Comments on: Team Radio Traffic Should Be Beyond Reproach

By: CaptainGroovy

CaptainGroovy — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:13:35 +0000

NASCAR is the only motorsport that allows unrestricted access to team radio communications so if the cuss, scream, say “bad word”, “slurs” or what ever it thier conversation and we are eaves dropping grow up, or turn it off, or soon we won’t get to hear those convesations. I remember when we had to hunt for all the radio ferquencys when we were at the track and a lot of teams use to change them week to week. So if you don’t what someone called a mother @&C&er don’t listen you pompus terd buchet and if not pull your bottom lip over head and swallow.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:28:14 +0000

TC, what a great post. You are absolutely correct. As a rear tire carrier for a West team, and one glorious day at TMS for Morgan Shephard, I can’t go to a race and not have radios. It puts me in the pits with the team, and is an invaluable experience. I also agree that the network should be fined for allowing radio transmissions to be aired lived without a delay and/or editing. I have heard my driver use choice words when he got wrecked by an idiot on the track. It is an honor to be able to “get the inside scoop” straight from the horses mouth. If there is no passion coming through that radio, then I WILL LOOK DOWN UPON the driver and the team. We all want to win, we are all hyper-competitive or we wouldn’t do this. Good job.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:52:57 +0000

We are able to go inside the “office” and as fans we should all respect and appreciate that. I would definately miss the insight scanner comm provides. I agree with AJ about the broadcast breaks and commentators. They are better than the live broadcasts.

By: dragonfly

dragonfly — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:33:37 +0000

T.C. Well said!! I totally agree!! Listen 2 the scanner is all part of the NASCAR experience/weekend!!

GO BLUE 2

By: Newracefan

Newracefan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:24:24 +0000

I love to listen to my favorite driver during the race it makes me feel a part of the team. I don’t expect it to be PC or emotionless, if it was it would be worthless. My driver and CC tend not to tirade but there have been times and apropriately so; I was doing my own tirade at home (usually not as loud or long but still). I think the abilitity to listen in is a priviledge and should not be open to criticism outside the team, if they are OK with it the that’s the end of it, if they are not that should be handled behind closed doors and it’s none of my business. This subject seems to come up every year or so and thankfully Nascar has sided with the fans but the media needs to get a grip and stop stirring the pot.

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:45:35 +0000

Well said. I love being able to listen in to my favorite driver and his team at the track it adds a lot of excitement. Plus whenever there is an incident on the track to try to jump right to the drivers involved to hear that their thoughts were on what happened. However I love the media stepping in and trying to make a stroy out of nothing.
I know it probably doesn’t mean anyhting but Dale Earnhardt used to have a recorded message play at the start of the race, something along the lines of this is copywrited materials and cannot be used without written consent from the teams, so if more drivers have that now wouldn’t the network need permission to broadcast that or is that a given within the TV contract?
If you want to hear some off the wall conversations at the track tune into MRN, or PRN with your scanner, when they go to commercial they have some pretty interesting coments when their mikes aren’t hot.

By: Zieke

Zieke — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:45:58 +0000

I would much rather listen to what the drivers are saying than those awful TV announcers. At least the drivers are abreast of the situations and can comment with intelligence.

By: Tenny

Tenny — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:42:55 +0000

Remember rule #1 when it comes to NA$CAR. Follow the money. If the sport shuts down access to the scanners that means TrackScan and Racing Electronics and Sprint Fan View will no longer need to rent dozens of booth spaces at racetracks to rent/sell their products. (And does NA$CAR get all those radios and headsets at full cost, or deeply discounted thanks to those “exclusive” marketing agreements?) So this issue is a little deeper than you might think. Scanner chatter is one of the things that makes NASCAR unique and interesting. So of course the media is going to cover it! It’s newsworthy! Kurt Busch might not like it, but that’s tough noogies. Everything that man’s got in life is thanks to NASCAR and everything that comes with it, good AND bad. And don’t ever tell me I don’t have a right to an opinion on something. I’m an American, baby.

By: Kenn Fong

Kenn Fong — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:23:31 +0000

Thanks, T.C., for this post. I have HotPass, and watch the Junior channel. I feel much more connected to him and the race when I listen. It bothers me that a few blue-noses have bullied DirecTV into putting it on delay. They try to censor his profanity, but instead of catching it, they inevitably are a second or two late, which means instead of censoring the profanity itself, they censor what follows, which means I don’t know what he’s upset about.

West Coast Kenny
Alameda, California

By: Wayne T. Morgan

Wayne T. Morgan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:18:13 +0000

It’s not like you don’t hear off color words on TV anymore much less anywhere else. And this is a very intense sport so one must take that a few words and tempers are going to come out at times. Don’t like it?? Don’t listen but don’t cry foul when you hear something. That being said, just enjoy the racing and understand the pasion the teams have for this sport.