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Phoenix 150 – Live coverage of the race in segments. Florida Derby – Live coverage of three races. April 18 1970 Gwyn Staley 400 – Live Coverage of the latter stages of the race. May 2 Dan Gable loses his final match in collegiate competition to Larry Owings of Washington at the NCAA Championships. It was the only loss of his collegiate ...
American Le Mans Series – transferred to ESPN and ABC; became United SportsCar Racing in 2014 and broadcast on Fox Sports 1; American Speed Association; Champ Car (2002–2006) European Touring Car Championship; Formula One – given to NBC Sports; IMSA GT Championship – SPEED showed its successor, the ALMS, until 2011 as well as the ...
ESPN SpeedWorld (formerly Auto Racing '79–'86) is a former television series broadcast on ESPN from 1979 to 2006. The program that was based primarily based around NASCAR, CART, IMSA, Formula One, NHRA, and IHRA.
In addition to live race coverage, the network provides reports at Indy 500 time trials, and a talk show titled "Indy Live" which features interviews and other race news. After the race went to live coverage on ABC-TV in 1986 , then to NBC in 2019 , the number of radio affiliates for the network steadily declined over the next two decades.
The arrangement created a "crowded" booth with two veteran announcers. In 2003, during the closing minutes of Indy 500 Bump Day coverage on ESPN, Jenkins made an impassioned commentary, defending the event from media detractors. [7] Many were ridiculing the race and the Indy Racing League for struggling to fill the field to the traditional 33 cars.
ABC's coverage of the 2013 Firestone 550 at Texas Motor Speedway was the first prime time broadcast of IndyCar racing for the network. [7] At the 2017 Indianapolis 500 , ABC introduced "Race Strategist" (which featured predictive analysis of race conditions) and first-person "visor cam" views from Graham Rahal and Josef Newgarden .
Fox Sports said Thursday it has acquired the rights to broadcast IndyCar starting in 2025, a move that gives the network two of the biggest races in the world — the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR's ...
Live coverage was mostly racing during the early part of the programme and rugby (both codes), kicking off at either 14:30 or 15:00 which was timed and centred into the programme to avoid any clash with the final football results which would come in after 16:40, with the minor pre-recorded sporting items mostly proceeding the main event in the ...