"All right, We're gonna go to break"...... WHY.... Any producer that decided to go to break at that point NEEDS to be fired and told to find another job. Marshals Vs Ground Hog = guaranteed entertainment.
Might've been contractual obligation. Caution comes out and you've only had X many commercial breaks in Y amount of time? Gotta take a break during that caution. It sucks
@@patrickjohnson5412 You're correct. I don't know exactly how it works. My comment was purely an educated guess, based on how other television live events work.
Not all the time. Usually they come out when the leader has a huge lead or when one of the big names is about to go a lap down. Sometimes it's for water bottles that the drivers throw onto the track from their cars.
If the drivers get caught throwing stuff onto the track, they get penalized for it. I remember one race where a driver ripped a piece of foam from around his window frame and threw it onto the track. The race officials were not happy about it.
I remember seeing the Montoya incident live, it was scary as hell. One second he was skidding, the next second a giant plume of fire erupted from below the screen. I had no idea what happened
When McDowell hit the safety truck last year I thought it was ironic becausee did the invocation before the race - asking everyone to pray for a safe race - only to hit a safety truck under caution just a couple of laps before the restart.
Not many people know this, but the wreck at 5:30 nearly killed Stanley Smith. He's the black car that hits the wall head on. He is one of only 3 drivers to survive a crash in which they fractured their skull, and he was nearly taken off life support.
I was at the NASCAR race is Kentucky in 2017 during Richard Petty's 80th birthday celebration. Qualifying was in session when it started to downpour. So bad, they had to cancel everything and schedule it for the next day. It was the heaviest rain storm I've seen in my life 🤣
I was actually at the race with the down cable line. What actually happened was the camera that races along the start/finish line fell and the cable got caught on the cars and rips down causing a red flag for cleanup. Luckily nobody was hurt and Matt Kenseth won the race
You mean like how that rat bastard Dale Earnhardt used to get the majority of his wins? Or that piece of shit Brad Keselowski wrecking Carl Edwards only a few hundred yards away from Carl winning at Talladega?
+Jim Garrison Dale didn't get the majority of his wins by wrecking people. He used the bump and run, but alot of guys didn't wreck from that, they just got loose. And Keselowski didn't do anything other then hold his line. Edwards was the one who intentionally wrecked Keselowski the next year. Don't be claiming stuff without proof.
Also the one from the spring Bristol race a couple years ago when the starter accidentally hit the caution light with about 5 to go, and it started raining.
I remember that race where the caution lights had a mind of their own... it was ridiculous, and we all STILL laugh about how many cautions they went into because of that
I'm honestly surprised we haven't had more issues with hail/severe storms at Kansas and Texas considering how often that happens there. I guess Nascar usually goes there after the severe season is over but still
Cheese_Wafflez Did you even read the comment above the one you just made? I was clarifying it for Dominik Walkmeyer. My tablet for some reason doesn't do the "+Dominik Walkmeyer" thing, while my desktop does for some reason.
I was at that race when the tire rolled out, it was this year. after that race there was another where the put crew kept the gas tank in a car and it drove off with it.
I don't know what's scarier, being in the safety crew and hearing a rumbling roar speed up behind me while I'm a still on the track in a truck, or a person told to stand on the grass inside the track area and take pictures.
I remember that one when the fan climbed the fence at richmond. The announcer said something like "its cause we have a fan..... doing..... doing something really stupid"
I was at that race. It was the weirdest Daytona 500 ever. Opening ceremonies and initial pace laps on Sunday, postponed to Monday night, finally finished at like 1 am Tuesday morning. I always watch the cars that are catching up to the field following yellow flag pit stops, and this time was no different. Saw the whole thing as it happened.
