NASCAR on NASN-Sky-FOX etc.

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Originally Posted by acorn

from the setanta website:

"February sees the start of America's high speed, high octance racing series, NASCAR, which is broadcast exclusively on NASN and is a must for all serious speed freaks! The coverage begins on the 16th of February with Race 1 from Camping World 300 – Daytona Int’l Speedway"

"Every race of the NASCAR Nextel Cup and the NASCAR Nationwide Series."

so nascar is broadcast exclusively on nasn is it? i think someone needs to tell sky then. and isn't the camping world 300 in the nationwide series not the sprint cup? what other bs will setanta dish out?

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Well lucky the NASN website is correct then.

I have cancelled NASN and added Sky Sports . After last years fiasco with NASN over Daytona and Martinsville I am gald that NASN haven't got Cup. I phoned NASN after Martinsville was cut off and was told it was NASCARs fault for having the rain delay and moving the finish.

Just called Setanta to cancel and have been offered the next 3 months at £5 a month, instead of the £15 I have been paying. Wasted an off season during which I never watched Setanta once. Will see how much Busch/Nationwide whatever I will watch and decide on canceling in a couple of months. Dreading having to put up with either that blonde woman that does A1 or the bloke that does IRL at every add break....give me pure un edited incar anyday.

OK, let me just recap here and see if i have understood things correctly:

all sprint cup races will be shown live or as-live on sky sports, possibly without the pre-race shows.

all nationwide races and NASCAR now will be shown live or as-live on NASN or NASN 2

i do have a few questions, though:

1. will NASN or NASN 2 also show reruns (as-live) of the sprint cup series? cuz if they do keep the pre race show, i'd rather watch the races on tape delay, actually.

2. are Five going to show any NASCAR at all and, if so, what exactly?

3. does anybody know if five are going to show the NHRA Drag Racing shows again?

thanks!

From what I can see and having just cancelled my subscription to Setanta/NASN, they are only showing the NASCAR Now magazine show plus live coverage of the Nationwide Series. No Cup coverage is going to shown at all as Sky now have the contract to show it.

I'm REALLY hoping Sky can offer good coverage and not use their own presenters too often. These races require full US build-up coverage and I just hope that the powers that be see that and give us fans what we want.

It would be awesome if Sky decided to show some NASCAR on one of their HD channels, though

I'm just glad i'm going to £15 better off without my Setanta supscription..

why not support Nationwide/Busch too?

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Originally Posted by scotchman

From what I can see and having just cancelled my subscription to Setanta/NASN, they are only showing the NASCAR Now magazine show plus live coverage of the Nationwide Series. No Cup coverage is going to shown at all as Sky now have the contract to show it.

I'm REALLY hoping Sky can offer good coverage and not use their own presenters too often. These races require full US build-up coverage and I just hope that the powers that be see that and give us fans what we want.

It would be awesome if Sky decided to show some NASCAR on one of their HD channels, though

I'm just glad i'm going to £15 better off without my Setanta supscription..

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Sky have apparently been promoting NASCAR alot (I've seen one excellent trailer for it)- they're coverage of IRL has been excellent (those races I've watched)- my only concern is the huge number of ad breaks each NASCAR race has- are we gonna have ad breaks every 5 minutes as well?? I'm not so bothered about the pre-race shows, they tended to drag a bit with all the ad-breaks

with the wonderful news that OW could be unified in time for 2008 season Sky will have sown up US motorsport

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Originally Posted by colinspooky

why not support Nationwide/Busch too?

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Well all true NASCAR fans will, I presume. I certainly will.

Really weird - NASCAR refers to the Sprint and Nationwide, yet some forget that. If you are a NASCAR fan then NASN has the magazine shows (and the Project) and Nationwide, so why cancel?

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Originally Posted by scotchman

It would be awesome if Sky decided to show some NASCAR on one of their HD channels, though

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Well there is an HD feed to Europe so there are no excuses for Sky not showing NASCAR Sprint in HD.

ring setanic sports tell em you want to cancel coz you only watch nascar, they will then offer you the 9.99 deal, tell them no not intrested they will then offer you 3 months for £5 a month, see if they are any good with coverage then cancel if no good.