The news regarding the cancellation to NASCAR Race Hub on FS1 has come across Denny Hamlin’s desk, and he’s not too happy about the development.
During the latest episode of his Actions Detrimental podcast, Hamlin expressed his disappointment that the show is ending, but theorized we could see it pop up again with a different one of NASCAR’s broadcasting partners.
“We also had news that (NASCAR) Race Hub is ending, after I think 15 years,” Hamlin stated. “It sure was convenient to be on cable. I don’t care, it’s on a sports network. For me personally, right, I would always go into a restaurant or something, and it’s casually on. … I mean, I’m serious. It would replay. They have it on FS1, constantly. So it just would replay throughout the week, even when it wasn’t in its designated time-slot. So I think trying to switch it to a YouTube platform, I’m not totally sold on that. I still think it’d be better to have something on cable. I understand that there’s some sports that don’t have a daily show, but I think it was certainly an asset for our sport to have, for sure.”
“… Let’s just say, my intuition says it’s going to get replaced with something, whether it be NASCAR or one of the new partners or something, but I don’t love getting off of FS1 for an hour a week. I don’t love it, but it’s not our decision. What I understood too, that was a real money-loss for FOX. They spent quite a bit of money, per year, putting that on. It was a net negative. So yeah, everyone’s got a business to run.”
Hamlin makes some salient points, as NASCAR Race Hub helped bring the sport to some places that wouldn’t normally watch it. However, with the loss of revenue and cutbacks across the board for many of NASCAR’s broadcasting partners, it’s cancellation isn’t exactly a surprise.
As Hamlin mentioned, perhaps one of NASCAR’s new partners in Amazon Prime Video or TNT Sports decides to pickup the show, or at least create their own version of it. That could be an interesting solution to the problem.
Regardless, NASCAR Race Hub will finish out the season, and then be on its way. We’ll see if something, if anything, takes it’s place when the void is created by the decision later this season.
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