List of Speed (TV channel) on-air personalities
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  • Rick Allen
  • Adam Alexander
  • Julie Atchison
  • Erin Bates
  • Bootie Barker
    Bootie Barker
    Robert "Bootie" Barker III is a crew chief in the NASCAR Sprint Cup stock car racing series. Barker is the crew chief for the No. 13 Germain Racing GEICO Toyota Camry driven by Casey Mears in the Sprint Cup Series. In the past, Barker has worked for Ashton Lewis, Bill Davis Racing, Jasper...

  • Rick Benjamin
    Rick Benjamin
    Rick Benjamin is Speed Channel's voice of the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series, and has been the voice of Champ Car racing for HDNet from 2004 until then end of the final season of Champ Car in 2007...

  • John Bisignano
  • Steve Byrnes
    Steve Byrnes
    Steve Byrnes is an American television announcer and producer from New Carrollton, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Maryland. Afterward, he began his television career as a sports producer where he covered several NFL teams. In 1985, he began producing and hosting NASCAR segments...

  • Will Buxton
  • Greg Creamer
  • Derek Daly
    Derek Daly
    Derek Daly is a former racing driver from the Republic of Ireland. He won the 1977 British Formula Three Championship, and competed as a professional racing driver for 17 years participating in 64 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on April 2, 1978. He scored a total of 15...

  • Alain de Cadenet
    Alain de Cadenet
    Alain de Cadenet is an on air personality for the Speed Channel and ESPN. The British-born de Cadenet has hosted many shows on SPEED, including Legends of Motorsport, as well as the network's coverage of the Goodwood Festival of Speed...

  • Dave Despain
    Dave Despain
    Dave Despain is an American motor sports journalist. He is the host of WindTunnel with Dave Despain on Speed Channel, and formerly the host of Inside Nextel Cup, until the latter underwent a format change at the beginning of the 2008 NASCAR Season.-Early life and career:A native of Fairfield,...

  • Leigh Diffey
    Leigh Diffey
    Leigh Diffey is an Australian auto racing commentator with the Speed Channel in the United States. He has also worked in Britain and in his homeland of Australia, where he commentated on Champ Car and V8 Supercars for Network Ten in Australia...

  • Bob Dillner
    Bob Dillner
    Bob Dillner is a motorsports journalist and television broadcaster. He is best known as a NASCAR pit lane reporter for the Speed Channel...

  • Brian Drebber
    Brian Drebber
    Brian Drebber is an American sportscaster currently working for SPEED.Drebber was born in Guam, Marianas Islands. Since 1978, he has been a play-by-play, analyst, reporter, writer, and producer, covering eight Olympic, Pan American and Goodwill Games as well as world championships in 25 different...

  • Ray Dunlap
  • Calvin Fish
    Calvin Fish
    Calvin Fish is an English television announcer for the Speed Channel and a former race car driver.Fish began his career in karts at 13. He then moved to Formula Ford in 1979 at age 18 and then British Formula Three. He then came to the United States and competed in various classes of SCCA...

  • Westbury Gillett
  • Nicky Grist
    Nicky Grist
    Nicky Grist is a Welsh former rally co-driver, born in Ebbw Vale. His factory team career in the World Rally Championship lasted from 1993 to 2002. He won 21 rallies and one World championship titles, with more than one driver....

  • Vida Guerra
    Vida Guerra
    Vida Guerra is a Cuban-born American glamour model. Her first notable appearance was in the U.S. edition of FHM magazine in December 2002; since then, she has modeled for many other men's magazines....

  • Sandy Heng
  • David Hobbs
  • Jamie Howe
  • Mike Johnson
  • Vicki Johnson
  • Mike Joy
    Mike Joy
    Mike Joy is an American TV sports announcer, who currently serves as the lap-by-lap voice of FOX Sports' NASCAR Sprint Cup coverage. His color analysts are Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds. Joy has broadcast more than 30 Daytona 500s, NASCAR's biggest event...

  • Kazzer
    Kazzer
    Mark Kasprzyk better known by his stage name, Kazzer, is a Canadian musician whose work ranges from Rap Rock to Alternative Rock. He is best known for the song "Pedal to the Metal", which was aired regularly on MuchMusic and MTV Europe, played on contemporary hit radio, hot adult contemporary,...

  • Tommy Kendall
    Tommy Kendall
    Tommy Kendall is an American race car driver and television broadcaster. He is best known for his SCCA Trans-Am Series career....

