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List of NASCAR on NBC broadcasters

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The following is a list of current and former broadcasters for NASCAR on NBC.

Current commentators[edit]

NOTE: These are all of NBC's 2024 commentator lineups Dale Earnhardt Jr., whose contract with NBC expired after the 2023 season, will reportedly be leaving NBC for Amazon and TNT's new NASCAR coverage in the next TV contract that starts in 2025.^[1]

NASCAR Cup Series[edit]

NBC's 2024 lineup of broadcasters for the Cup Series is as follows:

Booth announcers[edit]

• Rick Allen (play-by-play)
• Leigh Diffey (play-by-play)
• Steve Letarte (color commentator)
• Jeff Burton (color commentator)
• Jimmie Johnson (color commentator, select races)
• Mike Bagley (commentator for the Chicago Street Course and Watkins Glen radio-style broadcast)^[2]

Pit reporters[edit]

• Dave Burns
• Kim Coon
• Parker Kligerman^[3][4]
• Marty Snider
• Dillon Welch

Note: NBC usually has 3 or 4 pit reporters per Cup race and 2 or 3 per Xfinity race. All 5 of them take turns, and the pit reporters that aren't on the broadcast are usually pit reporting for an IndyCar race for NBCorIMSA race if there is one on the same day and/or weekend. Coon and Welch also split time between NBC and Motor Racing Network.

Pre and post-race show[edit]

Note: There was no studio for the race at Richmond.^[5]

• Marty Snider (host)
• Steve Letarte (host)
• Brad Daugherty (rotating analyst)
• Dale Jarrett (rotating analyst)
• Kyle Petty (rotating analyst)
• Jeff Burton (rotating analyst)
• James Hinchcliffe (rotating analyst)

NASCAR Xfinity Series[edit]

NBC's 2024 lineup of broadcasters for the Xfinity Series is as follows:

Booth announcers[edit]

• Rick Allen (play-by-play)
• Dave Burns (alternative play-by-play)
• Steve Letarte (color commentator)
• Jeff Burton (color commentator)
• Dale Jarrett (color commentator)
• Mike Bagley (commentator for the Chicago Street Course and Watkins Glen radio-style broadcast)^[2]

Pit reporters[edit]

• Dave Burns
• Kim Coon
• Marty Snider
• Kevin Lee
• Matt Yocum
• Dillon Welch

Note: Yocum was previously a permanent pit reporter for NBC from 2001 to 2006 and Lee also pit reported standalone Xfinity Series races for NBC in 2018 and 2019.

Pre and post-race show[edit]

Note: There was no studio for the race at Road America.^[5]

• Marty Snider (host)
• Brad Daugherty (rotating analyst)
• Dale Jarrett (rotating analyst)
• Kyle Petty (rotating analyst)
• Jeff Burton (rotating analyst)
• Steve Letarte (rotating analyst)

Notes:

• NBC usually has 3 or 4 pit reporters per Cup race and 2 or 3 per Xfinity race. All 4 of them take turns, and the pit reporters that aren't on the broadcast are usually pit reporting for an IndyCar race for NBCorIMSA race if there is one on the same day and/or weekend. Coon and Welch also split time between NBC and Motor Racing Network.

ARCA Menards Series East and West[edit]

NBC's 2023 lineup of broadcasters for the ARCA Series is as follows:

Booth announcers[edit]

• Charles Krall (play-by-play)

Broadcast lineups by year[edit]

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• Rick Allen (lap-by-lap, all races except New Hampshire and Michigan)
• Steve Letarte (color commentator, all races except Phoenix)
• Jeff Burton (color commentator)
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. (color commentator)
• Mike Bagley (commentator for radio-style broadcasts at the road course races)

Pit reporters

• Dave Burns
• Kim Coon
• Parker Kligerman
• Marty Snider
• Dillon Welch

Cityview reporter

• Rutledge Wood (select races)

Pre and post-race show

• Marty Snider (host)
• Dale Jarrett (rotating analyst)
• Kyle Petty (rotating analyst)
• Brad Daugherty (rotating analyst starting at Michigan in 2020 and 2021)^[6]

