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Originally Posted by broadrun96
Well Marco technically owns the car so he gets to decide. And I think US Concrete wants the track access VIP perks and use of the Andretti name in marketing more than results. As long as his family name is Andretti he'll be in the car.
NBCSports won't ever change and only get worse because everyone involved tells them how great they are over and over. But when you go from ABC who could not possibly care any less everything is an improvement. RM tells everyone how great NBC is every article and it's getting stale. Yes, they tried harder for Indy and more coverage. But more garbage is still garbage, we just get reminded more often. It's only worth watching in the background as noise, was decent Saturday making sausage with it on. Not full attention and could catch up with the DVR if I needed. But you often have no idea what is going on beyond third unless someone wrecks or has a failure.
In fairness though, the F1 coverage wasn't much better with continued following of the Mercedes late when we knew their consistent running order. Let's see who's chasing and catching them. Rendered unimportant after the final SC but made for a boring bit in the middle.
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So it's more or less as I thought. However without results, there is only so much the Andretti name can do, as far as marketing and sponsorship is concerned. We have seen with Williams what happens if the results aren't forth coming, sponsors will leave and go elsewhere
NBC's F1 coverage comes from F1/Liberty itself, so NBC will have no say on what is actually being broadcast.