Good commentators

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onomatopoeia said:

Dunk76 said:

The Nascar commentary is always pretty amusing - curious mix of American anchor-man professionalism interspersed with guest Driver-commentators (usually retired guys, or those out due to injury).

You get the slick pro-commentary, backed with a brilliant mix of Hillbilly racer humour, driving insight, and general piss-taking.

They'll spend entire laps taking the mick out of each other, the crew-chiefs, the drivers, the cars, the weather - but never the fans or the sponsors.

Makes the Motors TV, Setanta and ITV efforts look completely useless.

Edited by Dunk76 on Sunday 9th September 21:44

Yes and no - aside from Andy Petree I can do without the ESPN crew. Disappointed that judging by Richmond they seem to be doing the races shown on ABC this year instead of Wally Dallenbach et al.

On Fox Darrel "Boogity" Waltrip is a giggle and Larry McReynolds is very informative.

Note for people that don't watch NASCAR - the 36 races that make up the cup season are shown on a total of four different channels, 12 each on Fox and ABC, six each on ESPN and TNT, hence all the different commentators.

I like ESPN and its the home of NASCAR. Dr Jerry Punch is a legend and Rusty Wallace is informative and entertaining - same with Darrel Waltrip too. I hate TNT, I think they're hopeless. They seem to have problems talking more than 10mins, pause/silence and then resort to doing pit reports.

I prefered Ben Edwards and John Watson doing. One thing that really annoys me about Murray Walker is that he can be absolutely clueless - one of his annoying cliches was "I have no idea why [insert car/driver] is slow but I imagine its something to do with grip" - how insightful!

At least we had James Hunt to provide back up:

"And Gerhard Berger's McLaren is on fire!"

"No Murray, that's just his rear brake lights!!!!"

Ben Edwards and Jeremy Shaw were great for CART in the late 1990s.

Paul Page and Garry Gerald - I remember they did Indycar in the early-mid 1990s. Shame they're doing NHRA and not IRL.

Martin Haven is a great commentator. He made F3000 worth watching which is always a great sign of a good commentator. He would manage to find something funny to say and was always ready to take the piss out of the numpty drivers.

[happy snapper]

Piglet said:

clicdallara said:

Brian Jones is a legend.

and the highlight of LM night times of course is Neville Hay - an absolute gent and a very interesting commentator

Next time you see David Lesley ask him what happened to the bottle of Whiskey that Neville Hay "borrowed" from him at Le Mans last year?