Mike Joy Born In Chicago, Illinois - November 25, 1949

November 25, 1949

Mike Joy

 Born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Joy is a TV sports announcer, who currently serves as the lap-by-lap voice of Fox Sports' NASCAR Sprint Cup coverage. His color analyst is Jeff Gordon. Counting 2019, Joy has been part of the live broadcast of 40 Daytona 500s. He also serves as Velocity/Discovery Channel's expert analyst for their coverage of collector car auctions.

Joy's broadcast career has also included college football, 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, plus NCAA championship events in soccer, gymnastics, swimming and diving, track and field, and wrestling.

Joy resides on Lake Norman, in North Carolina with his wife Gaye and their two children, Scott and Kaitlyn. He restores vintage MG's, and retains his New England roots as CEO and equity partner in New England Racing Fuel, Inc., distributor of Sunoco Race Fuels.

An avid SCCA amateur race driver, he has won events at Lime Rock, Watkins Glen, Pocono and New Hampshire, and raced professionally in IMSA, including the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1993. He has tested in NASCAR stock cars and trucks, and won driving Historic TransAm cars.