Tony Stewart And Danica Patrick Join FOX Sports Indy 500 Lineup

Chris Myers (left) and Tony Stewart will be part of the FOX Sports Indianapolis 500 Lineup along ... More with Danica Patrick. (Photo by Larry Placido/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) FOX Sports coverage of the 109 th Indianapolis 500 will include an impressive 60 hours of live coverage from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway culminating with the race day telecast on May 25. Longtime FOX Sports host and National Football League play-by-play announcer Chris Myers will be joined by 1997 IndyCar Series Champion and three-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion Tony Stewart and 2005 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year Danica Patrick as the hosts of the telecasts. Will Buxton, James Hinchcliffe, Townsend Bell lead the race coverage with Jamie Little, Kevin Lee and Georgia Henneberry reporting from the Pits. Jack Harvey, who is one of the pit reports for FOX’s IndyCar coverage, is competing in the race for Dreyer & Reinbold/Cusick Motorsports. Danica Patrick (center) in the FOX Sports booth with Mike Joy (left) and Clint Bowyer (right) at the ... More Phoenix NASCAR Cup Series race in 2022. Other FOX stars that will participate in the Indianapolis 500 include Tom Brady in the “Fastest Seat in Sports,” Rob Gronkowski as the grand marshal of “The Snake Pit” and Michael Strahan as the Pace Car driver. In the booth, Buxton is joined by nine-time Indianapolis 500 entrant James Hinchcliffe and 10-time Indy 500 racer Townsend Bell on the call for the 109 th Running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge, Sunday, May 25, on FOX, FOX Deportes and the FOX Sports app. Pre-race coverage begins at 10:00 AM ET and the green flag drops at 12:45 PM ET. Jamie Little, the first female pit reporter for a television broadcast of the prestigious Indianapolis 500 (2004), covered 11 consecutive Indianapolis 500s from 2004 to 2014 and joins Kevin Lee and Georgia Henneberry on pit road for this year’s race. FOX IndyCar pit reporter Jack Harvey is attempting to make the race and will offer insights from behind the wheel. FOX Indy 500 Prerace Tony Stewart, the 1997 IndyCar Series champion, and Danica Patrick, who led 19 laps in the iconic race in 2005 and finished third in 2009, the highest finish ever by a woman, are joined by veteran FOX broadcaster Chris Myers, bolstering the FOX IndyCar broadcast lineup for this year’s Indy 500. Tom Rinaldi of FOX Sports. (Photo by Ric Tapia/Getty Images) Tom Rinaldi, winner of 17 national Sports Emmy Awards and seven national Edward R. Murrow Awards, will offer feature interviews. Little will have a sit-down interview with NASCAR champion Kyle Larson, who once again is attempting the Indy 500/Coca-Cola 600 “double.” FOX Sports reporter Erin Andrews, the first woman singularly honored with the Pat Summerall Award, will have a conversation with two-time defending Indianapolis 500 champion Josef Newgarden. FS1 On The Road For Indy 500 FS1’s First Things First with Nick Wright, Chris Broussard and Kevin Wildes, will be on-site from Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Thursday, May 22 (3:00 PM ET to 5:00 PM ET), and Friday, May 23 (1:00 to 2:30 PM ET; 4:00 to 5:00 PM ET). FOX Deportes FOX Deportes presents its first broadcast of the Indy 500 with live coverage from Indianapolis beginning on Thursday, May 22. Motorsports reporter Giselle Zarur delivers interviews, features and live hits each day for Total Sports 360, the network’s daily sports news program. Sunday coverage kicks off at noon ET, featuring leading Spanish-language motorsports announcer Tony Rivera, Emmy Award-winner Jessi Losada and former IndyCar Series driver Oriol Servia, an 11-time Indy 500 racer, as analyst. Zarur reports from the pits. FOX Sports is the umbrella entity representing Fox Corporation’s wide array of multi-platform US-based sports assets. Built with brands capable of reaching more than 100 million viewers in a single weekend, the business has ownership and interests in linear television networks, digital and mobile programming, broadband platforms, multiple web sites, joint-venture businesses and several licensing relationships. FOX Sports includes the sports television arm of the FOX Network; FS1, FS2, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Deportes. FOX Sports’ digital properties include FOXSports.com and the FOX Sports App, which provides live streaming video of FOX Sports content, instant scores, stats and alerts to iOS and Android devices. Also included in FOX Sports’ portfolio are FOX’s interests in joint-venture businesses Big Ten Network and the UFL and a licensing agreement that established the FOX Sports Radio Network. Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucemartin/2025/05/15/tony-stewart-and-danica-patrick-join-fox-sports-indy-500-lineup/