Wallace's runner-up finish overshadowed by radio incident...Bubba Wallace’s strong performance in Sunday night’s NASCAR All-Star Race was marred by an unfortunate incident at the race’s conclusion.
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us.motorsport.com ^
| May 21, 2023, 9:48 PM | Jim Utter
Just after Wallace took the checkered flag and finished as runner-up to Kyle Larson in the $1 million-to-the-winner event at North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway, someone keyed into his No. 23 23XI Racing team radio channel with a derogatory message. “Go
back to where you came from you a******. You’re not wanted in NASCAR,” the person said. A spokesperson for 23XI Racing told Motorsport.com that Wallace, the only full-time Black driver in NASCAR’s premier series, did not hear the comments or acknowledge them at the time. NASCAR officials confirmed their security operation is investigating the incident in an attempt to determine...
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Bubba Wallace Gives NASCAR Fans Middle Finger After Losing ‘All-Star’ Race
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RNN ^
| 05/22/2023 | Brian Chai
NASCAR star Bubba Wallace is no stranger to controversy. It’s
perhaps that penchant for drama that has turned the 29-year-old Wallace into something of a pro-wrestling villain in the world of NASCAR. Wherever he goes, he’s often greeted with a chorus of boos from fans of the sport. That bubbling ugliness came to a head in North Carolina over the weekend when some of NASCAR’s biggest stars gathered at North Wilkesboro Speedway for the NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race on Sunday. Before that main event, however, there was the Tyson 250, a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race on Saturday....
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North Wilkesboro Speedway ready for its NASCAR return (Thanks to Benny Parsons, his Widow-Terri, Dale Jr and many others.)
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foxsports.com ^
| May. 15, 2023 1:17 p.m. ET | Bob Pockrass
NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. — Among the list of things former NASCAR driver and television broadcaster Benny Parsons asked his wife to do prior to his death in January 2007 was to try to get North Wilkesboro Speedway to reopen for NASCAR racing. It
took more than 16 years to get it done, but Terri Parsons — along with many others — can celebrate that achievement this week. The NASCAR All-Star Race this weekend will be the first NASCAR race at the historic 0.625-mile oval since 1996. The track was the place that nurtured the love of racing for the Parsons...
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NASCAR commits to net zero operating emissions by 2035 with launch of new impact platform
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Jayski ^
| April 18, 2023 | Jayski
As the global community prepares to celebrate Earth Day, NASCAR today announced its commitment to achieve net zero operating emissions by the year 2035. The
announcement coincides with the launch of NASCAR IMPACT, a new umbrella platform designed to align and advance the sport’s collective efforts around sustainability, community engagement and other impact-driven social initiatives. NASCAR plans to reduce its carbon footprint to zero across all scope 1 and 2 emissions over the next 12 years through strategic investment, collaborative partnerships, and operational changes. “As a sport, NASCAR has a responsibility to serve and impact the communities where we live...
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Anheuser-Busch talking to NASCAR teams about plans for '24
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https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com ^
| 3.1.2023 | BY ADAM STERN
Anheuser-Busch has been having conversations with NASCAR teams about its plans for next year after Kevin Harvick retires, according to people familiar with the matter, and Trackhouse Racing is said to be a favorite to land the brewer’s business. A-B
has a long history of sponsoring drivers, races and NASCAR itself, and began partnering with its current team, Stewart-Haas Racing, when Harvick joined in 2014. With Harvick set to retire after this season and join the Fox Sports broadcast booth full time, SHR and its sponsors are now sorting out their futures as it relates to the No. 4 Ford...
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Who Should Jack Up the Car in a Nascar Pit Stop? The Answer Is in the Numbers
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WSJ ^
| 9 mar 2023 | Robert O’Connell
There are two ways to win a Nascar race. The
first is to go faster, when you’re in motion, than anyone else. The second is to spend less time at rest than your opponents, shaving away expensive tenths of seconds sacrificed in pit stops. Caleb Dirks, a former pitching prospect for the Atlanta Braves who now applies his length and leverage as a jackman, sprinting out with his hydraulic device and pumping the pitting car airborne. A four-tire pit stop is a frantic five-man ballet—all tight corridors and heavy equipment, set at breakneck tempo. Its nuances aren’t as telegenic as...
