Three NASCAR Cup champions to join FOX booth at Darlington
DOVER, DEL. — FOX announced Sunday at Dover three NASCAR Hall of Famers will join the booth for a stage of the May 8 NASCAR Cup Series throwback Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway.
Seven-time champion Richard Petty, 1988 champion Bill Elliott and 2000 champion Bobby Labonte will take over the booth for a stage.
Petty previously called races for CBS and TBS in 1994 and 1995 – after retiring in 1992. Petty was a part of the TBS booth that called the 1995 Coca-Cola 600 when Labonte earned his first NASCAR Cup Series win.
Labonte has served as a studio analyst for FOX since 2017. Previously he held the same role with NBC from 2014 to 2016.
Elliott has not served in a TV role to the same capacity as Petty and Labonte. He was a part of the 2015 NASCAR Hall of Fame class.
Petty was inducted into the Hall as a part of the inaugural 2010 class, while Labonte was inducted as a part of the 2020 class.
The trio of champions is expected to take over the booth for stage two of the Goodyear 400 at Darlington (3:30 p.m. ET; TV: FS1; Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Ch. 90).
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
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