In the good old days when we had Bob Jenkins, Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons calling the races there was intelligent and humorous banter. These days the commercialism comes through loud and clear. .

TNT broadcasting is horrible. FOX does such a great job and the both the booth crew and the ground crew are so much better. The interaction, the chemistry, the technology--it all just seems to work on FOX. For better or worse, those guys at least seem *excited* about the race--maybe almost too much. But instead of just calling the action, they call it like an enthralled fan would, and it makes it personal. The TNT crew sounds like they're reading the race off a paper rather than seeing it live. Kyle Petty is salvageable but that's about it. The ESPN/ABC team is not much better (although Alan Bestwick as the main booth announcer is a good call).

Point Standings After Kentucky 17/36

Matt Kenseth (Leader)
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (-11)
Jimmie Johnson (-23)
Greg Biffle (-25)
Denny Hamlin (-68)
Kevin Harvick (-68)
Clint Bowyer (-76)
Martin Truex Jr. (-77)
Tony Stewart (-88)
Brad Keselowski (-96)

Wild Card

Kyle Busch (-42) Behind 10th (1 Win)
Kasey Kahne (-74) Behind 10th (1 Win)

Wins

Brad Keselowski - 3
Tony Stewart - 2
Denny Hamlin - 2
Jimmie Johnson - 2
Clint Bowyer - 1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. - 1
Joey Lagano - 1
Kyle Busch - 1
Greg Biffle - 1
Ryan Newman - 1
Matt Kenseth - 1

I'll have points up sometime tomorrow, did anyone see this?

I watched the race and don't even have to read that article to be in complete agreement with it. You even had the announcers kissing the sponsors butts the whole race, 1/4 of my screen was ads, a little monitor would pop up to show commercials, and then they'd leave the race for more commercials. I'm about done with NASCAR and this rediculousness.

Are you listening Rick Hendrick, Richard Childress, Jack Rousch? You're losing your dedicated fans!

Please tell me the Daytona race was the last one on TNT this year.

Here's another good article on the same site:

http://www.sbnation.com/nascar/2012/7/6/3140859/nascar-bruton-smith-caution-flag-reaction-2012

Personally, between all the commercials and phony debris flags to "improve the competition" and with most of the position changes happening in the pit stalls instead of on the track, I'd prefer them to take the "Sprint Cup" name literally and go back to a true "sprint" heat racing format like Supercross is now and like NASCAR used to be in the 50's. That way they could run heats of about 10 cars and about 30 laps long without any interruptions then do a crapload of commercials between the heats.

At least that way NASCAR would be an actual car race again instead of a Pit Crew Competition masquerading as a car race.

Last race for TNT is Loudon then ESPN/ABC take over after.

Point Standings After Daytona 18/36

Matt Kenseth (Leader)
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (-25)
Greg Biffle (-44)
Jimmie Johnson (-58)
Tony Stewart (-84)
Kevin Harvick (-90)
Denny Hamlin (-91)
Martin Truex Jr. (-92)
Brad Keselowski (-101)
Clint Bowyer (-104)


Wins

Brad Keselowski - 3
Tony Stewart - 3
Denny Hamlin - 2
Jimmie Johnson - 2
Clint Bowyer - 1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. - 1
Joey Lagano - 1
Kyle Busch - 1
Greg Biffle - 1
Ryan Newman - 1
Matt Kenseth - 1

Thanks for taking the time and effort to post up race results Gt1racer.

Think I'll skip the Loudon race.

Point Standings After Loudon 19/36

Matt Kenseth (Leader)
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (-16)
Greg Biffle (-40)
Jimmie Johnson (-51)
Denny Hamlin (-79)
Kevin Harvick (-85)
Tony Stewart (-89)
Martin Truex Jr. (-90)
Clint Bowyer (-93)
Brad Keselowski (-94)

Wild Card

1. Kasey Kahne (-66) behind 10th with 2 wins
2. Kyle Busch (-68) behind 10th with 1 win


Wins

Brad Keselowski - 3
Tony Stewart - 3
Kasey Kahne - 2
Denny Hamlin - 2
Jimmie Johnson - 2
Clint Bowyer - 1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. - 1
Joey Lagano - 1
Kyle Busch - 1
Greg Biffle - 1
Ryan Newman - 1
Matt Kenseth - 1

Point Standings After Indianapolis 20/36

1. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Leader)
2. Matt Kenseth (-14)
3. Greg Biffle (-22)
4. Jimmie Johnson (-27)
5. Denny Hamlin (-64)
6. Kevin Harvick (-78)
7. Martin Truex Jr. (-78)
8. Tony Stewart (-79)
9. Brad Keselowski (-82)
10. Clint Bowyer (-88)


Wild Card

11. Kyle Busch (-55) behind 10th with 1 win
12. Kasey Kahne (-64) behind 10th with 2 wins

Wins

Jimmie Johnson - 3
Brad Keselowski - 3
Tony Stewart - 3
Kasey Kahne - 2
Denny Hamlin - 2
Clint Bowyer - 1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. - 1
Joey Lagano - 1
Kyle Busch - 1
Greg Biffle - 1
Ryan Newman - 1
Matt Kenseth - 1

Me likey.

