Kyle Larson says Hendrick could create 1000hp NASCAR engines at no extra cost. NBC will reportedly replace Rick Allen in the Cup Series broadcast booth.
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0:00 Larson talks 1000 HP
3:18 Fun paint scheme
3:55 Kamui Kobayashi
4:28 NBC Makes a Huge Change
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I may be in the minority that actually likes Rick Allen, his voice is soothing to me
I agree but sometimes he just cant get the words out
I really don’t understand why people still hate him. In 2015 I can see why people disliked him, but ever since 2019 he has improved immensely
Yeah I like him more than Mike joy
According to Jr he’s a heck of a finish carpenter
I used to think Rick Allen was awful too…
Until Jamie Little entered the ring, then suddenly Rick Allen yelling ”pRaWbLeMs” after every on track incident doesn’t seem as bad to me anymore.
Hear me out. 900-1000 hp for Wilkesboro at the All Star Race, and if it works keep it for short tracks. Test in the offseason, and run 950 full time minus Daytona, Talladega, and Atlanta
It’s not happening
That would be a great place to try it just to see how it works.
The mile and a halfs are fine at 670hp. Short tracks and roadcourses just need more hp for slipping and sliding off the corners. Make the drivers have to play with the throttle and not just downshift and put the pedal thru the floor
Gives the fans an actual reason to watch the all star race
@@brianstephenson8201no they aren’t……more hp is needed on intermediates too
Leigh is such a good commentator I love him
Leigh is fine but nobody is better than Rick Allen!! I wanna cry
@@ZachAttack121 You’re joking right?
Alan Bestwick is the best……not a huge fan of Leigh Diffy
Ok yall are right bestwick is the best but Rick Allen is definitely 2nd
Alan. Bestwick.
This!
A thousand times, this.
I hope he’ll get to call the Xfinity races on the CW next year. Reassembling the old ESPN booth isn’t a bad idea.
You mentioned NASCAR being afraid of dominant drivers, it would separate the good drivers from the bad, and apparently NASCAR believes there are too many bad drivers, they must like it that way, as all teams will still have pretty equal cars.
Would not make good TV entertainment
Of course they like it that way, It allows NASCAR to keep more of the profits instead of giving it to race teams so they can hire talented drivers rather than rich drivers
@@johnhaas2523I know that NASCAR likes excitement and accidents to reel in new viewers who watch just for the mayhem but racing purest like to watch great drivers and their skills, to me that would make it more exciting. We will have to watch how the skilled drivers navigate around the place sitters in the sport, and the right drivers and teams will get the deserved attention. NASCAR just has to stop hyping the races, and they will get less criticism.
@@oktoday8323no you fans will never stop criticizing nascar no matter what they do…..
Chase Elliot would not have a chance in that format, can’t have the most popular driver in NASCAR get exposed for being barely a top 30 driver.
Leigh has high energy and makes everything sound exciting and intense. That’s exactly what NASCAR needs
1000HP would mean more pitstops and likely a need for more tires
Great content, Eric!!
Dependable and passionate. I love it!!
Dominant drivers, meaning pure skill, should be allowed to shine!
I don’t mind Rick Allen!! But admittedly, he was wayyyy better when he was a Truck commentator. He just captured the moments better, and he didn’t stumble over his words nearly as much, if at all. The first NASCAR race I watched flag-to-flag was 2005 Atlanta Trucks, and his call on the last lap sold me on NASCAR. I think that in 2024, Leigh Diffey can be that new voice. He is half the reason I watch Indy Car races tbh!
For me, he and Phil Parsons absolutely sold me on the final few laps of the 2008 Ohio 250 at Mansfield… when he says “He Makes Contact!”, my eyes grew big time….
That change is good. I never really got used to Rick Allen.
Everyday I wait to see a thumbnail saying “NASCAR ups the horsepower!”
