NASCAR Files Court Papers Denying Motor Coach Driver Lawsuit
In a court filing, NASCAR denied that top officials “promised a job” to David Scott, a former motor coach driver for car owners Roger Penske and Michael Kranefuss, “who was the victim of a 1999 racial prank,” according to Tim Whitmire of the AP. Whitmire wrote Scott, who is black, “was the target of racial slurs and harassment” during several run-ins with white motor coach drivers during the ‘99 season. Two motor coach drivers involved, Mike Culberson and Ray Labbe, were fired by their teams and NASCAR “revoked the licenses they need to work at race tracks.” Scott “accepted a settlement on his contract with Penske and Kranefuss in early 2000,” but he contends that he accepted the settlement because NASCAR President Mike Helton and former NASCAR exec George Pyne “told him they would find [him] employment” with NASCAR (AP, 9/7).
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