{"id":330441,"date":"2025-12-07T14:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330441\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:22:09","slug":"former-nascar-driver-michael-annett-dies-at-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330441\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NASCAR driver Michael Annett dies at 39"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Annett, who competed in NASCAR\u2019s three national series, has died at 39, according to CBS Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014 Michael Annett, a former NASCAR driver who made 436 combined starts across the sport\u2019s three national touring series, has died. He was 39, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/michael-annett-nascar-racing-star-dies-at-39\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">according to CBS Saturday<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No cause of death was announced.<\/p>\n<p>JR Motorsports, one of Annett\u2019s former teams, announced his passing on social media Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news-media\/2025\/12\/06\/nascar-xfinity-series-2025-season-in-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NASCAR<\/a> confirmed the news on its website, calling Annett a \u201crespected competitor, whose determination, professionalism, and positive spirit were felt by everyone in the garage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Annett made 321 starts in the Xfinity Series, 158 of them with JR Motorsports. He joined the team in 2017 when co-owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. signed him, and he remained a key member until retiring in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Among his career highlights, Annett won the 2019 season-opening Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway. A stress fracture in his leg forced him to miss parts of the 2021 season.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Annett was also a two-time winner in the ARCA Menards Series, taking victories at Talladega Superspeedway in 2007 and the Daytona season opener in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Annett, who competed in NASCAR\u2019s three national series, has died at 39, according to CBS Saturday. DES&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-330441","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\/330441","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=330441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}