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unusual facts about Speed Channel



Mike Harper

Mike has interviewed many ARCA and NASCAR stars, television executives/personalities from ESPN, Fox Sports and Speed Channel, and national personalities like wrestler/movie star Bill Goldberg and Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, General Tommy Franks.

Pocono Raceway

On the September 30, 2012, edition of Speed Channel's WindTunnel with Dave Despain, Bernard officially confirmed that the IndyCar Series would return to Pocono with a 400-mile race on July 7, 2013.

The George Michael Sports Machine

Current SportsCenter anchor Lindsay Czarniak, who was a colleague of Michael's at WRC and worked for Turner Sports and Speed Channel as well, joined the program as a substitute host in 2004 and became Michael's co-host in 2006.

The Nadas

Their "Walk Away" is sung at the end of a competition on Speed Channel's Pinks, after the winner has been determined.

Tom Hnatiw

Tom Hnatiw was best known as co-presenter of the TV show Dream Car Garage on Speed Channel alongside Peter Klutt from 2000 to 2008.

World Series of Off-Road Racing

WSORR events were shown tape delayed on American television on Speed Channel and on Motors TV in Europe.


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2007 NEXTEL All-Star Challenge

{Rewrite for clarity} A new event, which aired on Speed Channel and was sponsored by Kobalt Tools, was a race among NEXTEL Cup crew chiefs driving small Legends Thunder Roadster Cars (the creation of Lowe's Motor Speedway president H.A. "Humphy" Wheeler) on the quarter-mile oval in front of the main track's grandstand.

A new event that served as a preliminary to the All-Star Challenge, which aired on Speed Channel, was a race among NEXTEL Cup crew chiefs, sponsored by Kobalt Tools.

Matchett

Steve Matchett (born 1962), commentator for American cable TV station SPEED Channel

Speed Road Tour Challenge

There are 13 episodes, each corresponding to the races on the NASCAR on Fox schedule (Fox and Speed Channel have the same parent company, News Corporation).