{"id":1992448,"date":"2023-08-06T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T16:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-bans-noah-gragson-from-cup-series-over-liked-instagram-post\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T12:51:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T16:51:01","slug":"nascar-bans-noah-gragson-from-cup-series-over-liked-instagram-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-bans-noah-gragson-from-cup-series-over-liked-instagram-post\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR bars Noah Gragson from Cup series for Instagram post."},"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\">20<\/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-bans-noah-gragson-from-cup-series-over-liked-instagram-post%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=1992448&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 \u2063Driver Noah Gragson Suspended Indefinitely for Social Media\u200c Activity<\/h2>\n<p>NASCAR driver Noah Gragson&#8217;s racing career took a hit when he was \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-greg-abbott-texas-must-fight-federal-overreach-biden-showing-extreme-hostility-to-state\/\" title=\"Gov. Greg Abbott: Texas Must Fight \u2018Federal Overreach\u2019; Biden Showing \u2018Extreme Hostility\u2019 To State\">indefinitely suspended<\/a> from the Cup\u200d Series due to his controversial Instagram activity. The\u200b 25-year-old driver had liked a meme that made fun of George Floyd, \u2064a \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-bans-noah-gragson-from-cup-series-over-liked-instagram-post\/\" title=\"NASCAR bars Noah Gragson from Cup series for Instagram post.\">black man tragically killed<\/a>\u200c by a Minneapolis police officer in \u200b2020.\u200d Screenshots of this\u200d action quickly circulated, \u2064leading to Gragson&#8217;s suspension by Legacy Motor Club, his team.<\/p>\n<p>Gragson, \u200dwho boasts over 120,000 followers\u200b on Instagram, \u2062has\u200d not posted \u200con the platform for over a year. In response to the incident, he expressed his disappointment in himself for not being more mindful of his actions on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a>. He acknowledged the seriousness of the situation and emphasized his commitment to treating everyone equally, regardless of their background. Gragson admitted his mistake\u200d and \u2063took full responsibility \u2064for it.<\/p>\n<h3>Team Changes\u200d and Suspension Reason<\/h3>\n<p>The Cup team of Chevrolets Legacy \u200bMotor \u200bClub, previously known \u2064as Petty GMS, made some adjustments following Gragson&#8217;s suspension. His teammates, including Jimmie Jones driving no. 84 and Erik Jones\u2063 driving with Petty&#8217;s original No. 43, will continue racing. However, Josh Berry, a talented 32-year-old \u2064driver, will take over \u200bGragson&#8217;s \u2064former no. 42 car.<\/p>\n<p>Legacy Motor Club cited Gragson&#8217;s actions as a violation of their team&#8217;s values, leading to his\u200c suspension. NASCAR fully supported this decision\u2062 and confirmed that\u2063 Gragson&#8217;s\u200b conduct on social media breached the Member Conduct\u2063 section of the \u200d2023 NASCAR Rule Book. As a result, he\u2064 has been placed under \u200dindefinite suspension.<\/p>\n<h3>On-Track Performance<\/h3>\n<p>Although Gragson currently\u200c holds the 33rd position in points, \u200bhe has yet to achieve\u2064 a top-10 finish this\u200c season. \u2062In contrast, Josh Berry, who\u2064 will \u200dbe racing in Michigan on Sunday, is ranked fifth and has already secured eight top-five finishes in the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p>For more details\u200d on this story, <a href=\"link-to-article\">click\u200d here<\/a> to \u200dread the full article from The \u2062Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR driver Noah Gragson, 25, faces an indefinite suspension from the Cup Series due to his Instagram activity. Gragson liked a meme mocking George Floyd, a black man tragically killed by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. Screenshots captured this, leading to his suspension by Legacy Motor Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1992449,"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":[],"class_list":["post-1992448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1992448","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=1992448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}