• Member Bio
• Read Steve Byrnes Commentaries on FOXSPORTS.com
  
  Birthplace: LaGrange, Illinois
  
  Birthdate: April 14, 1959
  
  Full name: Steven Patrick Byrnes
  
  Current Residence: Fort Mill, SC
  
  High School/College: Largo Senior High, University of Maryland (graduate with B.A. Degree in Radio, Television and Film, 1981)
  
  Wife/Children: Karen Goins-Byrnes, (son) Bryson
  
  What do you do for SPEED: Host-Trackside, NASCAR Live, The Chase is on. Play by Play for Cup qualifying and practice shows.
  
  Resume: Pit Road reporter for NASCAR on FOX, Play by Play for NFL on FOX
  
  Worst moment: Working for FOX Sports the day Dale Earnhardt died.
  
  Favorite Movie: "O Brother Where Art Thou?" "Napoleon Dynamite"
  
  Favorite song: "I Fall to Pieces." Patsy Cline
  
  Favorite sport: Football
  
  Favorite driver: DW, Neil Bonnett
  
  If you could visit anywhere in the world, where would it be: Ireland
  
  What do you love the most about your job: Interacting with fans and sharing my enthusiasm and love for NASCAR with them.
  
  Describe a typical day in your life: Never a typical day...another reason I love my job.
  
  Hobbies: Landscaping, exercising
  
  First Car: 1969 Delta 88...big and fast.
  
  Have you ever competed in a race, amateur or professionally: Went through a three day stock car school
  
  One thing most people do not know about you: I was the quarterback on a state championship football team my senior year....won the state championship of Maryland.
  
  Favorite saying or philosophy: "It is all about effort."
  
  Heather Locklear or Pamela Anderson? Carrie Underwood
  
  DeNiro or Pacino? Deniro
  
  Coke or Pepsi? Diet Coke
  
  Ford or Chevy? Oldsmobile!
  
  CAREER HISTORY
  
  Host and producer of Inside NASCAR from 1985-90 … produced NASCAR episodes of Neil Bonnett’s Winners … co-hosted and produced Darrell Waltrip’s Racing Weekly on the Family Channel (1995) … pit road announcer for NASCAR racing on TNN and WTBS ... color analyst, ASA Series for TNN in 2000 … host for Totally NASCAR on FOX Sports Net and SPEED … pit announcer for NASCAR on FOX … Trackside host