Jamie Little is no stranger to the “first for a woman” narrative.
She was the first female pit reporter for the television broadcast of the Indianapolis 500 in 2004. In 2015, Little became the first female pit reporter to cover both the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500 for network TV’s live, flag-to-flag race coverage. She began her career as the first woman to cover a televised Supercross and motocross event, and was one of the first female reporters in X Games history.
But, since the first flag-to-flag TV broadcast of a NASCAR event in 1979, no woman has ever served as the lead announcer.