Chase for NASCAR Sprint Cup Goes Short Tracking
Only four races remain in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup and the Chase moves to the smallest track on the NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule this weekend for a 500-lap race at the half-mile Martinsville (Va.) Speedway on Sunday, Oct. 27. ESPN will have a live telecast with NASCAR Countdown presented by Goody’s Headache Relief Shot at 1 p.m. ET and the race’s green flag at 1:43 p.m. All NASCAR programming on ESPN is also available on computers, smartphones and tablets through WatchESPN and the WatchESPN app.
Announcers:
Booth: Lap-by-Lap announcer Allen Bestwick; analysts Dale Jarrett, Andy Petree.
Pit reporters: Dave Burns, Mike Massaro, Dr. Jerry Punch, Vince Welch.
NASCAR Countdown: Nicole Briscoe (host); Rusty Wallace; Ray Evernham, Brad Daugherty (analysts).
NHRA in Las Vegas on ESPN2, ESPN3
The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season is nearing its conclusion and the year’s next-to-last event will be this weekend at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. ESPN2 and ESPN3 will air qualifying and eliminations action from the NHRA Toyota Nationals. All NHRA programming on ESPN networks is also available on computers, smartphones and tablets through WatchESPN and the WatchESPN app. The schedule:
| Date | Time | Event | Network |
| Friday, Oct. 25 | 5:45 p.m. | Qualifying (live) | ESPN3, WatchESPN |
| Sunday, Oct. 27 | 2:30 a.m. | Qualifying | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| 2 p.m. | Eliminations (live) | ESPN3, WatchESPN | |
| 8 p.m. | Eliminations | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
Announcers:
Booth: Dave Rieff (anchor); Mike Dunn (analyst)
Pit reporters: Gary Gerould, Jamie Howe, John Kernan.
NASCAR Now Weekend Wrap-up Show Airs Sunday night
ESPN2’s NASCAR news and information program NASCAR Now will review the seventh race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway in the episode airing Sunday night, Oct. 27, at 11 p.m. ET. Host Todd Grisham will be joined in the studio by ESPN NASCAR analyst Ricky Craven with reporter Marty Smith at the track. The week’s schedule:
| Date | Time | Show | Host | Network |
| Tue., Oct. 12 | 2:30 a.m. | NASCAR Now | Mike Massaro | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Fri., Oct. 25 | 2 a.m. | NASCAR Now | Todd Grisham | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Sun., Oct. 27 | 11 p.m. | NASCAR Now | Todd Grisham | 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. 27, RacingLive! Martinsville will coincide with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. Fans can join ESPN.com’s NASCAR experts in dissecting every aspect of the race live at https://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/.
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. RaceDay also features interviews with newsmakers from the IZOD IndyCar Series from correspondent Bruce Martin.
Click HERE for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series schedules on ESPN.
Click HERE for the 2013 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule on ESPN.
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