Larson said Hamlin has learned that “there’s millions of other people, that a tweet like that could offend.” I think we’re all ready to move past it and get back focused on racing.” I know he’ll learn a lot from it here the next couple of weeks. I think being in the position that we’re in, you have to be very careful with what you put out into the public. “Obviously, it was just poor judgment on his part. “I think NASCAR did what they had to do and I appreciate Denny going through the steps to learn from that,” he said. Larson is friends with Hamlin and said of the meme, “I personally wasn’t offended by it.” Larson returned to the sport driving for Hendrick Motorsports and won the 2021 Cup championship. Larson, of course, was suspended for most of the 2020 season for using a racial slur and lost his ride driving for Chip Ganassi, his sponsors and needed to complete a sensitivity training course for reinstatement. “I think after he put it out there, he realized how offensive it could be.” Hamlin wanted to keep private his conversation with Larson. “I definitely understand how some people could find it offensive,” Hamlin said. Hamlin’s tweet was up nearly seven hours before he deleted it.
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Larson’s name was superimposed over the female driver in the meme. It has long been removed on all streaming platforms but the clip can still be found on YouTube. In the meme, an Asian woman speaks in choppy English before moving across six lanes of traffic with no warning, reflecting a racist stereotype about Asian drivers. He also owns 23XI Racing with Michael Jordan and fields two cars supported by the Japanese automaker - one driven by Bubba Wallace, the only Black driver at NASCAR’s top level. Hamlin is a three-time Daytona 500 winner who drives a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. That’s the insensitive part, right? Whoever created it, I guess, put his name in front of a woman who’s speaking Asian.
“I didn’t even think twice about the other (part).
Larson moved up the track multiple lanes in an aggressive move that caused a wreck at Talladega. Hamlin deleted the tweet Monday night and apologized. I understand where they are with it,” Hamlin said Saturday at Dover Motor Speedway. Hamlin is headed to NASCAR-mandated sensitivity training after he posted the anti-Asian meme from the television comedy “Family Guy” to criticize Larson’s driving last weekend on the last lap at Talladega Superspeedway.
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NASCAR and scores of fans and casual observers who lashed out at Hamlin for linking Larson's ancestry - he's half Japanese - with an offensive stereotype linked to Asian drivers certainly didn't find the meme funny. “I thought it was hilarious," Hamlin said. (AP) - Denny Hamlin said someone sent him a crass anti-Asian meme that poked fun at Kyle Larson's driving and out it went without a care - from his mobile phone to Twitter.