NASCAR Xfinity Series Booth announcers

• Rick Allen (lap-by-lap, most races)
• Dave Burns (lap–by–lap at Darlington)
• Steve Letarte (color commentator, most races)
• Jeff Burton (color commentator, most races)
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. (color commentator, most races)
• Mike Bagley (commentator for radio-style broadcasts at the road course races)
• Brad Daugherty (alternate color commentator)
• James Hinchcliffe (alternate color commentator)
• Dale Jarrett (alternate color commentator)

Pit reporters

• Dave Burns
• Kim Coon
• Parker Kligerman
• Marty Snider
• Dillon Welch

Pre and post-race show

• Marty Snider (host)
• Dale Jarrett (rotating analyst)
• Kyle Petty (rotating analyst)
• Brad Daugherty (rotating analyst)

ARCA Menards Series East and West

• Charlie Krall (play-by-play)
• Adam Mackey (color commentator)
• Jessie Punch (pit reporter)
• Rick Allen (pre and post-race show host)

Krall also commentated the pre and post-race shows himself at Dover and Irwindale in Rick Allen's absence.

Former commentators[edit]

• Allen Bestwick – play-by-play announcer (1999–2004), pit reporter (2005–2006)
• Ato Boldon – roving reporter (2017)^[7]
• Landon Cassill – fill-in Xfinity Series pit reporter (2018)^[8]
• Jac Collinsworth – pre-race show host/roving reporter (2021)
• Bob Costas – guest host for pre-race show at Cup race at Homestead only (2017)^[9]
• Lindsay Czarniak – fill-in pit reporter for standalone Busch Series races (2005–2006) Czarniak still works for NBC covering the Summer Olympics in 2021 and the Winter Olympics in 2022.
• Wally Dallenbach Jr. – color commentator (2001–2006) Dallenbach also returned to NBC for a cameo appearance on the pre-race show of the 2020 Cup Series race at the Daytona Road Course.
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. – color commentator for the Cup and Xfinity Series (2018–2023). he left to join Amazon and TNT's broadcast teams starting in 2025 at the start of the next NASCAR Cup Series TV contract.^[1]
• Carl Edwards – color commentator for Xfinity Series race at Richmond only (2015)
• Ray Evernham – alternate Xfinity Series color commentator (2015)
• Brendan Gaughan – fill-in Xfinity Series pit reporter (2018)^[10]
• Joe Gibbs – color commentator (1999)
• Alex Hayden - fill-in pit reporter for standalone Xfinity Series races (2015–2016)
• Ned Jarrett – guest color commentator at Darlington only (2015–2017)
• Carolyn Manno – host of NASCAR Victory Lap (2014–2018). Manno still works for NBC, but is no longer a commentator for NASCAR.
• Mike Massaro – pit reporter (2015–2016)
• Jamie McMurray – color commentator for Xfinity Series race at Chicagoland only (2015)
• Jim Noble – fill-in pit reporter for standalone Xfinity Series races (2015–2016)
• Benny Parsons – color commentator (2000–2006)
• Dorsey Schroeder – pit reporter (1999)
• Ken Squier – guest play-by-play announcer at Darlington only (2015–2017)
• Kelli Stavast – pit reporter (2015–2021)
• Frank Stoddard – alternate Xfinity Series color commentator (2015
• Danielle Trotta – host of NASCAR Victory Lap (2019)
• Brian Vickers – NASCAR America analyst and rotating/alternate pre/post-race show analyst (2015–2016)
• Krista Voda – host (2015–2020)
• Mike Wallace – color commentator (1999)
• Bill Weber – pre-race show host/pit reporter (2001–2004), pre-race show host/play-by-play announcer (2005–2006). Weber also filled-in for the injured Allen Bestwick as the play-by-play for the races at Talladega and Kansas in 2004.
• Brian Williams – host (1999)

See also[edit]

• List of NASCAR on Fox broadcasters

References[edit]

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