Motorsports viewers could associate Jamie Little with Fox coverage of the Nascar Cup. But little will be seen in more of Fox’s car coverage this year.
Little will be one of the PIT reporters on Sunday when Fox takes his first Indycar career from the streets of central San Petersburg, Florida. It will also be the game announcer per game the whole season for the coverage of the series of the truck series.
Indycar’s assignment is a bit back home for Little, who was the PIT reporter for the ESPN and ABC coverage of the 2004 open wheel series to ’14. Little, whose last race of Indycar was the Indianapolis 500 2014, will replace Georgia Henneberry, who recently had a baby and the first races will be lost.
Little, who will also be part of Fox’s coverage of the Indianapolis 500 on May 25, also expects on Sunday that some Nascar fans also tune because Indycar’s race is presented before the Nascar Cup race on the Cup route in the Las Américas circuit in Austin, Texas.
“We are going to try to promote cross as much as we can. It is our first double red. Indycar is the first race followed by Nascar, “said Little.” I am the only person who does both, so they ask me to be there to try to mix those two worlds. “
One of the ways in which Little will try to close the gap between Indycar and Nascar is a characteristic of Kyle Larson with segments that are transmitted in both shows. Larson once again will try to do the Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 of Nascar on the same day.
Larson did not have the opportunity to do it last year when the rain delayed the beginning of Indy’s career and then shortened the end of Nascar’s career in Charlotte.
The move to Fox also marks the first time that a complete series of Motorsports will be on transmitted television. Fox issued ads with the main Josef Newgarden, Alex Palou and Pato O’Ward drivers during the playoffs and the NFL Super Bowl 59.
“I think there is nothing better than I can do to help grow this sport and grow the audience than to have it in a network where if you are sitting in a bar or if you are having a brunch one Sunday and it will be on television, people will see it and will be exposed to it as never before,” said Little. “Everyone is excited about the promotion that has already been done.”
The other change for little this season is to call the entire calendar of the Nascar truck series. He called Select Truck Racs in the last three seasons, but will have Adam Alexander by moving to the CW to make the Xfinity series.
Little became the first woman to make the television game for a US national racing series. In 2021 when he made the Arca Menards.
Little had briefly considered some play for play, but the idea won impulse after Leigh Diffey, who makes Nascar races for NBC, called Little and said with the growing number of women who played by game, little needed to be that person in Nascar.
“I just didn’t think it was possible because it’s just that you always listen to a man’s voice. I didn’t know what a role that would enjoy it or if I were welcome on that role, “said Little.” I thought about it and was right. I have done everything I can as a well reporter and I will continue doing it, but I want to try. I want to challenge myself, to leave that comfort zone. “
Little has become more comfortable as game speaker per game. She said her original approach was the same as if she were a reporter in the well discussing stories, but that has changed.
“It is a set of skills, and you are a traffic control police,” he said. “Yes, there is time to tell those stories, update these drivers and what is happening, but that is why you have the support of your analysts there explaining what is happening on the track. It is to unite everyone and maintain that conversation flowing.”
Indycar’s career on Sunday is in the middle of a section occupied by little. Since the beginning of February, she was a reporter of the Westminster Dog Show, she called two truck races and an ark, she has been the PIT reporter for the first two races of the Cup Cup and interviewed President Donald Trump before Daytona 500.
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