{"id":73368,"date":"2020-06-11T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T20:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=73368"},"modified":"2020-06-11T13:31:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T20:31:49","slug":"nascar-truck-series-driver-threatens-to-quit-over-confederate-flag-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/nascar-truck-series-driver-threatens-to-quit-over-confederate-flag-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Truck Series Driver Threatens To Quit Over Confederate Flag Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"73369\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/nascar-truck-series-driver-threatens-to-quit-over-confederate-flag-ban\/nintchdbpict000588711403\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000588711403-scaled-e1591907451248.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,340\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NINTCHDBPICT000588711403\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000588711403-scaled-e1591907451248-300x159.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000588711403-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73369 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000588711403-scaled-e1591907451248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000588711403-scaled-e1591907451248.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000588711403-scaled-e1591907451248-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000588711403-scaled-e1591907451248-638x340.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With NASCAR drivers standing in solidarity to end racial prejudice, one driver decided to go a different way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-element__p\">After NASCAR banned the display of confederate flags from its events, NASCAR Truck Series driver Ray Ciccarelli, announced the end of his career with a social media post on Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NASCAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NASCAR<\/a> Truck driver\/owner Ray Ciccarelli says he won\u2019t continue in NASCAR after this year. He cited his reasons in this Facebook post: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NKrgPZFvyJ\">pic.twitter.com\/NKrgPZFvyJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Haverlin (@JohnHaverlin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnHaverlin\/status\/1270836283527647233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if other drivers will join Cicarelli. One thing is for certain, the line in the sand has clearly been drawn by NASCAR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-element__p\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>With NASCAR drivers standing in solidarity to end racial prejudice, one driver decided to go a different way.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":73369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3424,3470,22],"tags":[2052,127,41,1632,7856,2030],"class_list":["post-73368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-events","tag-nascar","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-ray-cicarelli","tag-trucks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000588711403-scaled-e1591907451248.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-j5m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73370,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73368\/revisions\/73370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}