You Say You Dislike NASCAR TV Coverage?
To many commercial breaks fer ya bucko? Too many graphic insets during the live race coverage?
Stop yer complainin’ mate, it could be worse, much worse.
For instance, you could be an Australian V8 Supercar fan tuned into last weekends event at Pukekohe Park Raceway.
You were happy as a clam marinated in Waikato Draught and dipped in Vegemite as Holden Commodore ace Garth Tander won race one and your smile broadened further as Tander took the second race as well. It was his fifth win in secession after winning all three races in Perth last month.<div style=”clear:both;”
And then there was race three, the last of the weekend. Scheduled for 43 laps it was.
A schedule made months before Paul Morris rolled his Commodore on lap five and then Dean Canto hit the wall on lap 27. The extensive clean-up took place while the old tick-tock was ticking.
Garth Tander had an insufferably long pitstop early and on or about lap 35 he languished in eighth place. And the old tick-tock was still ticking. Ticking ever closer to 3.45pm (AEST).
Little did Tander know and presumably the rest of the field, the Sword of Damocles was about to cut short his winning streak and chances for overall event win. If it would have been an American TV broadcast an announcer would have intoned, “and now we return to our regularly scheduled programming.”
What did happen was the race was held under a pace car until one minute from time 3.45pm (AEST), leaving the drivers with one final lap (36) to tussle for positions.
That screwed Tander’s pooch, he couldn’t gain the one position and points needed for the event win and his streak of 5 wins was over.
The regular scheduled programing if you must know, and I know you do, was local Channel 7
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