With college football arriving this week, most of the motorsports will air on ESPN2 and ESPN3. However ESPN and ABC will each carry some motorsports fun. Here's the full schedule outline from ESPN Media Zone.
Motorsports This Week on ESPN and ABC
Drag Racing’s Biggest Event, NASCAR Doubleheader at Atlanta
ESPN2 Airing 11 Hours of NHRA U.S. Nationals Coverage
The biggest event of the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season
will have 11 hours of coverage on ESPN2 this weekend with the running of
the 59th annual Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil
Raceway in Indianapolis. Expanded qualifying and eliminations telecasts
will culminate with six consecutive hours on Labor Day Monday, the final
day of competition. In addition, ESPN3, ESPN’s multi-screen live sports
network, will air live coverage of Friday qualifying as well as the
full day of eliminations on Monday. All NHRA programming on is also
available on computers, smartphones and tablets through WatchESPN and the WatchESPN app. The schedule:
| Date | Time | Event | Network |
| Friday, Aug. 30 | 6 p.m. | Qualifying (live) | ESPN3, WatchESPN |
| Sunday, Sept. 1 | 1 p.m. | Qualifying | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Monday, Sept. 2 | 1 p.m. | Eliminations (live) | ESPN3, WatchESPN |
| Monday, Sept. 2 | Noon | Eliminations | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
Announcers:
Booth: Dave Rieff (anchor); Mike Dunn (analyst)
Roving analyst/reporter: Gary Scelzi
NOTE: Veteran auto racing announcer Paul Page will contribute essays to ESPN’s U.S. Nationals coverage.
NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide Series in Prime Time at Atlanta
The NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series will race under the
lights at the 1.522-mile Atlanta Motor Speedway this weekend with both
races airing in prime time. ESPN will have a live telecast of the
500-mile NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Sunday night, Sept. 1. NASCAR Countdown
airs at 7 p.m. ET with the race’s green flag at 7:46 p.m. The race
telecast is presented by Pennzoil. The NASCAR Nationwide Series races on
ESPN2 on Saturday night, Aug. 31, with Countdown at 7 p.m. and
the green at 7:47 p.m. All NASCAR programming on ESPN and ESPN2 is also
available on computers, smartphones and tablets through WatchESPN and the WatchESPN app.
Announcers:
NASCAR Now Schedule
| Date | Time | Show | Host | Network |
| Tue., Aug. 27 | 2 a.m. | NASCAR Now | Mike Massaro | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Wed., Aug.28 | 2 a.m. | NASCAR Now | Marty Reid | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Thu., Aug. 29 | 2 a.m. | NASCAR Now | Marty Reid | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
| Fri., Aug. 30 | 2 a.m. | NASCAR Now | Marty Reid | ESPN2, WatchESPN |
American Le Mans Series at Baltimore on ABC
The American Le Mans Series races on the Baltimore street circuit
this weekend and ABC will have a one-day delayed telecast on Sunday,
Sept. 1, at noon ET. ESPN3 will air the race live on Saturday, Aug. 31,
at 3:30 p.m. as well as qualifying on Friday, Aug. 30, at 4:20 p.m.
ESPN3 is accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets
via the WatchESPN app and streamed on televisions through ESPN on Xbox
LIVE to Gold members and Apple TV.
Motorsports on Other ESPN Platforms
ESPN.com — RacingLive! on ESPN.com is a live blog where fans
can engage in debate and discussion with ESPN.com writers and editors
during the NASCAR Sprint Cup races. On Sunday night, Sept. 1,
RacingLive! Atlanta will coincide with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race
at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Fans can join ESPN.com’s NASCAR experts in
dissecting every aspect of the race live at http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/.
ESPN Radio — Each weekend morning, ESPN Radio’s RaceDay starts its engines at 6 a.m. ET with host Pat Patterson anchored from the site of that weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race. On both Saturday and Sunday mornings, ESPN Radio’s RaceDay
listeners get an hour of news, previews and analysis, as well as
profiles and interviews with NASCAR’s biggest names and newsmakers and
the involvement of listeners via calls and e-mails. RaceDay also features interviews with newsmakers from the IZOD IndyCar Series from correspondent Bruce Martin.
Click HERE for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series schedules on ESPN.
Click HERE for the 2013 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule on ESPN.
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Media Contact: Andy Hall, 386-492-2246 or andy.hall@espn.com.
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