Also don't think anyone has mentioned the 500 on Sunday is also in HD on SKY!
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Also don't think anyone has mentioned the 500 on Sunday is also in HD on SKY!
looks like on the sky forum people are not very pleased with skys coverage of Nascar, would be good to get some response from a sports editior at sky , all might help .
i just hope the producers listen to us fans on all this. if not i may just cancel sky sports and make do with torrents. i've done that for the past few years because i couldn't afford it, and i will do it again.
Aw crap. We pay all that money for Sky Sports and I didn't even realise that's where it had gone... All I knew was that it had disappeared from NASN...
Roll on 17th!
for those who missed pre race Busch vs Stuart interviews after alledged punch up.Waltrip and Hammond crack me up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl1jdbSdgjc :D
Thats what we are talking about , passion ,personality clashes ,previous history educating people who are new to the sport , and presenters who make it fun.
Now that we all know SKY will be showing NASCAR Sprint races upto the end of 2009. Shall we begin a new thread dedicated just to NASCAR on SKY.
The old thread titled 'NASCAR coverage in England' was really great, but we need to concentrate on getting SKY upto speed on how we want them to broadcast the races.
We all want the pre-race show back, less UK studio time, and more of the US extras, such as the cut away car and pit row reports.
We can get SKY to do it the way we used to have it on NASN a few years back.
Couldnt agree more with this. Without this input how are people ment to understand the intricacies of NASCAR.Quote:
We all want the pre-race show back, less UK studio time, and more of the US extras, such as the cut away car and pit row reports.
I hope you over the other side of the Atlantic can get it that way. You might contact Sky where you're located and also to both Fox Sports and NASCAR in Daytona to show your concerns.
Pit lane reporting is crucial. There are some times I watch an F1 race here in the States and without pit notes, you cannot have crucial information. Does ITV (I have heard of them, of course, they gave us Idols and Millionaire, two popular shows in the States, Millionaire now is a 5-day a week strip) have pit road reports in F1 races?
Of course now having ex-mechanics working races is one of the best things I've seen in motorsport. ESPN Classic showed some old Daytona 500 races and it's clearly different how it was with Bill Flemming and Jackie Stewart, Ken Squier and David Hobbs in the 1970's, the 1990's when we saw the rise of Ned Jarrett who moved from pit lane to being the lead analyst, and the legendary 1998 "500" when Mike Joy, Buddy Baker, and Ned Jarrett, and even to the modern three-man commentary box of lead, driver, and mechanic. (Joy, McReynolds, D. Waltrip and also Punch, D. Jarrett, Petree are the examples in NASCAR)
Three-man booths are a trend US television developed since NFL coverage in 1970.
Could not believe how bad the two bozos were on Sky the other night! Could not even get the drivers names right. I have already sent Sky a email telling them so, and how we need the Fox pre-race show back.
It is now down to every UK NASCAR fan to write emails to Sky and DEMAND better coverage. :confused:
yes they do although f1 teams aren't as free with their information(or is that mis information) as nascar teams appear to be. that situation has changed slightly in that they have been getting pit wall access and garage access to a specific(but different) team each week. the nascar studio team live and breathe nascar and so can give a better view of what's going on compared to sky's studio which often(but not always) comprises those in motorsport but not necessarily the category they are presenting.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobbyC