11 Facts About Speed Channel

Speed Channel added a weekly call-in show in 2003, WindTunnel with Dave Despain, which featured interviews and discussions relating to news and events in auto racing.

Speed Channel continued to maintain coverage of other professional racing series, such as the Rolex Sports Car Series, the American Le Mans Series, the newly renamed Speed Channel World Challenge until 2010, and the Formula One World Championship.

In 2011, Speed Channel began carrying Australia's V8 Supercars series; it aired live coverage of the Gold Coast 600 and the Bathurst 1000 featuring Darrell Waltrip, Mike Joy, Leigh Diffey, and Calvin Fish on-location.

On March 5,2013, Fox Sports announced that Speed would be shut down and replaced by a new mainstream sports channel known as Fox Sports 1; the network was to inherit Speed's NASCAR coverage, but joined by new or recently acquired sports rights, including college basketball and football, Major League Soccer, UFC, and new studio programming.

In international markets such as Canada, a Speed Channel-branded service was maintained running an automated loop of Speed Channel's previous non-event programming, and simulcasts of motorsports programming carried by Fox Sports 1 or 2.

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Speed Channel became available in Canada shortly after its US launch.

Reports indicate that Fox had attempted to raise the channel's carriage fees significantly, despite the major reductions in original programming for international viewers, and Rogers suggests Fox was unwilling to allow Speed to be moved to a more specialized package in light of the programming and cost changes.

On February 19,2015, Fox announced that the international feed of Speed Channel would be re-branded as Fox Sports Racing, and announced that Rogers had reached a deal to add the rebranded network back to its lineup.

Speed Channel launched in Australia on November 1,2010 on Foxtel in both standard and high definition.

Speed Channel closed on November 3,2014 and has been replaced by Fox Sports 5.

Latin American version of Speed Channel carried live coverage of the Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series, Rolex Sports Car Series, American Le Mans Series, Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters and the Camping World Truck Series.