NASCAR needs to bring back a full suite of events and TV coverage on Friday to kick off a race weekend.

Some of my favorite childhood memories were coming home from school on a Friday, putting on Speed channel, and settling in for a perfect afternoon of Cup qualifying, and then an evening of Trackside followed by the Truck race. It was the perfect way to kick off and build excitement for the race weekend. And in a pre-social media era, fans needed the introductory Friday TV coverage to catch us up on the storylines for that week and the main news items going into the race weekend. This was the NASCAR product and media coverage at its best. Compelling on-track action, interviews up and down pit road, in the garage area, and even around the track and the motorhomes. And all of that would transition seamlessly into a legitimately funny round-table talk show, and once that was over, a Truck race as a bonus. What would it take to bring this back? I understand that the modern TV landscape probably doesn’t allow for a block of coverage this long, and the current race weekend logistics may not support this format. Still though - would this not be possible on Prime? Or a combination of Prime and the networks? submitted by /u/JulianBrandt19 [link] [comments]