link titleMike Joy (born November 25, 1949 in Chicago) is a motorsports announcer, who currently serves as the lap-by-lap announcer of FOX Sports' NASCAR Nextel Cup coverage. His color analysts are Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds. November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Fox Sports is a division of Rupert Murdochs U.S. television network, the Fox Broadcasting Company. ... The NASCAR Championship is the championship held in NASCARs top stock car racing series. ... Darrell Waltrip (born February 5, 1947 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is a NASCAR driver, active from 1972 to 2000, who won three Nextel Cup titles (1981, 1982, 1985), the 1989 Daytona 500, 1992 Southern 500, and is the undisputed Memorial Day major race record holder, having won an unprecedented five Coca...

Joy attended the University of Hartford and Emerson College and began his public address work at Stafford Motor Speedway in Connecticut, joining Jack Arute, Jr., the son of the track owner. He worked for Motor Racing Network for 15 years and was the lead broadcaster for the first ESPN broadcast in Rockingham, NC, and later became a pit reporter for CBS' coverage of the Daytona 500 in 1984, and joined Ken Squier, whose independent production company World Sports Enterprises (Company sold to Gaylord Entertainment in 1994, then to CBS in 1997, and shut down in 2000 by MTV Networks) produced races. The University of Hartford, often called UHart or UHa, was founded in 1877, and is a private, independent, and nonsectarian coeducational university located in West Hartford, Connecticut. ... Emerson College was founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a school of oratory, in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Jack Arute is an auto racing pit reporter and college football sideline reporter for ABC Sports. ... ESPN, is an abbreviation for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. ... CBS (formerly an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. ... The Daytona 500 is a 200-lap, 500 mile (805 km) NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. ...

Joy also worked the first five years of The Nashville Network's NASCAR coverage as play-by-play for all three national series and other regional series before being let go in 1996 and replaced by Eli Gold, although Joy worked spot events when Gold was unavailable because of his duties at the University of Alabama. University of Alabama The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA, or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. ...

A decision in 1997 by CBS made Joy the play-by-play announcer when Ken Squier moved to the studio, where the pair worked until the end of 2000. He joined Fox starting the 2001 season.

Joy's career also has included Formula 1, covering the Winter Olympics and various NCAA events. He has also raced in the 24 Hours of Daytona and served four terms to the Windsor, CT town council. He is related to Henry Bourne Joy, the chairman of the board of Packard. Joy resides in Mooresville, NC with wife Gaye and their two children.edit Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seat open-wheel auto racing. ... A runner carries the Olympic torch The Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics for short but more correctly The Olympic Winter Games, are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games. ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... The 24 Hours of Daytona is an automotive endurance race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. ... Henry Bourne Joy (November 23, 1864 in Detroit, Michigan - November 6, 1936) was president of the prestigious Packard Motor Car Company. ... Packard Cormorant hood ornament from a 1941 180 Formal Sedan Packard was a United States based brand of automobile. ... Mooresville is a town located in Iredell County, North Carolina. ... There are multiple definitions for edit: The act of revising a document; see Editor. ...