NASCAR indefinitely suspended a crew chief from the NASCAR Xfinity Series team that drives cars that support the “Back the Blue” movement after his arrest.
NASCAR announced on Friday that Mike Harmon Racing team boss Theodore Brown had been suspended indefinitely for a violation of his rules of conduct. According to Motorsport.com, Brown was arrested for habitual misdemeanor assault, felony, and assault on a woman.
According to arrest records at Statesville Record & Landmark, a Theodore Brown, of the same age and street location, was arrested in November 2018 on two counts of strangulation assault that inflicted serious injury.
MHR started racing a Blue Lives Matter car in Homestead on June 13, five days after Brown’s arrest and three days after Bubba Wallace drove a Black Lives Matter car in Martinsville in the Series Cup on the same day that NASCAR banned the Confederate flag.
Brown was the crew chief for Kyle Weatherman No. 47 Blue Lives Matter in each of the two Xfinity Series races at Homestead.
The crew chief of this car was arrested on June 8 (Photo by Chris Graythen / Getty Images)
On June 20, he was the crew chief of Harmon’s No. 74 Blue Lives Matter car and was set to become the crew chief of the car again on Sunday in Pocono.
Mike Harmon Racing is a benchmark in the Xfinity series and Harmon and his team have been better known for what happened off track than for their results in recent years. Harmon challenged fellow Xfinity series pilot Michael Annett to a fight at Applebee’s in September in a fun Twitter fight. Annett did not join Harmon at Applebee’s.
In 2013, Harmon was arrested for his alleged involvement in a plan to steal another driver’s racing gear. The charges were dropped later that year.
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