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Originally Posted by 911pcars
Can I contribute some criticism at Indy car race announcements?
Except for qualifying, why won't they show lap times like any other car race? Instead, they show us time differential between two cars. It's okay to show relative speed between adjacent cars, but that's only a small picture, and gives me little information as to overall lap times, the relative speed between all cars. Thus, we have no idea of who's faster unless the announcer says something (which they manage to do on occasion). I think they do that to avoid embarrassing the end part of the field.
And why all the attention paid to Jimmy Johnson who, while he has an abundance of commercial air time selling stuff, also spends a lot of time arears, being past or immobile on the side of the track. Indy must have an abundance of NASCAR fans.
I may be in the minority, but I kinda like Brundle's F1 commentary. He's very good describing what goes on technically as well as from a driver's POV. The rest of Sky's announcers are good too, good enough w/o diving into geekdom. Their brogue accents don't both me too much.
The woman announcer they have for practice days is good. She sounds knowledgeable and asks the right questions. She could replace Diffy at Indy races. However, Diffy is a versatile announcer despite an annoying (to me) tone. He does his homework on track and field programs (knows the names and bg info). Maybe he has a good production staff feeding info to him.
MHO,
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Indycar is trying to bring in NASCAR fans with Johnson’s notoriety. I agree it is excessive and tiresome. Carvana brings in the bucks. Jimmy is not having an easy time of it. I wonder what the other drivers think. He may be a benefit to the series but a liability in the races.
Agreed too that Indycar can up its broadcast timing game. IMSA is worse though.