{"id":23635,"date":"2020-04-13T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T21:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=23635"},"modified":"2020-04-13T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T21:49:08","slug":"kyle-larson-loses-mcdonalds-sponsorship-after-iracing-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2020\/04\/13\/kyle-larson-loses-mcdonalds-sponsorship-after-iracing-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Larson loses McDonald&#8217;s sponsorship after iRacing event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23637\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/larsonmcdonalds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/larsonmcdonalds.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/larsonmcdonalds-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/larsonmcdonalds-594x396.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/larsonmcdonalds-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/larsonmcdonalds-696x464.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/larsonmcdonalds-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Larson has lost sponsorship from both Credit One Bank and McDonald&#8217;s following his comments in an iRacing charity race.<\/p>\n<p>Larson was having trouble with communication with his spotter which prompted him to say \u201ccan you hear me? Hey, n**.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Almost immediately fellow drivers commented that he was speaking to all. Credit One Bank announced Monday afternoon they were terminating their sponsorship of Larson with McDonald&#8217;s following soon after.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23636\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/mcdonalds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"797\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/mcdonalds.jpg 797w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/mcdonalds-300x89.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/mcdonalds-594x176.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/mcdonalds-768x227.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/04\/mcdonalds-696x206.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chip Ganassi Racing suspended the driver of the No. 42 Chevrolet Camaro without pay on Monday and Larson released an apology to social media. NASCAR announced that Larson has been suspended indefinitely and will need to attend sensitivity training.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B-7WRAQFZah\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Larson has lost sponsorship from both Credit One Bank and McDonald&#8217;s following his comments in an iRacing charity race. Larson was having trouble with communication with his spotter which prompted him to say \u201ccan you hear me? Hey, n**.\u201d Almost immediately fellow drivers commented that he was speaking to all. Credit One Bank announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23637,"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-23635","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\/23635","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=23635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23635"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}