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Tom Cruise expressed interest in running a NASCAR race.<\/p>\n
Tom Cruise has expressed interest in running a legit NASCAR<\/a> race. The 64-year-old actor is set to star in the \u201cDays of Thunder<\/a> 2\u2033 movie, a sequel to the hit racing movie released in 1990.<\/p>\n In order to make the sequel as authentic as possible, the well-renowned actor is interested in competing in a ARCA Menards Series race. Cruise\u2019s interest in getting behind the wheel was revealed by NASCAR CEO Steve O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n Although it would make for quite the story, O\u2019Donnell is not sure yet if such a thing can happen.<\/p>\n Tom Cruise Expressed Interest in Running ARCA Race, Per Steve O\u2019Donnell<\/p>\n O\u2019Donnell\u2019s comments regarding Cruise\u2019s desire to run a legitimate NASCAR race was brought up during the Front Office Sports \u201cTuned In\u201d media day. Brought to light on X by motorsports reporter Jeff Gluck,<\/p>\n O\u2019Donnell is uncertain that Cruise could actually compete given he has never raced in any form of motorsports before. Cruise\u2019s itch to get behind the wheel is wanting to make \u201cDays of Thunder 2\u201d seem as real as can be.<\/p>\n \u201cSteve O\u2019Donnell said at the Front Office Sports \u201cTuned In\u201d media event today that Tom Cruise has an expressed an interest in running an ARCA race. \u2018Tom wanted to go race in one of those. I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s going to happen. But he wants (Days of Thunder) to be as authentic as it can be,’\u201d Gluck wrote via X<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tJohn Breeden<\/a> John Breeden is a NASCAR contributor at Heavy Sports. He has five years of sports journalism experience. He graduated from James Madison University in May of 2022 with a degree in media arts and design. John is also a sports reporter for the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Previously, John was a sports writer for JMU’s The Breeze and a NASCAR content writer for Sportskeeda. More about John Breeden<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Tom Cruise expressed interest in running a NASCAR race. Tom Cruise has expressed interest in running a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-932148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932148","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=932148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}