Luckiest Guys On Earth: Madhouse Announcers Tim McGuire & Randy Pettitt

The contrast was stark: Randy Pettitt, the swashbuckling, flashy young man out of the Southside of Winston-Salem and Tim McGuire, polished, conservative Southern gentleman from Davidson County. These are the two men who provided the vocal backdrop for more than three decades of racing at the famed quarter-mile of Bowman Gray Stadium.
Excepting the 2018 season voiced by their mutual friend Robert Collins, Pettitt and McGuire covered the announcing duties from 1989 to present-day 2021 at NASCAR's oldest weekly racing facility. For the first time anywhere, the two self-proclaimed "luckiest guys on earth" sit down in front of the camera and swap some racing tales.
On this edition of Rattling the Rollcage, host Randy Pettitt and Tim McGuire talk about how they got started in the sports announcing business and share some memories of the legendary Madhouse.
Randy Pettitt was the youngest announcer in the long history of the Madhouse when he fulfilled a dream and slid behind the microphone for weekly Saturday night NASCAR stock car racing at his hometown track. "I always felt I was born to do it. It felt right at home."
Part-time announcer and full time UPS truck driver Tim McGuire took over the duties at the microphone when Pettitt left to pursue other opportunities. McGuire began an incredible ironman streak as "the voice of Bowman Gray Racing -- missing just ONE event in 17 straight seasons.
With his back and knees crying out in pain from years of driving "the big brown truck and climbing all those steps at Bowman Gray," McGuire decided to retire from the Madhouse after the 2012 season.
That opened the door for "Racing's Greatest Showman" Randy Pettitt to return to his first love -- the Madhouse -- in 2013. The 2021 racing season will begin Randy's 14th year entertaining thousands of fans at one of the most successful short tracks in America. Pettitt has also served the Ace Speedway announcer for Friday night stock car racing since 2019.
Enjoy the conversation in this episode of Rattling The Rollcage, filmed on location at the Turn and Burn Raceway and hobby center at Midway, NC.
The show was filmed and produced by Lee Craft, better known to thousands on TH-cam as The Monday Morning Racer; and this episode was edited by show host Randy Pettitt.
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They were not available during our first two filming weekends. Hang with us and we plan on interviewing the Brown Style boys. Thanks for watching!

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