It sits on the backstretch, dwarfing the facility’s standard-sized billboards as it rises up against the Texas sky. At 94.6 feet tall and 218 feet wide, ‘Big Hoss TV,’ the largest High-Definition LED video board in the world, personifies the attitude here at Texas Motor Speedway ‘ bigger and bolder. ‘Big Hoss’ has been busy this weekend, whether it’s broadcasting the day’s on-track activities or playing ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ Thursday night in the midst of a lightning storm. The screen is more than just eye candy for Texas Motor Speedway. The video board’s size and clarity means that it could come into play on Sunday as the Duck Commander 500 unfolds. The screen, built to give fans a better race-day experience, may also have the watchful eyes of drivers, crew chiefs and spotters upon it. ‘We’ve had Sprint Vision televisions around the track before, and sometimes we’d be able to catch up or watch during yellows,’ #18-Kyle Busch said. ‘Certainly the crew guys or even the spotters can pick up on it on ‘Big Hoss,’ and the spotters being up on the roof and watching the leaders or watching different lines ‘ you can see all that from the roof, but they can see a little bit better (on ‘Big Hoss’) from the cameras zooming in on the cars and see what’s going on. So yeah, it’s definitely an option to use that.’(NASCAR.com)
