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Originally Posted by rboyle
I thought the bigger issues I had were poor camera angles, amateurish driver interviews, bad editing. As a fan of most motorsport shows I find Nascar has some of the best camera angles. They have cameras in the track, in the wall and it brings you right there. Drag racing can take a page from this coverage. There is NOTHING like the sound, feel and sight of a Nitro car during thr burnout and launch. Yet they almost never showed the burnout. They can have the starters view of the starting line in track at the 330 and guard wall finish line angle. The driver comments before the match weren't very interesting or entrrtaining. TV is all about entertainment and Fox/NHRA are missing entertainment vaule
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I agree, and those are some of the areas where I thought ESPN did very well. But now they don't have time for burnouts in the first two rounds anyway, as they have to squeeze it in to little more than an hour.
As far as editing I thought the worst part was going from showing a car crossing the finish line and cutting instantly to the top end interview. May as well have a neon sign announcing that it's not live. ESPN at least sequenced things so it had a more natural flow.
Honestly, to me it seems like just about everything that has changed is worse. Hate to be a grumpy old man, but that's what it is.