NBC Announces Their 2013 F1 Broadcast Team, and It Sounds Like Old Times

As many may know, after a long and successful run on Speed, starting in 2013, Formula One will have a brand new television home in the United States. NBC outbid the Fox-owned Speed channel for the exclusive rights to show Formula One in this country. The move to NBC ended a successful 17-year relationship between Speed and Formula One. NBC announced today that their broadcast team for F1 would be Leigh Diffey on play-by-play, with David Hobbs and Steve Matchett serving as race analysts. The network announced that Diffey would also handle the play-by-play on NBC’s coverage of the IndyCar series, replacing longtime racing voice Bob Jenkins, who retired this year at the end of the season. Those names should be quite familiar to...

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