NHRA TV coverage rant!!

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MrNorm
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NHRA TV coverage rant!!

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After being fortunate enough to have the NHRA coverage return to BT Sport in 2018 after missing 2017 I’ve held my tongue all year, but……WHAT A PILE OF POO!!!! The coverage has been absolutely appalling. The one-hour show appears to have been cobbled together by a blind and deaf learning-challenged monkey! Not only has much of the racing been sacrificed for ‘racer interest’ stories but frequently they give away who won a race before they actually show it because they literally cut and shut the full programme. The finals coverage I just watched was the worst all year. Not even a one hour show, but two consecutive half-hour shows, 80% the exact same content (but not 100%), not even showing the critical Funny Car race which determined the championship but just showing the race after that where you are left to deduce the winner, and therefore champion.

I have not seen a single comment on this on the interweb – am I the only person watching this??? My 10 years olds could literally do better…… :angryfire: :angryfire:

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I haven't seen any drag racing on the tv for years, as i don't have BT, or whatever it was on before that... Setanta?
I pay for Sky for the other sports and discovery etc but cant justify adding BT as well, even tho the bastids have pinched the Ashes, Champions League and EUFA Cup from Sky... :x
But when i have seen the odd bit of drag racing coverage in recent years, usually on the 'net, it doesn't in any way do the excitement of the sport justice and i havent enjoyed it :roll:
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No real interest in modern drag racing or any other sport for that matter so no, I've never watched it.
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i usually watch drag racing on motors tv on the interweb.
i have no interest in football

but more recently iv started watching Pro Bull Riding

now theres a mans sport if iv ever seen one
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Don't watch any sport so can't comment on BT's coverage of the racing but could you imagine if they did that to a major football game?
I'm with Blue, prefer vintage Drag racing,plenty on YouTube.
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