Features of the New TV Deal

--Fox gets exclusive rights to the Daytona 500, as well as the much anticipated reality show "Will Mike Skinner Qualify?"

--Fox will cover 13 races in the new deal, plus the most pointless race ever created, the Budweiser Shootout.

--Speed Channel will continue its coverage of all other preliminary events at Daytona. So have no fear--Ken Squire's legacy of awkward interruptions and ramblings will go on.

--Speed Channel also gets the rights to the Nextel All-Star Challenge. To promote this move, expect this year's Challenge winner to get Bob Jenkins as a prize. No, not a trophy, but the actual person Bob Jenkins.

--TNT takes over after Fox with a six race stretch including the Pepsi 400. This will interrupt their usual schedule of Law and Order repeats and original series no one watches.

--ABC and ESPN will take over NBC's role of covering the Chase. The return of Dr. Jerry Punch is upon us!

--ESPN2 will cover the entire Busch Series (minus a few races on ABC) in 2007. Remember when "The Deuce" was an extreme sports channel, but they ran out of extreme sports to cover? I miss the days of windsurfing at 3pm, followed by Happy Hour at Martinsville at 3:30.

--And finally, sadly, Bravo was NOT included in the TV deal. Again. When will Nascar learn?!?