From a Scene Daily writer who gets it:
Darrell Waltrip has for years been a self-serving loudmouth pain in the behind to the masses of NASCAR fans out there that don’t find incessant hours of Waltrip entertaining or informative. Danica Patrick has for years, be it in IndyCar or the Nationwide Series, set records for being the most celebrated, acclaimed and admired driver to have a resume consisting of a single fuel mileage win in open wheel and a handful of top 10s in stock car racing. Combined, the two have proved that mixing poisons just makes a bigger mess.
Why was it necessary to show the wounded No. 10 car running alone on the race track three times over the course of the evening to discuss the importance of learning? Trevor Bayne didn’t get that quantity of air time when he came back on track with his wounded car. Joe Nemechek didn’t get any sort of mention at all, except for once late in the race when the pack came barreling by.
Why see the No. 10 car being repaired every 10 minutes, when the lap 2 wreck that took out the green car also took out Kurt Busch (definitely didn’t see the same meticulous analysis of repairs given to the No. 51). Why was it necessary to have a post-race interview with the freaking 38th place finisher?! If Michael McDowell had only been so lucky, he’d have been racing full-time years ago.
And how could anybody in their right mind sit there with a straight face and talk about how Jimmie Johnson had clearly learned from Danica Patrick to remove his hands from the steering wheel during a hard wreck? (well, to be fair, Darrell’s arguably not in his right mind, he seems to think he’s a good broadcaster.) Dario Franchitti, Sam Hornish Jr., Jacques Villeneuve, Tony Stewart and the legions of other open wheelers that have been in NASCAR for a long time must have just been lucky in their open-wheel careers to avoid broken wrists.
Darrell Waltrip and FOX’s fixation with the driver of the No. 10 goes beyond even what was seen during ESPN’s coverage of her Nationwide debut two years ago, to the level that SPEED demonstrated during their laughable excuse for coverage of Danica’s ARCA race at Daytona; biased, exaggerated, unrelenting adoration. Coupled with the omissions from Monday’s broadcast (Robby Gordon was not mentioned once over the course of nearly six hours on the air after blowing the same engine he struggled to make the 500 with), and it’s abundantly clear FOX wasn’t just telling the big story.
They were playing favorites. FOX Sports needs an ombudsman, fast.
Facebook Poster: Couldn't agree more
Facebook Poster : He acknowledged the fuel mileage part of her "win" but he forgot to mention it was the only split race in the history of Indycar
Facebook Poster: Excellent. The writer says exactly what I and millions of other fans think. Thank you for posting this. I love it when people who actually know what they are talking about put people like DW in their place.
