managed a team fielding the likes of Jeff Burton, Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon, and Annett over a lengthy career before dying earlier this year.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cNASCAR is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of former NASCAR driver Michael Annett,\u201d NASCAR said in a statement following the news of Annett’s death.<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael was a respected competitor whose determination, professionalism, and positive spirit were felt by everyone in the garage. Throughout his career, he represented our sport with integrity and the passion of a true racer. NASCAR extends its condolences to Michael\u2019s family and many friends.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keselowski also left a warm message for Annett’s family. I remember this day vividly. Michael was an up and comer at the same time I was and he was looking really good,” he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“In the end, Life took us different paths and all of us who knew him and the talent he had are sad to see him go, but glad he is no longer suffering. #RIPMichael.”<\/p>\n
DON’T MISS:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Annett’s career highlight came in 2019, when he captured the 2019 NASCAR Racing Experience 300 at the Daytona Motor Speedway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His best single-race finish in the Cup Series was a 13th-place showing. Annett finished in the top 10 of the Xfinity Series standings on three occasions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series driver Michael Annett passed away on Friday at the age of 39.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[145286,49,48,42482,2332,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-329370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-bill-davis","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-michael-annett","12":"tag-motorsport-section","13":"tag-nascar","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329370","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=329370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}