MTV News<\/a>.<\/p>\n“I was there to do a fish-out-of-water story about going to NASCAR and having a wild, crazy weekend. And, we were doing interviews with many of the drivers, and I was on the way to another interview \u0014 we were looking for [driver] Johanna Long’s trailer \u0014 and the NASCAR publicist called Mr. Clements over and asked him for help finding her,” Beckerman said.<\/p>\n
“He walked us toward where she was, and on the way over, I explained to him that Guy Code is rules for guys, how you treat your friends, how you treat your ladies, things like that. I was there to do a humor piece, so I asked him what would be Guy Code for race car drivers, and he blurted out [a phrase that used the n-word].” Beckerman said that Clements didn’t use the phrase in reference to any specific driver, but was instead illustrating that “if you drive roughly, you’ll be treated roughly.”<\/p>\n
While Beckerman wrote the quote down he opted not to use it since the blog he was writing for ‘Guy Code’ is meant to be humorous.<\/p>\n
“The fact is that NASCAR made this a national story, and then Clements explained a bit of what he said to ESPN … I never wanted to be part of the story.”<\/p>\n
Clements finished 33rd at Daytona after breaking an oil line.<\/p>\n
He will not race his No. 51 car at Phoenix due to his suspension. Charles Lewandoski<\/s> Ryan Sieg will drive his car instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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