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Back in the Day 1970
Back in the Day is a television show on the North American cable/satellite network, Speed Channel. It is hosted by NASCAR superstar driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. The show, which premiered on February 9, 2006, is a repackaged version of the 1960s and 1970s show Car and Track, which was hosted and narrated by Bud Lindemann. The syndicated 30-minute program carried highlights of major NASCAR races, before such coverage was widely available on network television. The new version features trivia about stock-car racing and other topics, presented in a "pop-up" style. Earnhardt Jr. tapes his segments at his home and at the North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame. Both are located in Mooresville, North Carolina. The most common featured years are those of the early 1970s.
Car Crazy 1970
Car Crazy is a Speed Channel television series about automotive enthusiasts, hosted by Barry Meguiar, President and CEO of the Meguiar's car care product empire. Each episode features various interviews with automotive enthusiasts, which Barry refers as 'car guys'. Some episodes also feature Meguiar's Award. In each episode, Barry expresses the joys of being a "car guy" in missionary fashion. On various occasions, Barry has claimed that his "car hobby" is a form of incurable disease, and it is his job to spread this 'disease' to all over the world. Barry claims the 'disease' is also genetically inherited. Many Car Crazy Trivia answers use Wikipedia as an information source, making it one of the first television shows that openly credits Wikipedia, rather than questioning Wikipedia's accuracy.
SPEED Test Drive 1970
NASCAR Classics 1970
NASCAR Classics was a series of NASCAR races that aired on Speed Channel. It aired from 2002 to 2004 and returned in 2009 before quietly disappearing off Speed Channel again in 2012. Matt Yocum was the host of the series before originally ending in 2004. The program, when it started mainly showed races from CBS that spans from 1979 to 2000. One of the races that they have shown were the Daytona 500 races from 1979 all the way to 2000. Also, they showed races from Talladega Superspeedway from the summer. The last race that was shown was the 2000 Pepsi 400 in 2004. In the spring of 2009, the series returned after a five year hiatus and started off with the 2006 Food City 500 at Bristol where Kurt Busch earned his first win with car owner Roger Penske and remembered when Jeff Gordon pushed Matt Kenseth after being spun out late in the race. Several months later, Gordon took out Kenseth at Chicagoland Speedway, which was shown later in 2009. Since its return, they have shown recent runnings of the weekend's race, which expands from 2003 to 2008's event. Speed now shows races from Fox, TNT, ESPN, ABC and NBC. On February 15, 2010, it featured the first non-cup race ever on NASCAR Classics which witness the first race of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season at Daytona.
101 Cars You Must Drive 1970
101 Cars you Must Drive was a Speed TV program hosted by actor and comedian Alonzo Bodden. The premise of the program is that there will be 101 cars, and that all 5 cars within a particular episode can be linked to one another in some fashion.
NASCAR Inside Nextel Cup 1970
NASCAR Inside Nextel Cup is a show that aired Monday nights on Speed Channel during the NASCAR season. Inside Nextel Cup was hosted by Dave Despain. The show was taped every Monday morning at SPEED's studios in Charlotte, North Carolina about 11 a.m., unless a race is postponed to Monday, in which case the show takes place live. The show usually ran for 60 minutes, except for a brief period during the first few weeks of the 2005 season, when it ran for 90 minutes. Speed Channel chose to discontinue this show at the end of the 2007 NASCAR season, replacing it in 2008 with the similar program This Week in NASCAR.
WindTunnel with Dave Despain 1970
WindTunnel with Dave Despain was a live viewer call-in show exclusively for auto racing fans that debuted on Speed Channel on February 22, 2003 and ended on August 11, 2013. During the course of the show, host Dave Despain fielded telephone calls and read e-mail from viewers, some of them directed at the guest Despain is interviewing, which was done just after the first segment, titled "Hot Topics", which Despain reads the big stories from the racing world. After the interview segment, Despain did a segment just for him, titled "My Take", in which he gave his opinion on news from the racing world. There was also an awad for the best e-mail or phone call from each show, as the winning viewer received a Despain bobblehead. It was a coveted prize among viewers. When WindTunnel debuted, the show aired Friday nights at 11 PM. The pilot episode was only a half-hour long. The time length was changed to an hour the very next week. In August 2003, WindTunnel expanded to four nights a week and moved to a 9 PM timeslot. In 2005, to the chagrin of some of the series' fans, WindTunnel was scaled back to one night a week, airing for two hours beginning at 9 PM on Sunday nights. In 2006, WindTunnel was scaled back to one hour. There have been special episodes of WindTunnel shown as part of the lead-up to the Daytona 500 and the Sprint All-Star Race.
Redline TV 1970
SPEED Center 2011
SPEED Center was a motor sports news program on Speed Channel. Debuting on February 13, 2011, It was anchored by Adam Alexander with Jeff Hammond and Sam Hornish, Jr. as analysts on Sunday episodes. Ricky Rudd was the analyst for the first 2 races at Daytona and Phoenix.
Speedmakers 1970
NASCAR Victory Lane 1970
NASCAR Victory Lane is a post-race show for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events. The program is broadcast on Fox Sports 1 and is hosted by John Roberts. It also stars Kyle Petty, Kenny Wallace, Wendy Venturini and Bob Dillner, and analyzes the day's event with highlights, post-race interviews and interaction with the winning driver and crew chief.
Forza Motorsport Showdown 1970
Forza Motorsport Showdown was a weekly television show on Speed Channel, produced by BCII, Inc. The show was a collaboration of Speed Channel and Microsoft Game Studios to present a live-action mini-series based on the new Forza Motorsport 2 video game. The series was produced on location at Road Atlanta Speedway. The host was Lee Reherman, who is best known as "Hawk" on the television show, American Gladiators.
Autoline Detroit 1970
Autoline Detroit is a weekly television show about automobile industry. Extra contents that did not fit into the television broadcast are also found in the shows web site.
This Week in NASCAR 1970
This Week in NASCAR, was a 60-minute program that aired Monday nights on the Speed Channel. It was hosted by veteran NASCAR personality Steve Byrnes with panel members Michael Waltrip and Greg Biffle. Other panelists such as Chad Knaus, Bootie Barker and Dave Blaney made regular appearances. The panel reviewed the past weekend's races and get geared up for the NASCAR racing week ahead with informative and historical videos. Each episode told the stories of the track, region, drivers and offered team perspectives as well as memorable historical races from the track with present and past drivers on hand. Their cameras capture the "behind the scenes" and "show me what I don't already know!" moments, that tell critical, colorful and entertaining race stories.
