By Matthew Muir | Staff Writer
It took 36 hours for Kyle Larson’s NASCAR career to crash down around him. During a special event Sunday night on the online racing simulation iRacing, the 27-year-old Cup Series star keyed-up the wrong voice-chat channel and broadcasted “hey, [N-word],” (yes, with the hard-R) to all of his competitors, many of whom were streaming their views from the race at the time.
The story spread like wildfire, and a video apology the next day did little to douse the flames. By Monday morning it had been picked up from ESPN to the New York Times.