{"id":300217,"date":"2025-11-22T19:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300217\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T19:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:19:07","slug":"nascar-commish-called-richard-childress-a-stupid-redneck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300217\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR commish called Richard Childress a &#8216;stupid redneck&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1969, a then-unknown native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, made his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series debut in the infamous inaugural race at Talladega Superspeedway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over 56 years later, Richard Childress, 80, is one of the most decorated individuals in NASCAR history. After competing in 285 Cup Series races as a driver, Childress has won six Cup Series championships and six NASCAR O&#8217;Reilly Auto Parts Series (formerly the NASCAR Xfinity Series) championships as a car owner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Childress has devoted nearly 60 years of his life to NASCAR racing and was even inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why text messages that surfaced on Friday as a part of the anti-trust case between 23XI Racing\/Front Row Motorsports and NASCAR are so disheartening to read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the messages, NASCAR commissioner Steve Phelps called Childress a &#8220;stupid redneck who owes his entire fortune to NASCAR&#8221; and said that Childress needed &#8220;to be taken out back and flogged&#8221; after an August 2023 interview on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio where Childress expressed doubts that NASCAR&#8217;s new media deal would be an overall positive.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1969, a then-unknown native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, made his NASCAR Cup Series debut in the infamous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-300217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}