Briscoe in booth

Ryan Briscoe

Ryan Briscoe won’t be racing in this weekend’s IZOD IndyCar Series Honda Indy 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, but he’ll be on site anyway in a different role.

Briscoe will join the broadcast booth for the weekend, alongside lead commentator Leigh Diffey and analyst Townsend Bell (Sun., 3 p.m. ET, NBCSN). Diffey tweeted the news on Tuesday; the full release of this weekend’s motorsports coverage on NBC and NBCSN is linked here, via the NBC Sports Group Press Box.

Briscoe's special brace

Briscoe follows Steve Matchett (Toronto) and David Hobbs (Milwaukee) in the NBCSN guest analyst role, with Wally Dallenbach expected to return for the next round at Sonoma (August 25).

The popular Australian is recovering from a fractured wrist suffered in an accident at the first race of the Toronto doubleheader weekend. He had successful surgery and in his stead, Carlos Munoz (Toronto race two) and Oriol Servia (Mid-Ohio) are filling in for him in the No. 4 National Guard Chevrolet for Panther Racing. Mike Conway, too, substituted for Briscoe at the American Le Mans Series’ race in Mosport on July 21, in Briscoe’s Level 5 Motorsports HPD ARX-03b.

Briscoe tweeted a picture of some new hardware that will allow him to resume his ALMS commitments with Level 5 at Elkhart Lake’s Road America next weekend (August 11). NBC Sports