2026 Pomona "Winternationals" (11 Viewers)

[sfw1960]

Thinking last year Courtney was mainly a top end reporter? Anyone remember if she was in the booth with Jason?

I don't think as much as this year...
Cromwell said that they are rotating people, which is a bone head move IMO.
Frey & AR are the sh!Z-n!ZZL & IMO and should have stayed kinda like that.
Most of the current peeps are kinda like a skeeter buzzin' in your ear to me!

 

[z28]

I don't think as much as this year...
Cromwell said that they are rotating people, which is a bone head move IMO.
Frey & AR are the sh!Z-n!ZZL & IMO and should have stayed kinda like that.
Most of the current peeps are kinda like a skeeter buzzin' in your ear to me!

Courney sure looks at her phone a lot during interviews. It's like the questions are being fed to her or maybe she makes notes.

 

[BigMck]

As a longtime lurker, I posted about taking two newbies with me to Saturday.

One will return, the other will not.

Great seats, Section 3.

Food selection, good. Prices, bad.

Walking the pits meant nothing to them.

Starting of Nitro cars, amazing due to the sound and crowds to enjoy.

First newbie felt sick afterwards due to medical conditions and left.

2 hour delay was boring for the remaining newbie, so beer runs help.

At the fence, I started conversations with a couple guys in our age bracket. Invited him to join. Both are Army veterans.

After the delay, a couple runs in, the Tree no longer works. Aw, beer.

He was done at 5:00 PM, so we left.

Loud music or interview banter added nothing to him sticking around. He came for activity.

Bring back motocross drivers performing stunts. Guys like him aren't going to spend money to listen to DJ wedding dance music.

To add, we are Gen Z.

 

[ironpony]

As a longtime lurker, I posted about taking two newbies with me to Saturday.

One will return, the other will not.

Great seats, Section 3.

Food selection, good. Prices, bad.

Walking the pits meant nothing to them.

Starting of Nitro cars, amazing due to the sound and crowds to enjoy.

First newbie felt sick afterwards due to medical conditions and left.

2 hour delay was boring for the remaining newbie, so beer runs help.

At the fence, I started conversations with a couple guys in our age bracket. Invited him to join. Both are Army veterans.

After the delay, a couple runs in, the Tree no longer works. Aw, beer.

He was done at 5:00 PM, so we left.

Loud music or interview banter added nothing to him sticking around. He came for activity.

Bring back motocross drivers performing stunts. Guys like him aren't going to spend money to listen to DJ wedding dance music.

To add, we are Gen Z.

Pretty much the overall experience for non diehards. Long day for the excitement part add in some downtime and getting bored is easy.

 

[GumbyWVU]

Courney sure looks at her phone a lot during interviews. It's like the questions are being fed to her or maybe she makes notes.

....a sad affliction for many people these days. You should see the kid who mows my neighbor's yard - takes him an hour to do a 25-minute job. Will mow 10-20 feet, then stop and take the phone out. Boggles my mind.

Barbara Walters and Jane Pauley would never have done that during an interview.

 

[mick]

.......Barbara Walters.......

hewo, i'm baba wawa

 

[65 Goatboy]

hewo, i'm baba wawa

But....a true professional and an icon.

 

[sfw1960]

Courtney sure looks at her phone a lot during interviews. It's like the questions are being fed to her or maybe she makes notes.

@Ken Bode

Yes, she is getting fed questions.

If you watched the Chasing Speed episodes, during Angelle's top end "thing" with Flake Alexander ~ pretty much exemplifies exactly that.

 

[yoda]

More bench racing in the stands will solve this!!

Ol' farts- its our duty to tell these newbs about what we know about the sport; history, stats, far fetched tales and all the stories we know that are more interesting than the down time will ever be (no offense, guys/gals on the mic).

 

[ZWeinstein]

....a sad affliction for many people these days. You should see the kid who mows my neighbor's yard - takes him an hour to do a 25-minute job. Will mow 10-20 feet, then stop and take the phone out. Boggles my mind.

Barbara Walters and Jane Pauley would never have done that during an interview.

In fairness she might have all her notes on her phone along with live timing pulled up so she has the ability to know exactly what they ran including incremental times. I know when I did interviews for our magazine I had all of my notes on my phone that I would add to when I thought of a question at random times during a race along with having a recorder app to get record the conversation because I have bad hearing (dont know why lol) and I might miss something a person said. Its no different than using a pen and notebook but a hell of a lot easier to carry around.

If you watch NASCAR coverage notice how a lot of the pit reporters for not only television but MRN/PRN radio will have an Ipad attached to their arm.

Honestly Im sure it helps that Courtney has grown up in the sport and has a rapport with a lot of folks but Im sure she has detailed notes and if you noticed when she took over top end interviews from Amanda Busick, the quality of questions have improved greatly and not just the same "how do you feel" or "how do you desribe" that she seemed to always asked.

 

[I was NITRO BREATH]

In fairness she might have all her notes on her phone along with live timing pulled up so she has the ability to know exactly what they ran including incremental times. I know when I did interviews for our magazine I had all of my notes on my phone that I would add to when I thought of a question at random times during a race along with having a recorder app to get record the conversation because I have bad hearing (dont know why lol) and I might miss something a person said. Its no different than using a pen and notebook but a hell of a lot easier to carry around.

If you watch NASCAR coverage notice how a lot of the pit reporters for not only television but MRN/PRN radio will have an Ipad attached to their arm.

Honestly Im sure it helps that Courtney has grown up in the sport and has a rapport with a lot of folks but Im sure she has detailed notes and if you noticed when she took over top end interviews from Amanda Busick, the quality of questions have improved greatly and not just the same "how do you feel" or "how do you desribe" that she seemed to always asked.

Agreed. Courtney is a great improvement from Amanda who asks silly'' how do you feel'' questions that lead to no new understanding of the issue. Since I've been watching nhra tv I have not missed the Tony P /Brian L commentary. Jason and Courtney are just fine