Bill Weber was a longtime NASCAR media personality who rose the ranks to become the lap by lap caller at NBC during the mid-2000s at the peak of the sport’s popularity. This week it was announced by the National Motorsports Press Association that Weber had passed away recently. He passed away in December 2024.
Weber was a fixture on NASCAR telecasts for years across a multitude of networks. Those include stints at TNN and ESPN throughout the 1990s serving as a studio host and pit reporter when the sport was on the rise nationally.
In 2001, when NBC won rights to NASCAR races for the first time, Weber served as a pre-race host from a unique elevated stand on pit road.
In 2004, Bill Weber temporarily replaced lead announcer Allen Bestwick to call lap by lap coverage from the broadcast booth and impressed so much that he took the job on a permanent basis for the remainder of NBC’s first contract with the racing series. Weber is even heard in the famed Will Ferrell movie Talledega Nights providing commentary.
After NBC left the sport in 2006, Weber stayed on to call races in a midseason package with TNT. However, that came to an end abruptly in 2009 when he was suspended after an incident in New Hampshire. Following that suspension, Weber did not return to TNT’s NASCAR coverage.
From that point forward, Bill Weber disappeared from the national scene and wasn’t seen on NASCAR race broadcasts again. After his television career ended, he worked as a magician in Florida. He was 67 years old.