Black Woman of the Day: Brehanna Daniels - 1st Black Woman to pit in NASCAR
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NASCAR going to NASCAR. Noose hung in bubba Wallace Garage. Planes flying over with confederate flags saying boycott nascar
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Black Woman of The Day: Melissa Lebron - first Black female NASCAR team owner
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Black Man of the Day: Wendell Scott (1st Black Nascar/Sprint Cup Champ)
Wendell Oliver Scott (August 29, 1921 – December 23, 1990) was an American stock car racing driver from Danville, Virginia. He is the only black driver to win a race in what is now the Sprint Cup Series. According to a 2008 biography of Scott, he broke the color barrier in Southern stock car...
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I aint forcing anyone black whatever to take a knee
However
The long winded convulsion statements just make suspect much more is going on.
NASCAR says noose found in Wallace's garage
NASCAR is investigating and will reportedly work with law enforcement after a noose was found in the garage of Bubba Wallace, the Cup series' only black driver, on Sunday at Talladega.www.espn.com
nahhh that a cac
Black Man of the Day: Wendell Scott (1st Black Nascar/Sprint Cup Champ)
Wendell Oliver Scott (August 29, 1921 – December 23, 1990) was an American stock car racing driver from Danville, Virginia. He is the only black driver to win a race in what is now the Sprint Cup Series. According to a 2008 biography of Scott, he broke the color barrier in Southern stock car...www.bgol.us
idiot that shit was a noose foh
Crazy that @Flawless called out what this is all about before anyone else did.
Generate buzz about NASCAR and increase the customer fan base to include more so-called blacks. Also not a surprise at the posters who keep starting these same low-level threads but have NEVER started a thread on how to empower or uplift the so-called black community.
Stop falling for crackas’ and their agents AKA the globalists/libertines/luciferians, tricks.
Generate buzz about NASCAR and increase the customer fan base to include more so-called blacks. Also not a surprise at the posters who keep starting these same low-level threads but have NEVER started a thread on how to empower or uplift the so-called black community.
Stop falling for crackas’ and their agents AKA the globalists/libertines/luciferians, tricks.
He is constantly race baiting.
At this point I'm happy he 100% with it
Aint no half steppin with any and all of his supporters
He basically declaring war.
Don't matter if you diehard Republican or anti Clinton pro bernie anti biden...
You for your him?
You saying you alt right nazi
In fact i kinda see why so many said Charlemagne is the enemy.
Biden is RIGHT
You support that man?
How you Black?
In fact how you Christian? How you believe in God? How you have honor and morals?
How you human?
He needs a slug. I can’t hold back anymore
Shout out Tyler. I can’t believe NASCAR drivers are more supportive than white NFL players. Shits mind blowing. I’m about to start watching NASCAR. You had cacs and niggas in the NFL telling Kap to stand and all sorts of bullshit supporting Riley Cooper and Nick Bosa. Man fuck the NFL
incredible
My thing is this..
what WE gonna do if he reelected?
and even if he NOT?
What we gonna do to make sure he is held accountable for his bullsh*t?
Bruh I just start yelling at my dog all kinds of shit, I'm not gonna say shit online about how I really feel or they would come looking for me.
NASCAR Still Isn't Swerving Away From Trump
Dave CaldwellFormer Contributor
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Joey Logano stands in the garage during practice for a NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Joey Logano and Team Penske officials and crew are planning to visit the White House on Tuesday to commemorate his 2018 NASCAR Monster Energy Cup title. The ceremony, a tradition for American sports champions, is hardly as warm and fuzzy as it used to be.
President Trump is to participate in the ceremony, and when Martin Truex Jr. visited the White House last May to mark his championship, Trump made a detour to salute NASCAR and its fans for continuing to stand during the national anthem, as a counterpoint to NFL players kneeling in protest of police brutality against minorities. What could happen this year?
