FOX Sports ushers in new era of NASCAR coverage
by FOX Sports
2007 Schedule Features 13 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series Points Races & Two Craftsman Trucks Series Races
As FOX Sports prepares to begin a new era as the official television home of the Daytona 500 from 2007-2014; the NASCAR on FOX production team is ready to rock with the unveiling of its 2007 broadcast schedule. Prior to exclusive, live coverage of The Daytona 500 on Sunday, Feb. 18, FOX Sports hits the gas on its seventh season of Emmy Award-winning coverage under the lights of Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, Feb. 10 (8:00 PM ET) with The Budweiser Shootout. This 70-lap exhibition pits the fastest of the fast as pole winners from the previous year and past champions go all-out in a spark-filled sprint for the purse.
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NASCAR racing legend Darrell Waltrip and former champion crew chief Larry McReynolds return to provide race analysis for all NASCAR on FOX Nextel Cup events, and Mike Joy returns as race announcer. Prerace coverage is again hosted by Chris Myers with analyst Jeff Hammond, and returning to cover pit road are reporters Dick Berggren, Steve Byrnes and Matt Yocum. They are joined by first-year pit road reporter Krista Voda formerly of SPEED Channel.
In all, FOX Sports airs 13 NASCAR Nextel Cup points races, highlighted by races from Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday, March 11; Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, April 15; Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday, April 29; NASCAR racing from Charlotte on Sunday, May 27 from Lowe's Motor Speedway on Memorial Day weekend and the NASCAR on FOX season finale from Dover, Delaware on Sunday, June 3.
FOX Sports continually achieves a hard-earned distinction as television's most innovative sports broadcaster, and ranking high among the network's achievements are those on behalf of its NASCAR coverage. NASCAR on FOX has already amassed nine Emmy Awards over its first five years of coverage (note: the 2006 Sports Emmys have yet to be awarded), including two for Outstanding Sports Series (2001, 2005), two for Outstanding Live Event Audio Sound (2002, 2005), one for Outstanding Graphic Design (2001), and four for Outstanding Technical Team Remote (2001, 2003-05). No broadcast sports television package has won as many awards over the same stretch of time.
Below is the complete 2007 NASCAR on FOX broadcast schedule:
| NASCAR on FOX 2007 schedule | |||
| Date | Track | Event | Time |
| Sat. Feb. 10 | Daytona Int'l Speedway | Budweiser Shootout | 8 p.m. ET |
| Sun. Feb. 11 | Daytona Int'l Speedway | Daytona 500 Qualifying presented by Pizza Hut | 2 p.m. ET |
| Sun. Feb. 18 | Daytona Int'l Speedway | Daytona 500 | 2 p.m. ET |
| Sun. Feb. 25 | California Speedway | Autoclub 500 presented by Q | 3 p.m. ET |
| Sun. March 11 | Las Vegas Motor Speedway | NASCAR Racing from Las Vegas | 4 p.m. ET |
| Sun. March 18 | Atlanta Motor Speedway | Kobalt Tools 500 presented by Texas Instruments DLP | 1:30 p.m. ET |
| Sun. March 25 | Bristol Motor Speedway | NASCAR Racing from Bristol | 1:30 p.m. ET |
| Sat. March 31 | Martinsville Speedway | NASCAR Craftsman Truck race | 3 p.m. ET |
| Sun. April 1 | Martinsville Speedway | NASCAR Racing from Martinsville | 1:30 p.m. ET |
| Sun. April 15 | Texas Motor Speedway | NASCAR Racing from Texas | 1:30 p.m. ET |
| Sat. April 21 | Phoenix Int'l. Raceway | Subway 500 | 8 p.m. ET |
| Sun. April 29 | Talladega Superspeedway | NASCAR Racing from Talladega | 1:30 p.m. ET |
| Sat. May 5 | Richmond Int'l Raceway | NASCAR Racing from Richmond | 7 p.m. ET |
| Sat. May 12 | Darlington Raceway | Dodge Avenger 400 | 7 p.m. ET |
| Sat. May 26 | Mansfield Motor Speedway | NASCAR Craftsman Truck race | 1 p.m. ET |
| Sun. May 27 | Lowe's Motor Speedway | NASCAR Racing from Charlotte | 5 p.m. ET |
| Sun. June 3 | Dover Int'l. Speedway | NASCAR Racing from Dover | 1 p.m. ET |
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