What's truly sad, is that off the track there were a number of
disappointments during the Long Beach Grand Prix weekend
source:
paddocktalk.com Feature
article by Mike Sulka
The TV package was bad. This whole article could have been about nit-picking the
TV product. But the summary is simply this....
Why bother with network TV if the play-by-play of the first laps of the race
are: A touchdown, an extra point, a kick-off, and an interception to seal the
victory for some no-named football wanna-be who didn't make it to the NFL and
doesn't want the dream to die.
Missing the green flag was a mistake that the producers had to deal with due
to the inability of the series to get their product properly presented. Missing
two key passes for the lead was completely unacceptable. The latest TV
production company might as well be graduates of the local public access
channel.
I'm not saying they are a bad production company, but who cares how their resume
reads if they can't deliver a great show. Champ Car only gets 7 shots in front
of a national audience this season, and they've just burned one up.
I'm not going to cut this new group slack because they are new.... They are
supposed to be professionals, i.e. experts in their field. Champ Car hired them
expecting the TV package to be delivered well.
It wasn't.