Marty Reid

Martin Reid Klingeman (born February 3, 1953) is an American television sportscaster who worked for ESPN from 1982 to 2013, covering motorsports for the network. Reid served as the network's lead IndyCar Series and Indianapolis 500 announcer from 2006 until that year, and did lap-by-lap for ESPN's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series telecasts in 2010.

Career Reid first dabbled in radio when his older brother, a disc jockey, needed another voice for a radio ad. In the following years, Reid worked on his sportscasting by calling Hershey Bears games into a tape recorder.

Concurrently, Reid commentated off-road racing, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and IMSA for ESPN, while also making appearances as a pit reporter on Formula One, CART, and lower division NASCAR broadcasts. Despite a hectic schedule, Reid did call one NHL game for ESPN in 1993, Los Angeles vs. Ottawa. Reid also found the time to serve as a spotter for Fermín Vélez and Team Scandia in the 1997 Indianapolis 500.

In 1998, the utility player Reid was rewarded with the play-by-play role for ESPN's coverage of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Reid held this role through 2000, working alongside Benny Parsons, Jeremy Dale, Larry Rice, and others. As needed, Reid would also fill-in on NASCAR Busch Series telecasts with the cable network, where he was partnered with Ned Jarrett and again with Dale.

Reid then returned to his drag racing roots as the lead TV announcer for the NHRA on ESPN from 2001 to 2006.

After a thirty-one-year career with ESPN and its related networks, Reid did not return to television or radio.

Personal life When Reid was a teenager, his older brother died in a motorcycle crash in Roanoke, VA. Reid's father, Robert Klingeman, passed in 1998, Reid would lose, scoring only 11 percent of the vote. All three Democratic challengers lost.