NASCAR mandates sensitivity training for Kyle Busch after he used slur in post-race i

[Rodnok1]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

Saw a news story yesterday about how NBC and NASCAR will try to "quiet the crowd noise" during post-race interviews so fans can hear the interview better. Yeah, that's why they want to mute the crowd.

They already purposely don't show the crowds or lack there of 99% of the time as it looks bad so why bother woth crowd noise.
Doeas anyone know what commentator said they must be saying let's go brandon.

[Steve_R]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D3nQdTIUTw

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Rodnok1

They already purposely don't show the crowds or lack there of 99% of the time as it looks bad so why bother woth crowd noise.
Doeas anyone know what commentator said they must be saying let's go brandon.

Kelli Stavast

[markids77]

Originally Posted by LisaJohn

Intellectually challenged

I think "differently abled" is the current correct term, or at least it is on the town erected warning sign on the road next to my house.

[DAB]

Originally Posted by markids77

I think "differently abled" is the current correct term, or at least it is on the town erected warning sign on the road next to my house.

“Special needs”

[m and t's77]

[carlton_fritz]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

Kyle should publicly tell NASCAR to **** off. Attendance and ratings are in the toilet already and they keep doing shit like this.

I still wouldn't like him.

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by carlton_fritz

I still wouldn't like him.

And this would do nothing to fix attendance or ratings, too.

Best thing to do would be for all of the remaining fans to walk away and tell NASCAR to **** off.

[JetMechZ16]

Is STFUR still ok?

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by JetMechZ16

Is STFUR still ok?

STFUR

[8Up]

HA! What a retard.

[DAB]

And don't you dare shout "Lets go Brandon" at the next race!



https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden...2f4f08640cc973

quick, someone get the fainting couch ready for the Nascar suits!

AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — NASCAR denounced its association with the “Let’s go, Brandon” political cry being used across the country as an insult directed at President Joe Biden. Steve Phelps, NASCAR’s president, said Friday the top motorsports series in the United States does not want to be associated with politics “on the left or the right.”

Phelps also said NASCAR will pursue action against any illegal use of its trademarks on merchandise boasting the slogan. Retired baseball star Lenny Dykstra posted a photo on Twitter this week of a man eating breakfast at a New Jersey hotel wearing a black “Let’s go, Brandon” shirt alongside NASCAR’s trademarked color bars.

“We will pursue whoever (is using logos) and get that stuff,” Phelps said. “That’s not OK. It’s not OK that you’re using our trademarks illegally, regardless of whether we agree with what the position is.”

Brandon Brown won his first career NASCAR race in October in Alabama, and the Talladega Superspeedway crowd at the Xfinity Series race chanted “F--- Joe Biden” during Brown’s interview. It was not clear if NBC Sports reporter Kelli Stavast, who was wearing a headset, could hear what the crowd was saying during the interview, and she incorrectly told Brown the fans were cheering “Let’s go, Brandon.”

The phrase has become a rallying cry for Biden’s critics, and “Let’s go, Brandon” is now conservative code for the original vulgar chant.

“It’s an unfortunate situation and I feel for Brandon, I feel for Kelli,” Phelps said. “I think unfortunately it speaks to the state of where we are as a country. We do not want to associate ourselves with politics, the left or the right.”

That’s a reversal on NASCAR’s long history of allowing political candidates to use its races as campaign stops. President Donald Trump was the honorary starter at the Daytona 500 in 2020 and the sold-out February crowd made NASCAR’s Super Bowl feel like a campaign rally until his plane flew over the Florida speedway after his command to start the engines.

Drivers and their families posed for selfies with Trump ahead of the race, and in early 2016 reigning Cup champion Chase Elliott was among a handful of drivers who attended a Georgia rally with then-NASCAR chairman Brian France in support of Trump. Several in the group, including NASCAR’s most popular driver, spoke on stage.

NASCAR also took aggressive positions on social justice issues in 2020 during a nationwide racial reckoning following the death of George Floyd. NASCAR banned the display of the Confederate flag at its events at the request of Bubba Wallace, its only Black full-time driver. Wallace wore an “I Can’t Breathe” shirt on pit road and ran with a Black Lives Matter paint scheme in one race.

Phelps said NASCAR respects the presidential office.

“Do we like the fact that it kind of started with NASCAR and then is gaining ground out elsewhere? No, we’re not happy about that,” Phelps said.

[Steve_R]

Originally Posted by DAB

And don't you dare shout "Lets go Brandon" at the next race!



https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden...2f4f08640cc973

quick, someone get the fainting couch ready for the Nascar suits!

