NASCAR Race Hub was a daily NASCAR news program broadcast on Fox Sports 1 Monday through Thursday. Originally broadcast on Speed, the show replaced NASCAR Nation and This Week in NASCAR. NASCAR Race Hub premiered on October 12, 2009, as a 30-minute show, but was extended to 60 minutes in the following years. The show was again shortened to 30 minutes after moving to Fox Sports 1 from Speed in August 2013, only to be returned to 60 minutes starting on September 23. On May 8, 2024, reports emerged that Fox Sports had cancelled Race Hub, with its final episode aired on June 11, 2024.
NASCAR Race Hub premiered as a half-hour show, but eventually became an hour-long show. It was shortened back to 30 minutes in August 2013, although the next month it was restored to an hour-long format. It previously aired at 6:00p.m. ET, as well as at 7:00p.m. ET Monday through Thursday.
The show breaks down the previous weekend's race and previews the upcoming one, providing analysis and interviews along the way. Jimmy Spencer has a segment on the Tuesday and Thursday editions of the show where he provides commentary and answers viewer emails and tweets. His segments became popular for the various 'awards' he gives drivers and teams such as the crying towel, cigars, strait jackets. Also on Monday, former Miss Sprint Cup, Monica Palumbo along with Danielle Trotta, presented the tweets of the week from NASCAR drivers and crewmen. Trotta contributes segments to the show and does interviews with drivers, crew chiefs and car owners as well as acting as a fill-in host in Byrnes' absence. In 2013, Trotta became co-host, and the show moved from its own studio to share the Speed Center studio.
With the show moving to Fox Sports 1 on August 17, 2013,[2] the show moved to a 4:30p.m. start time.[3] When the show was re-lengthened, this start time was revised to 4 p.m.[4] It does not always not always air at 4. It sometimes airs at various times, once a day, during the afternoon.
On May 12, 2014, Race Hub moved to its new permanent time to 5pm ET, replacing Crowd Goes Wild, while The Mike Francesa Show took over Race Hub's old time slot. Beginning with the 2015 season, the show swapped timeslots with America's Pregame and resumed its former 6pm timeslot. The show also gained a weekend edition, following the cancellation of NASCAR Live following the 2014 season.
Starting in 2017, Race Hub gained a Spanish-language version to be jointly simulcast on Fox Deportes in the United States and Puerto Rico and Fox Sports 3 for the Spanish-speaking Latin America.
On February 13, 2017, it was announced that Shannon Spake would replace Danielle Trotta as co-host alongside Adam Alexander. Trotta left the show to pursue other opportunities.[5]
On May 8, it was reported that FS1 had cancelled Race Hub, with its final episode expected to air on June 11.[6]
On June 11, Racehub aired its final episode with a 90-minute special called Racehub: Final Lap. It featured the former hosts and drivers, and they looked back on the show's history and their favorite segments. At the end of the special, all of the people who worked on the show came out, and the closing words were, "Have an awesome night," which was used by former host Steve Byrnes.
Radioactive
Each Tuesday following a race, radio chatter highlights called Radioactive are shown, featuring driver's in-race radio communications and competitor's reactions during the previous Cup Series race (occasionally, radio highlights from Truck Series are also aired). The Radioactive segments, along with many segments of the show, are uploaded on Fox Sports' YouTube channel around the same time.[7] The Radioactive highlights are also available on NASCAR's YouTube channel.
For 2020 Daytona 500, the Radioactive segment for the race was withheld until June 4, 2020, after Ryan Newman (who had returned to racing since the previous month) was seriously injured in the final lap of the race.[8]
Despite RaceHub formally ending production on June 11th, 2024, the Radioactive segment would continue to be produced by FOX and featured on NASCAR's social media platforms.
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