Day: April 14, 2020

NASCAR’s Larson fired after sponsors walk over N-word slurNASCAR’s Larson fired after sponsors walk over N-word slur

As sponsor after sponsor dropped Kyle Larson after he used a racial slur during a live-streamed virtual race, his NASCAR team owner was backed into a corner. Chip Ganassi could let McDonald’s and Credit One Bank and Chevrolet pull their funding and bankrupt his team or he could cut ties with the driver he had plucked from sprint car racing and groomed into an elite stock car driver. It was essentially out of Ganassi’s hands.

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