New starting time for NASCAR Now

NASCAR Now, ESPN’s first daily news and information program totally dedicated to NASCAR, will move to a new time of 6:00pm/et starting Tuesday, July 31. The 30-minute show on ESPN2 has aired at 6:30pm/et since its debut in February. NASCAR Now will continue with an expanded one-hour program on Mondays that will include extensive highlights of the weekend’s Nextel Cup and Busch Series races. The one-hour show will air at 5:30pm/et. The hour-long weekend edition of the program will continue to air at 10:00am/et on the days of Nextel Cup races, either Saturday or Sunday. NASCAR Now is hosted by Erik Kuselias, Ryan Burr or Allen Bestwick and originates from ESPN’s High Definition studios in Bristol, Conn., with reporters Mike Massaro and Shannon Spake. Contributors include analysts Tim Brewer, Brad Daugherty, Stacy Compton and Boris Said, along with NASCAR insiders Terry Blount, Angelique Chengelis, Tim Cowlishaw, David Newton and Marty Smith, as well as D.J. Copp, a member of Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s NASCAR team. ESPN PR