Pitbull pitched a taco piñata to NASCAR driver Daniel Suárez, who destroyed it as cash fell out

Tremendous, wholesome content from Pitbull and Daniel Suárez.

After Daniel Suárez took the checkered flag at Sonoma Raceway earlier this month, marking his first career NASCAR Cup Series victory and the first for a Mexican-born driver, he celebrated with some fun and pizzazz.

That included him destroying a taco piñata on the track (sort of along the same lines as his teammate, Ross Chastain, smashing a watermelon after his wins).

Well, Suárez and his team, Trackhouse Racing, continued having some fun with piñatas, and it’s massively entertaining.

Sometime in the week and a half since Suárez’s win, Trackhouse co-owner, Pitbull stopped by the shop to help celebrate the team’s third overall win this year in its second Cup season.

And at one point, Pitbull grabbed a taco piñata and Suárez a bat. From a stage, Pitbull pitched the piñata to Suárez, who didn’t hold back with his swing and blew the piñata open as cash (real or fake, it’s unclear) poured out.

Amazing. An international music superstar and NASCAR team owner pitching his winning driver a taco piñata filled with money.

This is tremendously fun and wholesome content from Trackhouse, which is having a stronger season than many people expected with three wins between its two drivers.

And just as Chastain has kept his watermelon-smashing tradition going, we can only hope Suárez follows suit if or when he adds more wins to his resume.

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Pitbull tuvo la mejor respuesta cuando Antonio Brown lo confundió con una persona equis

Las personas usualmente van a South Beach en Miami esperando ver una celebridad. Después de todo, es un área animado que frecuentan las celebridades, pero en ocasiones, uno debe dar un paso atrás y pensar, “No todos los pelones usando un traje en …

Las personas usualmente van a South Beach en Miami esperando ver una celebridad. Después de todo, es un área animado que frecuentan las celebridades, pero en ocasiones, uno debe dar un paso atrás y pensar, “No todos los pelones usando un traje en Miami en Pitbull.”

Aparentemente, Antonio Brown – ¡un nativo de Miami! – necesita seguir ese consejo.

Un YouTuber basado en Miami, Lefty, se hizo viral durante el fin de semana cuando se lanzó a South Beach pretendiendo ser el ultra famoso artista. Es importante mencionar que Lefty no se parece en nada a Pitbull fuera de la cabeza rapada. Obvio lo sabía, pero todo se trata de seguridad y presentación. Lefty fue a South Beach en una SUV negra con amigos posando como su equipo de seguridad. Y la gente de verdad pensó que era Pitbull.

Vimos algo similar cuando hace unos años hubo un doble Conor McGregor en Los Ángeles.  Es increíble lo que la gente hace cuando se trata de encuentros con celebridades.

El mejor intercambio, sin embargo, sucedió entre Lefty y Antonio Brown. Incluso Pitbull comentó el hecho, y fue buenísimo.

Miren:

Traducción.- Gusto en conocerte también @AB84.¡ Dale!

Brown pensó que Lefty era el Pitbull real y lo felicitó por su música antes de posar para una foto. Y bien por Lefty que tiene el respeto de Brown.

A los fans de la NFL les encantó la broma.

Así reaccionó twitter:

Traducción.- Ese niño Pitbull.

Traducción.- Me encantaría pensar que este chavo hace música y se siente invencible ahorita. 

Traducción.- ¿Porqué encuentro esto tan chistoso?

Traducción.- Honestamente válido.

Pitbull had a great response after Antonio Brown thought a random guy was the real Pitbull

Brown thought he met Pitbull.

People often head to South Beach in Miami with the expectation of spotting a celebrity. After all, it’s a buzzing area that celebs do frequent, but sometimes, you really just need to take a step back and think, “Not every bald man wearing a suit in Miami is Pitbull.”

Apparently, Antonio Brown — a Miami native! — needs to follow that advice.

