The following is a list of current and former broadcasters for NASCAR on NBC.
Current commentators
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
NBC's 2024 lineup of broadcasters for the Cup Series is as follows:
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 NBC or
IMSA 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
Note: There was no studio for the race at Richmond.[5]
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
Note: There was no studio for the race at Road America.[5]
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 NBC or
IMSA 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
NBC's 2023 lineup of broadcasters for the ARCA Series is as follows:
Booth announcers
Charles Krall (play-by-play)
Broadcast lineups by year
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2022
NASCAR Cup SeriesBooth announcers
Rick Allen (lap-by-lap, all races except New Hampshire and Michigan)
Steve Letarte (color commentator, all races except Phoenix)
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)
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.
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