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NASCAR Driver Suspended For Mocking IndyCar Driver On Livestream
Fox Sports / Outkick ^ | 17 March 2026 | Matt Reigle

Posted on 03/18/2026 3:52:00 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver Daniel Dye will be out of his truck indefinitely after making comments about IndyCar driver David Malukas during a livestream.

Dye was doing a livestream for the shopping app Whatnot when he started telling a story about meeting Malukas at an event to promote the IndyCar and Craftsman Truck Series doubleheader in St. Petersburg several weeks ago.

The story started off being about how Dye didn't know who Malukas was and thought he was a driver in the Mazda MX-5 Cup, not a driver on one of the top teams in IndyCar.

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Malukas had mocked himself at St. Petersburg. Malukas said he had been called "Little David" for such a long time that now he was at a top team he was "Big Dave" at this team he was now driving.

The whole point was Malukas had become "Big Dave" and Dye was trying to reference "Little David" and play the "Little David" voice.

And we know NASCAR drivers are prone to comedy skits. His choice of words on the livestream were wrong. Probably Malukas and Dye will meet for lunch one of these days because it was evident that he was referring to Malukas' own comments about moving to the big time.

1 posted on 03/18/2026 3:52:00 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Whatever. Free speech continues to lose its luster


2 posted on 03/18/2026 4:04:41 AM PDT by albie
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

NASCAR is the worst form of racing in the world.

They should adopt the Aussie V8 Supercar rules.


3 posted on 03/18/2026 5:03:00 AM PDT by Hoboto (I blame Hippies.)
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To: albie

Its utterly ridiculous they suspended him for that...its also utterly ridiculous a guy who races trucks is mocking an open wheel driver whose cars average over 230 MPH on an oval...


4 posted on 03/18/2026 5:15:28 AM PDT by God luvs America
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Trash talking might hurt someone’s feelings don’t ya know. Bad driver, bad!!
Imagine Dick Butkus getting flagged for pointing out the shortcomings of the offensive lineman who’s trying to stop him 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Absolutely ridiculous.


5 posted on 03/18/2026 5:18:33 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

So would they ban Ricky Bobby?


6 posted on 03/18/2026 5:29:00 AM PDT by Stonewall1
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Open wheel “racing” is easy to mock and deservedly so


7 posted on 03/18/2026 5:34:05 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

We have become a nation of sissies.


8 posted on 03/18/2026 5:34:11 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Obadiah
Who watches cars going around in circles when there is stage rally?

You can even volunteer and be part of it as a ham radio operator, marshal, sweep team, organizer, time keeper, crew member, etc.

9 posted on 03/18/2026 5:46:09 AM PDT by Mogger ( 7th generation Vermonter, refugee in New Hampshire hoping NH remains sane.)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701
As my dad posted on a NASCAR YouTube vlog that NASCAR has circled the drain...ever since they banned the Confederate flag....liberals ruined it...

Trying to see when the first of the IHRA stock car race will be...

10 posted on 03/18/2026 6:24:20 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: DeplorableTrumpSupporter

Robert Pressley (father of 22 Penske spotter Coleman) is the race director for the IHRA Late Models.

The Confederate ban was based on Sir Lewis Hamilton’s request to the FIA in 2020 as part of the FIA End Racism and We Race As One campaigns.

NASCAR is the founding partner of the national governing body of motorsport, the Automobile Competition Committee for the United States, which celebrates 70 years this year; ACCUS was founded after Sen. Neuenberger (D-OR) pushed to ban motor racing after the 1955 24 Heures du Mans, and the result was AAA shut the Contest Board down. When the SCCA and USAC squabbled in a 1956 FIA meeting on replacing the AAA Contest Board, NASCAR sent the most logical proposal, and is run by NASCAR, INDYCAR, USAC, SCCA, IMSA, NHRA, and WKA (which governs the CIK in the United States, per FIA regulation). ACCUS is required to follow FIA rules.


11 posted on 03/18/2026 6:32:37 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

“ started doing what he referred to as a “David Malukas gay voice” and wouldn’t stop.”

So who is it that thinks being gay is a bad thing? To me it looks like NASCAR.

You be the judge.

https://youtube.com/shorts/oMl2znKJRHo?si=S5ttKcf-q6xj9tXn

EC


12 posted on 03/18/2026 6:37:46 AM PDT by Ex-Con777 ("Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving." ~ David Burg)
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Should have called it “Little Dave voice”. If you understand Mr. Malukas’ reference, it makes sense, but he probably hasn’t understood (because they did not teach him in school) fundamentals.


13 posted on 03/18/2026 7:07:51 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Odd. That “voice” is not generally considered “gay” but is labeled a Valley Girl ‘uptalker’ voice. If Dye himself hadn’t labeled it a “gay” voice...there probably wouldn’t have been any blowback.


14 posted on 03/18/2026 7:20:11 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection you may achieve excellence - - Vince Lombardi)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Dye is too young for Valley Girl (born in the 21st century). He probably has never heard of that when he was referencing that.

If he was a little older, he probably would have used that phrase.


15 posted on 03/18/2026 7:33:19 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: Mogger
...watches cars going around in circles...

It's been a little more intricate than just circles for a while.



16 posted on 03/18/2026 7:38:54 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Does this involve someone dissing a colored boy?


17 posted on 03/18/2026 8:07:55 AM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

How can anyone make sense of all those acronyms? I know it is hard to write such a post without abbreviating but why even bother when someone would have to spend twenty minutes looking up what all the acronyms are?


18 posted on 03/18/2026 8:43:00 AM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

NASCAR ain’t what it used to be, and not for the better.

Old NASCAR race clips randomly play all the time on the ‘net. Old NASCAR was great. Now...spit


19 posted on 03/18/2026 10:23:34 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: All

One could say NASCAR died with the Terminator at Daytona in 2001.


20 posted on 03/18/2026 10:28:26 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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