In a uncommon transfer, NASCAR moved the beginning time for final weekend’s race at Pocono up a full two hours, which they had been solely in a position to do due to flexibility offered by Prime Video as a streaming service.
On this week’s version of Contained in the Race, each Steve Letarte and Kyle Petty praised NASCAR and Prime for the proactive measure, which allowed for all 400 miles/160 laps of racing to happen with out a single delay.
“Bravo to Prime,” remarked Letarte, a former Daytona 500-winning crew chief. “I do know I work for them, however bravo as a result of I’ll inform you, about 5 minutes after we obtained off the post-race stage, there would have been no racing. The rain was there.”
Petty agreed, saying: “There’s 1,000,000 followers you can most likely name up on the cellphone proper now which have sat within the grandstands for 5 – 6 hours to see the final half of a race, saying ‘oh my gosh I want they might have moved it up so we may see the entire race.’ I applaud Amazon, NASCAR, everyone. We’re very blessed to be with Amazon in this time period, after they could make that adjustment. Some networks cannot make that adjustment, some networks cannot. I utterly perceive that, however to be with a companion like Amazon who can regulate for the followers and the opponents, everyone received on this.”
Properly it was definitely name,, the late change did not replicate positively in TV scores, with 1.66 million viewers (down eleven % from 2025).
‘Contained in the Race’ can be stay from San Diego this Sunday, internet hosting a post-race present from Naval Base Coronado. Our Senior NASCAR Editor Matt Weaver will make an look on the present, which you’ll watch stay on Motorsport.com following the conclusion of Prime’s closing broadcast of the 2026 season.
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