Jeremy Troiano, a spokesman for Team Penske, wrote in me an email about Logano’s visit, “Joey and the No. 22 team are honored to be one of the many sports champions to be invited to the White House, and we are excited for all of our team members to get a chance to experience it.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/csylt/2020/07/01/how-to-carve-out-a-career-with-disney/
Trump has heavy support from NASCAR officials, drivers and its conservative fan base; he pondered building a speedway near New York two decades ago. Brian France, the troubled former CEO of NASCAR, has been a supporter of Trump -- and Trump of France.
“We love – you know what I am talking about – the France family and Brian France. We love you, Brian. Brian, get in there Brian,” Trump said in October at a political rally in Charlotte. “Brian is going to be in great shape. Brian is a tough winner.
“That whole France family, they are pretty good. That’s like owning the entire NFL, you know that right? What a great thing. We love NASCAR. We love the drivers.”
A White House visit is still regarded as positive public relations for NASCAR, but Trump remains a polarizing figure elsewhere in sports. On Friday, Tony Bennett, the men’s basketball coach at the University of Virginia, said his team would decline an invitation to participate in a ceremony at the White House to mark its recent NCAA championship.
“It would be difficult, if not impossible, to get everyone back together,” Bennett said in a statement posted on the team’s Twitter feed. A Virginia graduate had circulated a petition urging the Cavaliers to skip the ceremony that drew 15,000 signatures.
The Golden State Warriors have declined to participate in White House ceremonies after each of their last two NBA championships. But members of the Baylor team that won the NCAA women’s basketball championship is to visit the White House on Monday.
President Obama invited 2010 Cup champion Jimmie Johnson and the 11 other drivers who’d qualified for the postseason Chase that year, but four drivers did not attend, citing scheduling conflicts: Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart.
After invoking the national-anthem issue at the ceremony for Truex last year, Trump said, “Somebody said, `Maybe you shouldn’t say that. That will be controversial.’ I said, `That’s OK. NASCAR is not going to mind it at all.’ Right, fellas?”
After the audience laughed, Trump added, “They don’t mind it at all.”
Logano was not asked about the ceremony during a Friday news conference at Talladega. Truex, a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles, who were disinvited by Trump from a White House visit after winning the Super Bowl in February 2018, said Friday that he was “kind of jealous” that Logano, who has been a bitter racing rival, would be going to Washington.
NASCAR teams don’t focus on politics during a visit, and Logano probably won't, either. Truex said, “It was an amazing experience, and they treated us so well. It made you really feel special honestly. And it was really cool just to be a part of it all.”
He said of Logano: “Hopefully he enjoys it. I’m sure he will.”
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Dave CaldwellFormer Contributor
SportsMoney
Joey Logano stands in the garage during practice for a NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Joey Logano and Team Penske officials and crew are planning to visit the White House on Tuesday to commemorate his 2018 NASCAR Monster Energy Cup title. The ceremony, a tradition for American sports champions, is hardly as warm and fuzzy as it used to be.
President Trump is to participate in the ceremony, and when Martin Truex Jr. visited the White House last May to mark his championship, Trump made a detour to salute NASCAR and its fans for continuing to stand during the national anthem, as a counterpoint to NFL players kneeling in protest of police brutality against minorities. What could happen this year?
Jeremy Troiano, a spokesman for Team Penske, wrote in me an email about Logano’s visit, “Joey and the No. 22 team are honored to be one of the many sports champions to be invited to the White House, and we are excited for all of our team members to get a chance to experience it.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/csylt/2020/07/01/how-to-carve-out-a-career-with-disney/
Trump has heavy support from NASCAR officials, drivers and its conservative fan base; he pondered building a speedway near New York two decades ago. Brian France, the troubled former CEO of NASCAR, has been a supporter of Trump -- and Trump of France.
“We love – you know what I am talking about – the France family and Brian France. We love you, Brian. Brian, get in there Brian,” Trump said in October at a political rally in Charlotte. “Brian is going to be in great shape. Brian is a tough winner.
“That whole France family, they are pretty good. That’s like owning the entire NFL, you know that right? What a great thing. We love NASCAR. We love the drivers.”
