NBC to pickup Speed F1 team?

A reader asks, Dear AutoRacing1.com, I believe you wrote recently that you thought Bob Varsha and David Hobbs would be a great addition to the Indycar broadcasts but contracts probably could not be worked out. Now that (as per your rumors) Speed as lost F1 rights starting next year, do you see then joining the Indycar broadcast team? Rick Flaute, Dayton, OH

Dear Rick, We predict NBC will pickup Varsha, Hobbs and Matchett to do the F1 broadcasts and hopefully the IndyCar broadcasts as well. With Bob Jenkins retiring the timing is right for them to do IndyCar as well…….as they did back in the boom years of CART. Mark C.