Menu
Download the app

SBJ subscribers – Enhance your experience with the revamped iOS app

Media

NBC Sports Will Broadcast IndyCar's Second iRacing Event

The IndyCar iRacing Challenge drew more than 400,000 total live viewers for last Saturday's raceGETTY IMAGES

NBC Sports will "broadcast IndyCar's second round of its iRacing Challenge" on Saturday at 2:30pm ET on NBCSN, according to Nathan Brown of the INDIANAPOLIS STAR. The race will take place on a virtual Barber Motorsports track in place of the originally-scheduled Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama that was set for this weekend in IndyCar's original '20 race slate. NBC's "typical broadcast group of Leigh Diffey, Paul Tracy and Townsend Bell will be on the race call." The decision by NBC Sports "represents a large growth opportunity for IndyCar's viewership numbers." At the moment, Saturday's race is the "only one of the remaining five IndyCar iRacing Challenge events scheduled to be broadcast on NBCSN" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 4/2).

ADDING EVEN MORE: NBC Sports has teamed up with iRacing to form a new esports event that will feature NASCAR drivers competing at famous short tracks. The NBC Esports Short Track iRacing Challenge will run Monday-Thursday of next week and feature drivers competing at NASCAR relics Rockingham Speedway, Lucas Oil Raceway, Myrtle Beach Speedway and Martinsville Speedway. The races will feature six-car fields and two timed races each night on Monday-Wednesday, with the top two finishers on those three nights all advancing to the finale at Martinsville on Thursday. Participants include Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin (Adam Stern, THE DAILY).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2020/04/02/Media/NBC-Indy.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2020/04/02/Media/NBC-Indy.aspx

CLOSE