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Embarking on its 24th consecutive season of NASCAR coverage and its 21st Daytona 500, FOX Sports announces its unparalleled broadcaster lineup for the 2024 Daytona Speedweeks and 2024 NASCAR season.
DAYTONA 500 COVERAGE
Former NASCAR Cup Series champion and 2007 Daytona 500 winner Kevin Harvick makes his NASCAR analyst debut on FOX on Sunday, Feb. 18 (2:30 PM ET), alongside play-by-play announcer Mike Joy, covering his 45th Daytona 500 for live TV or radio, and analyst and former driver Clint Bowyer, in his fourth year with FOX Sports. I feel that Harvick is going to be a plus to the TV coverage.
Longtime race analyst and two-time DAYTONA 500-winning crew chief Larry McReynolds, with FOX for his 21st consecutive Daytona Speedweeks, partners with Joy, Bowyer and Harvick from the FOX Sports studios in Charlotte.
Veteran reporters Jamie Little, Regan Smith and Josh Sims deliver pit road news and updates, with additional offerings by two-time Daytona 500 champion Michael Waltrip.
Pole qualifying for the 500 takes place on Wednesday night at 8:15 p.m. and can be seen on FS1. And on Thursday night the Bluegreen Vacations Duel will be run with spots 3-40 decided for the 500. Racing starts at 7 p.m.
NASCAR RACEDAY
Shannon Spake anchors NASCAR RACEDAY prerace studio coverage, with analysis from McReynolds, former Daytona 500 champion Trevor Bayne and Hall of Famer Bobby Labonte. Chris Myers hosts FOX prerace coverage from the track for his 22nd Daytona 500 alongside Bowyer, Harvick and 2010 Daytona 500 champion Jamie McMurray, with Waltrip offering “Grid Walk” interviews on pit road. Little, Smith and Sims contribute pit reports.
Veteran reporter and 17-time Sports Emmy winner Tom Rinaldi also will contribute to FOX Sports’ prerace coverage.
FOX DEPORTES
FOX Deportes returns to the Daytona 500 for its 13th consecutive season, with renowned announcer Tony Rivera providing play-by-play, Emmy Award winner Jessi Losada offering analysis and Giselle Zarur delivering interviews and reporting from pit road.
NASCAR XFINITY SERIES
FOX NASCAR continues to welcome a variety of active NASCAR Cup Series drivers to the FS1 booth for all NASCAR Xfinity Series race broadcasts this season alongside play-by-announcer Adam Alexander, a practice begun in 2015. Alexander will call the season opener from Daytona on Saturday, Feb. 17 (5:00 PM ET on FS1), with analysis from former NASCAR Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski and Austin Dillon. Smith and Sims handle reporting duties. Spake hosts NASCAR RACEDAY-XFINITY from Charlotte with McReynolds and Bayne offering analysis.
NASCAR CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES
Alexander and Little, the first and only female play-by-play announcer in NASCAR, again share play-by-play duties for FOX NASCAR’s 22nd season of NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series coverage. Alexander calls the season opener from Daytona on Friday, Feb. 16 (7:30 PM ET on FS1), alongside analysts Waltrip and Phil Parsons, with Amanda Busick and Smith delivering pit reports.
Kaitlyn Vincie continues to host NASCAR RACEDAY-NCTS from the Charlotte studio prior to each Truck Series race alongside analyst and two-time series champion Todd Bodine and Bayne.
ARCA MENARDS SERIES
FOX Sports embarks on its 28th season of ARCA Menards Series coverage, airing all 20 races live on FS1 or FS2. Little returns to the play-by-play chair for the fourth season, beginning with the Daytona season opener on Saturday, Feb. 17 (1:30 PM ET on FS1). Parsons again is by her side as analyst alongside guest driver analyst Austin Cindric, with Busick and Heather DeBeaux covering pit road at Daytona.
NASCAR RACE HUB
FS1’s longest-running daily studio show, NASCAR RACE HUB, returns in 2023 for its 15th season. Alexander, Spake, Vincie and Sims co-host with analysis from McReynolds, Bowyer, McMurray, Waltrip, Smith, Labonte, Bayne, Bodine and David Ragan. NASCAR drivers and crew chiefs rotating as analysts include Bayne, Aric Almirola, Dillon, Keselowski, Joey Logano, Daniel Suárez, Drew Blickensderfer, Chad Knaus and Andy Petree.
