Title: Petty to TNT? to run less races
Princess_Sara400 - January 20, 2007 05:06 PM (GMT)
(Jayski is) hearing that Kyle Petty, driver of the #45 Petty Racing
Dodge, will be part of the TNT broadcast crew that airs six Nextel Cup
races in June and July of 2007 and that Petty would not drive in some
or all those six races, being replaced by another driver, no idea who
that driver may be. Bill Weber will return as TNT's play-by-play
announcer and Wally Dallenbach returns as a race analyst.(1-20-2007)
nanajeanie - January 20, 2007 06:18 PM (GMT)
NOOOOOO!!! Not Bill Weber! :bam
That's pretty cool about Kyle though....
racefan9 - January 20, 2007 06:40 PM (GMT)
Britt - January 20, 2007 07:55 PM (GMT)
That's kinda weird, but I do like when he joins them in the broadcast booth.
Katrina9 - January 20, 2007 08:12 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (nanajeanie @ Jan 20 2007, 01:18 PM) |
NOOOOOO!!! Not Bill Weber! :bam
That's pretty cool about Kyle though.... |
My words exactly...lol
kelly - January 20, 2007 08:15 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (nanajeanie @ Jan 20 2007, 12:18 PM) |
NOOOOOO!!! Not Bill Weber! :bam
That's pretty cool about Kyle though.... |
:nod
kimmerlh - January 20, 2007 09:02 PM (GMT)
i like it when he's in the booth too. can't wait to see who will be in the car though.
MidnightPrism - January 20, 2007 09:03 PM (GMT)
Awww Kyle :(
Cool to see him in the booth though
AmeriKahneGirl924 - January 21, 2007 04:12 PM (GMT)
I like Kyle....if they would just get rid of Weber, we'd be golden.
K Bear - January 21, 2007 05:57 PM (GMT)
He's probably better off in the booth than on the track.
JanvierFireChick43-2 - January 21, 2007 08:15 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Katrina9 @ Jan 20 2007, 03:12 PM) |
| QUOTE (nanajeanie @ Jan 20 2007, 01:18 PM) | NOOOOOO!!! Not Bill Weber! :bam
That's pretty cool about Kyle though.... |
My words exactly...lol
|
Same here LOL
Scrapbookgirl9 - January 22, 2007 02:53 AM (GMT)
while it would be sad not to see Kyle racing. I know he'd be great in the booth and I really think at this point that is a better place for him than on the track.
~*Diana*~ - January 22, 2007 03:56 AM (GMT)
I definately wouldn't mind listening to him during the races.
Court - January 24, 2007 08:20 PM (GMT)
UPDATE: from a Clear!Blue/Dodge PR, Kyle Petty quotes during the Nextel Media Tour, day 2:
DO YOU HAVE PLANS TO QUIT DRIVING? "No. All that stuff is back like it was last year. Wells Fargo has come back. We have a multi-year deal with Wells Fargo, with Marathon, with Tire Kingdom, with Coca-Cola. We had a huge promotion around the Nextel All-Star race last year with Coca-Cola. There is so much going on right now. I'm like one of those guys if you ever thought about cutting back, it just keeps getting busier with camp with Victory Junction with everything we do there. With everything that's going on at Petty Enterprises, that's good. I'm glad that's story keeps moving because last year about this same time this was a hot story."
DO YOU HAVE OPTIONS TO WORK IN TV? "I've talked to the TNT people about numerous options. I did four or five races for them last year in the Busch Series. We had talked a month or so ago and obviously with Benny's passing and with the way things have gone there hasn't been a lot of communication lately. If I have an opportunity to do some stuff with them I would more than welcome the opportunity to do something at some point in time. If that's this year, great. If it's in two years or 10 years, that's great, too. I just want to keep that option open. I could possibly do anything. There's a couple of years there I sat out 10 or 15 just because I wasn't fast enough. I can sit out any amount."(Clear!Blue/Dodge PR)(1-24-2007)
Princess_Sara400 - February 7, 2007 05:50 PM (GMT)
TNT Announcement today..Petty 'while' driving:
Kyle Petty figures driving in a Nextel Cup race while he calls it on
TV won't be that big a deal. So TNT will formally announce Wednesday
that Petty will be an analyst on its six Cup races this summer, and
call one — the June 24 Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma, Calif. — as he
races in it. "There's constant communication between drivers and their
spotters and crew chiefs anyway," says Petty, 47. "Really, just
pushing another button and talking to millions of people won't be a
ton different. Maybe I'll have to clean up my language." Petty told
TNT he didn't want to miss that race because he likes road courses.
And, in planning to run all Cup races except ones he'll call for TNT,
he says it's "still my No. 1 priority to drive cars. Or maybe I'd be
begging for a seat in the (TV) booth." Kyle kept the idea of working
on TV "at arm's length" and says he only appeared on some TNT Busch
Series races this summer because TNT analyst Benny Parsons— whom Kyle
says he's known "forever" — needed an occasional fill-in. Parsons was
diagnosed with lung cancer in July and died last month after months of
treatment that seemed to have been going successfully. Kyle says he's
not a replacement: "I'll be really clear about this: Nobody can fill
Benny's shoes. I'm not taking his place. I'm in his seat, but Benny
will always be there." As an announcer, Petty says he'll avoid
"guessing what drivers are thinking" and remember TV announcers "are
just there for decoration." And, he says, he might want to pursue
future TV work because it fits with his overall goal in life: "If I
can float through and say I never had a full-time job, I'll see myself
as successful."(USA Today)(2-7-2007)