{"id":68011,"date":"2025-08-14T03:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68011\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:10:07","slug":"nascar-makes-decision-on-celebrations-after-connor-zilisch-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68011\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR makes decision on celebrations after Connor Zilisch fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of NASCAR&#8217;s brightest young stars in Connor Zilisch could miss time after falling in Victory Lane following his victory in the Aug. 9 NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Watkins Glen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zilisch slipped on the door of his No. 88 Chevrolet before suffering a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\/articles\/connor_zilisch_hospitalized_after_hard_fall_in_victory_lane_at_watkins_glen\/s1_13132_42566095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hard fall\u00a0<\/a>in Victory Lane and breaking his collarbone. He underwent successful surgery on Tuesday, with a timetable for his return yet to be announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even in light of the viral incident, NASCAR will not restrict drivers from celebrating in a certain way moving forward, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news-media\/2025\/08\/13\/hauler-talk-nascar-has-no-plans-to-restrict-victory-lane-celebrations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">per NASCAR&#8217;s<\/a> Mike Forde.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Drivers have long climbed on the roof or door of their vehicles on the frontstretch and in Victory Lane to celebrate victories, but accidents stemming from that action are rare.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After winning the Cup Series race at Watkins Glen on Aug. 10, Shane van Gisbergen \u2014 who will likely be Zilisch&#8217;s Cup Series teammate at Trackhouse Racing in 2026 \u2014 carefully climbed out of his No. 88 Chevrolet \u2014 something he does regularly, not just in response to Zilisch&#8217;s fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of NASCAR&#8217;s brightest young stars in Connor Zilisch could miss time after falling in Victory Lane following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-68011","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\/68011","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=68011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}