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Bubba Wallace suspended after altercation at Vegas race
foxnews.com ^ | 10/18/2022 1813 hrs edt | Ryan Morick

Posted on 10/19/2022 6:33:10 AM PDT by rktman

NASCAR announced Tuesday that it had suspended Bubba Wallace from the next Cup Series Championship event after his incident with Kyle Larson in Las Vegas Sunday.

After Larson's car forced Wallace's car into the wall, Wallace returned the favor by hitting the rear of Larson's car, forcing Larson's car to spin out. After the crash, Wallace got in Larson's face and pushed him.

Wallace had a tense conversation with a reporter after the incident, telling NBC Sports' Marty Snider to "stop fishing" for an answer he didn't want to give.

"My behavior does not align with core values that are shared by 23XI Racing and our partners, who have played a crucial role in my incredible journey to the top of this great sport," Wallace’s statement said.

"I want to apologize to NASCAR and the fans, along with Christopher Bell, Joe Gibbs Racing and Toyota for putting them in a situation in the playoffs that they do not deserve.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: chat; halfbreed; nascar; noosecar; nutscarscared; racecard; racis; somejustice; sports
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You beat me to that response.


21 posted on 10/19/2022 6:51:50 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: tnlibertarian

You’d think Bubba’s fans would be up in arms...except he doesn’t have any. Except BLM who only want to destroy stuff and 99% of them probably haven’t ever heard of NASCAR.


22 posted on 10/19/2022 6:52:56 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: rktman

Notice he didn’t apologize to Kyle Larson which he should have after reviewing the crash footage.


23 posted on 10/19/2022 6:54:50 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: hflynn

“...by a mob of Trump supporters wearing red MAGA hats over their white KKK hoods.”

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Boy. You sure nailed us on that one. Oh darn. And to think I believed no one noticed my white hood. Darn. Darn. Darn. Have to learn to hide it better.


24 posted on 10/19/2022 6:59:01 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: rktman

Clearly NASCAR is covering for the racism that Larson demonstrated in the race by touching Bubba (you all are racists) Wallace. NASCAR created the punk that is Bubba Wallace. Now it can no longer turn a blind eye to his antics.


25 posted on 10/19/2022 7:03:49 AM PDT by em2vn
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To: tnlibertarian

probably a bad tipper too...


26 posted on 10/19/2022 7:04:01 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: hflynn

[[He should have been banned for a year for the noose incident when it happened. ]]

I gave hi. The benefit of the doubt AT FIRST thinking that “perhaps” he was unaware that all the garages had PULL DOWN LOOPS THAT RESEMBLED A NOOSE SOMEWHAT (emphasis added because that was the main issue) BUT, after he learned the truth, he still insisted he was the target of a hate crime, and he trashed everyone that didn’t beleive him. To this day he probably still lies about the incident and won’t accept the fact that he was wrong and issue an apology to all those he trashed over the lie.

He has turned out to be a disgrace to the sport, and sponsors should keep.their distance from him because he is a bad example of the sport. But he isn’t alone. Leaders at nascar have gone full woke too, and have further been a disgrace to the sport.

I notice that stadiums that used to be standing room only almost are now quite empty. Whoever is pushing the woke crap in Nascar should be fired for Injuring the sport.


27 posted on 10/19/2022 7:08:36 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: rktman

Blubba was accurately depicting the scene one might expect walking into any random McDonald’s. The sponsor should be proud.


28 posted on 10/19/2022 7:10:23 AM PDT by Niteranger68
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To: rktman

Now imagine what would have happened if that had been Dale Earnhardt who Wallace shoved instead of Kyle Larson.


29 posted on 10/19/2022 7:13:56 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Bob434

Butt, if they dump him now -————— because he black(ish). $$$$$$$$$$$


30 posted on 10/19/2022 7:14:36 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: tnlibertarian

Many drivers get squeezed towards the wall on corners in many many rzces throughout each year, and they don’t foul it up like Bubba did. Bubba alone was responsible for over-reacting. Bubba had plenty of room to correct his car once the air in front of his car moved him up the truck slightly, like so,many drivers have done in the past, but he flubbed it up big time and blamed larson, and attacked larson in what could have been a deadly attack had larson gone into a roll as a result.

Bubba needs to at the very least be suspended for as long as larson was suspended for using a pejorative on what he thought was a private line. What Bubba did was far more serious than what larson did, and it should not be tolerated- lives were at stake, and Bubba has proven himself to be a dangerous and irresponsible hothead who erupts in anger even when he is to blame


31 posted on 10/19/2022 7:15:20 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: rktman

WGAF.


32 posted on 10/19/2022 7:16:46 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: rktman

Yep- the blacklash would be unbearable


33 posted on 10/19/2022 7:17:11 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: Timber Rattler

Dale Jr woild have hugged Bubba and complied with everything Bubba demanded of him. Jr kept having Bubba on his show after the noose hoax, coddling Bubba and tellitelling him and the audience thst Bubba did nothing g wrong and that we were all racists to think he did.


34 posted on 10/19/2022 7:18:39 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: srmanuel

Or Rusty Wallace throwing a water bottle at Earnhardt, or Earnhardt and LaBonte getting together on last lap at Bristol.


35 posted on 10/19/2022 7:18:42 AM PDT by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: Bob434
Many drivers get squeezed towards the wall on corners in many many rzces throughout each year, and they don’t foul it up like Bubba did.

All you have to do is look at the Xfinity race the day before. Very similarly, Almendinger squeezed Josh Berry into the outside wall, who said afterwards he wasn't lifting. Josh Berry admitted Almendinger gave him enough room, just not an inch more. Berry bounced off the wall and kept going. Instead of having a temper tantrum, he won the race

36 posted on 10/19/2022 7:19:54 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: pnz1

I don’t like Bubba Wallace, but two drivers banging into each other and taking each other out, is as old as NASCAR itself, I don’t remember anyone getting suspended for an entire race, fined yes, suspended no...


37 posted on 10/19/2022 7:25:16 AM PDT by srmanuel (C)
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To: rktman

HOW LONG did it take the team PR group to frame all that statement?

How much of a lecture did he get from HAMLIN & MICHAEL JORDAN?

His temper showed which side of the street he really lives on.


38 posted on 10/19/2022 7:27:27 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: srmanuel

Richard Petty came around both of them & won the race——


39 posted on 10/19/2022 7:28:19 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: BenLurkin

You might be referring to the 2001 Daytona 500 & Dale Earnhardt SR.


40 posted on 10/19/2022 7:29:55 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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