Must Be Said

[rant]Why must the graphics be so annoying? It takes up almost 1/4 of the screen! I mean when Fox brought out the ticker in 2001, the appeal was that it was away from the action so it wouldn't obstruct the view. The 24 hour news channels aren't this annoying! I think I'd rather have a series of commercials than to just watch all these yellow laps. At least then you know when to go to the bathroom.[/rant]

Hehe, I agree, I wanted to throw something in the oven to eat, and I never knew when to get up.

I liked the format. I wish they'd all switch.

I loved the format, outside of Weber every 5 minutes saying this portion of the race is sponsored by ....

I don't know why they needed that giant NASCAR logo on the screen the whole race. And whenever they tried to show two camera views one of them would be half cut off by the edge of the screen. At least ESPN sizes it to fit in a 4:3 window, but unless you're in that bottom 10% that thinks an HDTV is worth something in 5 years, you are SOL.

I wish NASCAR would just manage their own broadcast feed like F1 does.

I hate the F1 feed. The worst part is that the broadcasters have no control. The commentators will be talking about what is occurring on screen, and some bizarre replay will come on. Then they will discuss the replay and not finish before some other video is displayed, cutting them off...

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Originally Posted by call_me_andrew

I don't know why they needed that giant NASCAR logo on the screen the whole race. And whenever they tried to show two camera views one of them would be half cut off by the edge of the screen. At least ESPN sizes it to fit in a 4:3 window, but unless you're in that bottom 10% that thinks an HDTV is worth something in 5 years, you are SOL.

I wish NASCAR would just manage their own broadcast feed like F1 does.

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I really hate how F1 manages their own broadcast feed. You lose a whole lot of the race by having the governing body controlling the video.

Yes, but atleast their graphics are small and tidy.

I hate the 3 letter naming convention (MSC, ALO, etc). Can you imagine that in NASCAR.
1 MCM 2 KYB 3 KUB 4 EDW 5 GOR 6 BIF 7 BOW 8 KEN 9 KAH 10 JOH

Terrible!

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Originally Posted by blakebeatty

I hate the 3 letter naming convention (MSC, ALO, etc). Can you imagine that in NASCAR.
1 MCM 2 KYB 3 KUB 4 EDW 5 GOR 6 BIF 7 BOW 8 KEN 9 KAH 10 JOH

Terrible!

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Actually, in the late 90's ESPN would just put up the car number next to the position, and this was only done for the top 10. Sometimes the name would be shown, but not always. They would show part of the field for qualifying sessions. I can't find any NASCAR videos showing this, but here's CART qualifying using it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8GTL0_rMA