Live Blogging Camping World Trucks in Kansas (SPEED - 12:30PM)

There is no Krista Voda this weekend in Kansas. The host of the Setup pre-race show worked in Richmond for FOX on Saturday night and is not heading to Charlotte to host The SPEED Report on Sunday evening. Instead, Rick Allen will host the pre-race show.

Allen will then be joined by Phil Parsons and Michael Waltrip for the race. The Kansas Speedway is fast and hosted an IndyCar race on Saturday. It should be interesting to see how many of the trucks have the speed to keep up with the KHI superteam.

Adam Alexander and Ray Dunlap will be reporting from pit road. Time is winding down for Alexander before he moves into the play-by-play position for TNT this summer calling the network's six Sprint Cup Series races. It has been a career season for Alexander, who has worked hard to get his success.

Unlike the chaos of FOX at Richmond, SPEED promises to continue the old school approach of simply showing the racing on the track without forcing a TV network agenda into the telecast. This basic approach is one of the reasons fans enjoy watching this series on TV.

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Live Blogging Sprint Cup Series In Richmond (7PM - FOX)

The weather is great, the gopher is gone and the lights are on. The Sprint Cup Series is running at night on a short track that lends itself to great racing.

Chris Myers leads the Emmy Award winning NASCAR on FOX team on the air at 7PM ET. Myers will be joined by Darrell Waltrip and Jeff Hammond from the Hollywood Hotel for a thirty minute pre-race show. The green flag flies at 7:44PM.

Mike Joy calls the action with Waltrip and Larry McReynolds from the TV booth. On pit road are Steve Byrnes, Matt Yocum, Krista Voda and Dick Berggren. Voda will not be at the truck race Sunday in Kansas. Instead, she will head back to Charlotte and host The Speed Report.

Richmond is a short track with lots of action. It's tough to go in-car live for fear of missing action on the track. The aerial shot of the facility is beautiful and it also works to show a fantastic perspective on restarts.

The RIR pit road is great for the famous triple-split effect used on the caution flag pitstops. With the incredible importance on pit road tonight, it will be important to clearly document the stops. ESPN made a big blunder on the final stops in the Nationwide Series race and never recovered.

It's going to be important for the TV team to keep the intensity level high. Unlike the relaxed style that FOX brought to Talladega, the short track in Richmond deserves excitement from the TV booth. That means Darrell Waltrip may have to scale back his extended comments and stories this week.

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Live Blogging Nationwide Series From Richmond (7PM - ESPN2)

Allen Bestwick returns to handle the play-by-play duties at Richmond. This is the first of five Nationwide Series races that Bestwick will call in 2010.

First on the air is Nicole Briscoe, who is hosting the pre-race show with Rusty Wallace and Brad Daugherty. Wallace will move up to the booth and join Bestwick and Andy Petree for the race.

Down on pit road are Dr. Jerry Punch, Mike Massaro and Dave Burns. Along with Marty Reid, Jamie Little and Vince Welch are in Kansas this weekend working on an IndyCar race for ABC.

Richmond is a snug little track that makes for great racing and sometimes lots of caution flags where the Nationwide Series is concerned. It will be nice to hear Bestwick back on the race call.

Richmond under the lights makes for good TV, but not really from the in-car cameras. The laps are short and the racing is intense, so it is easy for the director to miss a lot of action while trying to use the in-car cameras.

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