The conventional wisdom about who makes a good pit reporter tends to focus on motorsports knowledge. Know the series, know the drivers, know your way around a garage, and the rest follows. Kelli Stavast spent the better part of two decades doing the job for NBC Sports and she has a different view. The knowledge matters, she’ll tell you. It’s just not what separates the people who are good at it from those who aren’t.
Stavast came into motorsports knowing nothing about the sport. She had been a broadcast journalism student in Orange, California, intending to cover football and basketball, when a professor sent her to interview for a sideline reporter role to make the university look good. She took the job, spent the first few years of her career trying to find a way out, and eventually built one of the longest careers as a pit reporter in American
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