  • Chad Knaus
    Chad Knaus
    Chad Anthony Knaus is the current NASCAR Sprint Cup Series crew chief for Jimmie Johnson. He is currently employed at Hendrick Motorsports. Knaus has 52 victories as Jimmie Johnson's crew chief and is the only NASCAR crew chief to win five consecutive championships. He has been a crew chief in...

  • Steve Matchett
    Steve Matchett
    Steve Matchett is currently a commentator for American TV network Speed Channel on its various Formula One programs...

  • Larry McReynolds
    Larry McReynolds
    Lawrence Joseph McReynolds III is a former NASCAR crew chief and currently serves as a racing analyst on Fox Sports, TNT and a columnist on Foxsports.com. He currently lives in Mooresville, North Carolina...

  • Toby Moody
    Toby Moody
    Toby Moody is a British sports commentator focused on motor racing. He is the worldwide voice of the MotoGP series on Eurosport TV.2011 is his 16th season as trackside TV commentator for the MotoGP series. Many American racing fans would know him as the man who provided nightly, half-hour reports...

  • Chris Neville

  • Phil Parsons
    Phil Parsons
    Phil Parsons , is a former NASCAR driver and owner of MSRP Motorsports . He is also the younger brother of the late 1973 Winston Cup champion and former NBC/TNT commentator Benny Parsons. Years later, he returned to the Busch Series, where he enjoyed modest success...

  • Randy Pemberton
  • Sam Posey
    Sam Posey
    Sam Posey is a retired American racecar driver and sports broadcast journalist.-Driving career:...

  • Brenda Price
  • Craig Reynolds
  • John Roberts
    John Roberts (SPEED Channel host)
    John Roberts is host of the Speed Channel shows NASCAR RaceDay, and NASCAR Victory Lane. John was born in Washington, D.C.. His career started in 1986 at WHSV TV in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He then worked at WBTV in Charlotte before moving to Fox Network owned Speed Channel to host NASCAR RaceDay...

  • Elliott Sadler
    Elliott Sadler
    Elliott William Barnes Sadler is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #2 OneMain Financial Chevrolet Impala for Kevin Harvick Inc. in the Nationwide Series. He is one of only 23 drivers to have won in each of NASCAR's top three series...

  • Hermie Sadler
    Hermie Sadler
    Herman Marion Sadler III is an American race car driver/announcer and professional wrestling promoter from Emporia, Virginia. He is also an advocate for autism research, as his daughter Hailie Dru, was diagnosed with the disorder in 2001...

  • Dorsey Schroeder
    Dorsey Schroeder
    Dorsey Schroeder is a race car driver born February 5, 1953 in Kirkwood, Missouri. Dorsey currently lives in Florida with his wife Kim and daughter Carissa Schroeder from his second marriage...

  • Ralph Sheheen
    Ralph Sheheen
    Ralph Sheheen is currently a pit reporter for NASCAR on TNT, an announcer for AMA supercross and superbike racing on the Speed Channel, and is the lead commentator of CBS Sports' coverage of the AMA....

  • Michele Smith
  • Jimmy Spencer
    Jimmy Spencer
    Jimmy Spencer is a current television commentator, and a former NASCAR driver. He formerly hosted the NASCAR inspired talk show, “What’s the Deal?”, on SPEED. He is the former co-host, with John Roberts and Kenny Wallace, of the SPEED's pre-race and post-race NASCAR shows NASCAR RaceDay and...

  • Ken Stout
  • Brian Till
    Brian Till
    Brian Till , is a racecar driver who formerly competed in the CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1992-1995 seasons with 20 career starts, including the 1994 Indianapolis 500, where he finished in 12th position. He finished in the top ten 3 times in CART races.Earlier in his career, he...

  • Jim Tretow
  • Danielle Trotta
  • Bob Varsha
    Bob Varsha
    Bob Varsha is one of the on-air personalities for Speed Channel. Varsha is presently the host of the network's live Formula One coverage. In 2002 and 2003, Varsha was the host of SPEED's Champ Car coverage. Rick DeBruhl took over Varsha's Formula One host chair for that period. In 2004, Varsha...

  • Wendy Venturini
    Wendy Venturini
    Wendy Venturini is a reporter for Speed's pre-race show, NASCAR RaceDay. Along with her pre race interviews around the garage, Wendy is also featured in a segment of the show called "The Real Deal" where she goes one on one with a driver, crew chief or car owner. She is also a pit reporter for...

  • Krista Voda
    Krista Voda
    Krista Voda is an American sportscaster who covers auto racing. Voda is a pit reporter for NASCAR on Fox and is the host of The Setup, the pre-race show for coverage of the Camping World Truck Series, as well as Trackside on Speed Channel.Voda was born and raised in Clinton, Iowa and attended the...

