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Czarniak loves life in the pits as a member of the TNT race coverage team.(TNT)
TNT – Sunday - PRERACE COVERAGE – 12:30P.M.
TNT – Sunday - RACE BEGINS AT 2P.M.
Radio - MRN and Sirius-XM Radio
I have known Lindsay Czarniak for three years and I can tell you for a fact that she is a dynamo. She is a broadcaster always ready for the next challenge, the next show, and most of all the next great assignment.
Well when I spoke to her Thursday she was hailing a cab for a ride to the airport and her next gig serving as a pit reporter on the TNT NASCAR broadcasts. This week she and the TNT gang will be in Brookline, Michigan for the LifeLock 400.
Lindsay and I spoke about this weeks show.
JW: You have your own feature on the broadcast. Lindsay on Location – tell me about it?
Czarniak:”This is my third year with TNT and Lindsay on Location gives me great freedom to give the fans the entire cool behind the scenes stuff that they would otherwise be able to see. This week I will be in the booth with the NASCAR officials showing the viewers how they access penalties. Given what has happened over the last few weeks I am sure that fans are going enjoy seeing how race officials look at the drivers.”
JW: What are some of the biggest challenges that pit reporter faces?
Czarniak:”Well it is building a trust with the race teams. That way when there is a story unfolding you can get to the crew chief or an owner and ask them the key questions. Also you can see the signals that the crews are giving so that while the driver may say on the radio that he is taking four tires in fact they could flash a two and it is a quick pit with gas and two tires giving them better track position and faking out the competition.”
JW: There may not be a sport that allows more access than NASCAR. How does that help you do your job?
Czarniak:”You know NASCAR gets it. The audience can listen to all the drivers talk on their radios during a race. We are given tremendous access so that at critical point in a race I am talking to the crew chief about their plans while the race plays out in real time. That would never happen in the NFL or NBA but in NASCAR they welcome it…Well most of the time anyway.”
Calling the race for TNT will be Bill Weber with analysts Kyle Petty and Wally Dallenbach in the booth.
In addition, analyst Larry McReynolds will make frequent contributions from the in-field as he breaks down crew strategy and analyzes car adjustments.
Here are some of the other highlights of the TNT broadcast:
The network will rev up its pre-race coverage beginning at 12:30 p.m. ET with NASCAR on TNT Live!
Marc Fein is the host and he will be joined, Petty and McReynolds.
The Chevy racing team of No. 33 Clint Bowyer and owner Richard Childress will join TNT’s infield rig for an interview prior to the race.
Grammy-nominated artist and Detroit native Kid Rock will also join TNT’s pre-race coverage, stopping by the set to speak to the NASCAR on TNT Live!
TNT’s acclaimed Pride of NASCAR series will feature racing legend Darrell Waltrip who is a three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion and 1989 Daytona 500 winner.
We always enjoy “D.W.” and he has more stories to tell than the gang at TNT may have time for but he is always entertaining.
Dallenbach will once again breaks down race strategy during Wally’s World, as he is superimposed into live race footage from last season’s race in Michigan. He will virtually walk along the track to discuss its nuances, with the ability to stop the race footage.
Ralph Sheheen will take viewers on a private tour of Jack Roush’s personal garage in Lavonia, Mich. where Roush will put on display his private collection of rare cars.
The show will be followed by Countdown to Green at 1:30 p.m. ET with Weber (host), Dallenbach (analyst) and Petty (analyst) with reports from pit reporters Marty Snider, Matt Yocum, Sheheen and Czarniak.
Countdown to Green leads into coverage of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing in Michigan at 2 p.m. ET with Weber, Dallenbach and Petty calling the action with frequent interaction with McReynolds (analyst) who will man the TNT Offtrack Robotic Car.
Throughout this year’s NASCAR on TNT Summer Series, the network will join forces with NASCAR.COM, the official site of NASCAR, to provide TNT RaceBuddy a multiplatform experience for race fans which features live feeds from the racetrack including pit road and in-car cameras, as well as live chats and polls
For more info: Josh Lobdell the Detroit NASCAR Examiner, Greg Engle the National NASCAR Examiner, TNT and NASCAR
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