ESPN NASCAR coverage most technologically advanced

ESPN presents NASCAR NEXTEL Cup and NASCAR Busch Series races with the most advanced technology in motorsports coverage. ESPN, which has televised more NASCAR Cup races than any other network, introduced High Definition in-car cameras in February at Daytona, becoming the first to use HD in-car cameras and produce race telecasts that are 100 percent HD. ESPN’s NASCAR coverage also includes HD cameras that provide distinctively different views, including the grass cam, wall cam, crew cams, pit overhead cams, blimps and multiple robotic cameras around the track.

Created exclusively for NASCAR on ESPN, the ESPN DISH Tech Center and the ESPN Pit Studio are the most technologically advanced mobile studio used in sports TV. In the DISH Tech Center, two-time NASCAR Cup champion crew chief Tim Brewer shows fans the intricacies and technologies of racing with the Chevy Cutaway Car and state-of-the-art touch-screen technology during live race telecasts. The ESPN Pit Studio is the home of the pre-race show NASCAR Countdown.

ESPN’S NASCAR FAST FACTS:
10 – Number of months ESPN’s NASCAR fleet will be on the road (February-November)
13 – Mobile units at each race (including pit studio, mobile office, in-car camera trailer, uplink trucks, ESPN Deportes)
19 – EVS servers for race and studio production (high-speed digital recording)
20 – Maximum miles of video, audio and power cable needed on site at racetracks
26 – Tracks ESPN’s mobile fleet will visit in 2007
38 – NASCAR events ESPN’s mobile fleet will attend in 2007
52 – NASCAR races to be televised live by ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN on ABC in 2007 (full 35-race NASCAR Busch Series season, final 17 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup events)
60-75 – HD Cameras used by ESPN to televise a NASCAR race (including in-car cameras)
80 – microphones both wired and wireless used at each race
150 – Hotel rooms needed each event for ESPN personnel
200 – Credentialed ESPN personnel working on NASCAR each week
78,000 – Weight in pounds of ESPN traveling studio for NASCAR Countdown shows
167,340 – Projected combined miles ESPN’s core of five mobile units will log in 2007

[Editor's Note: Given all the expense above, plus what NASCAR rapes them for, it's clear that ABC/ESPN will take a financial bloodbath with this NASCAR deal……just as NBC learned, hence they refused to re-bid the contract.]