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      ‘I love fast cars’ – Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather, 44, moving into motorsport by launching own NASCAR racing team

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      BOXING legend Floyd Mayweather is moving into motorsport by launching his own NASCAR racing team. The Money Team Racing is set for the Daytona 500 in Florida later this month.
      Mayweather is launching his own NASCAR racing team
      The unbeaten boxer has called his outfit The Money Team racingCredit: Getty
      Unbeaten fighter Mayweather, 44, said: “I love fast cars and I love to compete.
      “I know NASCAR will not be easy, but anything easy isn’t worth doing to me.”
      The former five-division world champ took to Twitter to announce his new venture.
      He posted a video of the dazzling multi-coloured car being unveiled, captioning the post: “TMT AT THE DAYTONA 500 2022!!!!”
      Mayweather launching a NASCAR team has been in the pipeline for some years, but had previously been delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
      But now driver Kaz Grala is set to get behind wheel of a yellow, red, purple and blue Chevrolet sporting the No50 for The Money Team, the same number of wins on Mayweather’s flawless 50-0 professional record.
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      But Mayweather is right about his new venture not being easy, as his team are not actually guaranteed a spot in the Daytona 500.
      The team doesn’t have the required charter needed to secure automatic qualification for the race.
      Grala will have to earn his spot in the field with 40 teams set to take to the track on race day, and 42 teams hoping to be there.
      And after the Daytona 500 the team plans on taking part on at least four more races, but with the hope of taking to the track up to 15 times
      William Auchmoody will take on the role of General Manager for Mayweather’s team after personally telling the boxer to get into the sport.
      Auchmoody said: “He [Mayweather] loves cars. I met him a couple of years ago and had the conversation, ‘Man, you should check NASCAR out’.
      “He started watching it a little bit and next thing you know, I’m in Las Vegas and were hashing out the details of what it would look like to get involved in NASCAR.”
      Driver Kaz Grala will be the man behind the wheel for The Money TeamCredit: AP
      Meanwhile Mayweather’s driver Grala said: “I know Floyd is here to win, and I absolutely feel that everyone involved in this program is capable of making that happen.
      “We know we will need some time to grow together as a new organisation, but I couldn’t be more thrilled to be a part of building this team from the ground up.”
      Mayweather joins Basketball great Michael Jordan and music artist Pitbull as the latest celebrity to launch their own NASCAR team.
      Pitbull recently agreed a marketing partnership deal with UFC President Dana White for his own team, Pitbull’s Trackhouse Racing.
      Meanwhile Mayweather’s sponsorship comes via sunglasses company Pit Viper. More

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      Martha Earnhardt dead at 91: Mom of Nascar legend Dale Sr and grandmother of Dale Jr passes away as racing fans mourn

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      THE mother of Nascar legend Dale Earnhardt Sr and grandmother of Dale Earnhardt Jr died on Christmas evening at the age of 91. The famed Nascar family released a statement on Sunday confirming Martha Earnhardt’s death, calling her “the matriarch to multiple generations of race fans.”
      Martha Earnhardt was mother to Dale Earnhardt and grandmother to Dale Earnhardt JrCredit: Getty Images
      Her family called her the ‘matriarch to multiple generations of race fans’
      “As we grieve her loss and begin to imagine life without our beloved ‘Mamaw,’ we find solace in knowing she is at peace in eternal glory and in joyous reunion with her husband Ralph and sons Dale, Randy and Danny,” Kelley Earnhardt Miller posted on Twitter.
      Kelley is the daughter of Martha and sister of Dale Earnhardt Jr.
      In an obituary posted to the Nascar website, Zack Albert wrote that Martha was a “treasure” to millions of fans, and regularly opened her home to travelers visiting the “Dale Trail,” a series of racing landmarks around Cabarrus County.
      Martha only raced once, Albert wrote, in a “powder puff derby” at Hickory Speedway.
      “She crashed, lamenting the lack of practice before the event,” Albert wrote.
      “I just wasn’t meant to be a race-car driver,” Martha reportedly said after the attempt.
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      Nascar officials also released a statement grieving the loss.
      “We extend our condolences to the family and friends of Martha Earnhardt,” the Nascar statement read.
      “Martha was not only the matriarch of a legendary Nascar family, but a beloved and respected figure within our industry and throughout the fanbase.
      “We will dearly miss her grace, compassion and welcoming demeanor.”
      Dale Earnhardt Sr was known as one of the best Nascar drivers of all time, winning a total of 76 Winston Cup races and seven Winston Cup championships.
      During the Daytona 500 in February 2001, Earnhardt Sr died in a three-car crash during the final lap of the race.
      Dale Earnhardt Jr, now semi-retired, was nicknamed the “Pied Piper of Daytona.”
      He won the Daytona 500 in 2004 and 2014 and totaled 26 wins in the Cup Series.
      Kelly Earnhardt Miller co-owns JR Motorsports, a stock car racing team, with her brother Dale Jr.
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      From cardboard fans and skateboarding cholitas to mourning Kobe and Maradona.. the most memorable sport pictures of 2020

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      A PICTURE is worth a thousand words… but no one image could even come close to telling the full story of 2020.
      As the world was plunged into the biggest health and economic crisis of a generation, sport took it upon itself to reintroduce some form of normality.

