Brad Keselowski, Kevin Harvick will also take turns in the broadcast booth
Days after announcing 2015 would be his final full-time season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Jeff Gordon has a new job.
Gordon along with fellow champions Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski will be analysts on NASCAR XFINITY Series broadcasts as the network broadcasts the first 14 races of the season, 12 on FOX Sports 1 and two on FOX. They will be joined in the booth by play-by-play host Adam Alexander, analyst Michael Waltrip and reporter Vince Welch.
Alexander, along with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series play-by-play announcer Mike Joy and Brian Till will fill in for Steve Byrnes on NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races until Byrnes returns from his medical leave of absence to join analysts Waltrip and Phil Parsons and reporters Hermie Sadler and Kaitlyn Vincie. FOX Sports 1 will televise 22 of the 23 races with the Talladega event on FOX.
Joy, Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds begin their 15th season in the Sprint Cup Series booth as FOX NASCAR kicks off its first year of a new 10-year rights agreement. Sprint Cup pit road will be patrolled by returning reporter Matt Yocum as well as newcomers Jamie Little and Chris Neville with the three also working on XFINITY events. FOX expands its schedule from 13 to 16 races with 10 on FOX and six on FOX Sports 1. Chris Myers and the Waltrip brothers return to the Hollywood Hotel for the pre-race show.
“NASCAR Raceday” will be back at the track before every Sprint Cup Series race with Danielle Trotta hosting during the first half of the season with McReynolds and Kenny Wallace while John Roberts will be back for the second half of the season. Vincie, and FOX Sports 1 newcomers Alan Cavanna and Andrew Doud will report alongside FOX NASCAR’s pit reporters.
Trotta will host “NASCAR Raceday – XFINITY” before every XFINITY Series race with McReynolds and Wallace offering analysis and Little, Neville, Welch and Yocum reporting. Roberts will host the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series pre-race show, “The Setup,” with two-time champion Todd Bodine.