NASCAR driver quits after Confederate flag ban: 'All you are doing is f--ing one group'
Source: Sporting News
Ray Ciccarelli announced the end of his NASCAR Truck Series career with a furious Facebook post on Wednesday shortly after NASCAR banned Confederate flags from all events.
Ciccarelli, 50, has participated in 18 Truck Series races over the past four years, though none in 2020. He has finished in the top 10 once a No. 9 placing at the Michigan International Speedway last year.
"Well its been a fun ride and dream come true but if this is the direction Nascar is headed we will not participate after the 2020 season is over," Ciccarelli announced in a Facebook post (all misspellings are his own). "I don't believe in kneeling during Anthem nor taken ppl right to fly whatever flag they love.
"I could care less about the Confederate Flag but there are ppl that do and it doesn't make them a racist all you are doing is fing one group to cater to another."
Read more: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/motorsports/news/nascar-driver-quits-after-confederate-flag-ban-all-you-are-doing-is-f-ing-one-group/4kfjwng3qx2u1vdsntff82jdc
I'm sure he will be sorely missed..... wait a minute - Ray who??????
3Hotdogs
(12,376 posts)richdj25
(163 posts)It was fun while it lasted. Now - tell us again who you are?
IggleDuer
(964 posts)... with Fux News or OANN.
OneBlueDotBama
(1,384 posts)Ray excelled in last place finishes...
from a twitter thread on his racing accomplishments.
eShirl
(18,491 posts)nobody's taking away anyone's right to fly it; just not on Nascar property
kysrsoze
(6,021 posts)relayerbob
(6,544 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)He has a perfect record.
maxrandb
(15,330 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Wow, he'll be missed.
CurtEastPoint
(18,644 posts)prefer. Stop bastardizing Italian. Asshole.
EarlG
(21,947 posts)and it doesn't make them a racist."
Incorrect.
Different Drummer
(7,615 posts)DD
grumpyduck
(6,235 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,705 posts)Welcome to the 21st Century.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,111 posts)Fuck you, you no good fucking RACIST PIG
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,897 posts)and selling his latest take on BBQ equipment.....
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Adios, loser.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)"Ray Ciccarelli is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes part-time in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series..."
usaf-vet
(6,186 posts)Maybe it's because my 4 years living in the South taught me what racism looks like and it always seems to happen under a Confederate Flag nearby. Nothing has changed since I left the south 51 years ago.
groundloop
(11,519 posts)In fact, correct me if I'm wrong, but Minneapolis isn't in the south.
usaf-vet
(6,186 posts)And in Minneapolis, it was a white cop killing a black man. FIRST! It didn't start the other way around.
If you throw a lit match onto a pile of dry fuel. You can hardly blame the dry fuel for igniting the fire.
Maraya1969
(22,480 posts)durablend
(7,460 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)How about a "Fuck Ray Ciccarelli" flag? As long as it's the flag I love, right?
The Seattle Sounders told supporters they couldn't wave an Antifa flag last year. Everyone got over it.
Think more, Ray.
Traildogbob
(8,739 posts)How about ISIS flags, Taliban flag, Muslim flag, Jewish flag. All those OK to NASCAR fans? One less gas guzzling air polluting waste of medal. MAGA!
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)people will fly them instead you know to own libs.
llmart
(15,539 posts)Buh, bye loser.
truthisfreedom
(23,147 posts)Right before the final lap.
Nevilledog
(51,104 posts)That was kinda brilliant.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)If you fly a racist flag, you are a racist.
That fucking flag is both. Fuck off, Ray.
PaulRevere08
(449 posts)Boo fuckin hoo.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Talitha
(6,587 posts)tinrobot
(10,900 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)What will NASCAR ever do without him?
ProfessorGAC
(65,035 posts)The same number as me!
None!
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)With that kind of record he wasnt going to get his contract renewed anyway.
ProfessorGAC
(65,035 posts)A nobody with an opinion. Quite common!
MichMan
(11,924 posts)Best finish last season was 9th
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)His best finish overall in the truck series championship was 33rd in 2019 and there's usually a max of around 36 drivers so he was either dead last or very close to it.