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NASCAR star Elliott has leg surgery after snowboard accident
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ABC News ^
| 3 Mar, 2023 | JENNA FRYER
NASCAR superstar Chase Elliott had successful surgery for an unspecified injury to his left leg Friday night, hours after a snowboarding accident in Colorado. He will miss this weekend’s NASCAR race at Las Vegas. Team owner Rick Hendrick told The Associated Press that Elliott was “just out of surgery” and “it went
well.” Hendrick gave no additional details about Elliott’s condition or the accident. Hendrick is NASCAR's winningest car owner and Elliott is NASCAR’s most popular driver. Josh Berry will drive the No. 9 Chevrolet on Sunday in place of Elliott. Elliott would need a waiver from NASCAR to be...
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NASCAR star Kyle Busch sentenced to 3 years in Mexican prison for trying to take .380 pistol and hollow point shells on private plane leaving Cancún
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Law & Crime via MSN ^
| 2/07/23 | Colin Kalmbacher
Famed NASCAR driver Kyle Busch has been sentenced to three-and-half-years in prison for gun possession without a license in Mexico, authorities there said late last week. It
is not clear how, or if, that sentence will be assessed. **SNIP** According to Mexican authorities, Busch placed his luggage on the platform and x-rays took note of “a pistol-type firearm caliber. 380 with charger supplied with six hollow point cartridges” inside. “When it was discovered, I fully cooperated with the authorities, accepted the penalties, and returned to North Carolina,” Busch’s statement continued. “Discovery of the handgun led to my detainment while the...
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Well-Known NASCAR Driver Arrested With Gun In Cancun Airport
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Cancun Sun ^
| Cancun Sun
A number of Americans have been caught with firearms at Cancun International Airport over the last year, but the most recent case involves a well-known American NASCAR driver. Kyle
Busch, a champion race car driver, was caught with a .38 caliber handgun and hollow tip ammunition in his luggage at Cancun Airport. He was quickly arrested following the discovery.
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Bubba Wallace Gets Bad News: Racing Team Owner Says In-House Penalties Go ‘Above And Beyond’ NASCAR Penalties
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Right News Now ^
| 10-26-2022 | Jim Clayborn
by Jim Clayborn | RNNBubba Wallace missed Sunday’s NASCAR race, and that’s evidently not his only sanction after losing his cool in Las Vegas last weekend.Denny Hamlin — who, along with Michael Jordan, co-owns the 23XI racing team that Wallace drives for — said Oct. 22 that the team has dealt with
matters in a way that goes “above and beyond” the penalties handed down by NASCAR.Hamlin didn’t say what that means, choosing to keep those matters in-house.One racing analyst that "means" Wallace will have to forfeit a big chunk of money out of his 23XI purse, possibly more than...
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NASCAR: Bubba Wallace shoves Kyle Larson after crash at Las Vegas
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Yahoo Sports ^
| October 16, 2022 | Nick Bromberg
Bubba Wallace shoved Kyle Larson multiple times after he appeared to intentionally crash Larson after Wallace brushed the wall while the two drivers raced side-by-side off Turn 4 in the first stage of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas. Larson was on Wallace’s inside and his car drifted up the
track. Wallace’s car hit the wall and then went left and hit the right rear of Larson’s car. That crashed both of them and also collected playoff driver Christopher Bell. Wallace immediately exited his car after the crash and walked across the track and into the infield where...
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Couple arrested for squatting in NASCAR driver’s house (Ricky Stenhouse Jr)
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The Comeback sports fan website ^
| Aug 26 2022 | Sean Keeley
Two people who are part of a religious organization that believes in the sovereign citizen movement have been arrested for breaking into and squatting in the home of NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. According to WBTV, the couple broke into the Mooresville, NC mansion and have been squatting inside. The
home is currently listed for sale for $15,995,000. Darius Trrone Hall, 29, has been charged with breaking and entering, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, carrying a concealed gun, and second-degree trespassing. Nataijah Shaieena Fields, 37, was charged with breaking and entering, two counts of contributing...
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NASCAR: Will Gas Shortages Have Devastating Impact on This Year’s Races? (2021)
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Outsider ^
| 5/11/2021 | Matthew Wilson
Could NASCAR soon be hitting empty? A
recent gas shortage may have long-reaching effects and could potentially affect the sport. NASCAR has plenty of races left on its schedule for the season. The next races in the Xfinity and Cup series will be on May 15 and 16th at the Dover International Speedway in Delaware. It remains to be seen whether a gas shortage could affect those races or future events. Currently, a pipeline shutdown has caused gas shortages across the Southeast and East Coast. On May 7, hackers hit Colonial Pipeline with a ransomware attack. This effectively caused a...
