{"id":514084,"date":"2026-03-04T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514084\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:46:18","slug":"shock-as-nascar-driver-chase-pistone-dies-at-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514084\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock as Nascar Driver Chase Pistone Dies at 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Former NASCAR driver Chase Pistone has died of an unknown cause at the age of 42. His brother, Nick Pistone, <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/18Q263b4JK\/&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/18Q263b4JK\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/18Q263b4JK\/\">announced the death<\/a> on Facebook on Monday, posting an image of Chase as a child and another in his NASCAR uniform. \u201cWell My young brother and best friend is gone. I\u2019m broken hearted and don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever get over this,\u201d he wrote. \u201dI miss you Chase already and I hope you are in a better place. I love you and I miss you so much already!!!!!!!,\u201d Nick wrote. Nick did not specify Chase\u2019s cause of death on the Facebook post, but he <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/x.com\/legendsnation\/status\/2028566207427702963?s=20&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/legendsnation\/status\/2028566207427702963?s=20\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/legendsnation\/status\/2028566207427702963?s=20\">requested<\/a> the industry news outlet, Legends Nation, to post the Suicide &amp; Crisis Lifeline after speaking to them about his younger brother\u2019s passing. The 988 number has counselors on call for people struggling with mental health issues. The racer had an early start to a fruitful career, beginning at age six, following in the footsteps of his highly decorated grandfather, \u201cTiger\u201d Tom Pistone. Chase competed in NASCAR until 2014. He won the Summer Shootout Championship Legends four times and won more than 80 feature events in Legends, Late Model, and USAR competitions. \u201cChase was not only a wheelman in Legends and Late Models, but his Chase Pistone Inc. Legends team was a force to be reckoned with every time they showed up at a track, and they usually walked away with the winner\u2019s trophy,\u201d the Legends Nation post read. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by dialing or texting 988.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-it-at-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/chase-pistone-former-nascar-driver-dead-at-42-11918119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read it at People<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NASCAR driver Chase Pistone has died of an unknown cause at the age of 42. His brother,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,428,634,82],"class_list":["post-514084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-death","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514084","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=514084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}