Longtime NASCAR announcer and broadcaster Ken Squier has died
ByThe Related Press
November 16, 2023, 10:29 AM
FILE – Ken Squier watches a video after being named as a member of the category of 2018 throughout an announcement on the NASCAR Corridor of Fame in Charlotte, N.C., Might 24, 2017. Squier, a longtime NASCAR announcer, has died. Squier died Wednesday night time, Nov. 15, 2023, in Waterbury, Vermont, on the age of 88, in response to the administration of the native WDEV radio, which he owned. (AP Picture/Chuck Burton, File)
The Related Press
WATERBURY, Vt. — Ken Squier, a longtime NASCAR announcer and broadcaster, has died. He was 88.
Squier died Wednesday night time in Waterbury, Vermont, in response to the administration of the native WDEV radio, which he owned.
“Although he by no means sat behind the wheel of a inventory automotive, Ken Squier contributed to the expansion of NASCAR as a lot as any competitor,” Jim France, chairman and CEO of NASCAR, mentioned in an announcement. “Ken was an excellent storyteller and his unmistakable voice is the soundtrack to a lot of NASCAR’s best moments.”
Squier opened Thunder Street speedway in his dwelling state of Vermont in Barre in 1960. Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a inventory automotive racer, referred to as Squier “a real Vermont legend and expensive good friend to me and so many others.”
A lot will probably be product of “the NASCAR Corridor of Famer’s extraordinary contributions to racing — from his time within the sales space at CBS, the place he coined the phrase ‘The Nice American Race’, to his founding of the ‘Nation’s Web site of Pleasure’ at Thunder Street,” the governor posted on social media. “His impacts on the game are too quite a few to rely, and he deserves each a kind of recognitions and plenty of extra. However for me, what I’ll keep in mind most was his friendship and deep devotion to his neighborhood, which was the complete state.”
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