Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 53rd season of professional stock car racing in the United States, the 30th modern-era Cup series. It began on February 11, 2001, at Daytona International Speedway and ended on November 23, 2001, at New Hampshire International Speedway .
As a result, NASCAR's relationship with CBS, its oldest television partner, concluded at the end of the 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Series. While the 2000 Pepsi 400 was the last Winston Cup Series race to be broadcast on CBS, their true final NASCAR race in general was the Craftsman Truck Series' Chevy Silverado 200, broadcast on July 15, 2000.
The following NASCAR national series were held in 2001: 2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Series - The top racing series in NASCAR;
Under the new deal, Fox Sports, FX, NBC and TBS (later moved to TNT) agreed to pay $2.4 billion for a new six-year package, [6] covering the Winston Cup (now NASCAR Cup) Series and Busch (now Xfinity) Series schedules. Fox and FX would televise the first 16 races of the 2001, 2003 and 2005 seasons and races 2 through 17 of the 2002, 2004 and ...
Select NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now NASCAR Cup Series), Busch Series (now Xfinity Series), and Craftsman Truck Series races were aired on TBS from its debut in 1983 up to the 2000 season. [2] Races were switched to TNT in 2001 as part of the then-new NASCAR television deal, although the initial plans [3] were for TBS Superstation to carry the ...
2001 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400; 2001 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 400; 2001 Dodge/Save Mart 350; 2001 Food City 500; 2001 Global Crossing at the Glen; 2001 Harrah's 500 (NASCAR) 2001 Kmart 400; 2001 NAPA 500; 2001 New England 300; 2001 Pennsylvania 500; 2001 Pepsi 400 Presented by Meijer; 2001 Pocono 500; 2001 Pontiac Excitement 400; 2001 Pop Secret ...
Left to become the play-by-play for Cup and Xfinity Series for NASCAR on NBC.) Steve Byrnes (2001–2015) Pit reporter (died April 21, 2015 from cancer) Jeanne Zelasko (2001–2006) Pit reporter (currently works for Bally Sports covering the Los Angeles Clippers) Dick Berggren (2001–2012) Pit reporter (retired from broadcasting after 2012 season)
The NASCAR Winston Cup Series era was the period of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) from 1971 to 2003. In 1971, NASCAR leased its naming rights to the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company who named the series after its premier brand "Winston". The series was referred to as the NASCAR Winston Cup Series from that point ...