Bob Varsha returns to the World Endurance Championship for the Lone Star Le Mans

Austin-TX (6 September 2025)  Bob Varsha, one of the most well known American voices of motorsport, returns to the booth this weekend to call “The Lone Star Le Mans” alongside Jonathan Green and Jon Massengale as the FIA World Endurance Championship makes its annal visit to the Circuit of the Americas.

Varsha is currently part of the Speed City broadcast team who cover all 24 live Formula One races on Sirius XM and is a regular participant in the car auction world of GAA and Barrett Jackson.

Over the years, Varsha has built a career of excellence, sharing his knowledge, insight, cadence, and enthusiasm to live motorsports events across multiple broadcast networks including ESPN, Fox Sports, Speedvision, NBC and CBS covering a broad range of motorsports from World Endurance,  F1, Moto GP, Formula E and Extreme E.

Sports Car racing has always been a special passion for Bob and he is delighted to be back where he belongs calling endurance races.

“Endurance sports cars is where I really began my career – my first big event was the 24 Hours of Daytona, which led to several seasons of Camel GT and early days of prototype racing in the USA for ESPN, and I’ve loved it ever since,” said Varsha, who traded his career as a lawyer to take on the emerging opportunities in the broadcast world.

“I’ve done F1, Moto GP and many others , but if I could pick one form of motorsport to spend my time with it would be endurance sports cars.”

“That led to Le Mans with ESPN and I have amazing admiration for the French and the way they shoot Le Mans— there’s nothing like it. It’s a great event,  great technology and I couldn’t wait to go year after year.  One of my best memories in motor sport was Le Mans 1988 with the Silk Cut Jaguars of Tom Walkinshaw. It was a great battle with Porsche – and they finally won for the first time since 1955 with Yann Lammers, Jonny Dumfries and Andy Wallace. The British fans were in full song singing “God save the queen” and I got very emotional.”

Just in the last two weeks he was honoring two motorsports Legends Brian Redman and David Hobbs at special events at Lime Rock and Watkins Glen.

“Both men were given tributes which I hosted and that’s one of the things I really treasure about this business is that I get to hang out with some of the greatest drivers of all time which doesn’t happen in other sports,” said Varsha.

Like many commentators and broadcasters Bob too is enjoying this golden era of Endurance racing for WEC and IMSA and is keen to stay involved in what has been a huge part of his career.

“If you look at the number of manufacturers and the commitment they have made to developing these spectacular technologies, they are supermen to me and there’s more of them than ever,” said Varsha. “If you are a major manufacturer and are not racing now, they will be soon and you can see it in front of you here at COTA this weekend in the World Endurance Championship. And there are very significant partnerships with names like Rolex at major race circuits all over the world.”

Varsha has had his only battles to deal with of late fighting off cancer which kept him out of the sport for 2 years.

“Its no secret that I was treated for cancer, which kept me off the stage for two years and getting back has been hard. I don’t play golf. I don’t have a summer house or a boat, I just love going to the race track covering the action and knowing some of the gladiators. I just can’t get enough of it.”

Bob and the commentary team will be on the mics all weekend for the live PA covering the Lone Star Le Mans, and Varsha cant wait to back doing what he fell in love with in the first place.

“I could sit and watch endurance racing all day long and I probably will for quite a while to come.”