What Racist Remark Got Jeremy Clements Suspended from Nascar? [View all]

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There were quite a few stories to emerge out of this weekend's NASCAR races at Daytona, like Danica Patrick's history-making lap and the horrific crash at Saturday's Nationwide Series race. But one story that is just now coming to light is the "indefinite suspension" of driver Jeremy Clements over some remarks he made in an interview. News reports indicate it was some kind of racial slur. So what exactly did he say?

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Clements would not verbalize the specific comments he made, but when pressed for clarity about whether or not it was racial he paused. Asked again by ESPN.com: "Was it racial or not? Maybe not in context, but in term?" Clements replied: "Correct."

"When you say racial remark, it wasn't used to describe anybody or anything," Clements said. "So that's all I'm going to say to that. And it really wasn't. I was describing racing, and the word I used was incorrect and I shouldn't have said it. It shouldn't be used at all."

http://jalopnik.com/

I bet it was a three syllable word ending in "rig"...