NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France was not at all pleased with an April Fool's prank that appeared on the website associated with Car and Driver magazine that President Barack Obama had ordered carmakers General Motors and Dodge to withdraw their support from NASCAR racing.
When the story first appeared, however, NASCAR vice president of corporate communications Jim Hunter was besieged with requests for NASCAR's reaction to what many thought was a legitimate article.
"We were really very upset about that," France said after the pre-race drivers' meeting Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway. "And it may not be over with how we're going to approach that. That was an outrageous thing that those guys did, and we were very, very unhappy.
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When the story first appeared, however, NASCAR vice president of corporate communications Jim Hunter was besieged with requests for NASCAR's reaction to what many thought was a legitimate article.
"We were really very upset about that," France said after the pre-race drivers' meeting Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway. "And it may not be over with how we're going to approach that. That was an outrageous thing that those guys did, and we were very, very unhappy.
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