SPEED Center is Speed Channel

SPEED Channel

Speed , is a cable and satellite television network broadcast to various parts of North America, but primarily the United States...

's news show that debuted on February 13, 2011, replacing The SPEED Report. Airing on Sunday evenings at 7:00 PM EST

Eastern Time Zone

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, it has rotating anchors though its most noted are Leigh Diffey

Leigh Diffey

Leigh Diffey is an Australian auto racing commentator with the Speed Channel in the United States. He has also worked in Britain and in his homeland of Australia, where he commentated on Champ Car and V8 Supercars for Network Ten in Australia...

, Adam Alexander

Adam Alexander

Adam Alexander is a fictional character in the American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. He was played by actor Michael Swan from 1998 to 2000, and then made guest appearances in 2001 and was recurring from 2002 to 2003....

, Bob Varsha

Bob Varsha

Bob Varsha is one of the on-air personalities for Speed Channel. Varsha is presently the host of the network's live Formula One coverage. In 2002 and 2003, Varsha was the host of SPEED's Champ Car coverage. Rick DeBruhl took over Varsha's Formula One host chair for that period. In 2004, Varsha...

, and Krista Voda

Krista Voda

Krista Voda is an American sportscaster who covers auto racing. Voda is a pit reporter for NASCAR on Fox and is the host of The Setup, the pre-race show for coverage of the Camping World Truck Series, as well as Trackside on Speed Channel.Voda was born and raised in Clinton, Iowa and attended the...

.

SPEED Center and its predecessors have been a staple of Speed Channel since the network opened as SpeedVision in 1996. Among the names were Speedvision News RaceWeek (1996 - February 2002), SPEED News (February 2002 - 30 July 2006), and The SPEED Report (6 August 2006 - 30 January 2011).

Prior to The Speed Report arriving in August 2006, the show was called Speed News, with anchors including Bob Varsha

Bob Varsha

Bob Varsha is one of the on-air personalities for Speed Channel. Varsha is presently the host of the network's live Formula One coverage. In 2002 and 2003, Varsha was the host of SPEED's Champ Car coverage. Rick DeBruhl took over Varsha's Formula One host chair for that period. In 2004, Varsha...

, Ralph Sheheen

Ralph Sheheen

Ralph Sheheen is currently a pit reporter for NASCAR on TNT, an announcer for AMA supercross and superbike racing on the Speed Channel, and is the lead commentator of CBS Sports' coverage of the AMA....

, Bob Jenkins

Bob Jenkins

Bob Jenkins is an American television and radio sports announcer with NBC Sports Network, also known for his work at ABC and ESPN calling IndyCar and NASCAR telecasts. He is currently the lead commentator for the IndyCar Series on NBC Sports Network.-ESPN and ABC:Bob Jenkins was born in Richmond,...

, Connie LeGrand

Connie LeGrand

Connie LeGrand is an American television journalist who has served in broadcasting in South Carolina and was host of Speed News from 2004 to 2006.-Early years:...

, and Krista Voda

Krista Voda

Krista Voda is an American sportscaster who covers auto racing. Voda is a pit reporter for NASCAR on Fox and is the host of The Setup, the pre-race show for coverage of the Camping World Truck Series, as well as Trackside on Speed Channel.Voda was born and raised in Clinton, Iowa and attended the...

.

Before that, the show was called SpeedVision News Race Week featuring anchors such as Dave Despain

Dave Despain

Dave Despain is an American motor sports journalist. He is the host of WindTunnel with Dave Despain on Speed Channel, and formerly the host of Inside Nextel Cup, until the latter underwent a format change at the beginning of the 2008 NASCAR Season.-Early life and career:A native of Fairfield,...

 and Bob Varsha

Bob Varsha

Bob Varsha is one of the on-air personalities for Speed Channel. Varsha is presently the host of the network's live Formula One coverage. In 2002 and 2003, Varsha was the host of SPEED's Champ Car coverage. Rick DeBruhl took over Varsha's Formula One host chair for that period. In 2004, Varsha...

.

On January 23, 2008 it was announced that Manske was leaving Speed Channel to become the new host of NASCAR Now

NASCAR Now

NASCAR Now is a NASCAR news and analysis show that airs year round Monday through Friday as a thirty minute show at 5:00pm ET on ESPN2. NASCAR Now, that debuted on February 5, 2007, is broadcast in HD from Bristol, Connecticut and also has a daily segment on SportsCenter...

on ESPN

ESPN

Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

. Drew Johnson

Drew Johnson

Jason Andrew “Drew” Johnson is a political commentator who was the founder and first president of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a free market think tank and watchdog organization based in Nashville, Tennessee...

 also had his last day with Manske on January 27, 2008.

Starting on February 3, 2008, the new hosts were Bob Varsha

Bob Varsha

Bob Varsha is one of the on-air personalities for Speed Channel. Varsha is presently the host of the network's live Formula One coverage. In 2002 and 2003, Varsha was the host of SPEED's Champ Car coverage. Rick DeBruhl took over Varsha's Formula One host chair for that period. In 2004, Varsha...

 and on a part-time basis, Leigh Diffey

Leigh Diffey

Leigh Diffey is an Australian auto racing commentator with the Speed Channel in the United States. He has also worked in Britain and in his homeland of Australia, where he commentated on Champ Car and V8 Supercars for Network Ten in Australia...

 and Krista Voda

Krista Voda

Krista Voda is an American sportscaster who covers auto racing. Voda is a pit reporter for NASCAR on Fox and is the host of The Setup, the pre-race show for coverage of the Camping World Truck Series, as well as Trackside on Speed Channel.Voda was born and raised in Clinton, Iowa and attended the...

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In 2011, the show's name was changed to SPEED Center. The first episode took place on 13 February 2011 with Alexander hosting.

Former hosts

• Dave Despain
  Dave Despain
  Dave Despain is an American motor sports journalist. He is the host of WindTunnel with Dave Despain on Speed Channel, and formerly the host of Inside Nextel Cup, until the latter underwent a format change at the beginning of the 2008 NASCAR Season.-Early life and career:A native of Fairfield,...
  
  
• Drew Johnson
• Connie LeGrand
  Connie LeGrand
  Connie LeGrand is an American television journalist who has served in broadcasting in South Carolina and was host of Speed News from 2004 to 2006.-Early years:...
  
   - 2002 to June 25, 2006
• Bob Jenkins
  Bob Jenkins
  Bob Jenkins is an American television and radio sports announcer with NBC Sports Network, also known for his work at ABC and ESPN calling IndyCar and NASCAR telecasts. He is currently the lead commentator for the IndyCar Series on NBC Sports Network.-ESPN and ABC:Bob Jenkins was born in Richmond,...
  
   - March 2005 to May 2006 http://www.jayski.com/pages/media.htm
• Nicole Manske
  Nicole Manske
  Nicole Briscoe is an American sports reporter and former Miss Illinois Teen USA. She became nationally known in the United States when she assumed the co-host role on The Speed Report on Speed Channel as well as the host of the daily news show NASCAR Now on ESPN2 and the host of NASCAR Countdown...
  
   - July 2, 2006 to January 27, 2008
• Ralph Sheheen
  Ralph Sheheen
  Ralph Sheheen is currently a pit reporter for NASCAR on TNT, an announcer for AMA supercross and superbike racing on the Speed Channel, and is the lead commentator of CBS Sports' coverage of the AMA....
  
  - circa 2004