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NASCAR drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr., Dale Jarrett and Josh Berry had been on Orrville Thursday at Jarret Industries.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. will return to the NASCAR broadcast sales space for Amazon Prime Video’s protection of the Coca-Cola 600.This might be Amazon Prime’s first of 5 Cup Sequence races broadcast, sharing 10 whole with TNT.
A brand new community, Amazon Prime Video, will take the wheel within the NASCAR Cup Sequence on Could 25 with Dale Earnhardt Jr., one of the vital well-liked drivers within the sport’s historical past, again within the sales space.
NASCAR’s first totally direct-to-consumer streaming media accomplice will air the primary of its 5 Cup races at Charlotte Motor Speedway within the 66th Coca-Cola 600 (5 p.m. CT). Together with Earnhardt, who sat out final season as a TV commentator after spending six years with NBC, protection might be supplied by Carl Edwards, Adam Alexander, Steve Letarte and host Danielle Trotta. Trevor Bayne, Kim Coon and Marty Snider will report from the pits.
The 400-lap race is the longest of the season, however that may not be lengthy sufficient for Earnhardt, who has missed being behind the mic.
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“We had somewhat apply rehearsal over (the Could 11, Kansas) race utilizing the FOX program and my bosses had been texting me after we bought carried out, ‘What did you suppose?’ ” Earnhardt stated. “I stated, ‘I’ve bought one drawback. We solely get to do that 5 weeks.’ I had a number of enjoyable and it should be right here and gone in a snap of a finger. I’m all about doing 600 miles.”
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Amazon Prime Video and TNT will share protection of 10 Cup races, and Earnhardt will work every of them. That features all NASCAR Cup races from the Coca-Cola 600 on Could 25 by the Brickyard 400 on July 27.
NBC Sports activities will broadcast 12 Cup races, together with the ultimate three of the playoffs — Talladega, Martinsville and Phoenix — and the regular-season finale at Daytona. Earnhardt is not going to be a part of any of these races.
NBC Sports activities additionally will carry 10 Cup Sequence races on USA Community, together with seven playoff races. Peacock will simulcast 4 Cup races on NBC, together with the Daytona finale and the Phoenix championship race.
The Coca-Cola 600 is particular for Earnhardt, who made his Cup Sequence debut there in 1999, ending sixteenth. In 2015, he gained the Coca-Cola 600, and had 5 different top-five finishes at Charlotte.
Earnhardt, nevertheless, has by no means referred to as the Coca-Cola 600 as a result of it was a part of the FOX bundle when he was with NBC.
“I’ve at all times wished to do the 600,” he stated. “I believe all of us can type of agree that the 600’s been the most effective races over the previous couple of years. The Subsequent Gen automobile has been unimaginable on the mile-and-a-halfs. In order that has me actually excited.”
Amazon Prime Video NASCAR race broadcast might be totally different from Fox, NBC
Earnhardt stated race followers will profit from having so many media shops share races this season. He wouldn’t give away an excessive amount of about how Amazon Prime Video’s broadcast will differ, however stated there might be some authentic ideas integrated.
“I believe that each one the networks push one another to place good merchandise out on Sunday,” he stated. “Amazon will carry some actually cool concepts and new methods of trying and approaching the game that can push all people to do higher and be higher. I am grateful to be a part of that crew. I am excited to see the followers response to it.”
When pressed concerning the variations, Earnhardt would solely say, “There might be some issues that look very related and a few new stuff as properly that might be enjoyable.”
Dale Earnhardt Sr. docuseries debuts Could 22
Together with Earnhardt’s first Amazon Prime Video broadcast this week would be the Could 22 premiere of the docuseries “Earnhardt,” additionally on Amazon Prime Video.
The four-part Think about Leisure collection delves into the 26-year racing profession and household lifetime of Earnhardt’s father, Dale Earnhardt Sr., and the influence he had on the game earlier than his loss of life in 2001 on the Daytona 500.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his sister, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, chosen government producer Ron Howard and Brian Grazer of Think about Leisure to inform the story of their father’s legacy.
“About three years in the past, Kelley and I had been inundated with 5 to 6 totally different initiatives round Dad in varied types and totally different concepts and approaches to doing one thing,” Earnhardt stated. “This one stood above the remainder. This one stood out due to Ron Howard and his crew and their capacity to inform shifting tales.”
The primary two episodes will stream on Could 22. The ultimate two might be launched on Could 29.
Kelley Earnhardt Miller stated the timing was proper to inform her father’s story as a result of so many youthful followers by no means had the chance to see him race.
“I can take my children for instance — they’re 24, 19 and 13,” she stated. “As a lot as we lived it and now we have the concept that everybody is aware of the story, my children watched it they usually had been launched to so many new issues that they’d no clue about about our dad, about our life, about our household.”
