Monday, October 29, 2012

NASCAR This Week on ESPN



NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide Series at Texas
The NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series will race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth this weekend with races on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 3-4. ESPN will have a live telecast of Sunday’s 500-mile NASCAR Sprint Cup race, the eighth race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, with NASCAR Countdown at 2 p.m. ET and the race’s green flag at 3:16 p.m. Saturday night’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race also airs on ESPN, with NASCAR Countdown at 7 p.m. and the green flag at 7:41 p.m.  Also from Texas, ESPN2 will televise NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying on Friday, Nov. 2, at 4:30 p.m. All NASCAR programming on ESPN and ESPN2 is also available on computers, smartphones and tablets with the WatchESPN app and WatchESPN.com.

Announcers:
Booth: Lap-by-Lap announcer Allen Bestwick (Sprint Cup); Marty Reid (Nationwide); analysts Dale Jarrett, Andy Petree.
Pit reporters: Dave Burns, Jamie Little, 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 Texas Motor Speedway in the one-hour edition airing Sunday, Nov. 4, at 8 a.m. ET. Host Mike Massaro will be joined in the studio by ESPN NASCAR analyst Ricky Craven with reporters Marty Smith and Ryan McGee at the track. Massaro and Craven will review the race Sunday night at 10 p.m. while ESPN analyst Rusty Wallace joins for more review on Monday’s show at 11:30 p.m. The week’s schedule:

Date    Time          Show                  Host              Network
Mon., Oct. 29 3 p.m.  NASCAR Now Marty Reid            ESPN2
Tue., Oct. 30 3:30 p.m. NASCAR Now Marty Reid            ESPN2
Wed., Oct. 31 3 p.m.  NASCAR Now Marty Reid            ESPN2
Thu., Nov. 1 3 p.m.  NASCAR Now Mike Massaro       ESPN2
Fri., Nov. 2 4 p.m.  NASCAR Now Mike Massaro       ESPN2
Sun., Nov. 4 8 a.m.  NASCAR Now Mike Massaro       ESPN2
Sun., Nov. 4 10 p.m.  NASCAR Now Mike Massaro       ESPN2

- ESPN Media Zone  

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