Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Kyle Larson Suspended for a racial slur on a NASCAR affiliated IRacing event.

Monday, 13 April 2020

Kyle Larson Suspended for a racial slur on a NASCAR affiliated IRacing event.

So, NASCAR Sprint Cup Driver Kyle Larson has been indefinitely suspended from NASCAR and suspended without pay by Chip Ganassi Racing after using a racial slur during a NASCAR affiliated IRacing event.

Said IRacing event was called Monza Madness, which is a IRacing event organised by Landon Cassill and streamed via the offical eNASCAR website as well as several other drivers' Twitch accounts. There were a large list of high profile drivers contesting the event, including drivers from Formula 1, NASCAR IndyCar and other racing disciplines.

Here is the exchange
Larson to Bubba ?You got me??

Larson to Bubba ?You don't hear me, at all??

Larson to Bubba ?I can see it, you can't hear me??

Larson to Bubba ?Hey N***er!?

Aron MacEachern ?Wow?

Anthony Alfredo ?Kyle you're talking to everyone bud.?

So, NASCAR has for a long time been trying to shake off the perception of "Southern White Racist Redneck Motorsport" that it has had for the longest time. The Drive for Diversity program is an example of this. Usage of that word does not help shake the perception, and that may explain why the fallout has been so huge.

Indefinite suspensions dished out by NASCAR, IRacing and Chip Ganassi Racing
Most of his sponsors have abandoned him.
Kyle Larson will also have to attend "sensitivity training" (I don't know what that entails).

Big Yikes moment here for Kyle Larson. He has apologised for his language. This, is going to hurt. As I said before, NASCAR has been trying to shake the racist white southerner stereotype for a long time, and this doesn't help that image. The actions taken against Kyle Larson may do it, but I doubt it, ignorant reactionaries are everywhere in the US, so I don't know how much this will affect change.

It's a surprise this has happened, and the fallout is big, but we'll have to see if/when Kylr Larson returns to Chip Ganassi, NASCAR and/or IRacing.

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How Juniorgeneric defines a Last-Place finisher

Australian V8 LASTCAR'S Official Definition of a "Last-Place Finisher" (LPF)

For the purposes of the Australian V8 LASTCAR championship rankings and statistics, a "Last-Place Finisher" (LPF) is a driver(s) who, after qualifying for a V8 Supercars Championship Points-Paying race, the result must be confirmed from official sources, or unofficial sources failing that. Only one driver (or two in a endurance race) can be classified as the LPF for that race.

Meeting those requirements, the LPF can be any driver classified as such for any reason, including, but not limited to.
1) A "did not start" although it should be noted that there is a difference between my definition of "did not start" and Brock Beard's definition of "Did not Start".
For example, in Bathurst 2015 Chazz Mostert and Cameron Waters' #6 Pepsi Max Ford had a huge accident during practice that injured Mostert and all but wrote off the car. Car #6 was withdrawn, and therefore I don't count Mostert and Waters as finishing last. Under Brock Beard's definition, however, Mostert and Waters would have finished last instead of David Wall and Chris Pither.
2) An entrant who encounters an event once the race has started which prevents the driver(s) from finishing ahead of any other qualified entrants, including both DNFs and drivers who finish under power but laps down*

*Only when all the cars in the race are running ahead of the LPF

3) A decision to “start and park” the driver’s entry (Extremely rare in V8 Supercars)
(4) a disqualification handed down by V8 Supercars and/or track officials that subsequently classifies the driver(s) in the final position behind the unofficial LPF.

Australian V8 LASTCAR shall not consider the LPF as anything else, including but not limited too
1) Any DNQ's
2) Any driver's who's car withdrew before the race start.
3)The lowest-ranked driver who finishes the race under power (unless all cars finished under power, actually quite common in V8 Supercars)
4) A driver(s) who finished last initially, however post-race disqualifications usurped the spot.
5) A driver(s) who may be catagorised as finishing last for exhibition events (I may bring these back at some point in the near future, I need more accurate numbers for the events before I start them up again)
6) Anything in non-V8 Supercar Main game (again, insufficent historical data)
7) A driver who was running last when the checkered flag fell, however because they greeted the checkered flag but a drive who was in front of them at the end of the race, however was not running at the end of the race. In that instance the driver who doesn't finish the race will fall behind the driver whom is still running at the end of the race.

In the rare event where official results or a preponderance of unofficial results are later updated with more accurate information about who was the LPF for that event, Australian V8 LASTCAR rankings and statistics shall be updated to reflect that change.