Brian France discusses TV Coverage

Dustin Long of the Virginian Pilot / Roanoke Times ran into NASCAR Chairman Brian France on Sunday morning before the race at Texas Motor Speedway and got the chance to sit down with him for 15 minutes alone in the NASCAR hauler discussing some of the various issues that have arisen recently in the sport.

Q: What is your feeling of the comments TV commentators made to me in the Frankly Speaking series and the things were said on the ABC broadcast last weekend at Talladega.

BRIAN FRANCE: Clearly, this is a sport that has a lot of opinions and most other sports channel their thoughts and criticisms differently and that is an unusual thing that we have to have people within the sport openly just criticizing as we go along but maybe that's something very unique in NASCAR that no other sport has to sort out. We'll sort it out.''

Q: Some fans may look at your comment as NASCAR is trying to quiet the commentators and keep them from telling the truth per say, can you clarify your feelings on the subject: See the transcript of what France said at the Virginian Pilot