NASCAR Race Day

NASCAR Race Day

NASCAR RaceDay is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race preview program on Speed Channel. Hosted by John Roberts, the show features driver–analysts Kenny Wallace and Kyle Petty as well as crew chief-analyst Larry McReynolds, as well as pit reporters Wendy Venturini, Rutledge Wood and Matt Clark, who provide news from the track right before each weekend's race. Roberts, Wallace and Petty along with Bob Dillner are also part of the post-race show NASCAR Victory Lane. During the six TNT Summer Series races (Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 until the GEICO 400), Darrell Waltrip stands in for Petty, who is the analyst for the TNT races. (Waltrip's schedule will be based around his speaking engagements.) At the start of 2012 Steve Byrnes replaced Roberts, as he moved to the NASCAR on FOX studio show following host Chris Myers being placed on bereavement leave following the death of his son.

The show replaced the canceled NASCAR 2Day, that had aired on ESPN until the end of the 2000 racing season when NASCAR began a new television contract. The original name of the show was NASCAR This Morning, and it aired on Fox Sports Net from 2001 to 2004 from a studio in Charlotte, North Carolina. During the 2004 Chase for the Nextel Cup, some segments were broadcast from the site of that week's race with Steve Byrnes serving as co-host. In 2005, the program was moved to Speed Channel and the entire broadcast was sent to the race site. The show became NASCAR RaceDay in 2006. The current theme song for the show is "Gold on The Celing" by the Black Keys.