Rob Albright

Turn Announcer

Rob Albright has been around auto racing his entire life, growing up in the Midwest where his dad raced sprint cars in the 1950's. Unable to afford a ticket to see the "Indy 500", he attended his first one at 10 by selling newspapers in "Grandstand A".

While building a career as a Certified Financial Planner, Rob competed in numerous World Karting Association events in the midwest and southeast. After a couple of years behind the wheel, he traded his racing helmet for a microphone.

In 1987, after a year as the public address announcer at the Indianapolis Speedrome, Rob became the "voice" of the American Speed Association (ASA) where he would eventually co-anchor the ASA national television broadcasts on TNN. It was in ASA that he met and worked with eventual NASCAR stars: Rusty Wallace, Mark Martin, Ted Musgrave, Johnny Benson and the late Alan Kulwicki.

From 1996 through 2002, Albright served as General Manager for Competitive Group, Inc., a company he formed with Cup driver Benson. In February 2003 Rob made the difficult decision to leave Benson's employ to join Action Performance Companies (now Motorsports Authentics) as VP of Strategic Alliances. During his tenure at MA, Rob oversaw driver development activities and the Strategic Asset Marketing group, before launching LightSpeed Partners, a motorsports marketing firm, in 2006 with businessman/racer Randy Humphrey.

For the past eleven seasons, Rob's favorite avocation has been helping to describe the action (usually from Turn 2 and occasionally from the booth) of NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series events on the Performance Racing Network. Since 2005, Albright has also served on the Advisory Board of Rowan-Cabarrus Community College's Motorsports Management Technology program.

Rob and his wife Connie make their home in Concord, NC and are both active in leadership at Grace Covenant Church in Huntersville, NC. They have two daughters, Angela Sackett and Carrie Faulconer, and ten grandchildren; Brian Jr., Joshua, Anna, Ethan and Isaac Sackett; Parker, William and Samuel Faulconer, and Caleb and Grace Lemings.