I took a look at the online NASCAR RaceView subscription using their 14 day free offer. It's a feature rich app that has a lot going for it but they still have a little ways to go. It took over 30 minutes to fully download all the apps including all the Java/Adobe Flash apps to where I could fully use the product. The service is a bit flakey as I had to reboot twice and deal with lockups as I tried different features. They claim you can watch any driver from multiple cameras. That's somewhat true. You're not watching through actual track cameras, you’re watching a virtual representation which is like watching a video game. It is however watching your selected car in traffic in real-time. They have several camera views you can cycle through. Birdseye which is like a blimp shot, Top (which is about half the distance to the car you've selected) Side (which is just a side view) Rear, Front and Automatic which cycles camera views much like a TV broadcast but focuses on your selected car. The team radio feature and car telemetry readouts are probably the coolest thing they have going. I also liked the real-time feel. It accurately signaled a yellow flag condition before my satellite TV broadcast made it to my TV. Watching the actual broadcast on my TV was far more engaging than the graphical on the computer and I didn't really see a benefit to running the app while watching it at the same time on TV. That was disappointing because that's what I was really looking for. I suppose if I was a big fan of one driver I would run the team radio feature so I could hear more info about what was happening to my driver, but I didn’t see $79.00/yr of value. I think if they'd allow us to view real cameras in real time, it’d be worth it.
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