      With spectators penned into their homes, iconic venues became vast, empty caverns where each star’s rallies and cries were heard like never before.
      Champions were still crowned but not all were of the traditional sort, with eSports heroes carrying the mantle like never before to satisfy the most basic fans’ urge – of having something to watch.
      But while kings and queens found their own way to mark their inevitable rise, legends were lost in the most heart-wrenching of ways.
      Here, SunSport takes you through our photos of the year.

      From the time before the world stopped… A packed Rod Laver Arena takes in January’s Australian Open semi-final between Novak Djokovic and Roger FedererCredit: AP:Associated Press

      Orange wildfire smoke hangs heavy over San Francisco Giants’ Oracle Park home following California blazes in September – with no fans present to see itCredit: AP:Associated Press

      Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce and coach Andy Reid react to the NFL side’s first Super Bowl win for 50 years in FebruaryCredit: AP:Associated Press

      A scene from Ecuador’s annual Llama racing event in Los LlanganatesCredit: AP:Associated Press

      LA Lakers center Dwight Howard hangs off the basket after scoring for the eventual NBA championsCredit: AP:Associated Press

      NASCAR team owner Richard Petty puts an arm around Bubba Wallace, the sport’s only black driver, the day after he found a noose left in his garage at Talladega SuperspeedwayCredit: AP:Associated Press

      A Bolivian youngster dons a facemask while skating in indigenous clothing as part of the ‘Skate Imillas’ groupCredit: AP:Associated Press

      Just one of several memorials dedicated to the tragic passing of basketball legend Kobe Bryant in FebruaryCredit: AP:Associated Press

      LA Dodgers fans watch their team march to World Series supremacy from a drive-inCredit: AP:Associated Press

      A spectator peers over his balcony to watch Rayo Vallecano’s match with Albacete in Spain’s Segunda DivisionCredit: AP:Associated Press

      IndyCar racer Tony Kanaan practices on his sim setup with motorsport wiped out in the early months of the pandemic Credit: AP:Associated Press

      Lucas Hernandez takes the facemask guideline to a new level after Bayern Munich’s Champions League crowningCredit: AP:Associated Press

      A facemasked Rafa Nadal celebrates his French Open win in NovemberCredit: AP:Associated Press

      Athletic Club’s famous home San Mames – which translates as The Cathedral – watches on empty for a match with Real MadridCredit: AP:Associated Press

      Cardboard cutout fans are lined up for a New York Mets baseball gameCredit: AP:Associated Press

      The year that took so many from us took one more legend in its final weeks – as a fan in Buenos Aires mourns the passing of Diego MaradonaCredit: AP:Associated Press

      From Caroline Flack and Barbara Windsor to Sean Connery and Maradona – we bid a final farewell to those we lost in 2020 More

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      Horror moment NASCAR crew member is thrown into air after being ploughed into in pit lane at Talladega Superspeedway

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      WATCH the shock moment a NASCAR crew member is wiped out by a truck during a race at the famed Talladega Superspeedway.
      The mechanic is midway through a stop from his own team when a truck screeches out of the box behind, taking him out.

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      The NASCAR truck steams out of its box and clips the pit crew memberCredit: NASCAR

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      Dramatic headcam footage shows the mechanic hurtle through the airCredit: NASCAR

      Clipped by the rear of the hulking vehicle, he does incredibly well to bounce back up and recover to complete his own team’s tyre change.
      The NASCAR truck event at iconic Alabama circuit Talladega took place earlier this month.
      Headcam footage from the crew member shows how the dramatic moment unfolded.
      Local media name the mechanic as Kyle Warner, who was getting to work on No3 Jordan Anderson’s car in the pits.

      After changing the rear left, he busts around the back of the car to secure the other tyre.
      But Austin Hill’s imposing No16 truck comes hurtling out of its box just as he turns across the rear of his car.
      The footage, via Caters Clips, shows Warner taking a horrible smack on the floor and lying dazed for a second or two.
      However, he manages to hop back up and race around to complete a successful change of the right rear tyre.

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      The No16 truck skidded as it left its pit box, leading to the shocking sceneCredit: NASCAR

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      But the crunched mechanic quickly got back up to complete the jobCredit: NASCAR

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      Warner did lose time, naturally, but not in the way one might expect.
      Showing no signs of hurt himself, he quickly realises his wheel gun has become disconnected and reaches over to pull the wire back in.
      With hardly a few seconds lost, Warner completes the change for Anderson to race off to a sixth-placed finish, at which point fellow pit crew members are seen walking towards the beleaguered mechanic.
      His condition post-race is unknown.

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      Drivers in brutal trackside punch up over race collision as Nascar stars disappear from camera

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      NASCAR fans have witnessed the first post-pandemic tussle between drivers competing at the Xfinity Series.  Harrison Burton and Noah Gragson got into an ill-tempered spat on Friday after both drivers collided at the race in Kentucky. Harrison Burton and Noah Gragson got into a scuffle after their cars made contact during a NASCAR race in […] More

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      Watch horrific moment NASCAR pit-crew is RUN OVER and makes miracles escape during dramatic crash at Brickyard 400

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      A NASCAR pit-crew member was brutally run over during the Brickyard 400. Chaos erupted as there was a huge pile-up in pit lane at the Indianapolis motor Speedway. The pit-crew member was sandwiched between the two vehicles Pit-crew member Zach Price was ploughed down as he worked on his team-mate Ryan Blaney’s No12 car. He […] More