Group Stands By Liberty U Despite Lawsuits, Scrutiny
Record - NASCAR Hall of Fame part Rick Hendrick models for pictures preceding the acceptance function in Charlotte, N.C., Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. NASCAR crew proprietor Hendrick protected his choice to expand his sponsorship manage Liberty University as the Evangelical school faces examination over its treatment of rapes. 토토사이트
With a fourteenth NASCAR Cup Series title on the line this end of the week, group proprietor Rick Hendrick tended to a sponsorship augmentation endorsed with Liberty University before the school went under investigation for its treatment of rape claims.
Hendrick Motorsports last month arrived at another five-year consent to expand the school's help of driver William Byron and the No. 24 Chevrolet. Freedom will fill in as the essential support in 12 Cup races every year through 2026.
The augmentation among Hendrick and Liberty was declared in mid-October, before a report by ProPublica definite allegations that the college deterred understudies from detailing sexual savagery or altogether excused reports of attack. Twelve ladies recorded a claim in July, blaming the zealous Christian foundation for an example of misusing instances of rape and badgering, and cultivating a perilous grounds climate.
Jerry Falwell Jr. Surrendered last year from the administration at Liberty and furthermore apologized subsequent to posting an excursion photograph that showed him with his jeans unfastened and his arm around his significant other's pregnant associate.
The photograph was taken on an extravagance boat that had a place with Hendrick, who has drivers Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson hustling for the title Sunday at Phoenix Raceway. Hendrick was not on board the boat, nor were any workers of Hendrick Motorsports representatives.
"Things that happened years prior, at whatever point it occurred, they'll make it right and continue on," Hendrick said Tuesday. "Things like that, I mean, it's not charming, yet they're managing it. They're in effect extremely direct, exceptionally straightforward."
The school started its help of Byron in 2014 when he drove late model stock vehicles and has been a 12-race essential support since his 2018 Cup Series youngster of the year season. Byron made NASCAR's end of the season games this season as a component of Hendrick's four-driver stable.
Hendrick Motorsports has dominated 16 Cup races this season and Larson's success in May at the Coca-Cola 600 gave the association a Cup-series record 269th triumph.
While some race fans have approached Hendrick to cuts off its friendship with Liberty, the NASCAR Hall of Famer said neither he nor Hendrick Motorsports has gotten any blowback from the arrangement.