{"id":51584,"date":"2025-08-07T08:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51584\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:20:06","slug":"nascar-star-says-talladega-nights-did-not-do-the-sport-any-good-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51584\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR star says Talladega Nights ‘did not do the sport any good’"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR star says Talladega Nights ‘did not do the sport any good’<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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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

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

“I mean, I like the movie,” said Larson. “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 … I\u00a0feel like the rest of the world — that’s what they think about our sport now.”<\/p>\n

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Larson prefers serious motorsports media like the Ayrton Senna documentary, which he called \u2018a great movie\u2019 and \u2018really good.\u2019<\/p>\n

His teammate, two-time Daytona 500 winner William Byron, echoed his sentiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR star says Talladega Nights ‘did not do the sport any good’ originally appeared on The Sporting News…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,35135,4386,634,82,34667,9588,4382],"class_list":{"0":"post-51584","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-julian-edelmen","11":"tag-kyle-larson","12":"tag-nascar","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-talladega-nights","15":"tag-tom-cruise","16":"tag-william-byron"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51584","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=51584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}