American Sports Cavalcade was a winner of the cable television ACE Award for their motorsports coverage.

In the mid-1980s, Diamond P and TNN were the first group to televise racing from Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

The show was originally hosted by singer-songwriter and actor Ed Bruce, along with expert commentary by Steve Evans and Brock Yates.

[1][2] Bruce was himself a high school football and baseball player and for a time held a Sports Car Club of America competition racing license.

Throughout the years, Cavalcade would employ other announcers as well, including Paul Page, Gary Gerould, Ralph Sheheen, and "Big Daddy" Don Garlits for NHRA telecasts.