Mike Joy (left), four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon (middle) and three-time Cup champion Darrell Waltrip (right) will calling the 59th annual Daytona 500 Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. ET on FOX.
Take a look back at all of the legendary announcers who have called the Daytona 500 from the television booth since 1979:
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Chris Economaki
Before flag-to-flag coverage of the Daytona 500 beginning in 1979, Economaki was a regular voice on ABC’s Wide World of Sports from 1962 to 1978.
From 1984 to 1994, Economaki joined the CBS Sports team for the Great American Race.
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Ken Squier
Squier became the lap-by-lap announcer for CBS Sports beginning with the 1979 Daytona 500. His final Daytona 500 broadcast as lead announcer was in 1997, marking an incredible 18-year run.
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David Hobbs
Hobbs joined Squier in the television booth as color commentator from 1979 until 1987. From 1988 until 1990, he stepped down from the booth and joined pit reporters Mike Joy and Dave Despain.
Hobbs served as color commentator once more in 1991, then returned to pit road until his final Daytona 500 in 1996.
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Ned Jarrett
Jarrett, two-time NASCAR Grand National champion, started out as a pit reporter in 1979, moving up to the television booth as a color commentator in 1985.
Jarrett’s final Daytona 500 broadcast was in 2000.
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Neil Bonnett
Bonnett joined Squier and Jarrett as a color commentator for the Daytona 500 in 1992 and 1993.
While attempting to make a return to the race as a driver in 1994, Bonnett was killed in a practice accident on Feb. 11.
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Richard Petty
The seven-time Cup Series champion served as a color commentator for the 1995 Daytona 500, alongside Squier and Jarrett.
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Buddy Baker
Baker (left), 1980 Daytona 500 champion, joined Squier and Jarrett in the TV booth from 1996 until 2000, which served as CBS Sports’ final Daytona 500 broadcast before FOX Sports took over in 2001.
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Mike Joy
After starting his NASCAR broadcasting career in radio with Motor Racing Network, Joy served as a CBS Sports pit reporter from 1984 to 1997. He stepped into the television booth as the lap-by-lap announcer from 1998 through 2000.
In 2001, Joy called his first Daytona 500 for NASCAR on FOX alongside Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds, a roll he continues to enjoy to this day.
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Darrell Waltrip
The three-time Cup champion and 1989 Daytona 500 winner retired from competition at the end of the 2000 season.
In 2001, he joined Mike Joy and Larry McReynolds in the NASCAR on FOX booth.
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Larry McReynolds
After winning two Daytona 500s with Davey Allison in 1992 and Dale Earnhardt in 1998 as a crew chief, McReynolds went from the pit box to the NASCAR on FOX booth in 2001.
Allen Bestwick
Bestwick served as the lap-by-lap announcer for NBC Sports in 2002 and 2004, when the network took turned with FOX Sports for the Daytona 500 until 2007, when FOX took over exclusive rights to the Great American Race.
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Benny Parsons
The 1973 NASCAR Cup Series champion and Daytona 500 winner worked alongside Bestwick for the Daytona 500 as color commentator in 2002 and 2004, and once again in 2006 with lap-by-lap announcer Bill Weber.
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Wally Dallenbach Jr.
Dallenbach (left) and Parsons worked together as color commentators in 2002, 2004 and 2006. The former Cup Series driver is now an analyst on FS1’s NASCAR RaceDay.
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2017 Daytona 500 crew
Beginning in 2001, FOX Sports took television coverage of the Daytona 500 to a whole new level.
Aside from the three years NBC covered the race, Mike Joy (middle left), Darrell Waltrip (far right), Larry McReynolds (far left), and now Jeff Gordon (middle right) have become the familar voices of the Great American Race.
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