Mike Joy is the lap-by-lap voice of FOX Sports' NASCAR Sprint Cup coverage and has broadcast more than 30 Daytona 500 races. He also serves as Speed TV's expert analyst for their coverage of collector car auctions and vintage auto racing events.
Joy was raised in Windsor, Connecticut and began his public address work at Riverside Park Speedway in Massachusetts in 1970. He was picked up by Motor Racing Network (MRN) in 1976 and was promoted to executive producer by 1980. Soon after he began working with ESPN and then CBS.
Joy launched The Nashville Network's NASCAR coverage in 1991 as lap-by-lap announcer and also participated in NASCAR coverage on TBS. In 1994, Joy was named as chief announcer of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network inaugural broadcast of the Brickyard 400, holding the position through 1999. CBS made Joy their lap-by-lap announcer in 1998 until the end of 2000, when CBS lost the television rights to NASCAR racing.
Joy's CBS career also included Formula One, CART, IRL, as well as coverage of the Winter Olympics, the Sun Bowl, harness racing's Hambletonian, pro beach volleyball and World Cup Skiing as well as NCAA championship events in soccer, swimming and diving, track and field, and wrestling. He joined FOX Sports for three years of Formula One coverage in 1998 with Derek Bell, and moved full-time to FOX with the NASCAR TV package starting in the 2001 season.
Joy resides in North Carolina with his wife and two children. In his spare time he restores vintage MGs and is also CEO of New England Racing Fuel, Inc., a distributor of Sunoco Race Fuels.
