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NASCAR’s Pride Tweet, Road America’s Future & Cheap Race Broadcasts

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Congratulations, everyone, we made it.

We survived the only weekend within the 2022 NASCAR schedule without a Cup Series race.

Given there was only a Camping World Truck Series race over the weekend, instead of one lengthy column this week, Iโ€™ve decided to tackle a variety of subjects Iโ€™ve been mulling recently in short bursts.

NASCARโ€™s Vague Pride Apology

Itโ€™s been three weeks since NASCARโ€™s Twitter account began June, which is Pride Month, with the following vague tweet acknowledging โ€œthat recent actions have not aligned with NASCARโ€™s mission to be a welcoming sport for all.โ€

We still donโ€™t know who or what NASCAR was seemingly going out of its way to apologize for.

It apparently warranted a tweet but wasnโ€™t important enough to be explicitly spelled out.

Though, we do have some idea what it was likely referring to, thanks to the Associated Pressโ€™ Jenna Fryer: the presence of Greg Abbott, Texasโ€™ anti-LGBTQ Republican Governor at NASCARโ€™s All-Star Race in May, where he waved the green flag to start the event.

Eight days after the tweet was posted, NASCAR president Steve Phelps was asked directly by FOX Sportsโ€™ Bob Pockrass what the tweet was referring to and why the tweet was necessary.

โ€œIโ€™ll just say, generally, we as a sport havenโ€™t been as a welcoming and inclusive to the LBGT community,โ€ Phelps said. โ€œWe want to be, right? So the efforts that weโ€™ve made with Hispanics and with African Americans, this is another important group that we want to reach out to. We want our sport to be as welcoming and inclusive as it can be. And thatโ€™s what race fans, you know, our existing fans are primarily, not all, they want to share this sport with others, they do. Whether itโ€™s someoneโ€™s sexual orientation or the color of their skin or whatever that might be, itโ€™s immaterial. Itโ€™s…

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