New Face on Trackside

Speed channel has hired a new reporter for it's NASCAR Trackside show for the next four weeks. Her name is Marianela Pereyra, she's a model/actress and her former jobs include NBC’s Poker After Dark, ESPNU’s college football series Road Trip and VH1’s Dance Cam Slam. She's had no experience in NASCAR at all and it seems like the only reason Speed hired her is for her looks, they believe that she will help to increase ratings.

I think it's completely ridiculous that they would hire someone like her to be a reporter for a show that covers NASCAR. It saddens me that the sport is becoming all about the sex appeal of a person, shouldn't it be about someone who has the credentials to do the job and someone who actually knows about NASCAR? Once again this just goes to show that sex sells, you don't have to know a thing about the sport but as long as you're pretty then you're qualified for the job. If they want someone who's pretty at least find someone who has covered the sport before and knows something about it. It's an insult to people who work hard to learn all they can about the sport and gives everything to try and get into the sport as a reporter.

In case you're wondering what Marianela looks like...

Source: ( http://www.marianela.tv/NewSite/FrontEnd/feHome.aspx )