{"id":426402,"date":"2026-01-22T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426402\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:48:09","slug":"richard-childress-responds-to-uncovered-texts-from-nascar-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426402\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Childress responds to uncovered texts from NASCAR trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR team owner Richard Childress responded to uncovered text messages<\/a> from former NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps<\/a>, saying that when \u201cguys call me a redneck, that\u2019s a badge I honorably wear.\u201d Childress, in an interview with Greensboro, N.C.-based WGHP-Fox, said, \u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of race fans that are good, ole solid rednecks.\u201d During NASCAR\u2019s legal battle with 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports<\/a>, texts from Phelps were revealed in which Phelps called the HOF team owner a \u201cstupid redneck.\u201d Phelps later stepped down as NASCAR commissioner. Childress said he has spoken with the France family and his goal is to \u201ctry to help them and everyone come together and build a stronger NASCAR sport.\u201d He said it is important not to forget the sport was built on \u201cpeople back in the day, standing up there, having a beer on top, cheering and screaming and hollering.\u201d He added, \u201cYou can\u2019t forget the young fans coming in. We\u2019ve got to have them to keep the sport going.\u201d As far as personal damage, Childress said, \u201cIf I tell you what I think now, you\u2019d probably be bleeping me out. So that is still to be carried on in the future, the personal attacks against me. I\u2019m like an old elephant, you don\u2019t forget\u201d (FOX8 Sports, 1\/21<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR team owner Richard Childress responded to uncovered text messages from former NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps, saying that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,12716,634,82],"class_list":["post-426402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-motorsports","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426402","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=426402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}