07 Baja 1000 Coverage on NBC. Good or bad?

[Vtr_Racing]

I watched the show and thought it was ok for the mainstream. Which, I guess thats what its to be marketed too. The commercials we awesome! Lol....... VW and BFG have some good ones. Only saw one quad, think it was Cody Mitchel off the start. While I was hoping for more I think on a scale of one to 10 I would give it a low 7. Thats from my standpoint and overall I think it appeals to the masses. Thanks to NBC for putting it up there for all to see.
Whats everybody elses take on it?

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[flyinbronco]

I don't understand why they only do a one hour show on the biggest off road race of the year. I wish they would give the event the coverage it deserves. 3 or 4 hour long show following several different teams would be much better. Put a bunch of in car cameras in several different classes and show the world what off raod racing is all about. It would make a Nascar race look pale in comparison.

[metalcore_xxx]

I thought it was good. It was documentary style. My wife thought they weren't really covering the race and that it should have been about three hours. I think it is too hard to do a play-by-play, call the action color comentary for a spread out race. I am glad to see racing on tv, no matter what they show.

[Cascabel]

For a show that was in the 40 minute range, sans commercials the coverage was decent.
Form a marketing standpoint the high dollar teams/classes are the one that sell. It would have been nice to see a more broad range of coverage, but showing the cream is better than nothing at all. What I really disliked was at the end of the show after the race statistics were shown the winners of only 4 classes were shown (TT, Class 1, Motorcycle, and stock mini). NBC/Aura360 really did not get deeper than the surface of the race. I'll agree that a one hour show was not nearly enough.

[flyinbronco]

It would be easy to fill a full 3 or 4 hour time slot with nothing but action shots from in-car and helicopter footage. All the close calls, big jumps, boobie traps, crowds, etc. combined from each racers in car footage would give the viewer a true feeling of what goes on at a Baja race. Highlight a few race teams from each class. Set up a film crew at a couple of BFG pits to show pit stops. I think the advertisers would be all over sponsoring the show.

[Cascabel]

To add to my first post the coverage this year was comparable to years past. I just finished re-watching the 2005 coverage that aired on OLN and the format seemed the same. The only real difference was in the 2005 coverage the actually listed the wnners from each class.

[BrandMattice]

It would be easy to fill a full 3 or 4 hour time slot with nothing but action shots from in-car and helicopter footage. All the close calls, big jumps, boobie traps, crowds, etc. combined from each racers in car footage would give the viewer a true feeling of what goes on at a Baja race. Highlight a few race teams from each class. Set up a film crew at a couple of BFG pits to show pit stops. I think the advertisers would be all over sponsoring the show.

that would cause the production time and cost to skyrocket, and i think now is the time when airtime for these shows are cheapest. gotta hurry up and get it in before NASCAR starts back up in Feb.

[Tom_Willis]

I don't understand why they only do a one hour show on the biggest off road race of the year. I wish they would give the event the coverage it deserves. 3 or 4 hour long show following several different teams would be much better. Put a bunch of in car cameras in several different classes and show the world what off raod racing is all about. It would make a Nascar race look pale in comparison.

Or do a one hour program on the bikes/quads/rhinos and a seperate hour on the 4 wheel vehicles.

[partybarge_pilot]

Anybody got this saved? Haven't seen it, but from what I've been told we made it in in the class 8.

[John_Bitting]

Anybody got this saved? Haven't seen it, but from what I've been told we made it in in the class 8.

You made it at a pit stop for a split second. Nothing fancy, just stopped then driving away with a huge crowd around the truck cant see much. I liked the coverage, anytime off road is on mainstream tv I get excited.