Despite all the technological advancements in NASCAR, looking at it from a fans’ perspective, there’s one key area that the organization has missed out on quite often. While the organization is moving in the right direction, amassing more fans and giving racing on a global platform, its terrible TV broadcasts are still a pain for fans to bear. Both Fox and NBC have arguably failed to meet the fandom’s imagination, with stunts like cutting right to commercials in the middle of a vicious wreck.

Looking at such aspects, the community took on the offensive, blasting the broadcasting partners with NASCAR Pinty’s Series reference.

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First and foremost, both these broadcasters have been long-time partners of NASCAR. Though the fans loved them over the years, both the platforms have probably strayed away from racing, focusing more on revenue generation, cutting to commercials, and that too quite often. The contractual obligation to key in commercials is perfectly understandable, but it is never justified when you annoy fans with an awful lot of advertisements.

For instance, the hype surrounding the Daytona 500, which is often touted as the “Great American Race” reached a peak in 2023. Consequently, the entire racing fanbase was all in for the speedway action but to their dismay, Fox Sports who was the broadcaster of the race, did them dirty, irritating the viewers by airing multiple ads within just 5 laps going into the race, prompting fans to deem Daytona 500 as “Commercial 500.”

The scene was pretty much the same for other races as well. Though Fox’s commentators, including veteran Mike Joy, chime in before cutting to commercials, the sheer number of ADs has got the fans livid. Adding fuel to the fire is the production team’s bland and dull camera angles, which sometimes gives the fans the impression of a highway chase rather than a high-stakes, high-octane, bumper-to-bumper race.

Coming to the meat of the matter, recently an old race clip from Canada’s Pinty’s series resurfaced, prompting fans to blast Fox and NBC. In the short clip, a perfectly mounted camera on the driver’s side shows the action unfolding as Kevin Lacroix got the door from Alex Labbe back in 2017.

After an enthusiast pinned the clip on Reddit, the whole community started buzzing with fans from around the world chiming in with their takes, discrediting the broadcast partners and urging them to make amends.

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“Nothing but drone footage” – Fans Blast NASCAR’s broadcasting partners

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Now, regulars can relate to this fan comment. The production team manages to catch only a few drone footages which sometimes come out so off that the viewer at home just cannot get a feel of the exhilarating action. Reviewing the TSN coverage from NASCAR Pinty’s Series back in 2017, fans demanded a similar approach from the broadcasters.

“Maybe Fox could have this year if they didn’t spend most of their budget on that 75th anniversary thing during the Coke 600” and “FOX and NBC don’t have the money for it obviously,” noted two fans, making a mockery out of the presenters. Mentioning the overuse of drone footage, a fan brutally bashed the team, saying, “Just wait until the 2025 TV package takes effect. Nothing but drone footage.” While another fan mentioned the over-dependence on roof-mounted motor-driven cameras, “Then they added the motors again.”

But the comment that caught the eyes of everyone was the detailed, vivid description noted down by a fan about how effective the door-mounted side-view was. He wrote, “It is crazy how with good camera angles and field of view you feel the speed of the cars better. In that clip when 32 exits the final turn and pressed on the gas, you can feel the torque and the acceleration. You don’t feel that on NBC/FOX even at tracks where they go way faster.”

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With all these shortcomings, the fans are pretty much stoked to see how the new media rights deal turns out, especially since NASCAR has divided the responsibility to two new partners, namely, Amazon and TNT Sports.