This was my first attempt at watching a NASCAR race in well over a decade, so I am far from a knowledgeable fan or the target audience. That said...this was an unwatchable product due to all of the commercials. I turned it off and back on twice and abandoned it entirely with maybe 20 laps to go. Were the insane amount of commercials because of all the yellow/red flags? Or are NASCAR races just filled with commercials? Coming from just having watched the F1 race a few hours earlier...the production gap between the two events was jarring. Not that I am a huge F1 fan either, but I have watched it off and on over the past two seasons...outside of football season I am always hurting for sports to watch. F1 races have amazing cameras seemingly everywhere...this race, not so much. For half of it it seemed like I was watching water on glass.
As for the rain...I was surprised the race was not halted because for a while there were cars going off track or into each other lap after lap. Again as someone who just happened upon the broadcast, it seemed almost farcical. Does that always happen in NASCAR when it's wet? F1 handles wet weather much better based on my limited sample size. And maybe that's just the nature of the differences between the cars but if so you'd think they'd have rain delays or something like that.
All that said, commercials aside this was more entertaining than the F1 race earlier in the day where there were exactly two exciting moments and both of them were caused by equipment failure. Counting the days until September...