Fox Sports finalizing IndyCar pit reporter lineup. Here's what we know about the rotation

Fox Sports finalizing IndyCar pit reporter lineup. Here’s what we know about the rotation

Posted by author February 25, 2025 Sports

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Fox announced its IndyCar booth six weeks ago but this week is still finalizing the final remembers of its talent lineup.
The rotation is expected to include veteran motorsports journalists Kevin Lee, Jamie Little and Georgia Henneberry as well as IndyCar driver Jack Harvey.

Three days before cars hit the track, Fox Sports executives have begun to finalize their IndyCar on-air talent pool.

Sources told IndyStar Fox Sports is closing in on hiring IndyCar driver Jack Harvey to join a list of veteran motorsports TV talent including Kevin Lee, Jamie Little and Georgia Henneberry among its rotation of pit reporters on IndyCar broadcasts in 2025.

The four will join Fox’s IndyCar broadcast booth that includes lead anchor Will Buxton and analysts James Hinchcliffe and Townsend Bell. Hinchcliffe and Bell have worked with Lee and Henneberry in recent years on NBC’s IndyCar broadcasts.

It’s unclear whether or in what ways Fox might assign any or all of its IndyCar pit reporters in question to also participate in its Indy NXT coverage that will air on FS1 and FS2. When reached by IndyStar, a Fox spokesperson declined to comment but noted a formal announcement on the crew is expected by midday Wednesday.

Harvey is slated to race in May’s Indianapolis 500 for Dreyer and Reinbold Racing, meaning he’ll miss at least one race during his debut IndyCar broadcasting season. Previously, the British driver cut his teeth in the racing broadcast business by getting behind the microphone to commentate on lower junior formula racing while he was rising the ranks himself in Europe.

Lee, who continued his work earlier this year with NBC’s motorsports coverage with the network’s broadcast of the Rolex 24, would be expected to be the crew’s veteran leader and a mainstay across the 17-race campaign. He began his IndyCar broadcast tenure with Versus in 2009 and later transitioned over to NBC’s airwaves, becoming a near-constant on its broadcasts in the years since. In recent years, Lee also filled in at times for NBC’s IndyCar play-by-play announcer Leigh Diffey. Lee called the closing stretch of last year’s championship as Diffey transitioned into NBC’s NASCAR Cup series booth.

Little spent more than a decade as an IndyCar pit reporter for ESPN and ABC from 2004 to 2014, during which she also filled a similar role in the network’s NASCAR coverage. In 2015, she joined Fox Sports to cover pit road for the network’s NASCAR Cup and Xfinity broadcasts. Since then, she’s become the play-by-play voice of the ARCA Menards Series (starting in 2021), making her the first woman in history to call TV play-by-play for a national racing series broadcast. She also began calling select Truck series races in a play-by-play role in 2023.

Earlier this year, she covered her 11th Daytona 500 while also working in the booth to cover both the ARCA and Trucks series races that weekend. With her debut Daytona 500 in 2015, Little became the first female pit reporter to cover both the Daytona 500 and the Indy 500 on live network TV. Though her pit reporting duties on Fox’s Cup series broadcasts will end in May with the network’s segment of the schedule complete, it’s unclear how Little will split her time between pit reporting in IndyCar and working the broadcast booth in ARCA and the Truck series beyond the 500.

Henneberry cut her teeth early in her broadcast career covering short track racing for USAC and other platforms around the country. She joined the IndyCar media world in 2019, first as an occasional presence behind the microphone while working for IndyCar and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway starting with the 2019 Indy 500. She first joined NBC’s coverage of Indy NXT on Peacock in the fall of 2021, made her Rolex 24 debut with the network in January 2023 and made her IndyCar broadcast debut with the network in August 2023.

While also working for Roku to cover Formula E in 2024, Henneberry became a regular in NBC’s Indy and IMSA Car pit reporter rotation. Earlier this year, she and her partner Chris Windom gave birth to their first son, Waylon. Henneberry is expected to join Fox’s IndyCar broadcast team later this spring in time for the Indy 500. A Fox spokesperson told IndyStar that Little won’t be among the regular rotation, though industry sources say she’s expected to fill-in in Henneberry’s absence early this season.