(Herunterladen) Nascar Meme White Flag

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Nascar meme white flag. Beginning in the 2017 season nascar has utilized a white and green variant of the chequered flag to indicate the end of a stage of a race. A white flag is displayed when there is only one more lap to go until the race conclusion. In that setting nascar s purported reply to ray ciccarelli was an obvious joke. Trump targets driver bubba wallace while criticizing nascar ban on confederate flag. The white house press secretary refused to denounce the confederate flag during a press briefing monday after president donald trump bemoaned nascar s recent decision to ban it from all races and. During a race the checker flag means the race has been completed and each car will be scored when it passes the start finish line. Nascar began asking fans to stop bringing confederate battle flags to races in 2015 after photos circulated online of the white man who killed nine black churchgoers in charleston s c posing.

When the checkered flag waves a driver has crossed the finish line and won the race. Nascar s push toward diversity in recent years led chairman brian france to call the flag an offensive symbol in 2015 and ask for but not require its removal from speedways. This flag means that the race leader has one lap to go in the race. By melissa quinn updated on. After the flag is waved the race temporarily goes into caution to allow drivers who have had placed in the top 10 position following a stage to go into the pit road in a timely manner. White house press secretary kayleigh mcenany on monday attempted to defend president trump s tweet that baselessly accused nascar driver bubba wallace of creating a hoax following the. If a caution comes out after the white flag is displayed the race is concluded.

However nascar did not tweet the commentary seen in the meme. It didn t take long for the image to be stripped of its satirical context and to spread across social media as authentic. If there is a caution during the final laps this flag sequence announces that there will be a green flag restart of a couple laps.