ESPN spent/wasted a full hour to show a taped 1st round of Top Fuel while they spent all the time jawing. And in the 1st round of the FC SHOWDOWN they litertally flew to interview loser Force and ignored winner TJ, Jr. And then on and on about Ashley F and how she outpolled Tom Brady. Who other than some 10 year old could care about a silly, rigged poll. I only watched the 2nd hour of their crap which was even worse than the 1st and I went out and worked on a tractor transmission while intermittently checking the results on DRC.

It should be glaringly apparent that the countdown is highly flawed in NHRA. The ones not in the countdown have little/nothing to lose by gambling on the car/engine/clutch setup for qualifying and racing. Plus there is incentive for the noncountdowners to gamble on the "tree". The years champion should not be influenced/determined by, perhaps a nobody, gambling and hitting the setup or the tree.

nitroholic:

ESPN spent/wasted a full hour to show a taped 1st round of Top Fuel while they spent all the time jawing. And in the 1st round of the FC SHOWDOWN they litertally flew to interview loser Force and ignored winner TJ, Jr. And then on and on about Ashley F and how she outpolled Tom Brady. Who other than some 10 year old could care about a silly, rigged poll. I only watched the 2nd hour of their crap which was even worse than the 1st and I went out and worked on a tractor transmission while intermittently checking the results on DRC.

It should be glaringly apparent that the countdown is highly flawed in NHRA. The ones not in the countdown have little/nothing to lose by gambling on the car/engine/clutch setup for qualifying and racing. Plus there is incentive for the noncountdowners to gamble on the "tree". The years champion should not be influenced/determined by, perhaps a nobody, gambling and hitting the setup or the tree.

Where i live (east coast) they showed just the first round at 2.00pm, and it took 3 hours. Then at 7.00pm they had the show your talking about. 6 hours to show what they usually show in 3.

Down here in FLA the coverage was excellent.Especially John Force's interview about Eric Meddlen.We saw the eliminations and Finals in every Catagory down to Pro Stock Bikes.Sorry your coverage sucked....ours was Great.

Frankly, I thought the ESPN coverage of Indianapolis was outstanding. I watched nearly every bit of it.

I watch every minute of NHRA coverage but still don't like Paul Page. Want Marty Reid back.

Rooselk:

Frankly, I thought the ESPN coverage of Indianapolis was outstanding. I watched nearly every bit of it.

I agree,it was decent coverage,however... I really wish they would highlight the sportsman classes.It would be nice to see a couple of final round passes of the Hemi shoot out.Even though the NHRA still considers them red-headed step children i wish we could catch some Pro modified action,oh well.

I enjoy Mike Dunn and Paul Page is a good professional racing announcer, did Indy cars when they were popular.  Wish Marty Reid was back but he's doing Indy Cars and some Busch races.  NHRA does get shafted by time slots and don't know why.  They need to be sold to Bruton Smith and he will put this  now non-profit NHRA on the map.  Been to plenty of Cup races.  Boring, even with racing radios.  The party leading up to race is great though.  Cup is good on tv and with 60 to 70 cameras covering the action it should be.  Replays on top of replays of everything.  NHRA national events are easily the most exciting in-person sporting events on earth.  No question about it. My next favorite in-person at the track racing is sprint cars and late mdoels on dirt.