'Contained in the Race' praises NASCAR and Prime for Pocono begin time changes

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 capable of do due to flexibility offered by Prime Video as a streaming service.

On this week’s version ofInside 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 and not using a single delay.

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“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 let you know, about 5 minutes after we bought off the post-race stage, there would have been no racing. The rain was there.”

Petty agreed, saying: “There’s one million followers you may in all probability name up on the telephone 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’d 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, once they could make that adjustment. Some networks cannot make that adjustment, some networks cannot. I utterly perceive that, however to be with a associate like Amazon who can alter for the followers and the rivals, everyone received on this.”

Nicely it was definitely a superb name,, the late change did not replicate positively in TV rankings, with 1.66 million viewers (down eleven p.c from 2025).

‘Contained in the Race’ might be dwell 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 dwell on Motorsport.com following the conclusion of Prime’s ultimate broadcast of the 2026 season.

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