ABC begins its NASCAR Sprint Cup Series coverage on Saturday, Aug. 21 at 7:00 PM ET with races for 500 laps in prime time under the lights at Bristol, Tenn. Motor Speedway.
The race broadcast begins at 7:30 PM with NASCAR Countdown pre-race show kicks off the evening at 7 p.m. ET, race will begin at 7:43 PM.
ESPN will bring NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying also from Bristol on Friday, Aug. 20, at 5:30 PM. The NASCAR Nationwide Series also races under the lights at Bristol this weekend and season-long coverage on the ESPN networks continues. The race airs on ESPN beginning with NASCAR Countdown at 7 p.m. on Friday, with the race telecast at 8 p.m. and the green flag at 8:13 p.m.
Marty Reid will call the action with analysis by Dale Jarrett, the 1999 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion, and two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion crew chief Andy Petree. Two-time champion crew chief Tim Brewer will report from the ESPN Craftsman Tech Garage, while pit reporters will be Dave Burns, Jamie Little, Dr. Jerry Punch and Vince Welch.
NASCAR Countdown from the ESPN pit studio will be hosted by Allen Bestwick with analysis by 1989 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion driver Rusty Wallace, three-time champion crew chief Ray Evernham and Brad Daugherty, a team owner in the series. The studio team will interact with the booth during the telecast of the race.
ESPN analysts Rusty Wallace, Ricky Craven and Ray Evernham will be panelists on NASCAR Now’s weekly roundtable discussion program airing Tuesday, Aug. 24, at 1 a.m. ET (late Monday night) on ESPN2. Allen Bestwick will host the edition of ESPN2’s daily NASCAR news and information program.
Mike Massaro will host the weekend editions of NASCAR Now airing around the Saturday night, Aug. 21, live coverage of the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway. The one-hour preview show airs at 9 a.m. Saturday while the weekend wrap-up edition airs Sunday, Aug. 22, at 10 a.m. Marty Smith and Angelique Chengelis will report from the speedway, while Craven will join Massaro in the studio for analysis.
Massaro also hosts half-hour editions of NASCAR Now airing Tuesday and Thursday of this week at 5 p.m. and Wednesday at 6 p.m. There is no program on Friday due to live NASCAR programming.
NASCAR Now is hosted by Mike Massaro, Nicole Briscoe, Allen Bestwick and Shannon Spake and originates from ESPN’s high definition studios in Bristol, Conn. Contributors include reporters Marty Smith and Angelique Chengelis, analysts Ray Evernham, Tim Brewer, Brad Daugherty, and Ricky Craven, ESPN.com reporters Ed Hinton, Terry Blount and David Newton and ESPN the Magazine senior writer Ryan McGee. The NASCAR on ESPN team event coverage team of Rusty Wallace, Dale Jarrett, Marty Reid, Dr. Jerry Punch, Andy Petree, Dave Burns, Jamie Little, and Vince Welch also make frequent contributions to NASCAR Now.
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How come ABC does not show coverage of all of the NASCAR Sprint Cup race? I cannot afford cable or sattellite and have only local stations. FOX covers all of the races in the first half of the season. Why don’t yall?
we like to watch nascar sprint cup races but we are unable to get them because we only have reguar cable. We think this is very un fair as we can only get some of the races. As the final race gets closer we seem to get fewer and fewer. Is it not possible for abc to cover these races so we can all get them. thanks yvonne jarvo, ont.
I am SOOOOOO ticked off with A..F’n…BC….for NOT giving the PEASANTS who can’t afford SUPER TV, our red-neck trailer park love… NASCAR!!!!!!!
BOO to you ABC!!!
I have ATT u-verse but I still cannot watch one of the best races of the year because the local ABC station preempts the race for the local Pro football game. I guess I can’t blaim them for there are a lot of fans that want to watch the hame. However what I don’t like is the fact I do not have another option available to wateh the race.
Not happy in Houston!!!