{"id":337191,"date":"2025-12-10T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337191\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:03:08","slug":"nascar-team-member-from-legacy-motor-club-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337191\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR team member from Legacy Motor Club has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick \u201cOtis\u201d Hodges has passed away<\/p>\n<p>Legacy Motor Club is a three-charter team in the NASCAR Cup Series co-owned by 7-time champion Jimmie Johnson. The third charter was acquired in late 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Rick \u201cOtis\u201d Hodges, a hauler driver for the team has passed away. He\u2019s worked within the industry for many years but only recently joined Legacy MC.<\/p>\n<p>View the statement from the team below. <\/p>\n<p>Legacy Motor Club statement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re extremely saddened by the loss of our\u00a0LEGACY MOTOR CLUB teammate Rick \u201cOtis\u201d Hodges,\u201d the team opened in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOtis worked in our sport for many years and joined LEGACY last year as one of our truck drivers. He was such a great person to be around and we were all lucky to call him a friend. Otis will be deeply missed by all who had the privilege of knowing him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease keep his wife, Londa, the entire Hodges family and all his co-workers and friends in your prayers during this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Links<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legacymotorclub.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legacy Motor Club<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rick \u201cOtis\u201d Hodges has passed away Legacy Motor Club is a three-charter team in the NASCAR Cup Series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,3140,19116,634,3628,8354,10031,82],"class_list":["post-337191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cup-series","tag-legacy-motor-club","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-ncs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337191","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=337191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}