{"id":120119,"date":"2025-09-05T06:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120119\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:10:12","slug":"supercars-reveals-latest-tv-commentary-change-for-bend-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120119\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars reveals latest TV commentary change for Bend 500"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSupercars returns to The Bend for the first time since 2023. Image: Speedcafe<\/p>\n

The experienced commentator has received the nod to call Supercars Championship action on TV for the first time through an additional driver practice session.<\/p>\n

Naulty is set to sub-in for Neil Crompton during the session, joining Mark Skaife in the booth.<\/p>\n

It follows the long-time support category commentator\u2019s elevation to Super2 duties for the recent round at Ipswich and the Bathurst 1000.<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest in a series of tweaks to the TV broadcast team in recent months amid intrigue over whether a bigger shake-up is looming for 2026.<\/p>\n

Why Supercars free-to-air TV schedule is not yet set<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

There have been calls for a traditional lead caller such as the energetic Naulty to be installed as part of a refresh.<\/p>\n

No mention of TV talent was made in Supercars\u2019 announcement this week of new broadcast deals with partners Fox and Seven.<\/a><\/p>\n

Supercars loses Garth Tander and Craig Lowndes from its TV team for co-driver duties at The Bend and Bathurst, although both are still expected to make cameos.<\/p>\n

Fellow co-drivers Scott Pye and Mark Winterbottom have also been part of the broadcast at recent events \u2013 the former following his appearance by handing down a lengthy report to Supercars.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supercars returns to The Bend for the first time since 2023. Image: Speedcafe The experienced commentator has received…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,84901,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-120119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-matt-naulty","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}