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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Talladega on ESPN

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series visits Talladega Superspeedway, NASCAR’s biggest track, for a 500-mile race on Sunday, Oct. 7, the fourth of 10 races in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. ESPN will have a live telecast with NASCAR Countdown at 1 p.m. ET and the race’s green flag at 2:19 p.m.  The telecast is presented by Pennzoil. All NASCAR programming on ESPN is also available on computers, smartphones and tablets with the WatchESPN app and WatchESPN.com.

Announcers:

Booth: Lap-by-Lap announcer Allen Bestwick; analysts Dale Jarrett, Andy Petree.

Pit reporters: Jamie Little, Mike Massaro, Dr. Jerry Punch, Vince Welch.

NASCAR Countdown: Nicole Briscoe (host); Rusty Wallace, Ray Evernham, Brad Daugherty (analysts).

 

NASCAR Now Schedule

ESPN2’s daily NASCAR news and information program NASCAR Now will preview the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway in the one-hour edition airing Sunday, Oct. 7, at 9 a.m. ET. Host Marty Reid will be joined in the studio by ESPN NASCAR analyst Ricky Craven with reporters Marty Smith and Shannon Spake at the track. The weekend wrap-up edition, with highlights of the Talladega race, airs that night at 11 p.m. ESPN analyst Dale Jarrett joins Craven and Spake to review the race on Monday, Oct. 8, at 3 p.m. The week’s schedule:

 

Date Time                 Show                 Host         Network

Mon., Oct. 1 2 p.m.         NASCAR Now Marty Reid ESPN2

Tue., Oct. 2 3:30 p.m. NASCAR Now Marty Reid ESPN2

Wed., Oct. 3 3 p.m.         NASCAR Now Marty Reid ESPN2

Thu., Oct. 4 3 p.m.         NASCAR Now Marty Reid ESPN2

Fri., Oct. 5 3:30 p.m. NASCAR Now Marty Reid ESPN2

Sun., Oct. 7 9 a.m.         NASCAR Now Marty Reid ESPN2

Sun., Oct. 7 11 p.m.         NASCAR Now Marty Reid ESPN2

Mon., Oct. 8 3 p.m.         NASCAR Now Marty Reid ESPN2

- ESPN Media Zone Press Release