A Miami-based YouTuber, Lefty, went viral over the weekend when hit South Beach pretending to be the ultra-famous recording artist. Now, Lefty doesn’t look anything like Pitbull other than the shaved head. He knew that, but it’s all about confidence and presentation. Lefty went to South Beach in a black SUV with friends posing as a security details. And people actually thought he was Pitbull.

We saw something similar a few years ago with the Conor McGregor lookalike in Los Angeles. It’s amazing what people will make themselves believe when it comes to celebrity sightings.

The best exchange, though, happened when Lefty ran into Antonio Brown.  Even the real Pitbull had to comment on it, and it was so good.

Pitbull shouts out NASCAR, his new racing team in latest single, ‘Where the Country Girls At’

Pitbull dropped a new single collaborating with country singers Trace Adkins and Luke Bryan.

Pitbull dropped a new single this week — a collaboration with country singers Trace Adkins and Luke Bryan — and at one point, he shouts out NASCAR, the Daytona 500 and his new Cup Series team, Trackhouse Racing.

And in this latest song, Where the Country Girls At, the international superstar musician references his experience in NASCAR so far, which included being the Grand Marshal for the Daytona 500, the series’ biggest race of the year.

Pitbull officially joined the NASCAR world in January, when he announced his ownership stake with the new premier series team, which is co-owned by Justin Marks with Daniel Suárez behind the wheel of the No. 99 Chevrolet.

The team made its NASCAR debut in the season-opening Daytona 500 in February, and at the time, Pitbull said he views NASCAR, like music, as a universal language because “everybody loves a fast car and a great story.”

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Just after the two-minute mark in the song, Pitbull’s shoutouts are in the third verse following Adkins’ and Byran’s verses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl4Uq8qadwI

The NASCAR-related lyrics are:

I’m at the NASCAR epicenter, Daytona 500
Grand Marshal, Trackhouse represent
White cones at the stage, I’m in the suite
Next to the greatest of all time, baby, MJ

Pitbull is, of course, talking about Michael Jordan, the other international superstar who recently joined NASCAR’s ownership ranks with 23XI Racing, co-owned by driver Denny Hamlin with Bubba Wallace behind the wheel of the No. 23 Toyota.

The 40-year-old musician nicknamed Mr. Worldwide has been spotted at NASCAR races throughout the 2021 season, and he always seems like he’s having a great time.

Here are some highlights, starting with the pump-up speech he gave Trackhouse Racing before the Coca-Cola 600:

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6 NASCAR storylines to keep in mind going into the 2021 Cup Series season

A summary of what you need to know before the first green flag of the 2021 NASCAR season.

Big things are happening in NASCAR, as the 2021 Cup Series season is set to start with Sunday’s Daytona 500.

With a totally revamped schedule that includes tracks that are new to NASCAR, several high-profile drivers with different teams and high-profile celebrities joining the ownership ranks — plus the continuing challenge of racing during the COVID-19 pandemic — it’s a lot for fans to keep track of.

So ahead of NASCAR’s nine-month season, here’s a breakdown of six top storylines to keep in mind throughout the year, from two-time Cup Series champ Kyle Busch’s potential to bounce back after a subpar 2020 to the upcoming Silly Season as drivers look to avoid becoming free agents.

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For Pitbull, becoming a NASCAR team owner with Daniel Suárez driving is a ‘revolution’

“Everybody loves a fast car and a great story,” Pitbull said about becoming the co-owner of a NASCAR Cup Series team.

By his own admission, Pitbull believes in the laws of attraction.

The international superstar musician — whose real name is Armando Christian Pérez — said he believes those laws led to him first hearing about driver Daniel Suárez 10 years ago and ultimately united them on a new NASCAR Cup Series team, Trackhouse Racing.

