ESPN MediaZone

NASCAR Analyst

Ray Evernham

Formerly a successful team owner in NASCAR racing and a three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion crew chief, Ray Evernham joined ESPN’s NASCAR coverage team in 2008 as an analyst.

Evernham appears on NASCAR Now, ESPN’s daily NASCAR news and information show, as part of a rotating panel of ESPN analysts for a weekly roundtable discussion in an expanded one-hour Monday edition of the program.

Evernham also works as an analyst in ESPN’s booth for live telecasts of selected NASCAR Nationwide Series races and joins ESPN’s pre-race NASCAR Countdown show for selected races. Evernham also makes appearances on ESPNEWS and ESPN First Take.

Evernham was featured in Race Wizard with Ray Evernham, a program that aired on ESPN2 in 2007 and previously appeared as an analyst on ESPN and ABC’s coverage of the IROC Series in 2000.

Evernham, who raced Modifieds in his native New Jersey, rose to prominence in NASCAR after hanging up his helmet and becoming a crew chief. He won three NASCAR Cup championships and 47 races with Jeff Gordon and Hendrick Motorsports in the 1990s, then started his own team to coincide with Dodge’s return to the top level of NASCAR racing in 2001. Bill Elliott, Kasey Kahne and Elliott Sadler were among the drivers for his former team.

- 30 -

Related Items:

1. ESPN2’s NASCAR Now Returns Feb. 1
2. Motorsports This Week on ESPN
3. Motorsports This Week on ESPN and ABC
4. Motorsports This Week on ESPN
5. Motorsports This Week on ESPN and ABC