{"id":329949,"date":"2025-12-07T08:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/329949\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:32:10","slug":"former-nascar-star-michael-annett-dies-at-39-team-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/329949\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NASCAR star Michael Annett dies at 39, team says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/tag\/nascar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a> driver Michael Annett, who made 436 starts across the sport\u2019s three national series, has died at the age of 39, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/alladminv\/&lt;a%20href=\" https:=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.az<\/a>&#8220;&gt;News.Az reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/michael-annett-dies-nascar-ab513da59de4d20f8d10980b8bcfb4ff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AP News<\/a>. His former team, JR Motorsports, confirmed the news on social media. No cause of death has been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Annett raced primarily in the Xfinity Series, where he made 321 starts and earned his most notable victory in the 2019 season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway. He also claimed wins in the ARCA Menards Series at Talladega and Daytona earlier in his career.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Annett retired from racing in 2021 after sustaining a stress fracture in his leg. His career spanned more than a decade and included time with teams like JR Motorsports, Germain Racing, and Richard Petty Motorsports.<\/p>\n<p>Tributes have poured in from across the racing community, with NASCAR and former teammates praising his professionalism, determination and positive spirit. Fans and colleagues alike mourn the loss of a respected competitor and beloved figure in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Annett\u2019s passing has left the motorsport world in mourning as further details about his death are awaited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NASCAR driver Michael Annett, who made 436 starts across the sport\u2019s three national series, has died at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[145264,49,48,68358,1995,634,82,3305],"class_list":["post-329949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-annett","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dies","tag-former","tag-nascar","tag-sports","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329949","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=329949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}