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2019 Daytona 200

Discussion in 'General' started by KMC, Feb 6, 2019.

  1. I wouldn’t exactly call you fat :) but every lb helps.
     
  2. rafa

    rafa Well-Known Member

    This makes sense. Especially if you allow fixed for safety. This is the exact thing I was wondering.
     
  3. CB186

    CB186 go f@ck yourself

    I'm not saying its easy, but it was like they were watching a completely different race than we were. I could never do announcing. It would either be non stop beeps, or F'bombs. :D
     
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  4. MELK-MAN

    MELK-MAN The Dude abides...

    "non stop" ? common.. was it perfect ? nope. but give me a break. I just re-watched the broadcast. MOST of the time, the announcing was on target. And yea, it has to be an incredibly tough job doing this from the speedway. 3.5 MILE track, lapped riders nearly non stop mixed in the 60 rider field, only way to see riders is on a monitor for the most part.. you guys crack me up..
     
  5. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    The thing is we've heard others do the job too... You don't have to do it yourself to be able to compare different announcers.

    Were they doing the paddock/stands stuff too or just the Fanschoice?
     
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  6. TSC_113

    TSC_113 Look At me!!!

    I believe that Fanschoice.tv was just broadcasting the track announcing that Pat and Richard were doing.
     
  7. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    Yeah then that will absolutely screw up the timing. I never turned on the sound and was able to keep up just fine anyway for the last sprint race :D
     
  8. Cawk Star

    Cawk Star Well-Known Member

    The whole time Kelly was sitting in the pit box and they were saying he was out on track was priceless.
     
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  9. SPL170db

    SPL170db Trackday winner


    I guess that's a good point. If they stopped the race with that last red flag then it would have been the Daytona 191'ish?
     
  10. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    That I get, even if they're seeing video it's tough when he and Bobby look almost exactly the same.
     
  11. Cawk Star

    Cawk Star Well-Known Member

    Different helmets, totally different leathers (during the race), etc.
     
  12. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    Not enough to tell a difference quickly on a small monitor in the middle of everything else. That's one area I'll agree with Greg for sure, it's not remotely like sitting at home. Also if their main deal is announcing live they're looking through binoculars live and may not have even had the fanschoice feed in the booth. With just doing streaming it's probably not worth running all the wiring a full on televised race would have.
     
  13. drop

    drop Well-Known Member

    So we'r they not aloud to have live timing? Many times across the strip even they were wrong.
     
  14. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    In person or on the streaming?
     
  15. TLR67

    TLR67 Well-Known Member

    I'm just glad Kawa Wyman won!

    While I am appreciative of their efforts the same thing happened last year if I am not mistaken. It was more than just mixing riders up and names being wrong.. I apologize to all that know these 2 if I sounded offensive. However I think a much better job could be done in the future.
     
  16. jksoft

    jksoft Well-Known Member

    The live timing on the streaming was off and it did seem like the audio and video were not in sync, but I was just happy to have the feed at all and be able to watch the race for free. It wasn't that hard to figure out what was going on so it didn't really take away any enjoyment for me.
     
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  17. That’s also why a lot of announcers have a separate screen going with timing and scoring.
     
  18. TurboBlew

    TurboBlew Registers Abusers

    Myself & another practiced... got it perfected with just a pin lift stand. We got it to <13 seconds. Fueling to <5 seconds and a rear swap in <12 seconds. Kind of sucked we didnt get to do it under race conditions. :(
    I was getting my balls broken about last year saying they watched video "Oh you were hovering a good 5 seconds before you dumped the can"... then I thought... um we didnt really do a pit stop under green.
     
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  19. MELK-MAN

    MELK-MAN The Dude abides...

    if you know the riders intimately, yea.. you MIGHT know the differences even up close.
    But you do know the fans choice stream is over 20 seconds behind the LIVE on track action? and these announcers are looking at a little screen, of the camera that the vid booth sends them, or that they can see at a considerable distance (the track is fucking HUGE you know), talking non stop for over an hour and a half at that point, trying to read lap times, positions of riders, keep the chatter going and not have dead air space... yea.. you could do SOO much better
     
  20. We used a pin lift stand as well but I modified the pin and marked the stand at the best position I could find to get it to go under easiest. Worked good enough to keep up with the rear. We were around 12-13s
     
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