Couch Potato Tuesday: NBC Minimizes Points Chatter in Daytona
Also, NBC excelled at covering what transpired in the Big One.
Also, NBC excelled at covering what transpired in the Big One.
NBC Sports nicely covered the multi-car crash, tire wear and the varying pit strategies.
NBC Sports didn’t have a great card handed to them in Watkins Glen. However, you have to make do with what you’ve got.
NBC Sports’ calculation of how much fuel William Byron had left in his No. 24 was off. He won the race and had enough for a burnout.
Plus, how did TNT fare in its five-race broadcasts of the Cup Series season?
With no practice or qualifying and a new tire that had apparently not been tested at Dover, you had a lot of unknowns entering Sunday.
When you have a situation where there isn’t all that much action at the front of the field, you have to hunt to find it.
The broadcast failed to immediately show what caused Cody Ware’s crash and what happened to Bubba Wallace after he was spun by Alex Bowman.
Having the continuity in the broadcast booth from Amazon Prime Video is helpful, but you also had a lot of action to cover Saturday night.
Also, the Prime Video broadcasters did an excellent job covering the brake rotor failures during the race.