Steve Phelps: Last News

Steve Phelps, the NASCAR president, said Friday that the organization does not want to be associated with the “Let’s go, Brandon” movement, a chant heard frequently at its events and others in the South and Midwest.

The green flag has dropped on NASCAR‘s next TV rights deals.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor NASCAR joined the various sports leagues racing into the future by striking a new rights deal with Amazon‘s Prime Video that will put the auto sports organizer into the world of streaming. Amazon’s Prime Video will split a group of ten races with Warner Bros.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorNASCAR President Steve Phelps held a press conference on Thursday to detail the findings of an internal investigation into the noose found in the garage stall of No. 43 driver Bubba Wallace at Talladega Superspeedway last weekend.

NASCAR president Steve Phelps has revealed the company’s findings from their internal investigation into the noose found in Bubba Wallace’s garage stall over the weekend.

@donlemon, after the FBI said a noose found in the NASCAR driver's garage was there before his team moved in. https://t.co/q55sco26Y4 pic.twitter.com/Xo3D8DQ9HuThe FBI said Tuesday that the noose found in Wallace’s garage had been there since the last big race at the Talladega Speedway in October 2019.

CNN and shared his thoughts following their findings.He said, “I’m mad because people are trying to test my character and the person that I am and my integrity.”He continued to tell his side of the story and explained how Steve Phelps, the Vice President of NASCAR brought to his attention that the rope had been hanging in his garage. He said that Phelps called him about the rope, and then walked over to his motor home at the race track and told him about the suspected noose in person.Bubba said, “The look he had on his face, it alerted me in a way I would never forget as well.

NASCAR drivers and crew members sent a powerful message to the world on Monday: «We stand with Bubba Wallace.» The show of solidarity came a day after NASCAR announced that a noose was discovered inside Wallace's garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway.A massive crowd pushed and followed Wallace's No. 43 car as he sat in the driver's seat during pre-race activities.Wallace, NASCAR's only full-time black driver, then exited the car and embraced Hall of Fame driver Richard Petty, who owns the team Wallace races for and had not attended a race during the coronavirus pandemic.We are one family.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe president of Nascar said Monday that the sports organization would ban anyone found to have placed a noose in driver Bubba Wallace’s garage at the Talladega Speedway in Alabama for life, a sign of how upset executives and drivers are after the racist symbol was discovered Sunday afternoon.“This is a difficult time for our sport, but we are going to react swiftly,” said Steve Phelps, president of Nascar, during a call with reporters Monday afternoon.Discovery of the noose comes less than a month after Nascar said it would ban the Confederate flag at its events in the wake of protests surrounding the killing of George Floyd while in custody of the Minneapolis police.

NASCAR Cup Series driver Bubba Wallace has assured fans he’s OK after fainting after a race in Atlanta Sunday.