NASCAR on Sirius Radio

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I love NASCAR and I was really excited that NASCAR would have their own channel this on Sirius Radio. We go away n the weekends and have to leave by 6pm in order to get home at a reasonable time on Sunday night. Very often this would mean I would miss the end of the ace if I couldn't find a radio channel broadcast of the event. The NASCAR Sirius Channel seemed like it would be the perfect answer for me. Sirius has been actively promoting this channel since lat year nd they were hoping to add to their subscribers by this additional channel, and I'm sure they were successful. If you are a NASCAR fan and cannot always see the race broadcast on TV, what better way i there to insure the fact that you could still experience the action first hand? This weekend was the big event for us NASCAR fans, the opening race of the season, Daytona 500. Much to my dismay, the race didn't start until 3pm Eastern and I of course wouldn't be able to see the end of the race, which IMHO is the best part. Not to worry, I kept telling myself, I'll be able to listen to it on Sirius and see the highlights on TV at night. What a BIG disappointment to say the very least. There were a little less than 100 laps to go when it was time to get in the car and leave. I found the channel with no problem and while listening to the race is not the same as seeing it, it is better than missing it all together, or so I thought. While trying to listen to the announcers tell me what was going on and who was in what place, I had to listen to the pit chiefs, the spotters and the drivers talking on their radios which over rode the broadcast of the actual race. Also, Sirius is supposed to be commercial free radio. This is why you pay a monthly subscription fee. Not NASCAR channel. Every five minutes there were commercials, not just a commercial, but several. Now back to the race, but did I hear what was going on in the race? No way, I kept getting the spotters talking to their drivers and pit chief babble. The end of the race, the most exciting part mind you, there is of course an accident and a red flag. I should have taken this opportunity to try and find the broadcast on free radio, but I was afraid of actually missing the end after the red flag stoppage of racing. No telling how long it is going to take them to clean up the track. Surely they'll not have the cut in broadcast from the pit crews and potters during the exciting end to a race. Wrong! The race restarts and I heard no one iota of the end. All that was broadcast was some spotter's babble. Five minutes after the end of the race I caught a quick blip of Kevin Harvick's win. Never heard how he passed Mark Martin, how the back stretch faired, just more of pit crews babble and spotters babble. You can subscribes in many ways to pit crews and spotters if you are interested in hearing them converse during the race. What makes Sirius think that we are more interested in this broad-casted than the actual race? Why does their babble over ride the announcer's broadcast of the race? This just doesn't make sense to me. To say I'm mad,disappointed, and just plain baffled would be an understatement. If you were considering getting Sirius over XM just because they have broadcasts of the races, don't. At least not until they correct this problem or what I see as a problem. I'm wondering if all the other subscribers were as aggravated as I.