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Rick Benjamin (born on October 22 1952 in Danbury Connecticut) is Speed Channel’s voice of the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series and has been the voice of Champ Car racing for HDNet from 2004 until then end of the final season of Champ Car in 2007 Benjamin was a local news reporter from 1976 until 1996 being a television anchorman and managing editor for markets as diverse as Knoxville TN (where his youngest son’s birth was announced on-air) Quad-Cities IA San Antonio TX Toledo OH Roanoke VA and was the news director for Waterbury CT’s WATR.Benjamin also did work for Mizlou Television Network for their NASCAR coverage and for SportsChannel in 1990 when they aired Busch Grand National races using the pseudonym Ron Williams.When The Nashville Network bought 50% of Ken Squier and Fred Rheinstein’s World Sports Enterprises and shifted production of TNN’s popular RaceDay from Patterson International to the network’s own in-house operation located inside the industrial park of Lowe’s Motor Speedway Benjamin was named anchor of the network’s RaceDay in 1995 anchoring the show until MTV shut down the entire CBS Charlotte operation in November 2000.Benjamin is responsible for the rebranding of CART into Champ Cars as during the CART-IRL dispute Benjamin began using the term Champ Car an old term used in USAC during the Marlboro Championship Trail to refer to the CART formula in 1997 on RaceDay after the rival Indy Racing League switched to a normally aspirated formula.