NBC Sports Network’s Coverage of the 2012 Izod IndyCar Series

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Coverage of the 2012 Izod IndyCar Series begins this weekend on NBC Sports Network (NBCSN). NBCSN will provide coverage of ten races during the year.

Along with race day coverage NBCSN will also provide IndyCar qualifying coverage, Firestone Indy Lights telecasts, and a new half-hour athlete profile show, IndyCar 36.

Bob Jenkins will lead the telecasts with analysts Jon Beekhuis and Wally Dallenbach, Jr. Marty Snider and Kevin Lee will return this season as pit reporters, and will be joined by Townsend Bell. Robin Miller will serve as the network’s IndyCar reporter.

Here is the schedule of this weekend’s events as well as the NBCSN Izod IndyCar schedule for the year:

NBC SPORTS NETWORK’S WEEKEND COVERAGE (subject to change, all times ET):

Sat., March 31 IndyCar Qualifying 4 p.m.
Sun., April 1 IndyCar 36 featuring Tony Kanaan 1:30 p.m.
Sun., April 1 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama 2 p.m.
Mon., April 2 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama (re-air) 7 a.m. and 4 p.m.

NBC SPORTS NETWORK’S 2012 IZOD INDYCAR SERIES SCHEDULE (subject to change, all times ET):

April 1 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama Birmingham, Alab. 2 p.m.
April 15 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Long Beach, Calif. 3:30 p.m.
April 29 Sao Paulo Indy 300 Sao Paulo, Brazil 11 a.m.
June 9 Firestone 550 Fort Worth, Texas 8 p.m.
June 23 Iowa Corn Indy 250 Newton, Iowa 8 p.m.
July 22 Edmonton Indy Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2 p.m.
August 18 Streets of Qingdao Qingdao, China 12 a.m.
August 26 Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma Sonoma, Calif. 4 p.m.
September 2 Baltimore Grand Prix Baltimore, Md. 2 p.m.
September 15 Auto Club Speedway Fontana, Calif. 8 p.m.