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Professional Race Car Driver Loses Sponsor After Quitting Virtual Race and Another Possibly Loses His Career for Dropping the N-Word During a Livestream

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 We live in strange times

 

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NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace rage quit a virtual race on Sunday, offering a hearty “PEACE OUUUUUUUUUUUT” upon his exit from the server.

But Wallace wasn’t just having some fun on Twitch. He was competing in a serious race, and might have cost himself a little money by exiting early.

Most sports leagues have been limited to making content out of old games during the Covid-19 pandemic, but NASCAR has been able to take things a step further with iRacing. Some current and former drivers with home simulator setups are competing in the eNASCAR Pro Invitational series, with races airing on FOX Sports and the network’s NASCAR commentators calling races.

Sunday’s race on the virtual version of Bristol Motor Speedway featured as much aggressive, contact-filled driving as the real thing. And from the broadcast camera angles, the wreck that caused Wallace to log off looked very much to be Clint Bowyer’s fault

One of Wallace’s sponsors doesn’t seem to care, though. Notice the “BLUE-EMU” overlay on Wallace’s screen? It’s a company that makes pain relief products, and it told Wallace that it was terminating his sponsorship over Twitter.

BLUE-EMU sponsored Wallace’s team in actual NASCAR as well, but is going to be dropping its sponsorship of his team altogether, in both physical and virtual racing. Apparently it’s not just a video game!

 

EDIT: Updated the title to reflect @Bacon's post :lol:

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NASCAR Driver Kyle Larson is a Real Gamer. Says it with the Hard R.

Video: https://livestreamfails.com/post/77970

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A Twitch livestream broadcast NASCAR driver Kyle Larson using the N-word over the drivers' radio during a virtual race on Sunday night, after which the radio chat erupted in shock. 

 

Larson, a driver for Chip Ganassi Racing in the top-level NASCAR Cup Series, appeared unaware that his radio communication was being broadcast to all drivers in the virtual race session, as well as to Twitch viewers. 

 

"You can't hear me?" Larson said during the livestream. "Hey, n-----." 

 

"Hey Kyle, you're talking to everyone, bud," fellow NASCAR driver Anthony Alfredo responded, amid the yells of "Yikes," "Oh my gosh," and "No way did that just happen." 

 

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38 minutes ago, Bacon said:

NASCAR Driver Kyle Larson is a Real Gamer. Says it with the Hard R.

Video: https://livestreamfails.com/post/77970

 

:lol: I don't think they'll be continuing this little experiment :lol:

 

Edit: The driver is half Japanese so I expect we'll be hearing a bunch of "He CAN'T be racist because he's a minority."

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1 hour ago, skillzdadirecta said:

:lol: I don't think they'll be continuing this little experiment :lol:

 

Edit: The driver is half Japanese so I expect we'll be hearing a bunch of "He CAN'T be racist because he's a minority."

Doesn't he count as double racist? 1x for being Japanese racist and 1x for being a NASCAR driver.

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1 minute ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

How about a timeline where both of these stories are covered on SBNation and Business Insider?

How about a timeline where a dude named Kyle Larson is a half-Japanese racist Nascar driver and not an 80's jerk stealing John Cusack's girlfriend.

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I have watched a couple e-sports races and so far, this NASCAR driver bullshit has been the most drama. Disconnecting because you're salty is 100% a shitty gamer thing to do. The sponsor was right to cut that dude off. 

 

But Larson dropping the N-word is another level. For one, you know better. For two, it's iRacing or whatever, so there are cameras and mics everywhere. He deserves losing what he does for that. 

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I've been watching some of the F1 esports races. 

 

Right now a bunch of F1 drivers are really young, in their early 20s. Some of them had been streaming a lot before they got into F1, so they seemed to be well positioned to do well during this. The F1 races haven't been great unfortunately. Part of the problem is they have to use the Official F1 game, instead of iRacing, which seems like a better game. They also decided to turn off damage, which made people super aggressive. They also haven't been great at picking camera angles or integrating people's live streams into the race. Compared to traditional esports, they have a lot to learn about the production and broadcast side of things.

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On 4/13/2020 at 8:58 AM, Bloodporne said:

You mean a timeline where a dude named literally BUBBA isn't the one dropping the N-word? This is the most confusing part to me.

And then the Canadian-screen-name guy that instantly subscribed, like “Eh, that’s my type of give’r.”

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