Dave Moody

David Wayne Moody (born March 25, 1961) is an American motorsports commentator who works for the Motor Racing Network (MRN). He is the lead turn announcer for MRN and has worked for the radio network on and off since 1983. He moved to MRN full-time in 1997 and became the lead turn announcer in 2001. Since 2003, Moody has been the host of the radio show SiriusXM Speedway on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

Early years Born in Barre City, Vermont, Moody discovered auto racing when his uncle, Doug MacDonald, took him to the local Thunder Road Speedbowl. The track was owned by MRN co-founder Ken Squier. After being hired by CBS Sports to serve as their NASCAR anchorman, Squier selected Moody to replace him as the track's public address announcer. "I still don’t know how he picked me," said Moody. "He may have read some of my newspaper columns and thought I had a workable vocabulary. More likely, I was just standing there with my finger in my nose and he figured, 'this is a kid with time on his hands.'" However, when callers go off the beaten path, he's known to fight back and straighten those callers out. Moody and many of his callers state that the occasional back and forth is where the show is at its best. “If everybody on the air agreed with everybody else, it would just be stultifyingly dull,” he said. “Rush Limbaugh makes a billion dollars for every penny I make, so he must be doing something right. The only people that get on the air to talk to Rush Limbaugh are people that agree with Rush Limbaugh. It’s always, ‘Mega dittos, Rush. I agree with everything you’ve ever said in your life! [And Rush says] Well, of course you do because I’m the smartest’ – and that’s great, he’s doing a wonderful job and he’s very successful. I couldn’t do that. I’ve never learned anything from talking. I learn from listening. So I want to hear what people have to say.” He is joined by SXM Producer Dan Bezilla and associate producer Margeaux Gagnon.

He is the Sirius XM voting representative on the 48 person panel that selects the annual class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.