NBCs coverage of the Brickyard 400 from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway gets underway this Sunday with the Discover Card Countdown to Green pre-race show at 2:00pm/et followed by green flag racing from the Brickyard 400. TNT telecasts NASCAR Busch Series Racing from Indy [IRP], Saturday night at 8:00pm/et. Daytona brought NASCAR racing to the fans, said Bill Weber, NBC pre-race host and lead pit reporter. The Brickyard brought fans to NASCAR racing, simply by the name Indianapolis and the history associated with this track. Usually its about the race, but on this weekend, its about the place. For a lot of people, Daytona is the biggest race, but youd be surprised at the number of drivers who would tell you the Brickyard 400 is the biggest prize, analyst Wally Dallenbach said. To me and to a lot of other drivers who remember growing up here or in this tracks shadow, a win at the Brickyard is on the top of their list. NBC Sports will deploy 79 cameras including cameras unique to Indianapolis Motor Speedway: Squash-Cam, Wall-Cams and the Eye-Full Tower Cam. An extra bank of 11 monitors will be added to the NBC Sports production truck to accommodate the additional cameras for the Brickyard 400. Squash-Cam is a lipstick-size camera buried in the grass just inside Turn 1. The camera often shows a car moving over or extremely close to the camera lens to give the audience the feeling of being squashed, especially on starts and restarts. Wall-Cam is a lipstick-size camera embedded inside the outside wall of Turn 2 and Turn 4. The cameras shoot cars in Turns 1 and 3 respectively and give the viewer the sense of speed of the cars when they drive past the cameras. The Eye-Full Tower-Cam is a robotic camera atop the scoring pylon 92-feet in the air overlooking the infield and providing viewers a sense of the magnificent spectacle of Indianapolis Motor Speedway with its Canyon of Fans in the grandstands on either side of the racetracks frontstretch.(NBC PR)(7-31-2003)
