Bill
Nitro Member
>>>>>"SPEED TV will televise four hours of the fourth annual Whelen Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge from Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid, N.Y., beginning at noon, Jan. 18, and at 2 p.m., Jan. 25. Catch Jeg Coughlin Jr.'s dominating opening day, Morgan Lucas' win in the NASCAR versus NHRA portion of the program, J.R. Todd's race day surge, and Bob Vandergriff Jr.'s painful-looking wreck that had the Top Fuel veteran sliding more than half a mile down the course on his head."
You know something is terribly wrong when they televise FOUR HOURS of bobsled racing on National TV and we can't get four hours of Comp/Super Stock/Stock Eliminator drag racing on TV in four freakin' years!
The powers that be have apparently decided that Alcohol Funny Car racing and TAD or A/F cars are "SPORTSMAN Drag Racing," and any other Sportsman racing simply isn't worth showing. Oh, they will put one run (the final round) of Stock, or Super Stock in as a token, but the dragsters and funnies get almost all the air-play.
Most people who have only seen drag racing on television are blithely unaware that they have only seen the tip of the iceberg, because about 90-percent of the cars at a National event never get any air-time at all.
I am not contending that the other 90-percent of the cars should get 90-percent of the air-time, but the way they've been doing it for many years is to provide the public with a grotesquely distorted picture of what drag racing, that the paying spectator sees, really IS.
This absurd bobsled thing is a case in point, relative to the bottom-feeder status that Sportsman racing (except for the alcohol cars) "enjoys."
They would rather show a ten minute filler about how much oatmeal John Force had for breakfast, than show the Super Stock A Hemi runoffs, or a "wheelstand spectacular," featuring some of Super Stock's hi-flyers!
What do bobsleds have to do with drag racing, anyway? If it's for chairity, that's great, but why does coverage of it have to come at the expense of a realistic portrayal of the real racing experience (which could include something besides dragsters and funny cars?)
It's a sad commentary on the distorted perception of what drag racing actually IS, by the folks "in charge."
Excuse the rant; soapbox mode now is "OFF."
You know something is terribly wrong when they televise FOUR HOURS of bobsled racing on National TV and we can't get four hours of Comp/Super Stock/Stock Eliminator drag racing on TV in four freakin' years!
The powers that be have apparently decided that Alcohol Funny Car racing and TAD or A/F cars are "SPORTSMAN Drag Racing," and any other Sportsman racing simply isn't worth showing. Oh, they will put one run (the final round) of Stock, or Super Stock in as a token, but the dragsters and funnies get almost all the air-play.
Most people who have only seen drag racing on television are blithely unaware that they have only seen the tip of the iceberg, because about 90-percent of the cars at a National event never get any air-time at all.
I am not contending that the other 90-percent of the cars should get 90-percent of the air-time, but the way they've been doing it for many years is to provide the public with a grotesquely distorted picture of what drag racing, that the paying spectator sees, really IS.
This absurd bobsled thing is a case in point, relative to the bottom-feeder status that Sportsman racing (except for the alcohol cars) "enjoys."
They would rather show a ten minute filler about how much oatmeal John Force had for breakfast, than show the Super Stock A Hemi runoffs, or a "wheelstand spectacular," featuring some of Super Stock's hi-flyers!
What do bobsleds have to do with drag racing, anyway? If it's for chairity, that's great, but why does coverage of it have to come at the expense of a realistic portrayal of the real racing experience (which could include something besides dragsters and funny cars?)
It's a sad commentary on the distorted perception of what drag racing actually IS, by the folks "in charge."
Excuse the rant; soapbox mode now is "OFF."