A White House visit is still regarded as positive public relations for NASCAR, but Trump remains a polarizing figure elsewhere in sports. On Friday, Tony Bennett, the men’s basketball coach at the University of Virginia, said his team would decline an invitation to participate in a ceremony at the White House to mark its recent NCAA championship.
“It would be difficult, if not impossible, to get everyone back together,” Bennett said in a statement posted on the team’s Twitter feed. A Virginia graduate had circulated a petition urging the Cavaliers to skip the ceremony that drew 15,000 signatures.
The Golden State Warriors have declined to participate in White House ceremonies after each of their last two NBA championships. But members of the Baylor team that won the NCAA women’s basketball championship is to visit the White House on Monday.
President Obama invited 2010 Cup champion Jimmie Johnson and the 11 other drivers who’d qualified for the postseason Chase that year, but four drivers did not attend, citing scheduling conflicts: Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart.
After invoking the national-anthem issue at the ceremony for Truex last year, Trump said, “Somebody said, `Maybe you shouldn’t say that. That will be controversial.’ I said, `That’s OK. NASCAR is not going to mind it at all.’ Right, fellas?”
After the audience laughed, Trump added, “They don’t mind it at all.”
Logano was not asked about the ceremony during a Friday news conference at Talladega. Truex, a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles, who were disinvited by Trump from a White House visit after winning the Super Bowl in February 2018, said Friday that he was “kind of jealous” that Logano, who has been a bitter racing rival, would be going to Washington.
NASCAR teams don’t focus on politics during a visit, and Logano probably won't, either. Truex said, “It was an amazing experience, and they treated us so well. It made you really feel special honestly. And it was really cool just to be a part of it all.”
He said of Logano: “Hopefully he enjoys it. I’m sure he will.”
NASCAR Still Isn't Swerving Away From Trump
“Joey and the No. 22 team are honored to one of the many sports champions to be invited to the White House, and we are excited for all of our team members to get a chance to experience it," a Team Penske spokesman said of Joey Logano, 2018 Cup champion.
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Trump is wrong about NASCAR TV ratings
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Daniel Roberts
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July 6, 2020, 1:52 PM EDT
On Monday morning, President Trump tweeted that NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace should apologize “to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX,” and that NASCAR’s June 10 ban of Confederate flags at its events “has caused lowest ratings EVER.”
The first part of Trump’s tweet refers to the incident on June 21, when a rope tied like a noose was discovered hanging in Wallace’s stall before the Geico 500 at Talladega Speedway in Alabama. That race was delayed one day due to weather, and before the race began on Monday, the entire field of drivers rallied behind Wallace, pushing his car to the start line in a show of solidarity. A few days later, the FBI announced that the rope, a garage door pull, had been there since October, before the stall was ever assigned to Wallace, so no federal crime was committed; it also released a photo of the noose. There was no “hoax”—the sport merely responded to what looked at first like a hate crime—and Wallace never saw or reported the noose; it was found and reported by a member of his team.
The second part of Trump’s tweet, about NASCAR’s TV ratings, is completely false.
NASCAR ratings on Fox are up 8% since the sport’s return from coronavirus lockdown on May 17, according to Fox Sports EVP Michael Mulvihill, and are up 8% since the Confederate flag ban on June 10, Mulvihill says.
Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Busch Light Patriotic Ford, celebrates winning the NASCAR Cup Series Big Machine Hand Sanitizer 400 Powered by Big Machine Records at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 05, 2020 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
The first race after the Confederate flag ban, on the afternoon of June 10, was the Blue Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia. The overnight ratings on FS1 were up 104% compared to the same race (11th of the season) last year, which also aired on FS1. Later, once the final numbers were in, Fox Sports said the bump was 113%.
The June 14 NASCAR race at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida averaged 2.77 million viewers (non-weather-delayed portions), up 27% from the comparable Cup Series race (12th of the season) last year.
The Geico 500 at Talladega on June 22, which was moved to Monday due to weather, registered 3.36 million viewers, 20% better than the Homestead-Miami race the week before, but down 21% from last year’s 13th race of the season.
