Freddie Kraft showed a lot of support for Leigh Diffey, who calls NASCAR Cup Series races for NBC Sports. On the Door Bumper Clear podcast, the spotter for Bubba Wallace defended Diffey’s work in the NASCAR broadcast booth.

“Leigh Diffey is fantastic at his job,” Freddie Kraft said. “One of the best in the business, and if you’re going to say you don’t like the guy because of his accent, that says more about you than it says about anybody else.

“Obviously, his accent is fun for us. We’ve had him on the show before. It’s fun to give him s**t about it, and the people mix up. They are like, ‘Oh, this British guy,’ and he’s obviously not British. I don’t care what he sounds like. The guy does a great job there. He paints a picture better than almost anybody in our sport.”

Kraft continued: “I don’t want to harp on this because I know they get a lot of s**t. “You compare that broadcast to the one you had on Friday, I don’t care what the guy sounds like, give me the guy that’s on Sunday all the time. I don’t understand the people that are coming after this guy just because he sounds a little different.”‘

More on Leigh Diffey and his career

Leigh Diffey has been with NBC Sports since 2013, but didn’t start being the lead play-by-play voice for its NASCAR Cup Series coverage until last year. Diffey was previously the lead IndyCar commentator for more than a decade and has also called races from Formula One, IMSA, Supercross and MotoGP.

“I didn’t grow up dreaming of a career in motorsport broadcasting or sports broadcasting at all,” Leigh Diffey said in an interview with NASCAR.com last year. “At one stage of my career or one stage of my life, I thought I was going to be a farmer or work in agricultural economics because I studied agriculture at high school.”

Before joining NBC Sports, Leigh Diffey was a host a play-by-play commenatro for SPEED Channel in the U.S., the BBC in the United Kingdon and Network Ten in Australia. He is a native of Brisbane, Australia.