***disclaimer, my views are my views and not the views of my friends***
I was excited to watch it, had a group of 12 over to the house to watch it and BBQ. One of those friend being Mike Maier, his wife Brianne and both of their kids. We were all excited to watch it. One of my other friends is a video editor for a major online search engine.
I was not impressed, frankly I would have turned it off if I didn't have everyone over to watch it. The editing was poor, the video content was poor and it seemed like more of an infomercial for Optima Batteries, K&N Filters and Detroit Speed. It would have been nice to have all the commentary from Chad as a voice over with more footage of the track.
Mike was the Wilwood Brakes entry for the event and not a mention of him or the car. I was there all weekend helping him, the camera was in his face a lot but nothing. They had a grainy off color shot of him and Cortex in the opening credits but no on track showing. A lot of awesome cars there that sounded amazing and you would have thought there would have been some camera shots of some of these cars hauling ass up the front stretch.
They only showed the results from the autocross. What happened to the results of the start stop challenge, and the road course? Hell, who had the best poker hand? Not a mention of any of it. But, they had two segments worth on the Chevelle that was the K&N entry, and what was that when they went to the K&N factory, was that a commercial or part of the show?
Brian Houbaugh had more coverage in acommercial than any of the winners had on the entire show.
If I were a sponsor of a car hoping for some air time I'd be extremely upset. I hope the other shows get better or this will go down as a flop and no one is going to promote how much fun they had or how many laps they ran because there isn't a chance their cars will be seen.
I'm done rambling now.
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