NASCAR returns to NBC this weekend in primetime at California Speedway in Fontana, Calif., with Nextel Cup Racing from California on Sunday. Coverage begins at 7:00pm/et with the “Bank of America Countdown to Green” pre-race show, hosted by Bill Weber. Weber and analyst Wally Dallenbach will call the race action live at 8:00pm/et analyst Benny Parsons, currently undergoing treatment for lung cancer, will not make the trip to California, but plans on being in the booth for TNT at Richmond International Raceway the following week.
NBC’s “Football Night in America” studio show analyst Jerome “The Bus” Bettis goes around and around this week as Dallenbach takes him for a ride on “Wally’s World.”
COMMENTATORS: Bill Weber, pre-race host and play-by-play Wally Dallenbach, analyst
Allen Bestwick, Dave Burns, Marty Snider, Matt Yocum, pit reporters.(NBC PR)(8-31-2006)
