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Thursday, June 27th, 2019

NBC SPORTS PRESENTS SOUTHWICK LUCAS OIL MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP & IMSA WEATHERTECH SIX HOURS OF THE GLEN COVERAGE THIS WEEKEND

Lucas Oil Motocross Championship from Southwick, Mass. – Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN

IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship Six Hours of the Glen – Live Coverage Begins Sunday at 9:30 a.m. ET on NBC Sports Gold; NBCSN Presents Coverage at 7 p.m. ET

STAMFORD, Conn. – June 26, 2019 – NBC Sports Group’s motorsports coverage this weekend is highlighted by the Lucas Oil Motocross Championship from Southwick, Mass., Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN, as well as the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship from Watkins Glen – Six Hours of the Glen – on Sunday night at 7 p.m. ET on NBCSN.

NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app – NBC Sports Group’s live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and connected TVs – will provide streaming coverage of the Lucas Oil Motocross Championship and the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship.

LUCAS OIL MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP – SOUTHWICK, MASS. – SATURDAY AT 7:30 P.M. ET ON NBCSN

Pro Motocross makes its annual visit to New England this weekend with the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship from Southwick, Mass, on Saturday. New England’s lone AMA National event always draws a big crowd to Southwick, which first hosted motocross racing in the early 1970s. The current course was created behind American Legion Post 338 by a group of Legion members that were also fathers of local motocross racers.

NBC Sports Gold will livestream qualifying on Saturday at 10:15 a.m. ET, followed by 1^st Motos at 1 p.m. ET, and 2^nd Motos at 3:30 p.m. ET. NBCSN will present coverage of the Lucas Oil Motocross Championship race from Southwick at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Jason Weigandt (play-by-play), Grant Langston (analyst) and reporter Will Christien will call the action from the track in Southwick.

IMSA WEATHERTECH SPORTS CAR CHAMPIONSHIP – SIX HOURS OF THE GLEN – SUNDAY AT 9:30 A.M. ET ON NBC SPORTS GOLD; 7 P.M. ET ON NBCSN

The Six Hours of The Glen continues the seven-decade legacy of sports car racing in Watkins Glen, New York this Sunday. On October 2, 1948, the village of Watkins Glen hosted the first post-WWII road race in America, using a 6.6-mile course that was made up mostly of paved roads and a short stretch of dirt and gravel. Frank Griswold won the 8-lap, 52.8-mile event in a pre-war Alfa Romeo 8C2900 coupe.

This weekend’s race marks round number six of the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech Championship, and race three of four in the 2019 IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup. Current point leaders heading into this weekend’s race are DPI: #31 Whelen Engineering (Felipe Nasr, Pipo Derani), GTLM: #912 Porsche GT Team (Earl Bamber, Laurens Vanthoor), GTD: #86 Meyer Shank Racing (Mario Farnbacher, Trent Hindman), and LMP2: #38 Performance Tech (Cameron Cassels, Kyle Masson).

Comprehensive live coverage on Sunday begins at 9:30 a.m. ET on NBC Sports Gold. NBCSN will present coverage of the event at 7 p.m. ET.

Kevin Lee (play-by-play), former IMSA GT driver Calvin Fish (analyst), and motorsports veteran A.J. Allmendinger (analyst) will call the action from Watkins Glen, along with pit reporters Dillon Welch and Jon Beekhuis.

Following is this weekend’s motorsports coverage schedule across NBC Sports:

Date	Program	Platform	Time (ET)
Sat., June 29	Lucas Oil Motocross (Southwick, MA) – Qualifying	NBC Sports Gold	10:15 a.m.
	Lucas Oil Motocross (Southwick, MA) – 1st Motos	NBC Sports Gold	1 p.m.
	Lucas Oil Motocross (Southwick, MA) – 2nd Motos	NBC Sports Gold	3:30 p.m.
	Lucas Oil Motocross (Southwick, MA) – Race	NBCSN*	7:30 p.m.
Sun., June 30	IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship (Watkins Glen)	NBC Sports Gold	9:30 a.m.
	IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship (Watkins Glen)	NBCSN*	7 p.m.

*All televised coverage streams on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app

^All races air live and commercial free on NBC Sports Gold

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NBC SPORTS REVS ITS ENGINES FOR FIFTH SEASON OF MONSTER ENERGY NASCAR CUP SERIES RACING THIS SUNDAY, JUNE 30, AT 3 P.M. ET ON NBCSN FROM CHICAGOLAND SPEEDWAY

NBC Sports launches its 2019 NASCAR season this weekend with nearly 20 hours of trackside coverage from Chicagoland Speedway, culminating with Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at 3 p.m. ET on NBCSN. Pre-race coverage begins at 2:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN with Countdown to Green.

Following is this weekend’s NASCAR programming on NBCSN:

DATE	COVERAGE	TIME (ET)
Friday, June 28	NASCAR Xfinity Series First Practice – Chicago	4 p.m.
	NASCAR America Fan Fridays	6 p.m.
	NASCAR Xfinity Series Final Practice – Chicago	7 p.m.
Saturday, June 29	NASCAR Cup Series Practice – Chicago	11 a.m.
	NASCAR Xfinity Series Qualifying – Chicago	12 p.m.
	NASCAR America	1 p.m.
	NASCAR Cup Series Final Practice – Chicago	2 p.m.
	NASCAR Xfinity Series Countdown to Green	3 p.m.
	NASCAR Xfinity Series Race – Chicago	3:30 p.m.
	NASCAR Xfinity Series Post-Race Show	6 p.m.
	NASCAR Cup Series Qualifying – Chicago	6:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 30	NASCAR America	1 p.m.
	NASCAR Cup Series Countdown to Green	2:30 p.m.
	NASCAR Cup Series Race – Chicago	3 p.m.
	NASCAR Cup Series Post-Race Show	6 p.m.

*All televised coverage streams on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app

For more information on NBC Sports’ comprehensive coverage from Chicagoland Speedway, click here.

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