Adam Stern

.@EchoPark is paying Speedway Motorsports $2.5 million annually for its @COTA deal, per an SEC filing cited by @CBJnewsroom.

That's more than typical entitlements, but sources say this deal is unique in that it has all of EchoPark's activation costs baked in including TV buy. https://t.co/hNyZDWjFvW

Thursday, April 15
4:30 p.m., NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour: Virginia Is for Racing Lovers 200 at Martinsville Speedway (tape-delay), NBCSN
5:30 p.m., Dale Jr. Download, NBCSN
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1
7 p.m., Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder (re-air), FS1

Friday, April 16
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1

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I've always thought Allen Bestwick has the best voice in racing!

https://m.nascar.com/news-media/2021/04/15/where-are-they-now-catching-up-with-ricky-rudd/amp/

Where are they now? Catching up with Ricky Rudd

But Rudd admits he misses one thing in particular from his racing days.

"The thing I miss the most are the people," he said. "I really miss them."

Wanna watch this.

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I like Harrison Burton. Yeah, he's been handed a lot, just like Chase Elliott and those Dillon boys, but there's something about Burton that makes me think he'd be a winner regardless of his last name.

Agree. I think he has a long and good career ahead of him.

Saturday, April 17
9:30 a.m., NASCAR Auto Racing Classics: 2008 Dan Lowry 400 at Richmond Raceway (re-air), FS1
12:30 p.m., NASCAR RaceDay: NCWTS at Richmond Raceway, FS1
1:30 p.m., NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond Raceway, FS1

On MRN:
1 p.m., NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond Raceway

NASCAR
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
ToyotaCare 250, Richmond Raceway, Richmond, VA
Race FS1, 1:30 p.m.

NASCAR RaceDay: NCWTS at Richmond FS1, 12:30 p.m.

pineknollshoresking said:

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I've always thought Allen Bestwick has the best voice in racing!

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Bestwick is a close 2nd to me behind Mike Joy. The one I really miss is Dr. Jerry Punch. If you never seen the Dale Jr. Dirty Moe podcast there is a segment where he interviews Dr. Jerry. I had no idea of the things he did for NASCAR outside of his pit duties and Booth announcing.

a lot of racing on today...

4hrs of Barcelona
F1 Imola
Nascar Richmond
Indycar Birmingham
NHRA 4 wides
MotoGP of Portugal

Sunday, April 18
7 a.m., NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond Raceway (re-air), FS1
11 a.m., NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond Raceway (re-air), FS2
1 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub: Best of Radioactive Richmond, FS1
1:30 p.m., NASCAR RaceDay: Richmond, FS1
2:30 p.m., NASCAR RaceDay: NCS at Richmond Raceway, FOX
3 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway, FOX (Canada: TSN1, TSN5)

On MRN:
2 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway

NASCAR
NASCAR Cup Series
Toyota Owners 400, Richmond Raceway, Richmond, VA
Race Fox, 3 p.m.

NASCAR RaceDay: Richmond FS1, 1:30 p.m.
NASCAR RaceDay: Richmond Fox, 2:30 p.m.

Details for Sunday's Richmond Cup race:
(All times are Eastern)
START: The command to start engines will be given at 3:08 p.m. The green flag is scheduled to wave at 3:15 p.m.

PRERACE: Cup garage opens at 8 a.m. Drivers report to their cars at 2:40 p.m. Driver introductions are at 2:45 p.m. Rev. Wallace Shifflett, Nazareth Lutheran Church in Hopewell, Virginia, will give the invocation at 3 p.m. Country music singer Alana Springsteen will perform the national anthem at 3:01 p.m.


DISTANCE: The race is 400 laps (300 miles) on the 0.75-mile speedway.

STAGES: Stage 1 ends at Lap 80. Stage 2 ends at Lap 235.

TV/RADIO: Fox will broadcast the race. Coverage begins at 1:30 p.m. on FS1 and switches to Fox at 2:30 p.m. Motor Racing Network's radio coverage begins at 2:30 p.m. and also will stream at MRN.com; SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will carry the broadcast.

STREAMING: Fox

FORECAST: The wunderground.com forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with a high of 66 degrees, and a 4% chance of rain at race start.

Alex Bowman wins at Richmond. 8 different winners in 9 races.

