{"id":97317,"date":"2025-08-26T02:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/97317\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T02:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:56:07","slug":"nascar-crew-member-has-died-at-age-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/97317\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR crew member has died at age 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statement from the NASCAR team posted below<\/p>\n<p>Sad news from the NASCAR garage area.<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Yager has been a pit crew member at the NASCAR ranks since 2014. He was a former Daytona 500 winning crew member. <\/p>\n<p>Yager has died at an early age. The news was first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/tobychristie.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toby Christie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This season, he\u2019s worked on the No. 39 RSS Racing team via the NASCAR Xfinity Series. In addition, he\u2019s been working on the No. 88 for ThorSport Racing via the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.<\/p>\n<p>He has been the Jack Man for both teams. In years past, he\u2019s served many duties of the over-the-wall crew. <\/p>\n<p>As of now, there is currently very little information on his death. This post will be updated if more information becomes available. <\/p>\n<p>Yager was 35 years old. <\/p>\n<p>ThorSport Racing Statement<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, ThorSport Racing issued the following statement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the unexpected passing of our friend and teammate, Zachary Yager,\u201d ThorSport opened.<\/p>\n<p>They added, \u201cHe was an important part of our family, and our hearts are with his loved ones and community as we grieve this loss together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yager was not at the track over the weekend at Daytona International Speedway for the Xfinity Series race.<\/p>\n<p>Links<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Statement from the NASCAR team posted below Sad news from the NASCAR garage area. Zachary Yager has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,3140,634,18241,3628,8354,18242,18243,6902,7576,10031,15528,56653,82,56654,56655],"class_list":["post-97317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cup-series","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-craftsman-truck-series","tag-nascar-cup","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-nascar-truck","tag-nascar-truck-series","tag-nascar-xfinity","tag-nascar-xfinity-series","tag-ncs","tag-nxs","tag-rss-racing","tag-sports","tag-thorsport-racing","tag-zachary-yager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97317","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=97317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}