Raul Malo should sing The National Anthem at every sporting event. He was great at the Brickyard 400!!

I agree. I really loved that trio. Why didn't ESPN bring back Jenkins?

Jenkins works on the indy car series and has since espn lost nascar the first time. Also I believe he was planning to take some time off because his wife is very ill.

I think espn's coverage was very good this weekend even if the racing was not

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IIRC, the IRL was broadcast by ABC/ESPN. I think they decided to go with the much inferior Paul Page.

No the majority of irl is now on nbc sports network which is where jenkins has been for several years

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Really sad to hear about the folks getting hit by lightning in the parking lot at Pocono yesterday. Been to races where rain like that comes and it's scary just standing under the metal grandstand waiting for it to end.

Good to see Jeffy luck into a win though, he's had nothing but bad luck this year. Very surprised to see JJ take people out too, he's usually better than that.

Standings after Pocono 21/36

1. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Leader)
2. Matt Kenseth (-5)
3. Greg Biffle (-6)
Jimmie Johnson (-8)
Martin Truex Jr. (-50)
Tony Stewart (-53)
Brad Keselowski (-54)
Denny Hamlin (-61)
Kevin Harvick (-63)
Clint Bowyer (-65)

Wild Card

11. Kasey Kahne 2 wins
12. Jeff Gordon 1 win

Wins

Jimmie Johnson - 3
Brad Keselowski - 3
Tony Stewart - 3
Kasey Kahne - 2
Denny Hamlin - 2
Jeff Gordon - 1
Clint Bowyer - 1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. - 1
Joey Lagano - 1
Kyle Busch - 1
Greg Biffle - 1
Ryan Newman - 1
Matt Kenseth - 1

Standings after Watkins Glen 22/36

1. Jimmie Johnson (777)
2. Greg Biffle (-1)
3. Matt Kenseth (-2)
4. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (-17)
5. Brad Keselowski (-44)
6. Martin Truex Jr.(-49)
7. Clint Bowyer (-58)
8. Tony Stewart (-61)
9. Kevin Harvick (-67)
10. Denny Hamlin (-84)

Wild Card

11. Kasey Kahne 2 wins
12. Ryan Newman 1 win

Wins

Jimmie Johnson - 3
Brad Keselowski - 3
Tony Stewart - 3
Kasey Kahne - 2
Denny Hamlin - 2
Marcos Ambrose - 1
Jeff Gordon - 1
Clint Bowyer - 1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. - 1
Joey Lagano - 1
Kyle Busch - 1
Greg Biffle - 1
Ryan Newman - 1
Matt Kenseth - 1

Man! What a wild finish! You have to love Brad for not assigning any blame to Marcos, just "Whoowee! That's racin'!" That was about the most exciting last lap of a road race I have ever seen.

Noticed from the silence coming from Kyle that he probably didn't care for the result. I don't care that he didn't like it though, that was a fun last lap to watch, probably the best of the year.

Quite a few drivers complained that there was an oil-down which caused Dale jr, Gordon, Busch to spin. I forget who said it, but the oil may have come from Kyle's car. No doubt a wild finish though.

I believe it was Labonte's car.


Being a road racing fan, I think the two Nascar road races are usually the two most must see auto races of the year.

Standings after Michigan 23/36

1. Greg Biffle (823)
2. Matt Kenseth (-20)
3. Dale Earnhardt Jr (-22)
4. Jimmie Johnson (-28)
5. Brad Keselowski (-47)
6. Martin Truex Jr.(-60)
7. Clint Bowyer (-66)
8. Kevin Harvick (-85)
9. Tony Stewart (-95)
10. Denny Hamlin (-96)

Wild Card

11. Kasey Kahne 2 wins
12. Ryan Newman 1 win

Wins

Jimmie Johnson - 3
Brad Keselowski - 3
Tony Stewart - 3
Greg Biffle - 2
Kasey Kahne - 2
Denny Hamlin - 2
Marcos Ambrose - 1
Jeff Gordon - 1
Clint Bowyer - 1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. - 1
Joey Lagano - 1
Kyle Busch - 1
Ryan Newman - 1
Matt Kenseth - 1
Edited by Gt1racer - 8/19/12 at 3:14pm

^^^

that was ONE SCARY crash the 55 had today... not just the actual impaction, but those crashes where the car comes to an absolute stop when it hits the wall like that are rarely good...

the guardrail going through kubica's rally car came to mind... mark is one lucky boy right now... 6 inches farther forward, and today may have been a very bad day...