{"id":1936980,"date":"2023-05-24T11:03:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T15:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-hands-down-decision-on-bubba-wallace-obscene-gesture-during-interview\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T15:06:15","slug":"nascar-hands-down-decision-on-bubba-wallace-obscene-gesture-during-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-hands-down-decision-on-bubba-wallace-obscene-gesture-during-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR decides on Bubba Wallace&#8217;s obscene gesture in interview."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnascar-hands-down-decision-on-bubba-wallace-obscene-gesture-during-interview%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1936980&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace Avoids Penalty for Obscene Gesture<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>During a Fox Sports interview following Wallace\u2019s second<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reading-the-tea-leaves-who-do-conservatives-want-for-2024\/\" title=\"Reading the Tea Leaves: Who Do Conservatives Want for 2024?\">-place finish<\/a> in the NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, on Sunday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/macho-fails-to-move\/\" title=\"\u2018Macho\u2019 Fails To Move\">race car driver<\/a> was seen gesturing with an extended middle finger.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>NASCAR put the brakes on assessing a penalty to driver Bubba Wallace after he made an obscene gesture during an interview on Sunday. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-president-trump-met-with-sidney-powell-and-general-flynn-in-oval-office-discussed-deploying-military-naming-powell-as-special-counsel-on-election-fraud\/\" title=\"REPORT: President Trump Met with Sidney Powell and General Flynn in Oval Office \u2013 Discussed Deploying Military, Naming Powell as Special Counsel on Election Fraud\">reportedly suggested<\/a> the gesture was in response to a breach of his team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-whisked-from-beach-house-after-small-plane-violates-airspace\/\" title=\"Biden Whisked From Beach House After Small Plane Violates Airspace\">radio channel<\/a> that featured an unidentified person telling Wallace, who is NASCAR\u2019s only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-hands-down-decision-on-bubba-wallace-obscene-gesture-during-interview\/\" title=\"NASCAR decides on Bubba Wallace's obscene gesture in interview.\">current black driver competing<\/a> in its Cup Series, to \u201cgo back to where you came from you a******.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is NASCAR\u2019s understanding he was gesturing to a friend and while inappropriate, it wasn\u2019t done malicious[ly],\u201d NASCAR said after looking into the situation, according to a report.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Within the sport of race car driving, Wallace has been a leading voice on racial matters, contributing to NASCAR\u2019s ban on the Confederate flag at races in 2020. Wallace also drew attention in 2020 for contending that a noose was placed in his garage. Those claims have since been proven to be false.<\/p>\n<p>Following his back-to-back top-five finishes, Wallace currently ranks 15th in the Cup Series standings.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Articles:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/sports\/nascar-bubba-wallace-return-fight-intentional-wreck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace Returns to Fight After Intentional Wreck<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/this-week-critical-window-debt-ceiling-negotiations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Make or Break: This Week into Next is Critical Window for Debt Ceiling Negotiations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here to Read More from the Washington Examiner<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>obscene hand gesture. NASCAR has decided not to penalize Bubba Wallace for his actions during the interview after his second-place finish in the NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1936981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[9264,11258,10541,6234,10072,18611,27373],"class_list":["post-1936980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-bubba","tag-decides","tag-gesture","tag-interview","tag-nascar","tag-obscene","tag-wallaces"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}