Happy for Bowman.

Was there, I personally liked the race, not too happy about my driver Harvick cutting a tire...but feel like they are getting closer.

These young Hendrick drivers are slowly starting to get better and better... Byron had a pretty good overall run yesterday as well.

NASCAR
NASCAR Race Hub FS1, 6 p.m.
NASCAR Presents: Trackhouse-Get Ready FS1, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, April 20
6 a.m., NASCAR Race Hub: Best of Radioactive Richmond (re-air), FS2
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1
7 p.m., NASCAR Presents: Trackhouse Get Ready, FS1

On MRN:
7 p.m., NASCAR Live

Wednesday, April 21
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1
7 p.m., eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series: Talladega Superspeedway, FS1
10 p.m., eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series: Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS2
11:30 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub: Best of Radioactive Richmond (re-air), FS2

Thursday, April 22
12:30 a.m., eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series: Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS1
2 a.m., NASCAR Classics: 2011 Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS1
5 a.m., NASCAR Race Hub: Best of Radioactive Talladega, FS1
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1
6 p.m., Dale Jr. Download, NBCSN
11;30 p.m., eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series: Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS2

Friday, April 23
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1

Saturday, April 24
1 p.m., ARCA Menards Series: General Tire 200 at Talladega Superspeedway, FS1
3:30 p.m., NASCAR RaceDay: Xfinity Series, FOX
4 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series: Ag-Pro 300 at Talladega Superspeedway, FOX (Canada: TSN3, 5)
11 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series: Ag-Pro 300 at Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS1

On MRN:
1 p.m., ARCA Menards Series: General Tire 200 at Talladega Superspeedway
3:30 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series: Ag-Pro 300 at Talladega Superspeedway

Sunday, April 25
8 a.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series: Ag-Pro 300 at Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS2
11 a.m., eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series: Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS1
12:30 p.m., NASCAR RaceDay: Cup Series, FS1
1:30 p.m., NASCAR RaceDay: Cup Series, FOX
2 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, FOX (Canada: TSN1, 5)
9:30 p.m., ARCA Menards Series: General Tire 200 at Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS2
11:30 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS1

On MRN:
1 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway

NASCAR denied approval for Jennifer Jo Cobb to drive in Sunday's Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway, forcing Rick Ware Racing to find another driver for the No. 15 car.

https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2021/04/19/jennifer-jo-cobb-not-approved-by-nascar-to-run-cup-race/amp/

Cobb's limited Xfinity starts in recent years and her performance raised issues even though she has made 217 Camping World Truck Series starts, including nine starts at Talladega. Cobb's best finish in a Truck at Talladega was 11th in 2018. She has been with underfunded teams in her career. Her incident with Norm Benning this past weekend during the Truck race at Richmond Raceway had no bearing on this decision.

Cobb has one top-10 finish in the Truck Series. That came in 2011. She placed sixth in the season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway.

She has made three Xfinity starts since 2016 and none since 2018. Her last Xfinity start was April 28, 2018 at Talladega. She finished 29th in the 40-car field. Her only other Xfinity start at Talladega was in 2011. She finished 37th in the 43-car field for car owner Rick Ware. She was eliminated in a 21-car crash.

NASCAR has looked to strengthen its requirements for each series, particularly Cup in recent years.

In 2018, NASCAR permitted Tanner Berryhill to compete in the final two Cup races, including the championship race, even though he had never started a Cup race before and had last run in the Xfinity Series in 2014. Questions were raised about allowing any driver with such limited NASCAR experience in recent years to compete in a Cup race, let alone a playoff event.

Berryhill, driving for an underfunded team making its second series start, finished 31st at Phoenix after causing two caution flags, one for a spin and another for an accident. He ran to the finish the following week in the title race at Miami and placed 38th.

Adam Stern

.@FoxTV earned a 2.0 rating and 3.315 million viewers for Sunday's @Toyota Owners 400, up from a 1.73 rating and 2.787M viewers for the 2019 race, though that was on a Saturday night, and flat from 2018.

The race was the most-watched sporting event of the weekend in the U.S.

Wolfer79 said:

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They could have run any variation of the M&Ms yellow car and I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference lol

MayorStoner said:

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They could have run any variation of the M&Ms yellow car and I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference lol

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maybe if they peanut m&m?