Posted on 06/24/2020 4:59:27 AM PDT by McGruff
As the NASCAR season remains suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic, the company and its drivers are trying to keep fans engaged and entertained through virtual means. We're now three weeks into the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series, which essentially features a bunch of NASCAR drivers racing one another in a video game simulation, and we found out Sunday that these races can still drum up drama and controversy.
Bubba Wallace was one of the 32 drivers competing in the Food City Showdown at a virtual Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday and he undoubtedly had the worst day of anyone in the field. Not only did Wallace wreck during the 11th lap of the 150-lap race but he was so peeved by it that he wound up "rage-quitting" -- a popular gamer term for a player who gets so angry that they prematurely bow out of the competition.
Wallace's short fuse not only gave him a DQ/DNF in the virtual event but they also proved to have real-life consequences from a business standpoint. Shortly after the incident, Wallace took to Twitter to mock the blowback from his decision to rage-quit and, if it wasn't clear already, he made it known he wasn't taking any of this too seriously.
Unfortunately, one of Wallace's sponsors -- joint/muscle cream Blue-Emu -- didn't take too kindly to his flippant attitude and decided to pull their sponsorship.
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He’s a whining entitled spoiled brat.
It’s called sportsmenship & professionalism bubba boy.
Get a clue.
I’ll give you odds there will be a boycott against any sponsor who drops this lying racist.
Yep and they fired Kyle Larson in an instant for saying the N-word as a joke during iracing.
Once one sponsor bails, the others will follow. There goes the financial support and there goes the team. No more Bubba on the circuit.
Funny: He canceled himself.
Pull cords should be made of nylon straps and NASCAR should ban rope.
Now we see that the noose incident was a pre-emptive strike to make sponsors afraid of being labeled racists if they drop sponsorships.
The money donated to BLM all goes straight into the DNC. The BLM is just a front.
He won’t because anyone who pulls sponsorship will immediately be labeled as racist.
“He will lose all Sponsors! Let’s put it this way, he better lose all sponsorships!”
Don’t bet on it. You’re underestimating the level of black ass kissing that white-run, virtue signaling, American corporation are capable of.
You’ve got my vote.
> his driving contract is up this year also.
And there’s the reason for the drama llama. Race card in lieu of talent and results. Now there’s privilege in action.
Bump
^ I’m not even a Lewis Hamilton fan (go DannyRic) but how often is it about race with him? Oh that’s right, hardly at all. When you can win on merit nobody cares about your skin tone.
Back in 2017, someone did a business study, and said that for weekly costs (driver, hotels, crew, food, transport)...you need $400k for an average week. Figure up the whole year....it’s near $15-mil.
For Bubba to sit there and invent this...what idiot company would put $400k a week into this dimwit?
Has anyone in the media apologized for perpetuating yet another hoax?
He saw Kappernickel get like a billion dollars.
He’s going get huge endorsements now.
His racing career is over, he jumped the shark.
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