

During his second act at Chip Ganassi Racing, McMurray also scored a win in the 2014 NASCAR All-Star Race and won the 2015 Rolex 24 at Daytona with CGR teammates Scott Dixon, Tony Kanaan and Kyle Larson.

The former world karting champion worked his way up through the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series ranks before signing with Chip Ganassi Racing, where he ran his first full Cup season in 2003, winning the Rookie of the Year Award.Īfter a stint at Roush Fenway Racing from 2006 to 2009, McMurray returned to Ganassi and posted a monster 2010 campaign, becoming one of only three drivers to win both the DAYTONA 500 and the BRICKYARD 400 in the same year. In the race car, McMurray exploded onto the NASCAR scene in 2002, scoring a win in his second-career Cup Series start, the quickest Cup Series win ever, while substituting for the injured Sterling Marlin at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Additionally, he had offered analysis in the FOX Sports broadcast booth for NASCAR Xfinity Series races at Pocono Raceway (June 2018) and Las Vegas Motor Speedway (March 2017). 1 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet, jumped from the race car to FOX NASCAR’s virtual studio in Charlotte, N.C., after a couple of guest analyst appearances on NASCAR RACE HUB in 2018. McMurray, who spent the majority of his racing career in the No.

In 2020, he significantly expanded that role, becoming an analyst for all FOX NASCAR’s pre- and in-race studio coverage of the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series, in addition to calling multiple NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races from the broadcast booth. Anyone who enjoys the game should check out Andretti Racing, a sequel released in 1997.After a stellar NASCAR career that spanned 16 fulltime NASCAR Cup Series seasons, driver Jamie McMurray stepped out of the race car at the conclusion of the 2018 season and joined FOX Sports in 2019 as a NASCAR analyst for NASCAR RACE HUB, the sport’s most-watched daily show, and NASCAR RACEDAY, among other duties. Overall, a solid racer that offers a few new ideas and decent realism, if not earth-shattering. The game's best feature is undoubtedly the innovative "career path" option that tracks your progress from rookie to circuit champion- a really cool feature for its time that was sadly not followed up on by later games. a nifty little title that challenged racers to a variety of series and then allowed them to spend the resulting prize money as they rose through the ranks to "Championship Cars." The drive was only fair, even for the time, but six different car types. I'm no fan of early 90's 3D polygons in racing games, but Mario Andretti offers pretty cool racing action for its time. Features a fun career mode and a nice selection of different tracks and cars from Sprint Cars, Stock Cars to Formula One and Indy racers. Nice 3D racer from Canadian racing game experts Distinctive Software.