The June 28 race at Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania grabbed 2.66 million viewers, up 11% from the June 2 Pocono race last year.
In fact, every NASCAR race on Fox since the Confederate flag ban, except for Talladega on June 22, has rated higher than the equivalent race the year before.
This past weekend, NASAR shifted to NBC for a crossover event with IndyCar, and those two Nascar races were up as well. According to NBC Sports, Saturday’s Pennzoil 150 race averaged 1.69 million viewers, making it the most-watched Xfinity Series race from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway since 2017, up 21% compared to the average of the four Xfinity Series races on NBC last year. Sunday’s Big Machine Hand Sanitizer 400 averaged 4.37 million viewers, up 46% compared to the same race last year.
Whether the extra eyeballs are because of the controversial Confederate flag ban or despite it, or whether it’s all thanks to the current dearth of live sports to watch, is up for debate. But the sport is enjoying a clear ratings bump over last year.
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Daniel Roberts
·Editor-at-Large
July 6, 2020, 1:52 PM EDT
On Monday morning, President Trump tweeted that NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace should apologize “to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX,” and that NASCAR’s June 10 ban of Confederate flags at its events “has caused lowest ratings EVER.”
The first part of Trump’s tweet refers to the incident on June 21, when a rope tied like a noose was discovered hanging in Wallace’s stall before the Geico 500 at Talladega Speedway in Alabama. That race was delayed one day due to weather, and before the race began on Monday, the entire field of drivers rallied behind Wallace, pushing his car to the start line in a show of solidarity. A few days later, the FBI announced that the rope, a garage door pull, had been there since October, before the stall was ever assigned to Wallace, so no federal crime was committed; it also released a photo of the noose. There was no “hoax”—the sport merely responded to what looked at first like a hate crime—and Wallace never saw or reported the noose; it was found and reported by a member of his team.
The second part of Trump’s tweet, about NASCAR’s TV ratings, is completely false.
NASCAR ratings on Fox are up 8% since the sport’s return from coronavirus lockdown on May 17, according to Fox Sports EVP Michael Mulvihill, and are up 8% since the Confederate flag ban on June 10, Mulvihill says.
Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Busch Light Patriotic Ford, celebrates winning the NASCAR Cup Series Big Machine Hand Sanitizer 400 Powered by Big Machine Records at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 05, 2020 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
The first race after the Confederate flag ban, on the afternoon of June 10, was the Blue Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia. The overnight ratings on FS1 were up 104% compared to the same race (11th of the season) last year, which also aired on FS1. Later, once the final numbers were in, Fox Sports said the bump was 113%.
The June 14 NASCAR race at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida averaged 2.77 million viewers (non-weather-delayed portions), up 27% from the comparable Cup Series race (12th of the season) last year.
The Geico 500 at Talladega on June 22, which was moved to Monday due to weather, registered 3.36 million viewers, 20% better than the Homestead-Miami race the week before, but down 21% from last year’s 13th race of the season.
The June 28 race at Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania grabbed 2.66 million viewers, up 11% from the June 2 Pocono race last year.
In fact, every NASCAR race on Fox since the Confederate flag ban, except for Talladega on June 22, has rated higher than the equivalent race the year before.
This past weekend, NASAR shifted to NBC for a crossover event with IndyCar, and those two Nascar races were up as well. According to NBC Sports, Saturday’s Pennzoil 150 race averaged 1.69 million viewers, making it the most-watched Xfinity Series race from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway since 2017, up 21% compared to the average of the four Xfinity Series races on NBC last year. Sunday’s Big Machine Hand Sanitizer 400 averaged 4.37 million viewers, up 46% compared to the same race last year.
Whether the extra eyeballs are because of the controversial Confederate flag ban or despite it, or whether it’s all thanks to the current dearth of live sports to watch, is up for debate. But the sport is enjoying a clear ratings bump over last year.
