Amazon Prime has made one other main addition to a NASCAR broadcast staff already suffering from expertise.
On Tuesday, Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic reported that NASCAR Corridor of Famer Carl Edwards will be part of Amazon Prime Video as a studio analyst when the streaming service takes over protection for 5 NASCAR Cup Sequence races from Might 25 to June 22.
Edwards will be part of host Danielle Trotta and Corey LaJoie within the studio. Fellow NASCAR Corridor of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr. shall be within the broadcast sales space for Amazon Prime alongside Daytona 500 profitable crew chief Steve Letarte and veteran lap-by-lap announcer Adam Alexander.
Prime Video’s pit reporters will embody Kim Coon, 2011 Daytona 500 champion Trevor Bayne and Marty Snider.
Edwards has been seldom concerned within the sport since his sudden retirement following the 2016 season, however his look on the Prime Video staff exhibits a rejuvenated curiosity in NASCAR for the 45-year-old.
Whereas Earnhardt Jr. and Edwards are the flashy attracts, Prime Video has put collectively an skilled staff poised to launch NASCAR into the streaming age. Alexander — who may even name the 5 NASCAR Cup Sequence races broadcast on TNT in 2025 — at the moment calls Xfinity Sequence races for the CW and is a veteran of the business. So is the studio host in Trotta, who frolicked because the host of Fox Sports activities’ “NASCAR Race Hub” and at the moment works as a bunch for SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
Letarte is the lone crew chief within the sales space and brings perception to followers from the thoughts of these atop the pit field.
Snider has change into a staple of NBC’s NASCAR protection as a pit reporter over the past decade, whereas Coon’s resume consists of work with MRN, NBC and the CW.
LaJoie and Bayne are each comparatively new to their respective roles — Bayne has labored as a studio analyst for Fox Sports activities’ protection of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence up to now — however will supply a contemporary perspective primarily based on their time within the cockpit.
All in all, the addition of Edwards is one other implausible transfer as Prime Video turns into the guinea pig for NASCAR’s first foray into completely streaming Cup Sequence races.
