On Monday afternoon (Jan. 27), the National Motorsports Press Association sent out a press release announcing that NASCAR broadcaster Bill Weber had died.
He passed away back on Dec. 13, six weeks ago, but as he had very much gotten out of the spotlight in recent years, it took that long for the news to get out. A search for an obituary came back empty.
Simply put, it is a very quiet end to a man that was a regular presence on television for NASCAR fans for more than 15 years and involved in motorsports for more than 20.
The National Motorsports Press Association is saddened to learn of the passing of former NASCAR broadcaster and pit reporter Bill Weber.
— National Motorsports Press Association (@NMPAonline) January 27, 2025
Weber’s first foray into motorsports was in unlimited hydroplane racing, where he worked in media relations for Miller Brewing Company. Basically, he was the PR guy for Chip Hanauer prior to Hanauer taking over the Miss Budweiser boat.
In 1990, Weber left Miller and took a job with Sunbelt Video, a Charlotte-based production company. This group was best known for producing NASCAR programming for TNN. Today, what’s left of that company is part of NASCAR Digital Media. He was a regular producer on Inside Winston Cup Racing, the weekly show hosted by Ned Jarrett.
The Wikipedia article on Weber lists the show as Inside NASCAR. While the title of the show did change at least twice over the years, it appears that the show was always known as Inside Winston Cup Racing for the entire time that Weber was at Sunbelt Video. He left before the show expanded to an hour and switched back to Inside NASCAR.
An example of what Weber did while with the show is in the video below where he provides the voiceover for a piece from 1991 on NASCAR photographers. One of the photographers interviewed is a young Cindy Elliott (then Karam), who is now the wife of Bill Elliott and mother of Chase. At the time, she was a photographer for Winston Cup Scene.
In 1994, Weber left Sunbelt Video to join ESPN. There, Weber was primarily a pit reporter for NASCAR races. Later on, he took a bigger role on ESPN’s pre-race show, nascar2day, and also served as a correspondent for both versions of rpm2night (Note: The weeknight version of the show was Charlotte-based, while the weekend version was based in Bristol, Conn.). When the first series-wide TV deals came to…
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