NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Talladega on ESPN
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series visits Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, NASCAR’s biggest track, for a 500-mile race on Sunday, Oct. 7, the fourth of 10 races in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. ESPN will have a live telecast with NASCAR Countdown at 1 p.m. ET and the race’s green flag at 2:19 p.m. The telecast is presented by Pennzoil and Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be ESPN In-Race Reporter. All NASCAR programming on ESPN is also available on computers, smartphones and tablets with the WatchESPN app and WatchESPN.com.
Announcers:
Booth: Lap-by-Lap announcer Allen Bestwick; analysts Dale Jarrett, Andy Petree.
Pit reporters: Jamie Little, Mike Massaro, Dr. Jerry Punch, Vince Welch.
NASCAR Countdown: Nicole Briscoe (host); Rusty Wallace, Ray Evernham, Brad Daugherty (analysts).
NHRA Reading Action on ESPN2, ESPN3
The NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series races this weekend in the Auto-Plus NHRA Nationals in Reading, Penn., and drag racing fans can watch action on ESPN2 and ESPN3. All NHRA programming on is also available on computers, smartphones and tablets through WatchESPN and the WatchESPN app. The schedule:
| Date | Time | Event | Network |
| Friday, Oct. 5 | 4 p.m. | Qualifying (live) | ESPN3, WatchESPN |
| Sunday, Oct. 7 | 12:30 a.m. | Qualifying | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| 11 a.m. | Eliminations (live) | ESPN3, WatchESPN | |
| 6 p.m. | Qualifying (re-air) | ESPN2, WatchESPN | |
| 7 p.m. | Eliminations | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
Announcers:
Booth: Paul Page (anchor); Mike Dunn (analyst)
Pit reporters: Gary Gerould, Dave Rieff, Jamie Howe.
NASCAR Now Schedule
ESPN2’s daily NASCAR news and information program NASCAR Now will preview the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway in the one-hour edition airing Sunday, Oct. 7, at 9 a.m. ET. Host Marty Reid will be joined in the studio by ESPN NASCAR analyst Ricky Craven with reporters Marty Smith and Shannon Spake at the track. The weekend wrap-up edition, with highlights of the Talladega race, airs that night at 11 p.m. ESPN analyst Dale Jarrett joins Craven and Spake to review the race on Monday, Oct. 8, at 3 p.m. The week’s schedule:
| Date | Time | Show | Host | Network |
| Tue., Oct. 2 | 3:30 p.m. | NASCAR Now | Marty Reid | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Wed., Oct. 3 | 3 p.m. | NASCAR Now | Marty Reid | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Thu., Oct. 4 | 3 p.m. | NASCAR Now | Marty Reid | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Fri., Oct. 5 | 3:30 p.m. | NASCAR Now | Marty Reid | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Sun., Oct. 7 | 9 a.m. | NASCAR Now | Marty Reid | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Sun., Oct. 7 | 11 p.m. | NASCAR Now | Marty Reid | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Mon., Oct. 8 | 3 p.m. | NASCAR Now | Marty Reid | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
Motorsports on Other ESPN Platforms
ESPN.com — RacingLive! on ESPN.com is a live blog where fans can engage in debate and discussion with ESPN.com writers and editors during the NASCAR Sprint Cup races. On Sunday, Oct. 7, RacingLive! Talladega will coincide with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway. Fans can join ESPN.com’s NASCAR experts in dissecting every aspect of the race live at https://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/. ESPN.com senior motorsports writer Ed Hinton will report from Talladega.
ESPN Radio — Each weekend morning, ESPN Radio’s RaceDay starts its engines at 6 a.m. ET with host Pat Patterson anchored from the site of that weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race. On both Saturday and Sunday mornings, ESPN Radio’s RaceDay listeners get an hour of news, previews and analysis, as well as profiles and interviews with NASCAR’s biggest names and newsmakers and the involvement of listeners via calls and e-mails.
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