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Current Video: Despain's Take 2: Fan Expectations

Dave gives us his take what racing you could see 20 years ago and what fans expect to see today on TV.

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" Now that I -- your old. -- could go to races for half a century people sometimes ask me how are racing has changed. And what I noticed most. Is not a racing has changed its how fan expectations. About racing. Have changed when I started on there was no TV coverage. Indy 500 was a pay per view deal in theaters and the first live flag to flag Daytona 500 on CBS that was stole fifteen years ago on the road. When we saw racing we saw it live and in person. No replays of the big wrecks the spectacular passes -- in our minds. Would replace him over and over again we talked with the others who were out to track did you see that the same way I saw that and it later we describe and to those who weren't there are friends back called. And maybe abolish a little bit along the way no highlight packages to condense all the excitement we sat out there in -- reporter whatever. As long as it took for the reaction to unfold. In contrast. Everything of consequence of water motor sports is on TV and that's a wonderful good it's package for today's short attention span audience. The -- parts are all edited out the good stuff endlessly replay of Shlomo. So we don't miss a single new ones every race hyped up as if it were the most dramatic and history fans expected reaction to live up to hide and they're disappointed are disillusioned if you dozed off so would I trade all the benefits and advantages of modern -- racing for the way used to be. Not a chance. When I would love. To transport all of today's fans back to those glory days if you want to call about we all spent a few weeks making the upper make of the sacrifice traveling spent in the five spend the money. To -- racing live. And real time. Or -- in at all. It's not that there's anything wrong with raising reduced to a form of television entertainment. As long as we never confuse that with the real --"

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