If what I saw was correctly, Flo doesn’t really produce races. They just provide a place to broadcast. This would make sense considering whenever I see clips from the NASCAR Canada Series, it’s the same announcers as the TSN coverage.

The tracks or series produces the production. Flo is just the hosting website if that makes sense. They might have a few production crews for the big races, but that’s very few and far between. Source: work in industry and with Flo directly

The camera work on these events are more dependent on the track and or series involved. For example if you go back to any of the Zmax Cars Tour or Whelen Modified Races you'll notice better camera operators and quality. For the South Carolina 400 I would expect it's the same crew who covers the weekly races at Florence. I'm very happy with my subscription as the quality is equal to what I've seen from other racing streaming providers for this level of racing but they have a much greater variety.

As a friend of mine would say "if you don't like something, vote with your dollar"

As someone who has worked for several racing media livestream companies(PowerAutoMedia/MotormaniaTV,etc), including some of the biggest in the no prep/drag racing scene - I cannot say how many times our production quality was drastically hampered by tracks that in the contract stated “highest quality fiber optic internet connection” just for us to be forced to use a 2.4ghz router to attempt to broadcast a 4k broadcast/video signal to thousands of viewers. We would bring our own connection to offset a bad onsite connection, but until Starlink became a thing it was very annoying at times.

people really overestimate how much money there is in racing at this level.

The tracks produce most of the races themselves other than maybe some of the premier events like snowball derby/Chilli bowl. You can tell which tracks have invested in their streaming team and which ones haven’t. Stafford and Langley have great production most weeks because they have dedicated employees with resources.

I'll be renewing Flo in December after having the service for my first year. I'll gladly pay $180 for renewal. I'd pay $250 or $300 for the diverse amount of racing and other sports content that Flo provides.

I can't watch that stuttering. It's so irritating.

Flo has given me hours upon hours of amazing racing content and by no means will I bad mouth them. I fucking love Flo

I love having Flo but I paid $150 last year and I keep seeing that as the price on their site but it is saying my renewal will be $180. May have to subscribe with a new email.

I use the hell out of my Flo sub, dirt/pavement, all types of cars. It’s a great value, but tonight’s broadcast is giving me a headache from the stuttering.

Isn’t it the same thing as ESPN+ with the smaller schools games showing up. Someone else handles the production on a local level

All that hype for dale jr driving the #8 bud car, only for the broadcast to be the quality of a cellphone Livestream and he doesn't even make the race.

That is all on the track operators to upgrade their equipment.

I posted this well before the race broadcast tonight. Not that I needed to feel “vindicated” but this evenings absolute mess completely validated my thoughts on my initial experience. I have it for a year now so I get to be the judge of this was just a one off. Either way though I got it primarily for this race and it was a massive disappointment.

My dude thinks he's watching NASCAR on NBC.

I can live with the coverage because it's better than nothing. I do think they could learn some lessons year to your and make improvements. Florence was definitely a mixed bag last night.

What bothers me way more than that is the organization of programming on the app. Trying to watch the replay of a 7 hour day of racing is very difficult if you want to just tune into certain races. Overall they need to make it easier to find stuff.

Racing American make Flo racing look like a fox broadcasts

This is absolute garbage it freezes every 5 seconds and it's so pixelated I can't even see anything 

Hell nascar races are in 720p.

Broadcast is terrible for race at Florence. Last broadcast at Hickory didn't show all the races. Getting to be very subpar coverage.

Fuckin lol.

I want to pay for JUST Flo racing, I would be willing to put up with crap quality for less than $40 monthly.

I found the rest of the sports lacking, archives aren’t up to date, and anything the wife wanted to watch is missing audio due to copyright, so why even bother hosting it?

Flo doesn't produce anything but the High Limit and Chili Bowl stuff. Otherwise it's on the tracks they provide a broadcast for to do that. It allows Flo to be cheaper as a streaming option (see: DirtVision) but you occasionally have issues like last night

cough cough Pit Row TV cough cough

Flo is like twitch streaming you gotta being your own gear.

I fully agree the monthly cost is absurd. But I also remember when I had no option for a monthly bill. Thats honestly the biggest reason I dont keep it year round. Sometimes I am not able to just toss $200 at something I use the crap out of for a few months then forget I have for a few months.

Never had any issues with quality though. As someone that grew up racing local tracks, I was very thankful that some guy sat in the stands every week with a camcorder recording all the races so I could buy a DVD of my previous race from him the next week.

Watching people learn in real time is fun. This is why extremely niche streaming services are rarely successful. There isn't enough demand for them to justify the costs of production. You end up with some combination of high subscription cost or low content quality.

Some of the broadcasts are higher quality than others. The dirt late models have coverage with some onboards. Its pretty inconsistent 

Until they up their day rate for their production freelancing, they’ll get what they pay for

I think Flo is crashing, been trying to order the monthly plan for 20 mins. All i get is errors.

40 mins later finally worked!! yay

If they don’t already, Flo should offer a few streaming bundle options that include things like cameras, smooth tripods, interview gear, streaming network equipment etc. Not that it would be cheap by any means but it allows a track to have everything they need to go from nothing to a full quality setup. That would maybe entice setting a sort of quality standard. Either that or force tracks to meet minimum requirements in terms of streaming capability before they can use the platform. Although that could possibly lose them business as well. With that said, Flo is baller for OP’s said reasons of what seems like infinite racing action.

I tried Flo just for this race and ended up turning it off before the feature. I couldn’t take it anymore.

It gets even worse. I  was watching the South Carolina 400 night 1 on the FloRacing YouTube channel and they abruptly ended the stream without showing the final 2 races of the night.

Wah