  • Brett Wagner (host of Pass Time
    Pass Time
    Pass Time is an American game show airing on Speed. In this show, two contestants compete against each other and resident expert Kenneth Herring, attempting to predict the pass times of a series of drag racers...

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  • Kenny Wallace
    Kenny Wallace
    Kenneth Wallace is an American stock car driver who currently drives the #09 Family Farmers/University of Northwestern Ohio/Federated Auto Parts/American Ethanol/Iowa Corn/G-Oil/Marquis Energy Toyota Camry for RAB Racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series...

  • Darrell Waltrip
    Darrell Waltrip
    Darrell Lee Waltrip is a 3-time NASCAR Cup Series champion , 3-time runner-up , winner of the 1989 Daytona 500 and 5-time winner of the prestigeous Coca-Cola 600 ,...

  • Michael Waltrip
    Michael Waltrip
    Michael Curtis Waltrip is a semi-former professional race car driver, co-owner of Michael Waltrip Racing, and a published author. He is the younger brother of three-time NASCAR champion and racing commentator Darrell Waltrip. Waltrip is a two-time winner of the Daytona 500; having won the race in...

  • Greg White
    Greg White
    Stylez G. White is an American football defensive end for the Virginia Destroyers of the United Football League. He was drafted by the Houston Texans in the seventh round of the 2002 NFL Draft...

  • John Willenborg
  • Rutledge Wood
    Rutledge Wood
    Rutledge Wood, born in Birmingham, Alabama, is a roving auto racing analyst employed by Speed Channel. Wood is one of three hosts for the History Channel's Top Gear along with Adam Ferrara and Tanner Foust, which premiered on November 21, 2010....


Former on-air personalities

  • Johnny Benson
    Johnny Benson
    Jonathan Benson, Jr. is an American NASCAR driver and the son of former Michigan modified driver John Benson, Sr...

  • Allen Bestwick
    Allen Bestwick
    Allen Bestwick is the host of ESPN's NASCAR pre-race show NASCAR Countdown and play-by-play announcer for the Sprint Cup Series races for the same company. He took over that position in 2011 after serving as the countdown to green host from 2008-2010 and a pit reporter for the network in 2007...

  • Alonzo Bodden
    Alonzo Bodden
    Alonzo Bodden is an American comedian and actor known for winning the grand prize in the third season of the reality-television series Last Comic Standing. He had been the runner-up in the previous season....

  • Jeff Burton
    Jeff Burton
    Jeffrey Brian "Jeff" Burton , also referred to as JB or The Mayor, is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver who drives the #31 Caterpillar Chevrolet Impala for Richard Childress Racing. Burton is the younger brother of Ward Burton, who is a former Sprint Cup driver...

  • Lindsay Czarniak
    Lindsay Czarniak
    Lindsay Ann Czarniak , is an American sports anchor and reporter. After spending 6 years with WRC-TV , the local NBC television affiliate in Washington, D.C., Czarniak joined ESPN as a SportsCenter anchor in August 2011.She has also been a pit reporter for TNT's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series coverage...

  • Bob Jenkins
    Bob Jenkins
    Bob Jenkins is an American television and radio sports announcer with NBC Sports Network, also known for his work at ABC and ESPN calling IndyCar and NASCAR telecasts. He is currently the lead commentator for the IndyCar Series on NBC Sports Network.-ESPN and ABC:Bob Jenkins was born in Richmond,...

  • Connie LeGrand
    Connie LeGrand
    Connie LeGrand is an American television journalist who has served in broadcasting in South Carolina and was host of Speed News from 2004 to 2006.-Early years:...

  • Chad Little
    Chad Little
    Chad Little is a former NASCAR driver. He holds a degree in marketing from Washington State University, and a law degree from Gonzaga University...

  • Nicole Manske
    Nicole Manske
    Nicole Briscoe is an American sports reporter and former Miss Illinois Teen USA. She became nationally known in the United States when she assumed the co-host role on The Speed Report on Speed Channel as well as the host of the daily news show NASCAR Now on ESPN2 and the host of NASCAR Countdown...

  • Shannon Spake
    Shannon Spake
    Shannon Spake is a NASCAR correspondent for ESPN. Spake contributes to both NASCAR Countdown and NASCAR Now, and occasionally appears on SportsCenter to give pre and post-race reports...

  • Peter Windsor
    Peter Windsor
    Peter David Windsor is the former Sporting Director of the US F1 Team and a Formula One journalist reporter. He was brought up in Australia, but now has residences in London and Sydney....

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