NASCAR team owner Michael Jordan joins a star-studded gathering at Daytona 500

Michael Jordan was amongst a host of celebrities pictured at the Daytona 500, with the six-time NBA Champion available to assist of his different sports activities group, 23XI Racing.

Jordan co-owns the racing group with Joe Gibbs racing driver, Denny Hamlin, a minority associate. 

He was joined in Daytona Beach by comedians Pete Davidson and Tiffany Haddish, former NFL star Brandon Marshall, WWE girls’s champion Charlotte Flair and actress Chase Sui. 

Jordan launched a new NASCAR team with Bubba Wallace, the one full-time black driver on the circuit, again in 2020.

‘Historically, NASCAR has struggled with range and there have been few black house owners,’ Jordan mentioned in a assertion at the time. 

NASCAR owner Michael Jordan was available at Sunday’s Daytona 500 to assist his team

Pete Davidson was one in all a number of celebrities, together with actress Chase Sui, at the Florida occasion

WWE girls’s champion Charlotte Flair flashed her belt at Daytona International Speedway

‘The timing appeared good as NASCAR is evolving and embracing social change an increasing number of.’ 

He is at the moment one in all 4 black house owners within the stockcar racing circuit, one in all whom is boxing nice Floyd Mayweather. Naturally, ‘Money May’ heads up The Money Team Racing. 

Tyler Reddick and famed stuntman, Travis Pastrana, are the 2 different drivers on Jordan’s 23XI Racing roster. 

Unfortunately for Jordan and Co., Reddick was a part of a wreckage late in Stage 2 of Sunday’s race and was resultantly dominated out for the day. 

Jordan is not the one NASCAR owner from the Tar Heel State, with former UNC basketball stud, Brad Daugherty a co-owner of JTG Daugherty Racing. 

The North Carolina native dabbled in racing earlier than with Michael Jordan Motorsports. He owned an AMA Superbike team and had one win in 10 years. 

Jordan has twice traveled to the NASCAR season finale to look at Hamlin race for the championship. Hamlin, who’s 39, continues to be in search of his first title. 

He grew to become a partial owner of the NBA’s then-Charlotte Bobcats in 2006 and purchased the team outright in 2010, restoring the franchise to its authentic Hornets title. Hamlin has been a longtime season-ticket holder with court-side seats alongside the guests’ bench.

Jordan launched a new NASCAR team with Bubba Wallace, again in late 2020 for the ’21 season

Jordan, a native of the NASCAR-mad North Carolina has described himself as a lifelong fan 

Country singer Dierks Bentley was available to carry out previous to the sixty fifth Annual Daytona 500