'NASCAR Outdoors' set to debut Aug. 6

Outdoor Life Network, NASCAR Images and NASCAR present NASCAR Outdoors, a brand-new, half-hour series featuring popular NASCAR personalities as they fish, hunt and relax off the track.

Featured in the series are: NASCAR Nextel Cup Series drivers Tony Stewart, Ryan Newman, Jeff Green and John Andretti; NASCAR Busch Series driver Kenny Wallace and owner Richard Childress.

In the first episode, Ryan Newman, known for his studious, calculated approach to winning races, will take on the most sophisticated form of angling -- fly fishing for trout in the Appalachian High Country.

NASCAR Outdoors will air each and every Friday at 8 PM ET/PT as part of OLN's Field and Stream programming block.

NASCAR Nextel Cup superstar Ryan Newman is known for his studious, calculated approach to winning races. Now he takes on the most sophisticated form of angling -- fly fishing for trout in the Appalachian High Country. Trade in your helmet for hip waders for this episode of NASCAR Outdoors.

For more than two decades, 1990 Daytona 500 champion Derrike Cope has taken his shots at NASCAR's best. Now he takes aim at an even tougher target -- fast-moving quail and chucker in Upstate South Carolina. Bag the limit with a driver who pushes the limits on NASCAR Outdoors.

NASCAR Nextel Cup legend Bobby Allison and 1993 NASCAR Busch Series champion Steve Grissom pair up to talk a little racing and do a little bass fishing just down the road from the Atlanta Motor Speedway. The Alabama Gang invades the Peach State during the next episode of NASCAR Outdoors.

NASCAR driver Kenny Wallace tests the boundaries of the old fishing adage "be quiet, you'll scare away the fish" when he takes his high-speed verbal skills off of North Carolina's famed Outer Banks to fish for striped bass. Grab a rod and some earplugs for this episode of NASCAR Outdoors.

Nor rain, nor cold, nor the swelling Atlantic can keep NASCAR Outdoors from blue fin tuna! Two-time NASCAR Nextel Cup winner John Andretti and 1989 champion crew chief Barry Dodson brave the elements and enter "The Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of North Carolina to go after the big one.

NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Jeff Green spends his weekends driving the most famous car in racing, Richard Petty's number 43 Dodge. Now he takes on an equally difficult challenge in the shadows of the North Carolina Speedway at Rockingham -- quail hunting in the rolling hills of Richmond County on NASCAR Outdoors.