SiriusXM NASCAR Radio announced Tuesday that race car driver Kenny Wallace will become a radio host for "The Late Shift" on the network, starting Tuesday night from 7-10 p.m. ET.
Wallace will replace NASCAR Hall of Fame nominee Buddy Baker, who passed away last week and will be honored at a memorial on Tuesday afternoon in Charlotte.
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Earlier this month at Iowa Speedway, Wallace ended his NASCAR national series career with a 15th-place finish in a Joe Gibbs Racing XFINITY car. He will continue in his role as an analyst on FOX Sports 1's "NASCAR Race Day" and "NASCAR Victory Lane" as well as a "NASCAR Illustrated" columnist. He looks forward to adding another medium to the list.
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"I'm excited; I've always wanted to do radio ever since I was a kid growing up in St. Louis, and I just want to make sure that everybody knows the way I feel about doing this."
The driver, who ranks 14th with 904 NASCAR national series starts, paid tribute to Baker in announcing his new role on "The Morning Drive" show.
"I absolutely loved and still love Buddy Baker," Wallace said. "We did some TV back in 1994 when it was the old (TNN) Network. Buddy was just a lover to me, always so nice to me. We got along really well so everyone is correct. I will never be able to fill his shoes, but I'm honored to have been asked to do this. We'll have fun talking about NASCAR and everything else."
Wallace will join Brad Gillie on Mondays and Tuesdays, live from his race shop in St. Louis.