Banned racing broadcast phrases

Motorsports commentators, interviewers, and interviewees should be forbidden from using the following clichés:

• “This could get really interesting.”
• “This is far from over.”
• “This changes the complexion of the race.”
• “You have to make it to the end.”
• “It’s early days.”
• “At the end of the day,”
• “It is what it is.”
• “Obviously,”
• “, obviously.”
• “Honestly,”
• “To be honest,”
• “, to be honest.”
• “_____ was the meat in the sandwich.”
• “in the middle of a … sandwich, as it were.”
• “If there had been _ more laps,”
• “What about this guy?”
• “[name] doing [name] things.”
• “How [happy/sad/excited/scared/angry/etc.] are you?”
• “front nose”
• “visually see”
• “discretion being the better part of valor.”
• “You could throw a blanket over those N cars.”
• “Two cars into one will not go.”
• “You can’t win a race on the first lap, but you can lose it.”
• “If they didn’t have bad luck, they’d have no luck at all.”

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