{"id":543787,"date":"2026-03-18T04:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543787\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:29:08","slug":"nascar-issues-indefinite-suspension-to-daniel-dye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543787\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Issues Indefinite Suspension to Daniel Dye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Kaulig Racing driver Daniel Dye has been suspended indefinitely by NASCAR for violating the sanctioning body\u2019s member conduct guidelines.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">         Dye, who is 13th in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series standings, must undergo sensitivity training before he can be reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>Related Story<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">         The suspension occurred after Dye made homophobic remarks about Team Penske NTT IndyCar Series driver David Malukas during a live stream. In the live stream, Dye does an imitation and says, \u201cAs soon as I start doing a David Malukas gay voice, I get a gold so let\u2019s keep it going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">         In the rulebook\u2019s section detailing conduct guidelines, it states that NASCAR members \u201cmust not engage in behavior detrimental to the sport, including unsportsmanlike conduct, violent altercations, or discriminatory remarks.\u201d The section also outlines the disciplinary action that NASCAR can take for any conduct violations. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Dye posted a response on X:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-dynamic-svg=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/autoweek\/static\/images\/logos\/lettermark.de67f45.svg?primary=%2523000\" loading=\"lazy\" data-testid=\"dynamic-svg-base\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Lettermark\" class=\"css-7mevzh ev8dhu50\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A North Carolina native, Deb Williams is an award-winning motorsports journalist who is in her fourth decade covering auto racing. In addition to covering the sport for United Press International, she has written motorsports articles for several newspapers, magazines and websites including <a href=\"http:\/\/espnw.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">espnW.com<\/a>, USA Today, and The Charlotte Observer. Her awards include the American Motorsports Media Award of Excellence, two-time National Motorsports Press Association writer of the year, and two-time recipient of the Russ Catlin award. She also has won an award in the North Carolina Press Association\u2019s sports feature category.\u00a0 During her career, Deb has been managing editor of GT Motorsports magazine and was with Winston Cup Scene and NASCAR Winston Cup Scene for 18 years, serving as the publication\u2019s editor for 10 years. In 2024 she was inducted into the NMPA Hall of Fame.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaulig Racing driver Daniel Dye has been suspended indefinitely by NASCAR for violating the sanctioning body\u2019s member conduct&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,782,212125,784,1642,634,212124,82,183339],"class_list":["post-543787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-860a6b3e-e0bc-47e7-981a-605f36cbe95c","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-nascar","tag-shorttitle-nascar-issues-indefinite-suspension-to-daniel-dye","tag-sports","tag-subsection-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543787","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=543787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}