MichMan
(11,924 posts)He drove his own unsponsored truck on a part time basis and was quite underfunded, so that may have had more to do with his withdrawing than anything he says.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)The reason he couldn't get sponsors is because he sucked. But yes, he almost certainly wasn't coming back again anyway, so his rage quit was utterly meaningless. If anything he almost certainly did it trying to get a sponsorship for the rest of this year so he can have a 'change of heart' later. Either way he is a loser that just isn't ready to deal with the fact he has no future in racing.
cab67
(2,993 posts)...that had the Civil War ended differently, it wouldn't be NASCAR. It would be CASCAR.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)Too many times to count I have heard the call for change in policing and in racial and economic justice and only been disappointed to see some special interest group like a powerful police union or an aggrieved set of specific white people make a fuss and defuse the momentum...
Not. this. time.
This assclown is met with derision and mocking for wanting to 'honor the Confederacy' (i.e. - why won't ANYONE PLEASE THINK OF THE WHITE PEOPLE in my best mocking, sarcastic "Simpsons" Maud Flanders inspired voice).
The NFL was waylaid by its young stars like Patrick Mahomes and others basically TELLING Roger Goddell "look HERE asshole, YOU and the OWNERS are not getting the last word any longer on this issue, so get on the right side of history FINALLY"...
Even Drew Brees, for all the hurt his mistake caused, he self-corrected, listened to those closet to him that were hurt by his words and apologized with a pledge to do better. He was sincere and showed remorse that he stood by even when the ORange shitgibbon tried to stir the pot by saying the should NOT APOLOGIZE...
The clarion call of change - new attitudes, new expectations, new recognition that white people are as much or more responsible for generating and nourishing htis change than black people or other minorities are - has rung out and is being heard.
For the first time in a very long time, I find myself daring to hope again, daring to believe that THIS time, we are going to accelerate the bending of the arc of progress to justice more than continue to wait for it.
So you go on now Ray Ciccarelli, and please take any of your Confederate Flag loving racists and morons with you...you will not be missed, but maybe one day your heart will understand what your head seems incapable of today.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)TheFourthMind
(343 posts)I hear Russia's nice. Stop by Andersonville on your way out.
kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)ashredux
(2,605 posts)Except I was going to say hit you in the ass
kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)Initech
(100,075 posts)BYE!
Evolve Dammit
(16,731 posts)Nitram
(22,800 posts)Nazis?
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)I guess this was his only way of getting anyone to notice he's quitting
Now he'll be known as that guy who nobody knew until he tripped on his way out and broke his fall with his face.
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)LOSERS...........
BHDem53
(1,061 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)tom_kelly
(959 posts)If I had to guess, this fella was on his way out and wanted to stick it to the libtards
majdrfrtim
(317 posts)#TreasonRag = "The Flag of Choice For Losers"®
#TreasonRag = "When Your Heritage *IS* Hate"®
#TreasonRag = "When Your Swastika Isn't Enough Hate For You"®
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)It is an act of terror.
catbyte
(34,386 posts)Searching for that violin...
LiberalFighter
(50,928 posts)JDC
(10,127 posts)F him. He can go back to the demo derby or whatever bs he thinks he can do going forward.
Augiedog
(2,546 posts)oldsoftie
(12,536 posts)And running your own car is though
MichMan
(11,924 posts)hadEnuf
(2,190 posts)padah513
(2,502 posts)He will be sorely missed
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)never was.
Fuck him sideways.
I'm sure he will be sorely missed.
paleotn
(17,913 posts)LogicFirst
(571 posts)Nascar Driver Retires After Unsuccessful Career
NoMoreRepugs
(9,423 posts)weissmam
(905 posts)is by definition racist
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)It's the belief that it's okay to force another human being into life long bondage based on the color of their skin.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)It should be a felony with a mandatory jail sentence to display it on US soil.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)jb5150
(1,178 posts)The can have a good cry at their next Klan rally.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Sorry that's a problem for you.
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)"I don't believe in kneeling during Anthem nor taken ppl right to fly whatever flag they love." --Ray Ciccarelli
soldierant
(6,864 posts)No, make that two groups.
Traitors and Losers.
LudwigPastorius
(9,140 posts)I'm sure Walmart can make room somewhere for one more greeter.