NASCAR MEXICO CARLOS PARDO FATAL CRASH PUEBLA - 6/14/09
NASCAR MEXICO driver Carlos Pardo was leading the race on the 97th lap when his car was nudged by a competitor from behind and slid sideways into ...
Fox Starts Advertising Wrecks, Dissing the Hard Core Fan
Series races. I just waited out the rain delay and we got see some pretty decent racing on Monday.
But the thing that caught my eye this weekend was the amount of race accident replays that Fox was airing.
On Sunday I tuned in and started to notice why some of my peers diss on NASCAR . With cowboy hats, broken English and an emotionally based reporter, some things seemed more clear today than most.
I tuned away to watch the Detroit / Phoenix hockey game, which didn’t help the mood as Phoenix scored in the first 20 seconds. A precursor of the game to come. When I tuned back into the Fox NASCAR broadcast, I was assailed with wreck after wreck after wreck from past races. I missed the opening line (excuse) as to why they were shoving this “noise” in my face and realized that the hard-core race fan does not matter to television. Ratings do. Now that makes perfect business sense. Yet I felt slighted that Fox broke down my sport to a collection of wrecks.
For a seasoned fan, I wasn’t very entertained. A wreck killed my favorite driver, and to glorify the deed wore me down.
But they weren’t done.
I got to tune into the Monday telecast of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway with about 100 laps to go and to advertise for next week’s Talladega Superspeedway race, you’ll never guess what they used to pitch it? Yep. More wrecks. They showed some black and white footage of an older wreck as the car got into the catch-fence and then with that as their lead-in, it gave them ample opportunity (excuse) to show Carl Edwards’ wreck where a fan got a broken jaw from the devastation. That didn’t seem to matter.
If I were a race fan, and was trying to decide if I wanted to watch NASCAR or not, I would be gone. Instead, I’m the hard-core NASCAR fan that gets besieged by guerrilla advertising that Fox is employing, hoping to generate more ratings, now that ratings are getting a little flat.
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NASCAR Mexico driver Carlos Pardo was killed in a crash during the final laps of a race on Sunday. ... The NASCAR Mexico Web site reported that he died 45 minutes later. ...
NASCAR Mexico driver killed in crashMEXICO CITY — Driver Carlos Pardo has been killed in a crash during the final laps of a NASCAR Mexico race, organizers said.
MEXICO CITY - Driver Carlos Pardo has been killed in a crash during the final laps of a NASCAR Mexico race,
Driver Carlos Pardo has been killed in a crash during the final laps of a NASCAR Mexico race, organizers said.
Who was the driver that was killed in the NASCAR event crash in Mexico? ... Driver Carlos Pardo has been killed in a crash during the final laps ...