trigun7469 said:RHR and Will Buxton Join the TV team This is interesting I don't recall RHR doing much TV, but he definitely had a interesting prospective and Will Buxton would be a big land for Fox if they make it happen.
Weird article. Not sure why RHR's net worth is notable, but whatever.
I'm fine with Buxton, but if they don't also hire Hinch, we riot.
In reply to Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) :
I could be wrong but is RHR's role might be what Hinch does, but Hinch I bet will get a bigger role in F1 if indycar doesn't work out. It depends if Will Buxton is what he does in the F1 coverage or Netflix. He is annoying when he goes full on Netflix, drama BS. I wasn't a huge fan of Diffey so for me anyone is a upgrade. In the booth Will Buxton, RHR, and retired indycar engineer someone like Marshal Pruett but not him, and then have Hinch on the ground similar to what Robin Miller did talking to the teams and on pitlane. It's a pipe dream, hopefully they don't throw in Jr or Danica, they are the worst.
trigun7469 said:In reply to Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) :
I could be wrong but is RHR's role might be what Hinch does, but Hinch I bet will get a bigger role in F1 if indycar doesn't work out. It depends if Will Buxton is what he does in the F1 coverage or Netflix. He is annoying when he goes full on Netflix, drama BS. I wasn't a huge fan of Diffey so for me anyone is a upgrade. In the booth Will Buxton, RHR, and retired indycar engineer someone like Marshal Pruett but not him, and then have Hinch on the ground similar to what Robin Miller did talking to the teams and on pitlane. It's a pipe dream, hopefully they don't throw in Jr or Danica, they are the worst.
The article says RHR will be the pit lane reporter, so theoretically the booth could be Buxton and Hinch.
I'm a bit mixed on Buxton. You need a seasoned broadcaster to do the "play by play" like Diffey did, and later Mike Lee. I thought Diffey was fine, but I'm not sure about Buxton. I think a lot of what he does on DTS is scripted, so I wouldn't necessarily blame him for all the fake drama. That's DTS's whole deal. But at the same time, I don't know that I've ever heard him do the regular play by play on a race broadcast, either.
Agreed that a "color" team of Hinch with a retired engineer would be ideal. Hinch and TBell were both drivers, so there was too much overlap, plus TBell just said really inane stuff sometimes.
FOX IndyCar Booth Is Will Buxton, Townsend Bell And James Hinchcliffe It's official now again being overly critical sometimes the back and forth would be best with a engineer instead of Bell and Hinch, but regardless there could be a worst booth.
trigun7469 said:FOX IndyCar Booth Is Will Buxton, Townsend Bell And James Hinchcliffe It's official now again being overly critical sometimes the back and forth would be best with a engineer instead of Bell and Hinch, but regardless there could be a worst booth.
Agreed. I can live with this booth.
Also, Fox ran a pretty great ad for Indycar during the NFL playoff game on Sunday:
There are supposedly two more coming, one with Palou and one with Pato. I think it's really well done.
NASCAR fans were *big* mad that Indycar got such an ad on Fox.
Twitterverse says NASCAR controls marketing in a way Indycar doesn't with regards to broadcast partners, no idea if that's true or not.
Hopefully Fox doesn't use the stupid driver cartoons for Indycar, and theire ratings can reverse from recent lows.
In reply to flyin_viata :
Well Will Buxton said that indycar could be the most popular series in America 
I am finding the Conor Daily Videos on youtube interesting. He said during one of his podcast that Fox has really stepped up the marketing with the show clips he was involved in.
So I have seen pictures of seat fitings but not videos on how they do it seat fitting I found this video interesting, however the beads is something new to me. Do they use this material in all series?
Hopefully all of this attention can be used to update the cars some.
But I'm also hoping Fox can get Indycar to make sure most of their races are on at a consistent time. Like a majority of them on Sunday afternoon.
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