When drivers head to their cars to start their engines at Sunday afternoon’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, they’ll be announced by a familiar voice. Long Beach rapper Snoop Dogg will join the NBC broadcast team on race day.

The race is the finale of the IndyCar season and for the first time a champion will be crowned at end of the Long Beach race. But before title contenders put their foot on their gas pedals Sunday, they’ll be previewed by the rapper who is also being brought in to voice the opening of the telecast.

The city announced the rapper’s addition to the race broadcast on Twitter Wednesday.

He has a growing body of work as a sports commentator spending time in the booth for a Los Angeles King’s hockey game in 2019, a number of amateur boxing fights, e-sports tournaments and he even joined actor Kevin Hart to host an Olympics highlight show this summer.

Snoop Dogg will also join Martha Stewart this Halloween to judge a food competition show called “Snoop and Martha’s Very Tasty Halloween” that will air on Peacock, a subsidiary of NBC.

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Jason Ruiz covers City Hall and politics for the Long Beach Post. Reach him at jason@lbpost.com or @JasonRuiz_LB on Twitter.