President Trump just attacked NASCAR and Bubba Wallace. These TV ratings prove he’s wrong
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NASCAR Trump country for this fan
NASCAR fan Debi Ringhaver is a huge supporter of President Donald Trump. She has collected several mannequins depicting the president along with a barn filled with all things Trump. President Trump will visit Daytona International Speedway on Sunday. BY JEFF SINER
NASCAR and politics tend to overlap.
President Donald Trump attended this year’s Daytona 500 in February and served as the grand marshal for the event that opened the 2020 season. And Monday, the president offered an opinion on a recent incident involving NASCAR and driver Bubba Wallace, who is Black.
Two weeks after NASCAR announced that a noose was found in the garage stall of Wallace’s No. 43 team at Talladega Superspeedway, and a subsequent FBI investigation determined that the act was not a hate crime, Trump tweeted: “Has @BubbaWallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX? That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!”
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President Trump told 2 lies in 279 characters, and NASCARlet him off the hook
The end of the tweet referred to NASCAR’s June 10 ban of the Confederate flag at races, a decision prompted by Wallace that the sanctioning body said it will enforce to make fans of all races and ethnicities feel comfortable at NASCAR events.
But the ban of the Confederate flag and what happened at Talladega have not caused NASCAR’s “lowest ratings EVER!” as Trump claimed. According to FOX Sports, NASCAR viewership on the FOX networks is up eight percent since returning from its coronavirus-related hiatus on May 17.
Despite numerous delays and postponements due to inclement weather since the sport returned amid the pandemic, television viewership and Nielsen ratings have not consistently dropped, nor have any changes been in direct correlation with the flag ban. Instead, Sunday’s Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on NBC earned a 2.67 rating and 4.34 million viewers, according to NBC Sports. That viewership number is up 46 percent from last year’s Brickyard 400 race, which aired in September at the same time as NFL games. It was the second-most viewed NASCAR race since the sport returned from hiatus due to the Pandemic. (NASCAR’s return race at Darlington averaged 6.32 million viewers.)
After the ban was announced the morning before NASCAR’s Cup Series race at Martinsville, television ratings on FS1 increased 16 percent compared to previous weeknight NASCAR Cup Race at Charlotte, according to FOX Sports. The second race at Charlotte was the lowest-rated NASCAR Cup Series race of the season — a mid-week event postponed for inclement weather. Inclement weather also pushed Talladega from Sunday to Monday, and it was still the most-watched Monday NASCAR race since 2014 (other than the Daytona 500).
Trump’s claim of a hoax contradicted information from NASCAR. In the wake of the FBI’s findings, NASCAR president Steve Phelps repeatedly said that the discovery of the noose incident was not Wallace’s fault, nor was it a “hoax.”
“Bubba Wallace and the 43 team had nothing to do with this,” Phelps said after the investigation concluded. “Bubba Wallace has done nothing but represent this sport with courage, class and dignity. It is offensive seeing anyone suggest otherwise, and frankly it’s further evidence as to how far we still need to go as a society.”
Phelps said that the driver had no knowledge of the pull rope tied like a noose until Phelps told Wallace about it himself, after NASCAR security inspected the entire garage area and officials discussed next steps.
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But on Monday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany doubled down on the president’s stance on Fox News when asked about Wallace. McEnany compared the “allegations and the rush to judgement” with the case of Jussie Smollett, an actor who claimed he was the victim of a hate crime last year.
“When you level false charges, you not only slander me, you slander the American people,” McEnany said, reading a statement from Trump.
Monday afternoon, NASCAR issued the following statement in response to Trump’s tweet:
“We are proud to have Bubba Wallace in the NASCAR family and we commend his courage and leadership. NASCAR continues to stand tall with Bubba, our competitors and everyone who makes our sport welcoming and inclusive for all racing fans.”
Wallace also responded on Twitter Monday afternoon with a note to “the next generation and little ones following my foot steps..” that focused on overcoming “the haters” with “love.”
“Love should come naturally as people are TAUGHT to hate,” Wallace tweeted. “Even when it’s HATE from the POTUS..Love wins.”
