NASCAR Fans Fume That The Coke 600 Is Streaming On Amazon Prime, But So Far It’s Been The Best Broadcast Of The Year

Always something to complain about. The Sunday before Memorial Day is basically motorsports Christmas, with Formula One in Monaco, the Indianapolis 500, and NASCAR’s longest race with the Coca-Cola 600 all falling on the same day for a holiday weekend full of nothing but racing. This year’s Coke 600 is also historic for being the first NASCAR Cup Series race ever broadcast on Amazon Prime, which will be streaming 5 races under the sport’s new television deal. The broadcast booth […] The post NASCAR Fans Fume That The Coke 600 Is Streaming On Amazon Prime, But So Far It’s Been The Best Broadcast Of The Year first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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NASCAR Fans Fume That The Coke 600 Is Streaming On Amazon Prime, But So Far It’s Been The Best Broadcast Of The Year

Always something to complain about.

The Sunday before Memorial Day is basically motorsports Christmas, with Formula One in Monaco, the Indianapolis 500, and NASCAR’s longest race with the Coca-Cola 600 all falling on the same day for a holiday weekend full of nothing but racing.

This year’s Coke 600 is also historic for being the first NASCAR Cup Series race ever broadcast on Amazon Prime, which will be streaming 5 races under the sport’s new television deal.

The broadcast booth features veteran play-by-play announcer Adam Alexander, along with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Steve Letarte, and the extended team also includes veteran pit reporter Marty Snider along with NASCAR veteran Carl Edwards making his broadcast debut for Prime’s pre-and post-race coverage. And most importantly, Prime has vowed that there won’t be any full-screen commercials during green flag racing, so we won’t have to miss a minute of the action on the track.

Prime’s stretch of races also comes after NASCAR on Fox just wrapped up their portion of the season, and received quite a bit of criticism from fans for their coverage – and deservedly so, in my opinion. Fox was notorious for missing big moments on the track, showing bizarre camera angles when something was happening, and just overall subpar work.

There were also a ton of commercials during Fox’s part of the season, including full-screen commercials in the last few laps of several races. And the broadcast booth of Mike Joy, Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer also received their share of criticism for the lack of excitement and failure to highlight key moves of the race.

Long story short, fans were ready to be done with Fox for the season. But of course because people always want to have something to complain about, a lot of fans aren’t happy that the races are now on Prime.

It’s usually hard to know what channel the @NASCAR race is on week to week. They do a terrible job promoting the sport. And now, for the Coke 600, a Memorial Day tradition, they put it on Prime TV only. How out of touch can you possibly be???
— Rick Jabbo (@rickjabbo) May 25, 2025

Been a Nascar fan for 40+ years. Now that It's more important to switch to Prime tv and make more money I'm done. I will not pay for Prime tv to watch the races. In another 10 years Nascar will have 0 fans. The younger generation are not interested and the older ones won't pay.
— Jim (@StolbaJim) May 25, 2025

This will mark the end of NASCAR… Putting it on PrimeVideo where the majority of fans can not watch it, is a big “F” you to all. It’s a sad day.
— Jim Pollock (@poll69875637) May 25, 2025

You disgraceful bastards. This race puts on the best military support presentation. You have deprived all of us of that. As a proud American you guys are an embarrassment. At least I don’t have to watch one big long Toyota commercial. goodbye in all languages
— Chris (@IFODMF) May 25, 2025

I think you lost me for good nascar. Horrible decision to go on prime!!
— Chad of Chad’s (@JuckoWoodrow) May 25, 2025

Just found out that for the first time in my life I won’t be able to watch the Coke 600 this Sunday because it’ll only be on Amazon. I can’t state clearly enough how much I have grown to hate @NASCAR and what they have done to the sport. I’m not paying for prime to watch a race
— Brad P (@BradP615) May 22, 2025

Putting the Coke 600 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video is going to be a DISASTER for NASCAR viewership numbers.
I highly doubt that we’ll see it happen again next year.
— Jim, when the walls fell. Read More