‘We’d love to see them cover us more,’ NASCAR president Steve Phelps calls out ESPN for its lack of coverage of the sport

‘We’d love to see them cover us more,’ NASCAR president Steve Phelps calls out ESPN for its lack of coverage of the sport

Steve Phelps

NASCAR has gone through some radical changes after the appointment of President Steve Phelps, who is on a multi-pronged approach to upgrade the NASCAR brand on and off the track. With the introduction of Next-Gen NASCAR, diversity initiatives Steve Phelps is spearheading timely changes in NASCAR.

The Next-Gen cars are part of NASCAR’s plan to bring the field lot closer as the purchase of vendor-supplied parts curbs the traditional or rich teams from overexploiting modification of cars which can give them an advantage over small teams.

The diversity initiative is part of NASCAR’s plan to be more inclusive and attract the minority communities which has faced historical side-lining in NASCAR which is already reaping benefits as NASCAR is seeing an influx of Black and Minority investors in NASCAR.

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The most important part of widening this spectrum is the live coverage and content put out by NASCAR. Now the brand Precedent Steve Phelps has come forward claiming that ESPN network, one of the major sports broadcasters in the world, is not giving the sport enough coverage.

Find out what Steve Phelps said

Steve Phelps
NASCAR’s president Steve Phelps

Steve Phelps acknowledged that ESPN did a great job covering the recent Daytona 500 and appreciated the E60 they had done on Bubba Wallace a content which he finds has importance. Steve Phelps went on to say NASCAR would like to see more coverage from them pointing out to ESPN giving more preference to the coverage of Hockey than NASCAR.

“I think ESPN — they did a great job of covering the Daytona 500. They had an E60 on Bubba Wallace. That content’s important for us,” Steve Phelps said.

“Coverage is hard, right. They have a switch to hockey, and lo and behold, there’s more hockey, right. Would we like to see them cover us more? Yeah, we would,” Steve Phelps added.

Steve Phelps went on to say that ESPN covers big races for them and has credible and authentic NASCAR content producers and added that NASCAR likes to see ESPN covering them more as the broadcasters are an important player in sports news.

“They cover big races for us. Marty Smith and Ryan McGee, do some things, and some others. They’ve got some experts in the space that frankly got credibility and are authentic to our fanbase. They’re big. They’re an important part of sports news, and we’d love to see them cover us more,” says Steve Phelps.

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