Bubba Wallace was not happy on Sunday with another driver.
The 23XI Racing driver confronted veteran driver Kyle Larson during Sunday’s race where cameras caught Wallace shoving Larson several times before walking away.
Larson clearly wanted nothing to do with that confrontation.
Here’s why he was upset:
Back in 2020, NASCAR lifted a suspension of driver Kyle Larson, after he used a racial slur in a virtual racing event.
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Chip Ganassi Racing fired Larson he used the n-word before an online race in what he thought was a private channel. He said that the slur was used casually when he was around a group on an overseas trip and that “I was ignorant enough to think it was OK” — but he also wrote that was no excuse.
“The first lesson: The N-word is not mine to use. It cannot be part of my vocabulary. The history of the word is connected to slavery, injustice and trauma that is deep and has gone on for far too long,” Larson wrote.
