{"id":628835,"date":"2026-04-26T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628835\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:02:10","slug":"jason-kelces-one-off-appearance-on-a-nascar-pit-crew-results-in-a-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628835\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Kelce&#8217;s One-Off Appearance on a NASCAR Pit Crew Results in a Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no shortage of former college and professional sports players on NASCAR pit crews, as the physicality and team-oriented nature of their sports play into the systems they were taught during their decade of schooling and time in the pros.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday afternoon, Jason Kelce, an unexpected former athlete-turned pit crew member, took the baton for Hendrick Motorsports&#8217; No. 17 team. Kelce was given the job of sign holder to help Corey Day find his way to the pits at Talladega Superspeedway.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kelce retired from the NFL following the 2024 season, with 5 Pro Bowl appearances and one Super Bowl win.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadandtrack.com\/news\/a71127421\/corey-day-has-his-day-wins-career-first-oreilly-auto-parts-race-talladega\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Day was finally rewarded with his first O&#039;Reilly Auto Parts Series win;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Day was finally rewarded with his first O&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Day was finally rewarded with his first O&#8217;Reilly Auto Parts Series win<\/a> when we survived a three-wide battle with Sam Mayer and Sheldon Creed, ultimately beating Brent Crews and Creed to the line.<\/p>\n<p>Post race, when asked by Mamba Smith what he was doing after his first NASCAR win, akin to the quintessential post-Super Bowl question. Kelce, along with the pit crew, replied that he&#8217;s going to the Boulevard (instead of Disneyland.)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>You Might Also Like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no shortage of former college and professional sports players on NASCAR pit crews, as the physicality and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,4384,5309,634,152301,82,98034],"class_list":["post-628835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hendrick-motorsports","tag-jason-kelce","tag-nascar","tag-sheldon-creed","tag-sports","tag-talladega-superspeedway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628835","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=628835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}