Cup Series rookie Tyler Reddick, driver of the No. 8 car, who was one of the first drivers to tweet his support for the “Black Lives Matter” movement amid nationwide protests for racial justice, tweeted in response to Trump on Monday morning.
“We don’t need an apology,” Reddick tweeted. “We did what was right and we will do just fine without your support.”
The tweet was deleted shortly thereafter and Reddick announced that his call for NASCAR SiriusXM on Monday would be “rescheduled,” according to FOX Sports. Seven-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson, who helped organized the march around Wallace before the race at Talladega, tweeted a picture on Monday with Wallace’s car number and the hashtag #IStandWithBubba.
Go Fas Racing, a small team that fields the No. 32 Ford driven by Corey LaJoie, announced last week that the Patriots of America PAC had agreed to a nine-race deal with the team to support Trump’s reelection campaign. LaJoie drove a “Trump 2020” paint scheme Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
NASCAR TV RATINGS IN 2020
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NASCAR fan Debi Ringhaver is a huge supporter of President Donald Trump. She has collected several mannequins depicting the president along with a barn filled with all things Trump. President Trump will visit Daytona International Speedway on Sunday. BY JEFF SINER
NASCAR and politics tend to overlap.
President Donald Trump attended this year’s Daytona 500 in February and served as the grand marshal for the event that opened the 2020 season. And Monday, the president offered an opinion on a recent incident involving NASCAR and driver Bubba Wallace, who is Black.
Two weeks after NASCAR announced that a noose was found in the garage stall of Wallace’s No. 43 team at Talladega Superspeedway, and a subsequent FBI investigation determined that the act was not a hate crime, Trump tweeted: “Has @BubbaWallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX? That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!”
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The end of the tweet referred to NASCAR’s June 10 ban of the Confederate flag at races, a decision prompted by Wallace that the sanctioning body said it will enforce to make fans of all races and ethnicities feel comfortable at NASCAR events.
But the ban of the Confederate flag and what happened at Talladega have not caused NASCAR’s “lowest ratings EVER!” as Trump claimed. According to FOX Sports, NASCAR viewership on the FOX networks is up eight percent since returning from its coronavirus-related hiatus on May 17.
Despite numerous delays and postponements due to inclement weather since the sport returned amid the pandemic, television viewership and Nielsen ratings have not consistently dropped, nor have any changes been in direct correlation with the flag ban. Instead, Sunday’s Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on NBC earned a 2.67 rating and 4.34 million viewers, according to NBC Sports. That viewership number is up 46 percent from last year’s Brickyard 400 race, which aired in September at the same time as NFL games. It was the second-most viewed NASCAR race since the sport returned from hiatus due to the Pandemic. (NASCAR’s return race at Darlington averaged 6.32 million viewers.)
After the ban was announced the morning before NASCAR’s Cup Series race at Martinsville, television ratings on FS1 increased 16 percent compared to previous weeknight NASCAR Cup Race at Charlotte, according to FOX Sports. The second race at Charlotte was the lowest-rated NASCAR Cup Series race of the season — a mid-week event postponed for inclement weather. Inclement weather also pushed Talladega from Sunday to Monday, and it was still the most-watched Monday NASCAR race since 2014 (other than the Daytona 500).
Trump’s claim of a hoax contradicted information from NASCAR. In the wake of the FBI’s findings, NASCAR president Steve Phelps repeatedly said that the discovery of the noose incident was not Wallace’s fault, nor was it a “hoax.”
“Bubba Wallace and the 43 team had nothing to do with this,” Phelps said after the investigation concluded. “Bubba Wallace has done nothing but represent this sport with courage, class and dignity. It is offensive seeing anyone suggest otherwise, and frankly it’s further evidence as to how far we still need to go as a society.”
Phelps said that the driver had no knowledge of the pull rope tied like a noose until Phelps told Wallace about it himself, after NASCAR security inspected the entire garage area and officials discussed next steps.
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But on Monday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany doubled down on the president’s stance on Fox News when asked about Wallace. McEnany compared the “allegations and the rush to judgement” with the case of Jussie Smollett, an actor who claimed he was the victim of a hate crime last year.
