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The Teardown

Future of NASCAR beat reporting

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

News, Sports News, Sports

4.6864 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

With one-day shows seeming to be the wave of the future and three-day weekends mostly eliminated, how will the role of the NASCAR media change in 2021 and beyond? Jeff and Jordan ponder what could lie ahead in a post-COVID world.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of The Teardown. My name is Jeff Fluck,

0:20.5

and I'm along with my co-worker

0:21.8

Jordan Bianchi. We are motorsports writers here at The Athletic, and today we have a little bit

0:28.6

of a different type of podcast for you, because we're going to talk about our jobs, a little bit

0:34.8

of a in the weeds thing, I guess, compared to some of the preseason

0:39.2

and offseason content we've been doing, but try to mix it up a little bit here and talk

0:44.6

about what we think is the future of how our roles will be.

0:50.3

But first of all, Jordan, you are at the racetrack right now.

0:54.6

How's it going in Daytona?

0:57.2

Speaking of our jobs, it feels very weird to be back at a racetrack.

1:00.6

It's been a little while to actually be able to walk around a track and kind of observe everything.

1:06.6

And it also is kind of the kickoff to the season.

1:09.4

I know we talked about that with the chili bowl. And, you know, you start with the chili bowl in mid-January and you go right into Rolex and

1:15.3

this truly does feel like the racing season is upon us. And it's great. I mean, it's the Rolex is always

1:20.8

a fun event. Cars on the racetrack, a lot of different kind of cars, style cars, sound, sites,

1:26.7

always an experience that I enjoy.

1:29.3

So tell us, I mean, you obviously covered the Rolex last year as well.

1:35.0

And obviously this is not, you're not there at the Rolex yet.

1:38.2

This is the Roar where they do their sort of warm-up practice sessions before they get to the

1:42.6

Rolex this upcoming weekend.

1:45.4

But, you know, what's it like there?

1:47.7

What are some of the differences in some of the restrictions and things you can do there

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