{"id":942653,"date":"2020-09-22T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=942653"},"modified":"2022-09-21T16:39:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T21:39:48","slug":"michael-jordan-and-denny-hamlin-team-up-to-create-nascar-team-bubba-wallace-is-teams-first-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/michael-jordan-and-denny-hamlin-team-up-to-create-nascar-team-bubba-wallace-is-teams-first-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin team up to create NASCAR team &#8211; Bubba Wallace is team\u2019s first driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball\u2019s greatest of all time will be taking up a new sport once again. In the mid-90s, <strong>Michael Jordan<\/strong> took a break from basketball to play baseball and following his third retirement in 2003, Michael Jordan took up motorcycle racing with the launch of Michael Jordan Motorsports the following year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_942662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-942662\" style=\"width: 562px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2023\/12\/404-dead-image.jpg'\" class=\"size-full wp-image-942662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2020\/09\/ldue91e2fqedobqtlf27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"346\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-942662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jordan Motorsports motorbike sold at auction in 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jordan had his hands in NASCAR dating back to 2013 when sponsoring Denny Hamlin\u2019s truck and later signing him to Jordan Brand, but MJ is taking his involvement another step further as a team owner.<\/p>\n Denny Hamlin&#8217;s Toyota Truck in the 2013 Kroger 200.\n<p>Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner and Jordan Brand\u2019s first NASCAR team member <strong>Denny Hamlin<\/strong> announced yesterday evening that they were teaming up to form a new NASCAR Cup Series team with <strong>Bubba Wallace<\/strong> in the driver\u2019s seat of their car.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan&#8217;s love of racing was once referred to as a &#8220;New Love&#8221; in 2006 in a Jordan 1 double pack, but his ties to racing date back to childhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up in North Carolina, my parents would take my brothers, sisters, and me to races, and I\u2019ve been a NASCAR fan my whole life,\u201d Jordan said in a news release. \u201cThe opportunity to own my own racing team in partnership with my friend, Denny Hamlin, and to have Bubba Wallace driving for us, is very exciting for me.\u00a0Historically, NASCAR has struggled with diversity and there have been few Black owners. The timing seemed perfect as NASCAR is evolving and embracing social change more and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the recent commitment and donations I have made to combat systemic racism, I see this as a chance to educate a new audience and open more opportunities for Black people in racing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement is one of historic significance as Jordan becomes the first Black majority owner of a full-time NASCAR premier series team in more than 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been a NASCAR fan my whole life,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cThe opportunity to own my own racing team in partnership with my friend, Denny Hamlin, and to have Bubba Wallace driving for us, is very exciting for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Wendell Scott was the first African American NASCAR race winner in 1964.\n<p>NASCAR has historically struggled with diversity on the track and in ownership. The last Black man to own a team was Wendell Scott who owned and raced his own car in the 1960s and early 70s and was the first Black racer to win a major race in 1964.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe timing seemed perfect as NASCAR is evolving and embracing social change more and more,\u201d Jordan continued.<\/p>\n<p>Bubba Wallace, the only full-time Black driver in NASCAR\u2019s Cup Series, announced a couple of weeks ago that he was leaving his current team at the end of the 2020 race season.<\/p>\n Bubba Wallace drove the #BlackLivesMatters car earlier this season following George Floyd&#8217;s death\n<p>\u201cThis is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that I believe is a great fit for me at this point in my carer,\u201d said Wallace. \u201cBoth Michael and Denny are great competitors and are focused on building the best team they can possibly can to go out and compete for race wins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In June, Bubba Wallace called for a ban of Confederate flags at NASCAR races which the league did just days later. He also had a Black Lives Matter paint job done to his car the same month.<\/p>\n Denny Hamlin&#8217;s #11 car for the GEICO 500 at Talladega in June 2020.\n<p>Denny Hamlin\u2019s car sponsor FedEx honored the National Civil Rights Museum on the hood of his car in June. Denny visited the museum in FedEx\u2019s hometown of Memphis prior to the June race in Talladega.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by Hamlin on Monday evening, Denny said that \u201cit just makes sense now to lay the foundation\u201d of his racing career after he retires from racing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael and Bubba can be a powerful voice together, not only in our sport but also well beyond it.\u201d Hamlin continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball\u2019s greatest of all time will be taking up a new sport once again. 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