{"id":23629,"date":"2020-04-13T13:44:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=23629"},"modified":"2020-04-13T13:44:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T17:44:24","slug":"kyle-larson-issues-apology-following-iracing-gaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2020\/04\/13\/kyle-larson-issues-apology-following-iracing-gaffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Larson issues apology following iRacing gaffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23627\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/kylelarson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/kylelarson.jpg 625w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/kylelarson-300x163.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/kylelarson-594x323.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR driver Kyle Larson has issued an apology following his gaffe during Sunday night&#8217;s iRacing charity event.<\/p>\n<p>Larson could be heard saying &#8220;can you hear me? Hey, n**.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Already the 27-year-old has been suspended without pay from Chip Ganassi Racing where he drives the No. 42 car in the NASCAR Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B-7WRAQFZah\/<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to say I&#8217;m sorry. Last night, I made a mistake and said the word that should never, ever be said,&#8221; he said in the video statement. &#8220;There&#8217;s no excuse for that. I wasn&#8217;t raised that way. It&#8217;s just an awful thing to say and I feel very sorry for my family, my friends, my partners, the NASCAR community and, especially, the African American community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand the damage is probably unrepairable and I own up to that. I just want to let you all know how sorry I am. I hope everybody is staying safe during these crazy times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Credit One Bank, one of Larson&#8217;s sponsors already has issued a statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Statement from Credit One Bank regarding the actions of Kyle Larson. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qVcuoXsTCZ\">pic.twitter.com\/qVcuoXsTCZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Credit One Bank (@CreditOneBank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CreditOneBank\/status\/1249746830432313347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR driver Kyle Larson has issued an apology following his gaffe during Sunday night&#8217;s iRacing charity event. Larson could be heard saying &#8220;can you hear me? Hey, n**.&#8221; Already the 27-year-old has been suspended without pay from Chip Ganassi Racing where he drives the No. 42 car in the NASCAR Cup Series. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B-7WRAQFZah\/ &#8220;I just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,773,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-23629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-kyle-larson","12":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23629"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}