“When you level false charges, you not only slander me, you slander the American people,” McEnany said, reading a statement from Trump.
Monday afternoon, NASCAR issued the following statement in response to Trump’s tweet:
“We are proud to have Bubba Wallace in the NASCAR family and we commend his courage and leadership. NASCAR continues to stand tall with Bubba, our competitors and everyone who makes our sport welcoming and inclusive for all racing fans.”
Wallace also responded on Twitter Monday afternoon with a note to “the next generation and little ones following my foot steps..” that focused on overcoming “the haters” with “love.”
“Love should come naturally as people are TAUGHT to hate,” Wallace tweeted. “Even when it’s HATE from the POTUS..Love wins.”
Cup Series rookie Tyler Reddick, driver of the No. 8 car, who was one of the first drivers to tweet his support for the “Black Lives Matter” movement amid nationwide protests for racial justice, tweeted in response to Trump on Monday morning.
“We don’t need an apology,” Reddick tweeted. “We did what was right and we will do just fine without your support.”
The tweet was deleted shortly thereafter and Reddick announced that his call for NASCAR SiriusXM on Monday would be “rescheduled,” according to FOX Sports. Seven-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson, who helped organized the march around Wallace before the race at Talladega, tweeted a picture on Monday with Wallace’s car number and the hashtag #IStandWithBubba.
Go Fas Racing, a small team that fields the No. 32 Ford driven by Corey LaJoie, announced last week that the Patriots of America PAC had agreed to a nine-race deal with the team to support Trump’s reelection campaign. LaJoie drove a “Trump 2020” paint scheme Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
NASCAR TV RATINGS IN 2020
| Race | Date | VIEWERS | NIELSEN | NETWORK |
| Daytona 500 | Mon, Feb. 17* | 7.33 million | 4.4 | FOX |
| Las Vegas | Sun, Feb. 23 | 5.50 million | 3.2 | FOX |
| California | Sun, March 1 | 4.79 million | 2.9 | FOX |
| Phoenix | Sun, March 8 | 4.58 million | 2.7 | FOX |
| Darlington 1 | Sun, May 17 | 6.32 million | 3.7 | FOX |
| Darlington 2 | Wed, May 20 | 2.09 million | 1.2 | FS1 |
| Coca-Cola 600 | Sun, May 24 * | 3.96 million | 2.4 | FOX |
| Charlotte 2 | Thurs, May 28* | 1.51 million | 0.98 | FS1 |
| Bristol | Sun, May 31 | 1.7 million | 2.93 | FS1 |
| Atlanta | Sun, June 7 | 3.96 million | 2.5 | FOX |
| Martinsville | Wed, June 10 | 1.71 million | 1.14 | FS1 |
| Homestead-Miami | Sun, June 14* | 2.78 million | 1.75 | FOX |
| Talladega | Mon, June 22* | 3.36 million | 2.22 | FOX |
| Pocono 1 | Sat, June 27* | 2.57 million | 1.63 | FS1 |
| Pocono 2 | Sun, June 28* | 2.66 million | 1.62 | FS1 |
| Indianapolis | Sun, July 5* | 4.34 million | 2.67 | NBC |
It’s hardBruh I just start yelling at my dog all kinds of shit, I'm not gonna say shit online about how I really feel or they would come looking for me.
I hate whites
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NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace Booed, Crashes As Confederate Flags Fly In And Around Racetrack
NASCAR’s Cup Series All-Star Race was not a good one for Bubba Wallace. Appearing at a qualifier held on Wednesday in Bristol, Tennessee, Wallace was booed, then crashed into a wall. It was the first time a significant number of fans were present at a NASCAR race since the Confederate flag was...
I bet many of them didn't own confederate paraphernalia until NASCAR decided to ban them 
I figured this would happen eventually. I guess the noose incident, sped up the timeline. How dare he complain about a noose in his garage.
MAKE AMERIKKKA HATE AGAIN! 
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