Evergreen Raceway, St, Johns, PA, will begin the 2024 season of weekly racing at the 1/3-mile paved oval on Sunday afternoon, May 5, featuring the Tour Type Modifieds headlining the stock car line-up along with Street Stocks, Four Cylinders, Rotten-and-Forgotten , such a unique name for a race division) and the Novice classes.
Regular tracks classes will include Tour Type Modifieds, 602 Crate Modifieds, Late Models, Street Stocks, Four Cylinders, Rotten-and Forgotten and Novices. Sprinkled in throughout the season will be Bangers, a stock, front wheel drive 4-Cylinder car, the TQ Midgets of the American Three Quarter Midget Racing Association and Legends Cars. Plus the JuiceBox Division will be in action on a number of dates.
Also several weekends are dedicated to the popular Evergreen Drift. The Rusty Wallace Driving School has also inked Saturday, June 8, for their instructional stock car school.
The Evergreen Raceway 2-Seater Ride-Along will be hitting the track this year which gives fans the golden opportunity to strap into a Late Model stock car and experience what if feels like to be in full race conditions. Maybe they will let me try that if I fit in the car.
Prior to Opening Day there will be a pair of Enduro’s run. First on Saturday afternoon, February 24, with a 4/6-Cylinder Enduro and an Outlaw 8-Cylinder Enduro plus the JuiceBox Division.
On Saturday, April 27, another 4/6-Cylinder Enduro will be held which will follow and open practice for all regular track classes. The following Sunday afternoon, a second open practice will be run in advance of the May 5 opener.
The compete 2024 schedule will be released soon. For additional information please log onto the official Evergreen Raceway website at https://www.evergreenracewaypark.com/. Also on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/evergreenraceway
After completing a highly competitive and exciting racing season last year, with multiple winners in each division and two new Track Champions, Grandview Speedway is ready to get back to racing with an action-packed schedule for the 2024 season.
On track action for the new season will begin on Saturday, March 23 with the first of nine scheduled Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage Car double-headers starting at 12 Noon.
The following Saturday, March 30 will be the annual Free-to-the-public open practice session, open to all divisions starting at 12 Noon. Grandstand admission is free to all spectators while the driver’s test their equipment for the new season.
The official 62nd season opener will follow on Saturday, April 6 with the 7th annual Bruce Rogers Memorial Money Maker 50 for Big Block/Small Block Modifieds. The race carries a rain date of April 13, and the Sportsman will also join the program starting at 6 pm.
Traditional fan favorite events are once again a big part of the schedule with the 54th annual running of the following races, the Firecracker 40 for the Sportsman on July 13, Forrest Rogers Memorial for the Modifieds on August 10, and the end of the season Freedom 76 Modified Championship on September 21. Each of these races carries a rain date of the following week.
The weekly Saturday night racing programs will once again feature the 358 Modifieds and new for 2024 the 602 Crate Sportsman running in two-division programs. T.P. Trailers and T. P Truck Equipment will once again be sponsoring both divisions in 2024 and provide bonus money (Modified $300, 602 Sportsman $200) to both winners every Saturday night throughout the season.
For the upcoming year, the wingless USAC East Coast Sprints will make their annual visit joining the Modifieds and 602 Sportsman on Saturday, May 11.
The 35th season of the Rogers Family/Bob Miller promoted Thunder on the Hill Racing Series returns with three events in 2024, including two returning favorites in the Jesse Hockett Classic Eastern Storm featuring the USAC National Sprint Tour non-wing Sprints, and the always popular Hodnett Cup Pennsylvania 410 Sprint car SpeedWeek series race that pays $10,000 to win. Both programs will see the 358 Modifieds join the show.
A new race event on the Thunder on the Hill schedule last season was the High Limit 410 Sprint Car Series. This new series is organized and promoted by 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Champion Kyle Larson and Five-Time World of Outlaws Sprint Series Champion Brad Sweet. This 410 Sprint-only event will return to Grandview once again in 2024 on Tuesday, May 28 and see the drivers racing for a huge $20,000 to win! (This event carries a rain date of Wednesday May 29).
Remaining dates for the Outlaw Racing Series Enduro and Outlaw Racing Series Vintage drivers are April 14, May 10, June 7, July 12 August 2 and 30, September 28, and October 19.
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Ernie Saxton is an auto racing contributor for MediaNews Group. He co-founded the Eastern Motorsports Press Association, served as public relations director for Grandview Speedway for 47 years, and is in multiple halls of fame for his promotion and journalism related to the sport. He has announced races at more than 100 tracks, and he is the only person to have announced a race at Madison Square Garden. Email him at ESaxton144@aol.com.
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