FOX Sports has its staff able to hit the monitor for the 2025 IndyAutomotive season.
Veteran broadcaster Will Buxton will deal with play-by-play duties whereas James Hinchcliffe and Townsend Bell will function analysts for the primary season of IndyAutomotive on FOX, FOX Sports introduced Tuesday.
Buxton, who was beforehand a part of the FOX Sports household for his work as an F1 pit lane reporter for the SPEED channel, has develop into one of the crucial famend media figures in motorsports. He labored as a pit lane reporter for NBC Sports’ protection of IndyAutomotive and F1. He just lately labored for F1 as a digital presenter, having a distinguished function in each season of the hit documentary sequence ‘Drive to Survive’.
Additionally, Buxton has written a number of books (My Greatest Defeat: Stories of Struggle and Hope from Auto Racing’s Greatest Heroes, Grand Prix: An Illustrated History of Formula 1), changing into a New York Times best-selling creator within the course of.
“I’m completely thrilled to embark on this new and extremely thrilling alternative to return to FOX, precisely 15 years after the SPEED Channel gave a really inexperienced younger reporter his first alternative on community tv,” Buxton stated in an announcement. “I’ve been a fan of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES for so long as I’ve watched the race automobiles and have at all times marveled on the talent and braveness of its unimaginable drivers. Having the prospect to inform their tales and headline their races is a dream come true and one thing I by no means imagined I’d have the consideration of doing. It’s an enormous accountability, and I do not take it frivolously.”
Hinchcliffe and Bell, in the meantime, have labored collectively on NBC Sports’ IndyAutomotive protection in recent times. Hinchcliffe has been a full-time IndyAutomotive analyst since his profession resulted in 2022, profitable IndyAutomotive Series Rookie of the Year in 2011 and 6 races over the course of his profession whereas racing for Andretti Autosport, Newman/Haas Racing and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports.
“I’m very excited to be a part of the FOX Sports staff forward of the 2025 season,” stated Hinchcliffe. in an announcement “FOX Sports is available in with big targets to develop the game, one thing I’m extremely enthusiastic about. It’s nice to reunite with Townsend, and it is an enormous win for the game to usher in Will Buxton.”
Bell will even reunite with FOX Sports, rejoining the corporate after working for the SPEED channel as a part of its F1 protection. In addition to his work with SPEED and NBC Sports, Bell has labored for SkySports in Europe.
Bell’s broadcast profession, which started over 20 years in the past, got here after he received the Indy Lights in 2001. He continued to race professionally even in the course of the begin of his broadcast profession, driving in 10 Indianapolis 500s and profitable the 12 Hours of Sebring in 2012.
“I began in tv 21 years in the past with the FOX Sports household of networks, engaged on the SPEED Channel’s F1 protection,” Bell added within the assertion. “It’s very nice to see issues come full circle, particularly with INDYCAR, which has been my dwelling for thus lengthy. FOX Sports and INDYCAR can be a robust mixture.”
All 17 races of the 2025 IndyAutomotive season will air on FOX together with two further Indianapolis 500 qualifying periods. All 19 occasions will even be broadcast on the FOX Sports app.
FOX Sports’ protection of IndyAutomotive will start with the primary occasion of the 2025 season, broadcasting the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on Sunday, March 2, at midday ET.
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