Nascar is to stupid, won’t happen
Real race cars are never coming back
I don’t see it happening until 2025 at the earliest. NASCAR never likes to admit they’re wrong and upping HP mid season would do exactly that
@@GASparky217
I don’t believe they’ll ever up HP…..if anything I could actually see them unfortunately lower it from 670 to 550….they’re that limp. Jim France has decided a Cup car needs to be an IMSA car, it is essentially an IMSA car and was designed by an IMSA team.
It’s one reason this car sucks on short tracks, it’s really hard to have a One Size Fits All race car….in other words, one that is equally as good on short, intermediate, road course and superspeedways.
Instead of an IMSA team developing the car, Cup teams should’ve created and developed it. IMSA teams know nothing about oval track racing.
It’s truly embarrassing when the TOP stock car series in the world has less horsepower than many modern day sports/muscle cars.
@@GASparky217
I miss the days of 950 hp, 200+ mph speeds, chassis/aero specifically for short, intermediate, rc and superspeedway. Also miss teams being able to set rear spoiler angle wherever they want, setting transmission gear ratios they desire, rear-end gear ratios that they desire instead of nascrap’s mandated two gear ratio options.
Nascar is nothing more than a glorified IROC kit car series, the drivers hate not having any horsepower and they really don’t like these cars. I get Nascrap wants parity and to keep the cars bunched together instead of strungout. But bunched together and not very able to pass is boring too. I’m old school and have been watching late model and Nascar racing since the mid 60s…I don’t care for stage racing and their staged cautions to bunch the field up and I hate how Nascar has ruled the series to death. They’ve tried to gear the racing toward the casual race fan watching on TV, they don’t care about what hardcore race fans want or like…we are a dying breed. Lastly, I also don’t care much for the truck series anymore because they’ve gone to a GM based Illmore built engine….so Ford, Toyota and Chevy are all running the same GM (chevy) engine.
I can almost bet you within 5 yrs Xfinity and Cup cars will probably all be using a GM based Hybrid V8. I’ll be totally done with Nascar then and just stick with local and national short track super late model racing. It’s better anyway
Im glad Mike Bagley got some love , the MRN crew had always been great at painting a picture of whats happening for the audience.
Totally agree. The MRN guys always make me feel as though I was at the track when I was traveling or in the garage. I especially like Bagley and think he would be stellar.
MRN kills it every week.
I am completely blind, and listen to the races on the radio. The quality of a motor racing network broadcast is done very well most weeks. Sure, sometimes they have microphone issues on occasionlike they did last week, but generally broadcasts are stellar! You will be hard to find a better broadcast crew.
The clip of Diffey makes me really excited to hear him announce this year.
The Australian guy?
2014 was fine, and we 900+ horsepower!
Maybe Eric Estepp ends up in the booth for one of these stations.
Benny Parsons, Ned Jarrett and Buddy Baker from the 90s was my all time favorite team.
I AGREE 100%
The dead-air color commentary in the Fox booth has been rough.
I don’t remember that combo, I thought Buddy was always on TNN and CBS. My favorite was Benny, Ned and Bob Varsha. Will probably never be topped.
Bob Jenkins called the races ,they were color
I like your list, one more name to add would have to be Bob Varsha. The guy is a motorsports broadcasting legend, no spring chicken but I think he still has a few good years of announcing left in him.
Agree 100% on Bob Varsha. It is an absolute shame that he is currently only calling a few races on the international feed for Formula E (which CBS uses to broadcast that series in the US). Hopefully ESPN does the right thing when it comes to their F1 coverage next season & hires him, David Hobbs & Steve Matchett to call F1 races to replace the awful Sky Sports feed with Crofty & Brundle or he decides to sign with whatever media partner Indycar does a deal with for 2025 because he needs to be calling something much better than Formula E (whose races are buried on CBS Sports Network or worse the Roku Channel).
Hey let’s not forget David Hobbs back in the mid 80’s, he ain’t exactly from around these parts either but his voice dialed up the excitement for sure.
I loved listening to him with Ned Jarrett and Neil Bonnett.