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NASCAR NEWS - Thursday, January 24, 2008
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ESPN makes changes to its 2008 broadcast team
Jarrett joins Punch, Petree in booth; Wallace to studio
By Team Release
Dale Jarrett, the 1999 Sprint Cup Series champion and one
of the founding drivers of the Nationwide Series, will
expand his role with ESPN and join high school friends
Dr. Jerry Punch and Andy Petree in the booth for ESPN's
full season of NASCAR coverage in 2008.
Rusty Wallace, Cup champion in 1989, will become lead
analyst for ESPN studio programs in 2008, highlighted by
serving as analyst for an enhanced NASCAR Countdown, the
program that precedes all NASCAR telecasts. Wallace also
will appear across multiple ESPN platforms, including
regularly on NASCAR Now, ESPN's daily NASCAR news and
information show, and will call several race telecasts
in place of Jarrett.
Allen Bestwick moves into the fulltime role of host of
ESPN's race telecasts and host of NASCAR Countdown.
Wallace and Bestwick will appear with analyst Brad
Daugherty on the pre-race program, and the three will
be integrated with the booth team during race telecasts.
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ESPN also has named motorsports television veteran Nicole
Manske as host of NASCAR Now, which returns to the air for
its second season beginning Feb. 4 on ESPN2. Manske, who
joins ESPN after two years as co-host of a weekly motor-
sports news program on SPEED, will share the NASCAR Now
host role with Bestwick and ESPNEWS anchor Ryan Burr.
On ESPN's event coverage, Shannon Spake, a reporter for
ESPN's studio programs and fill-in pit reporter last year,
will take Bestwick's position as a fulltime pit reporter,
joined by returnees Dave Burns, Jamie Little and Mike
Massaro. Two-time Cup champion crew chief Tim Brewer
returns to report from the ESPN DISH Tech Center.
"We now have the opportunity to provide our viewers with
analysis from a pair of former Cup champions with Dale
Jarrett in the booth and Rusty Wallace on the NASCAR
Countdown set as well as on other platforms," said Norby
Williamson, ESPN executive vice president, studio and
event production.
"We were pleased to have Dale with us in a limited role
last year and look forward to his participation on a
regular basis," Williamson said. "Rusty's enthusiasm,
team spirit and knowledge make him an invaluable
contributor to our coverage. These champion drivers in
their new roles add tremendously to ESPN's championship
team for our second year back in NASCAR."
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ESPN's 2008 NASCAR season begins with live, flag-to-flag
coverage of the Nationwide Series opener at Daytona
International Speedway on Saturday, Feb. 16, at noon ET
on ESPN2. In addition to coverage of all 35 races in the
Nationwide Series, ESPN also will have telecasts of the
final 17 races of the Sprint Cup Series.
Jarrett, who is retiring from driving after the first five
races of the 2008 Sprint Cup season, was booth analyst for
10 Nationwide Series race telecasts on ESPN last year and
worked several Sprint Cup races as a guest analyst on
NASCAR Countdown.
Punch, ESPN's lead announcer, Petree, booth analyst and
a two-time Cup champion crew chief, and Jarrett are all
natives of Newton, N.C., and attended Newton-Conover High
School within a few years of each other in the early 1970s.
The three were partners in one of Jarrett's first race cars
in 1979.
"It was exciting to see ESPN return to NASCAR last year
and be a part of it when my racing schedule allowed," said
Jarrett, winner of 32 Cup Series races and 11 in the
Nationwide Series. "To have this opportunity to shift from
fulltime driver to fulltime analyst for ESPN's second year
back is a great privilege and I can't wait to get started."
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Jarrett followed the footsteps of his father, Ned, a two-
time NASCAR champion, into driving and television. Ned
Jarrett was a popular analyst on ESPN's coverage of NASCAR
from 1988-2000 and returned to the booth as a guest analyst
for one race last year to work alongside his son for the
first time.
Wallace joined ESPN after retiring from driving following
the 2005 season and spent 2006 as analyst for ESPN's
coverage of the IndyCar Series in preparation for ESPN's
return to NASCAR in 2007. Bestwick served multiple roles
for ESPN's NASCAR coverage last year, including pit
reporter, host of NASCAR Countdown for Nationwide Series
races and play-by-play announcer for several events.
Along with returning NASCAR insiders Angelique Chengelis
and Marty Smith, ESPN.com reporters Terry Blount and David
Newton and analysts Boris Said, Tim Cowlishaw and D.J.
Copp, many members of ESPN's event coverage team also will
contribute to NASCAR Now in 2008.
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