Tag: NASCAR

NASCAR deals with new rules, feuds and more fans at Talladega

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NASCAR’s return to racing shifts to Talladega Superspeedway, with new principles in location immediately after Ryan Newman’s frightful crash in the time-opening Daytona 500.

The Alabama track will admit up to 5,000 lovers Sunday — with at the very least one particular NASCAR team facing a coronavirus scare — even though NASCAR will be on the lookout for the freshly banned Confederate flag.

Corey LaJoie and Denny Hamlin are in a weird feud that commenced on social media and escalated right until NASCAR intervened previous weekend by summoning both drivers to a encounter-to-encounter meeting. And Joey Logano, wrecked previous thirty

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Graduates get diplomas from their cars at NASCAR tracks

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Harmony, N.C. — Tytianah Ward sat in the passenger seat of a parked SUV at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. She adjusted her brilliant green graduation cap as household associates packed in the rows guiding her beam with pleasure.

COVID-19 may possibly have canceled the high faculty graduation she’d generally pictured, but this variation may well be far more memorable.

“Obviously, I believed I’d be walking throughout the phase but, I’m definitely glad for this expertise,” she reported.

Ward is 1 of thousands of graduates in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, who acknowledged their diplomas Friday inside their cars on the NASCAR

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NASCAR bans the Confederate flag

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NASCAR banned the Confederate flag from its races and houses on Wednesday, formally distancing by itself from what for several is a image of slavery and racism that had been a acquainted sight at inventory motor vehicle events for far more than 70 decades.

The move arrives amid social unrest all over the globe subsequent the dying in police custody of George Floyd, an unarmed black gentleman in Minneapolis. Protests have roiled the country for times and Confederate monuments are being taken down throughout the South — the regular supporter foundation for NASCAR.

Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s lone black driver, termed

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Bubba Wallace to NASCAR: Ban the Confederate flag at races

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Prior to the race began at Atlanta Motor Speedway this past weekend, the monitor held a minute of silence to reflect on the loss of life of George Floyd, as very well as the ongoing racism and racial injustices that the black group and other minorities confront in America. Bubba Wallace, the only black driver in the NASCAR Cup Collection, had tears in his eyes at the start out-complete line and was also witnessed at pre-race activities carrying a shirt that study, “I Can not Breathe” and “Black Life Subject.” Wallace not too long ago appeared on CNN to go

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Bubba Wallace gets NASCAR up to speed about George Floyd protests

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Bubba Wallace is now embracing his system as a NASCAR driver for good alter and is pushing his fellow rivals to do the exact.

Wallace, the only complete-time black driver in any of NASCAR’s best a few series, in depth his conclusion this week to communicate out as protests carry on in the wake of George Floyd’s killing on Could 25 in Minneapolis. Wallace stated that he’s been encouraging other individuals in NASCAR to communicate their minds right after he recognized that he essential to communicate out additional himself.

Wallace appeared on Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s podcast this week and had

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