Bob Jenkins (Bob Jenkins) has decades of professional career in the field of radio and television, reporting on different racing series including INDYCAR and NASCAR, died Monday came from brain cancer. Jenkins is 73 years old.
Jenkins’ smooth, loud voice has provided racing fans with a guarantee of excitement and calm throughout his career. He often worked with the late Benny Parsons in NASCAR, Jenkins played the perfect event summoner/straight man, Parsons’ jovial storytelling and insight.
Jenkins is a step backwards in an era, when the announcer deliberately didn’t go to the show, but it was still a part of it. He understands the art of calling a game. When there is not a lot of action on the track, Parsons and Ned Jarrett will tell the audience stories or anecdotes until the game returns to normal.
Jenkins never overly dramatizes a phone call. He makes the game self-evident, enriches it and gives it a voice, so that both novice and experienced veterans of the sport can resonate with it. Jenkins is very serious and studious about his craft, but he also knows how to have fun and invite the audience to join him.
God’s speed, Bob.
