{"id":51324,"date":"2025-08-07T05:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51324\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T05:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:50:07","slug":"nascar-star-says-talladega-nights-did-not-do-the-sport-any-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51324\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR star says Talladega Nights &#8216;did not do the sport any good&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of a 90-minute conversation with NFL legend Julian Edelmen, which took place on the former New England Patriot\u2019s podcast, Kyle Larson did not mince words over his feelings about Talladega Nights.<\/p>\n<p>First, with an hour and a half of runtime, the conversation was wide-ranging but took a turn towards movies with Larson naming Days of Thunder as his favorite film about NASCAR. The 1990 film starring Tom Cruise and directed by Tony Scott is a cult classic amongst Stock Car fans even amidst some less than accurate stereotypes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>However, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby staring Will Ferrell and written by Adam McKay is not something the 2021 Cup Series champion holds in high regard whatsoever,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, I like the movie,&#8221; said Larson. &#8220;I think it did not do anything good for our sport. I think it turned our sport into a joke, unfortunately. But that is one of the most popular racing movies &#8230; I\u00a0feel like the rest of the world &#8212; that&#8217;s what they think about our sport now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Larson prefers serious motorsports media like the Ayrton Senna documentary, which he called \u2018a great movie\u2019 and \u2018really good.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His teammate, two-time Daytona 500 winner William Byron, echoed his sentiments.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">100%. Should not be the first thing people think of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0RAE8bjQcF\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/0RAE8bjQcF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 William Byron (@WilliamByron) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WilliamByron\/status\/1953120289379754315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">August 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the course of a 90-minute conversation with NFL legend Julian Edelmen, which took place on the former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-51324","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\/51324","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=51324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}