Fox Sports, the new American house for Indycar, will fill the waves with 60 hours of live cover from the 109th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge, with an impressive range of talents and dignitaries.
The Play-By-Play Indycar advertiser Will Buxton, is joined by the participant nine times Indianapolis 500 James Hinchcliffe and 10 times Indy 500 Racer Townsend Bell on the call for “The Greatles Spectacle in Racing” on Sunday, May 25 on Fox, Fox Deportes and The Fox Sports App. The cover before the race starts at 10 a.m. and the green flag falls at 12:45 p.m.
Jamie Little, the first woman journalist at the stand of a television program from the prestigious Indianapolis 500 (2004), covered 11 Indianapolis 500 consecutive from 2004 to 2014 and joined Kevin Lee and Georgia Henneberry on Pit Road for this year’s race. Fox Indycar Pit journalist Jack Harvey tries to race and offer ideas behind the wheel.
Fox Indy 500 Prerace
Tony Stewart, champion of the 1997 Indycar series, and Danica Patrick, who led 19 laps in the emblematic race in 2005 and finished third in 2009, the highest finish of all time with a woman, are joined by the veteran broadcaster of Fox Chris Myers, strengthening the programming of Fox Indycar for the Indy 500 range of this year.
Tom Rinaldi, winner of 17 National Sports Emmy Awards and seven National Edward R. Murrow Awards, will offer interviews. Little will have a sit-down interview with the Nascar Kyle Larson champion, who once again tries the Indy 500 / Coca-Cola 600 “Double”.
Fox Sports journalist Erin Andrews, the first woman in singularly honored the Pat Summerall Prize, will have a conversation with the double champion in title of Indianapolis 500 Josef Newgarden.
Fox sport stars join the action
Announced on May 14, the seven time Super Bowl champion and main analyst of Fox NFL, Tom Brady, will take the fastest ride sports seat with seven times champion of the NASCAR series and the former driver of the NTT Indycar Jimmie Johnson series behind the wheel, leading the field to the green flag for Indy 500.
Fox NFL analyst, Super Bowl champion and the temple of professional football Michael Strahan will lead the pace car of the Chevrolet Corvette Indy 500, and the quadruple winner of the Super Bowl and Fox NFL Rob Gronkowski analyst will serve as Grand Marshal Snake Pit presented by Coors Light.
FS1 on the road for Indy 500
“First Things First” from FS1 with Nick Wright, Chris Broussard and Kevin Wildes will be on site from Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Thursday May 22 (3 p.m. to 5 p.m.) and Friday May 23 (1 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.; 4 p.m. to 3 p.m.).
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Fox Deportes presents its first broadcast of the Indy 500 with live coverage of Indianapolis from Thursday, May 22. The journalist of Motorhole Giselle Zarur offers interviews, features and live successes every day for “Total Sports 360”, the daily Sports of the Network program.
The Sunday cover starts at noon and, with the first advertiser of Automobiles in Spanish Tony Rivera, Jessi Losada, winner of an Emmy Award, and the former pilot of the Indycar Oriol Serdia series, an Indy 500 race, 11 times, as an analyst. Zarur reports stands.
For an overview of the FIX sports calendar leading to the 109th Indianapolis 500 race, please visit Fox Sports Press Pass.
