NBC Goes ‘Space Truckin’ with a new NASCAR CUP OPEN series – NCS

NBC Sports will start a new opening video for its Nascar Cup Cup Cup this weekend as he starts his section of the season with Iowa Corn 350 at Iowa Speedway.

The Open Cold is set to “Space Truckin” by Deep Purple and includes racing images, driving kicks and scenes from a stylized creative shoot that presents pilots in relaxed settings such as a bar and a garage.

“Nascar on NBC” plans to update the open throughout the season with new highlights, including recent images such as the victory of Bubba Wallace at the Brickyard 400.

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The theme of the new video focuses on the tenacity and endurance of NASCAR drivers.

NBC used several opening themes since its return to Nascar in 2015.

From 2015 to 2017, the Blake Shelton “Bringing Back The Sunshine” opener. In 2018, NBC presented a new version featuring a coverage of “Runnin ‘Down A Dream” by Zz Ward. A new opening made its debut in 2021 with “The Well” by Marcus King. NBC used Jordan Baum’s “Woohoo” in 2023 and early 2024, while “Highway Star”, also Deep Purple, was used for certain CUP series races in 2024.

Of course, this contrasts strongly with the first days of “NASCAR on NBC”, when “Fuel” of Metallica opened the programs.

The Iowa Broadcast of NBC will be the 200th Nascar race of the network since it resumed the broadcast of sport in 2015.

Although it is the first race of the Nbcuniverse Cup series of the 2025 season on its own waves, its Nascar production team has already produced five races for Amazon Main video this summer.

The broadcasting stand will feature Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte as an analysts, Leigh Diffey continuing as a Play-By-Play announcer.

The network will continue its advertising format limited to two events this year: Daytona on August 23 and Talladega on October 19. This format only presents advertisements when live action does not take place.

Nbcuniversal is the final of four media companies covering the 10 -month Nascar season. Renard Sports started the season in February. Amazon, TNT SPORTSAnd The CW Also have dissemination rights under the new Annual Agreement of $ 1.1 billion in NASCAR.