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Feel free to use this thread to judge all of those who call the action in your favorite series.
Best for me:
Paul Page and Parker Johnstone made for a competent, but short-lived duo in the CART booth. The roasting of drivers that screwed around - mainly from Johnstone - certainly helped.
Leigh Diffey has been a fine modern-day Indycar commentator, with my only qualm being that he was, in my experience, just as uncritical of Santino Ferrucci as his biggest fanboy Paul Tracy. Also, while exploring the depths of Youtube for old races, I discovered he already called a NASCAR Busch North (predecessor to K&N East) race at Lime Rock in 2004 (maybe others too, but obscure coverage like that is hard to come by), far before any open wheel commitments. That was kinda cool.
In NASCAR, I can always appreciate the likes of Bob Jenkins or Mike Joy who are generally well aware of on-track happenings and are able to keep coming up with something new to say even if the race might be stagnant and uneventful.
David Addison of BTCC gets the job done in the same way.
Rick Allen and Phil Parsons were great in Trucks (plus occasionally ARCA and K&N) while it lasted, particularly when there were PRAWBLEMS! on track. Too bad the former's "promotion" to Cup has turned out pretty bad, and now whenever I hear him, he's basically overacting like it's nobody's business.
Not so great:
Vince Welch was picked for Truck commentary some time after Allen left, and my god, if he's that anemic in the highlight reels, I don't have much faith for his full race performances either. I guess the subpar commentary of modern day NASCAR fits its overall state rather perfectly, though.
When I caught up with TCR International and TCR Europe, I couldn't help but think Mark James is much better suited for a pit reporter's role. That, and he's awfully lonely in the booth, often running out of interesting things to say unless the race is extraordinarily good, or missing events that occur right on camera because he's busy listing the running order for the 11th time in a row.
Bob Dillner has actually seemed knowledgeable and competent at his jobs so far (coverage of lower level stock car races basically), but his voice is basically nails on a chalkboard to me. That's kind of a deal breaker over a full race distance.
Best for me:
Paul Page and Parker Johnstone made for a competent, but short-lived duo in the CART booth. The roasting of drivers that screwed around - mainly from Johnstone - certainly helped.
Leigh Diffey has been a fine modern-day Indycar commentator, with my only qualm being that he was, in my experience, just as uncritical of Santino Ferrucci as his biggest fanboy Paul Tracy. Also, while exploring the depths of Youtube for old races, I discovered he already called a NASCAR Busch North (predecessor to K&N East) race at Lime Rock in 2004 (maybe others too, but obscure coverage like that is hard to come by), far before any open wheel commitments. That was kinda cool.
In NASCAR, I can always appreciate the likes of Bob Jenkins or Mike Joy who are generally well aware of on-track happenings and are able to keep coming up with something new to say even if the race might be stagnant and uneventful.
David Addison of BTCC gets the job done in the same way.
Rick Allen and Phil Parsons were great in Trucks (plus occasionally ARCA and K&N) while it lasted, particularly when there were PRAWBLEMS! on track. Too bad the former's "promotion" to Cup has turned out pretty bad, and now whenever I hear him, he's basically overacting like it's nobody's business.
Not so great:
Vince Welch was picked for Truck commentary some time after Allen left, and my god, if he's that anemic in the highlight reels, I don't have much faith for his full race performances either. I guess the subpar commentary of modern day NASCAR fits its overall state rather perfectly, though.
When I caught up with TCR International and TCR Europe, I couldn't help but think Mark James is much better suited for a pit reporter's role. That, and he's awfully lonely in the booth, often running out of interesting things to say unless the race is extraordinarily good, or missing events that occur right on camera because he's busy listing the running order for the 11th time in a row.
Bob Dillner has actually seemed knowledgeable and competent at his jobs so far (coverage of lower level stock car races basically), but his voice is basically nails on a chalkboard to me. That's kind of a deal breaker over a full race distance.