Snowball Derby! Where's our Gov Cup Winner?

[JC26]

Even though I've liked the ability to watch the modified race, Speed51 has been nothing short of a joke...For $15 pay-per-view fee, I would have expected more. It took me almost 2 hours to log on to be able to watch and missed all over the Derby qualifying and 15 times or so shut the feed off and made me refresh it. The picture from the cameras was horrible, not to mention their cameramen were all over the place and during actual racing were cutting from action to people in the pits. And their in race reporters and announcers were horrible. They had no clue what was going on, didn't know who was who, drivers names and the girl that they had on pit road, Mikalah or whatever was as oblivious to racing as I am to building a space shuttle.

[Lurkin]

Great job to Brandon, he was all over Patrick but I never saw any contact. Damn that was a good race. Classy interview Patrick, lapper gotchya :-/

[RSB]

Even though I've liked the ability to watch the modified race, Speed51 has been nothing short of a joke...For $15 pay-per-view fee, I would have expected more. It took me almost 2 hours to log on to be able to watch and missed all over the Derby qualifying and 15 times or so shut the feed off and made me refresh it. The picture from the cameras was horrible, not to mention their cameramen were all over the place and during actual racing were cutting from action to people in the pits. And their in race reporters and announcers were horrible. They had no clue what was going on, didn't know who was who, drivers names and the girl that they had on pit road, Mikalah or whatever was as oblivious to racing as I am to building a space shuttle.

I agree! Maybe it's my old Dell laptop but I ran a HDMI cable to the TV and never did get "synced" worth a crap! Like I said in a thread I started, I had to turn the volume OFF. Those bunch of knuckleheads! HAHA! I especially liked when the guy said that "these modifieds can be raced on asphalt or dirt". What a dummy.

[bubba]

I havent had any troubles getting in or anything, so keeping my fingers crossed. What annoyed me more than the announcers were the red flags and crazy caution periods that race took forever. 5 flags needs to step up the clean up!

The track announcers from the first night were more knowledgeable.

Todays racing during daylight should look better as will the snowball.

[jbonez21]

I didn't have any issues watching except for every 30 minutes it would stop and I would need to stop and restart the broadcast. The announcer from Fox sports calling the super late models was good but the others not so much, but there were long caution and red flag conditions so what are they supposed to talk about? The girl on pit road is atrocious

The quality is acceptable though, we have to remember this is not a major network with high tech equipment and they are unwilling to cover events like these. Have to appreciate what speed51 is doing and support them through all of the growing pains so that we can have more events like the Snowball derby broadcasted live!

[Lurkin]

I've watched 4 or 5 of the Xsan.tv events and except for the fact that they're not in High Def they were great. The announcers were very very knowledgeable and the fact that they only had one or two cameras actually made it refreshing to me, kind of like sitting there yourself. I haven't watched a speed51 stream but I look at it like you said, this is a new thing that has popped up in just the last two years so it's like the wild wild west of TV. It'll get better and better.

[RSB]

Yep, better than nothing for sure. Keep thinking I'm just gonna hop in the car and haul ass up there..

[Lurkin]

You should look what you're missing.

Pro-Truck Practice Times Presented by RaceCar Engineering

1 47W Jamie Weimer 18.880
2 40 Brian Weimer 18.903
3 36B Rodney Benefield 18.949
4 56 Darryl Rudd 18.966
5 15 Colt James 18.978
6 2H Cody Haskins 19.002
7 26 Ray Hoey 19.028
8 96 Rick Pollaro 19.044
9 38 Steve Stagner 19.053
10 6 Okie Mason 19.072
11 64 David Jones 19.105
12 33 Jay Jay Day 19.111
13 12W Eric Wallace 19.125
14 72 Darrell Leachman 19.156
15 18 Jesse Salazar 19.217
16 16T Mason Teague 19.278
17 5 Donald Crocker 19.310
18 39 Mark Chrudimsky 19.325
19 12S Justin Steiner 19.363
20 9J Kody Jett 19.393
21 1 Howard Langham 19.433
22 8 Chris Davidson 19.435
23 50 Billy Melvin 19.445
24 13 James Lynch 19.465
25 5 Ronnie Wehunt 19.493
26 13 David Webster 19.504
27 16 Jessie Reid 19.504
28 52 Eric Courville 19.555
29 28 Shawn Paul Lehman 19.741
30 R7 Ryan Worsham 19.741
31 23 Joe Pike 19.764
32 99 Taras Hodivsky, Jr. 16.799
33 J7 Jeremy Tassin 19.821
34 76 Benny Bender 20.030
35 4 Chad Rogers 20.356

[Lurkin]

Snowball and Snowflake last chance races and Trucks after Snowflake Q. I'm going to grab a little power nap and head out.

I'm a single dad and have one daughter left at home or I'd be more open to letting some of you guys stay here at the compound.

[ScottPrentice]

I'm a single dad and have one daughter left at home or I'd be more open to letting some of you guys stay here at the compound.

that literally made me laugh out loud- post of the year right there!

[Lurkin]

I didn't mean it to be funny, but I re-read it and I can see where it would be.

I'm just very protective of my daughters.

[8modified]

Thanks for letting me know, I'll use the same setup. Too bad to hear they aren't broadcasting in HD, I wonder if it's because they don't have HD cameras or if it's a bandwidth issue.

Modifieds just finished their practice and DJ Hoezle was running 7th fastest out of 34 mods. I may pay $20 and tune in tonight!

DJ qualified 8th and finished 7th with no sway bar for 2/3 of the race. He finished on the lead straightaway with the leader after having to start in the rear with 32 laps to run. Grimm was 5th at the finish but is shown 6th on the final results.

[Lurkin]

Glad I stuck around for the Snowflake 100, Pollard won after a long green flag run. Augie looked to be the guy to beat, then Nemechek, then pollard took over and held it to the end as Nemechek pressured him the rest of the way through heavy lapped traffic.

[RSB]

I wasted my money. Fell asleep at 1am and slept through all of it! HAHA!

[backrow]

I havent had any troubles getting in or anything, so keeping my fingers crossed. What annoyed me more than the announcers were the red flags and crazy caution periods that race took forever. 5 flags needs to step up the clean up!

The track announcers from the first night were more knowledgeable.

Todays racing during daylight should look better as will the snowball.

Agreed on the cautions and red flags.....OMG. Slowest bunch I've ever seen.