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Kimi Raikkonen hits pause on retirement to race NASCAR
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ABC News ^
| 18 Aug, 2022 | JENNA FRYER
Kimi Raikkonen will take a break from his retirement to return to racing this weekend in the NASCAR race at Watkins Glen International in upstate New York. CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Kimi Raikkonen retired to Switzerland at the end of last year's Formula One season and has blissfully spent the last eight months
with his young family. Did he miss racing? “Not really, no," the 2007 F1 champion said. Yet here he is, not even a full year into retirement, and Raikkonen will race again. Raikkonen will race Sunday at Watkins Glen International in upstate New York in — and this...
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NASCAR Pocono winner Denny Hamlin disqualified, first Cup Series DQ since 1960 First- and second-place finisher disqualified, giving win to third-place's Chase Elliott
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Justthenews.com ^
| Updated: July 25, 2022 - 3:01pm | By Mark Choy
Pocono NASCAR Cup Series winner Denny Hamlin and second-place finisher Kyle Busch were disqualified Sunday after their cars failed post-race inspections. "There
was some issues discovered that affect aero in the vehicle," said Brad Moran, managing director of the NASCAR Cup Series, widely considered the top auto race league. "There really was no reason why there was some material that was somewhere it shouldn't have been. And that does basically come down to a DQ." Hamlin was the first Cup winner to be disqualified since April 17, 1960, when Emanuel Zervakis' victory at Wilson Speedway in North Carolina was thrown...
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NASCAR legend Bobby East fatally stabbed in California; police searching for suspect
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foxnews ^
| 7/16/2022 | AUDREY CONKLIN
Police are searching for suspect Trent William Millsap in connection to the fatal stabbing of NASCAR's Bobby East NASCAR star Bobby East was fatally stabbed at a gas station in California last week, and police are still searching for the suspect in his killing. East,
a three-time United States Auto Club (USAC) National Champion driver in USAC Silver Crown and Midgets, died Wednesday after being stabbed in the chest at a 76 gas station on Westminster Blvd. in Westminster, California, according to the USAC and police. "East was phenomenal in USAC National Sprint Cars as well, most notably on pavement...
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NASCAR star Bobby East, 37, is stabbed to death at California gas station as he filled up his car: Cops hunt homeless man on parole, 27, for the murder
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Daily Mail ^
| July 16, 2022 | By RONNY REYES
NASCAR star Bobby East, 37, died after being stabbed at a California gas station Police are looking for Trent William Millsap, 27, who allegedly stabbed East and another man at a gas station in Westminster on Wednesday East was rushed to the hospital, but had succumbed to his injury, police said The
US Auto Club champ was a star in the racing world, which once dubbed him 'the winningest' rookie in more than a quarter century
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NASCAR continues to abandon its customer base
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American Thinker ^
| 3 Jun, 2022 | Andrea Widburg
This time, it grovels for the sin of having had Texas Governor Greg Abbott wave a green flag at the All-Star Race. I have no gay pride. I
don’t have gay hatred either. I simply don’t care very much. It’s enough for me that our laws give people equal protection and most Americans no longer consider homosexuality a sin. And that’s probably enough for most people. And I bet most people, like me, dislike the annual barrage of mandatory love for the LGBTQ+++ crowd and especially dislike the industry that’s sprung up around confusing kids about their biological and then...
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BREAKING: NASCAR apologizes to 'LGBTQ+ community' after allowing Gov Abbott to wave green flag
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Post Millennial ^
| 6/1/22 | Roberto Wakerell-Cruz
NASCAR apologized to the LGBTQ community on Wednesday, for so-caled "recent actions" that may not have "alligned" with the auto racing giant's "mission to be a welcoming sport for all." "As
we celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, we acknowledge that recent actions have not alligned with NASCAR's mission to be a welcoming sport for all," the statement said. "We remain steadfast in our commitment to create a more inclusive environment – in our workplaces, at the race track & in the stands," the post concludes, along with along with a graphic featuring the so-called "progress" pride flag and a message wishing...
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NASCAR suspends wrong crew member for Denny Hamlin's team after Dover loose wheel
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aol ^
| May 4, 2022 | NICK BROMBERG
NASCAR suspended the wrong crew member after a wheel came off Denny Hamlin’s car at Dover on Monday. Hamlin’s crew didn’t get the left-front wheel tight on his car during a pit stop after the conclusion of the first stage of the race. As
Hamlin was the first car to leave pit road, the wheel came off and came to a stop near the inside wall at the end of pit lane. The 2022 Cup Series cars have just one lug nut instead of five and loose wheels have been a significant issue for teams as they struggle with the...
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