NASCAR can suck my dick. They’re trying awfully hard to kill the sport completely.

[snide]

Let's go Brandon.

[Iron Chef]

Why are all the NASCAR track reporters wearing fire suits? Is it required?

Years ago, I sat on Fort Worth's Zoning Commission. I was appointed by my City Councilman who hated racing in general. Being that Texas Motor Speedway is in Fort Worth, the city has a suite at the track, and I was given my councilman's all-inclusive passes. Breakfast, lunch, cocktails in the suite, headphones, pit passes, the works. For two years I saw every significant race, both NASCAR and Indy, at that track.

On NASCAR weekends, there would be upwards of 200,000 people there (many just came to tailgate in the parking lot). Think about that: That's nearly a quarter of a million people. Even though Valet parking was included, I would intentionally come early and leave early to not sit in traffic for hours.

At TMS...where sellouts used to be a given...there are tens of thousands of empty seats now. I saw a photo of the last race and it was sad. Viewership is down to under 10 million. If you read articles, they point to oversized tracks, stars retiring and so on as the cause of the problem, but like so many other major corporations (which NASCAR is) those running the show refuse to acknowledge the true problems facing the sport and offer up excuses and solutions that won't make any difference. Like The Sharper Image, The XFL, Borders Books and Music, this is another death spiral.

NASCAR as we have known it is done. There's a reason I have an F1 flag in my garage.

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by DAB

And don't you dare shout "Lets go Brandon" at the next race!



quick, someone get the fainting couch ready for the Nascar suits!

And I happen to be part of a group who already paid for a plane to fly our "LET"S GO BRANDON FJB" banner around the track for the Daytona 500.

[DAB]

the racing is boring, the "stages" are stupid (just have 3 races if that's what you want to do), the drivers are all vanilla (don't say anything bad about the France empire/nascar, nor your valuable sponsors, nor other idiot drivers), and the "playoffs" are moronic.

the last place baseball team doesn't keep playing while the Braves are winning the World Series.

caught the F1 race live yesterday (normally, i'll tape them and watch later). pretty good race between the top 2, and everyone else is either wadding it up (Tsunoda) or at least racing for points (personally and team). Well, except Haas.....sigh.

but...they'll keep blaming everyone and everything else. "covid", new drivers, new sponsors.....let them go under. the Frances are happy as long as the TV money flows in, after that, they don't care.

Originally Posted by Iron Chef

Why are all the NASCAR track reporters wearing fire suits? Is it required?

Years ago, I sat on Fort Worth's Zoning Commission. I was appointed by my City Councilman who hated racing in general. Being that Texas Motor Speedway is in Fort Worth, the city has a suite at the track, and I was given my councilman's all-inclusive passes. Breakfast, lunch, cocktails in the suite, headphones, pit passes, the works. For two years I saw every significant race, both NASCAR and Indy, at that track.

On NASCAR weekends, there would be upwards of 200,000 people there (many just came to tailgate in the parking lot). Think about that: That's nearly a quarter of a million people. Even though Valet parking was included, I would intentionally come early and leave early to not sit in traffic for hours.

At TMS...where sellouts used to be a given...there are tens of thousands of empty seats now. I saw a photo of the last race and it was sad. Viewership is down to under 10 million. If you read articles, they point to oversized tracks, stars retiring and so on as the cause of the problem, but like so many other major corporations (which NASCAR is) those running the show refuse to acknowledge the true problems facing the sport and offer up excuses and solutions that won't make any difference. Like The Sharper Image, The XFL, Borders Books and Music, this is another death spiral.

NASCAR as we have known it is done. There's a reason I have an F1 flag in my garage.

[IB4TL]

Originally Posted by ratflinger

Best thing that's come out of NASCAR since Dale died - 'Let's Go Brandon!'

Instead of embracing it & making a boat load of money merchandising it, they banned that as well like a bunch of retards.
Oh wait, that's insensitive.....hmmm....like a bunch of mental midgets.

Can't see anyone having an issue with that correction

Originally Posted by Lakota

The France family -the "First Family of NASCAR" - has controlled the stock car racing organization since its inception in 1948. Brian France, the grandson of founder Bill France, Sr. and son of former CEO Bill Jr., has been at the helm since 2003.

$5.7B is the net worth of the family.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/france/?sh=c6bd81b20a5a

Read a book on the early years of NASCAR. Three men had the idea to incorporate. Bill France said that he'll take care of it. He did by incorporated in HIS name only shafting his partners.

I don't follow NASCAR but that's pretty interesting.