16 Facts About Fox NASCAR

NASCAR on Fox, known as Fox NASCAR, is the branding used for broadcasts of NASCAR races produced by Fox Sports and have aired on the Fox television network in the United States since 2001.

Should a Fox NASCAR-scheduled race be rained out on their scheduled race day and rescheduled to resume the following Monday, FX would simulcast the race with some of Fox NASCAR's affiliates.

On December 7,2005, Fox NASCAR signed a new eight-year broadcast deal effective with the 2007 season, and valued at $4.

Fox NASCAR would become a permanent color commentator for NBC in 2018 after he retired from driving full-time.

In 2019, Fox often cut to the Charlotte studio during the race and talked to Jamie McMurray, who was new to the NASCAR on Fox team; in 2019, Shannon Spake replaced Chris Myers as host due to Myers being moved to Fox's Premier Boxing Champions coverage, although Myers appeared on site for the Daytona 500, while Adam Alexander served as on site host for the rest of the season.

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In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic after the fourth race of the season Fox NASCAR started using their Charlotte Studio to the maximum extent possible to avoid travel, ensure social distancing, and limit the number of staff onsite at races.

Original theme music for NASCAR on Fox broadcasts was in the same style as other Fox Sports properties and was originally used from 2001 to 2007.

In 2008, Fox introduced a new theme for its NASCAR telecasts titled NASCAR Love, performed by country singer Toby Lightman.

From its debut until 2013, Fox initially used a scrolling ticker to display the current running order of drivers and other information, instead of the boxes that were used by previous NASCAR broadcasters.

In 2019, during Daytona 500 qualifying, Fox NASCAR introduced a new augmented reality "GhostCar, " allowing for a live visualization of a previous driver's qualifying lap to be overlaid into live footage of another driver's qualifying attempt.

The GhostCar feature was re-introduced later in the season, when Fox NASCAR ended its multi-car qualifying format in favor of the previous single-car format.

In 2022, Fox introduced a revamp of its on-air presentation for NASCAR ; the package builds upon visual elements from the current NFL on Fox branding, including the use of stylized "comic book" illustrations of drivers.

NASCAR on Fox has won 13 Emmy Awards for its coverage, including three for Outstanding Sports Series, six for Outstanding Live Event Audio Sound, one for Outstanding Graphic Design, five for Outstanding Technical Team Remote and one for Promotional Announcement Episodic.

Fox NASCAR made an appearance in the Fox NFL Sunday introduction during the December 20,2009 broadcast, in which the Chipmunks made an appearance.

In 2012, Fox NASCAR aired "In The Rear View Mirror" segments during the pre-race, showing computer-generated re-enactments of events during the 2012 season ; the intro sequence introduced in 2013 incorporates CGI cars.

How footage from Fox's NASCAR coverage got credited to the local affiliate of another network has not been made public, though it was likely that since none of the footage is similar to that of Fox's, the last lap was filmed by WFTV for their own local newscasts, intended originally as B-roll to add "color" to their post-race coverage of the Daytona 500.