Jamie Little, a broadcaster who has covered pit road at the biggest races in the country for more than a decade, emailed her boss, Jacob Ullman, this winter with a bold proposal. “I want to try play-by-play,” she told him.
She expected it would be the opening step in a dance that would take at least a year to complete. Ullman, Fox Sports senior vice president for production and talent development, had other ideas. He immediately thought of the ARCA series, the minor leagues to NASCAR’s major leagues. (NASCAR owns ARCA.) He got back in touch with her after a few days with a proposal even bolder: Not only would Little get a chance to do play-by-play, but she would become the voice of ARCA and call every race of that circuit’s 2021 season that airs on FOX Sports.