Pitbull and former race car driver Justin Marks are the co-owners of the team, which will make its NASCAR debut in the 2021 season-opening Daytona 500 with Suárez as the team’s first driver behind the wheel of the No. 99 Chevrolet. The news of Pitbull’s ownership stake in the premier series team was announced in January on his 40th birthday, and the Miami native said he’s committed to utilizing NASCAR to continue bringing people together — the same way his music and philanthropy do.

“In the same way that music is a universal language, I also see NASCAR as a universal language,” Pitbull — who will be the Grand Marshal for the Daytona 500 on February 14 — said Tuesday. “Everybody loves a fast car and a great story.”

Pitbull said he always wanted to be the owner of a team; the sport didn’t matter. But after watching the 1990 Tom Cruise flick, Days of Thunder, he was hooked on NASCAR, calling it “the ultimate underdog story” and describing himself as the ultimate underdog.

He pointed to his humble Miami upbringing as the son of Cuban immigrants before becoming a superstar entertainer with millions of fans around the globe. It’s like Suárez’s story, Pitbull said, with the now-29-year-old driver leaving Mexico to race in the U.S. and becoming the first foreign-born NASCAR champion when he won the second-tier 2016 Xfinity Series title.

Together with Marks and Trackhouse Racing, they’re again underdogs with a new team attempting to compete against the powerhouses and attract new fans to the sport.

“NASCAR has no limits,” said Suárez, who’s entering his fifth Cup Series season with his fourth team and still looking for his first win. “Already we want to make this sport as wide as possible. We are not just talking about Mexico. We’re not just talking about Latin America. We’re talking about worldwide. Actually, that’s Pitbull’s nickname, Mr. Worldwide. So why not?”

“Seven, eight years ago,” Suárez added, “I was thinking to myself: ‘OK, I’m the only Mexican, the only Latino in NASCAR, the only guy that can speak Spanish. If I don’t try to do something to bring Latinos to the racetrack, who is going to do it?’”

Both Pitbull and Suárez said they were specifically interested in Trackhouse Racing because of Marks’ commitment to promoting education in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, for Latinx communities and people of color.

But pushing education is not new to Pitbull. In 2013, he opened a public charter school in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood where he grew up. It’s called the Sports Leadership And Management, or SLAM, and according to the SLAM Foundation, there are 10 schools in Florida, plus one in Atlanta and another near Las Vegas.

Of course, both Pitbull and Suárez want to be competitive on the track and contend for wins and maybe eventually championships.

But that, combined with the greater initiative of advancing STEM education, is why they’re all on the same team going into the 2021 season. They said without Trackhouse’s bigger-picture initiative, they wouldn’t be involved.

“This is deeper than sponsorships; this is a movement,” Pitbull said.

“This is a revolution/taking a sport and creating a culture because when we first opened SLAM, we had brought a NASCAR car to SLAM the first day eight years ago,” he continued. “If you would have seen the look on those kids’ faces when they saw that car, they just had no clue that it was actually something that was tangible.”

With Pitbull’s help and international platform — including more than 52 million Facebook followers and 25.5 million Twitter followers — Suárez said they’ll be able to “make this team something different, something young, something cool, something modern.”

And that’s just what Marks hopes for too.

In trying to build a foundation for Trackhouse Racing to have a successful, long-term future, Marks said any philanthropic work has to be a priority rather than an afterthought. So, even though it’s still in the early planning stages, the organization has a responsibility to assemble a legacy that empowers future generations, he said.

“The definition of success, at least early on, will be a STEM discipline experience set up at each and every one of Armando’s schools,” Marks said.

“Having thousands and thousands of kids be able to be exposed to this and use NASCAR to say, there is so much opportunity in this world. You can be engineers, mathematicians, scientists, you can build things. And not just STEM, but design, finance, entrepreneurism, all that.”

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Pitbull is now a co-owner of a new NASCAR team with Daniel Suárez behind the wheel

Pitbull is coming to NASCAR.

Throughout the last decade or so, it seemed like musician Pitbull was everywhere in sports, from Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby to the World Cup. And now, he’s getting involved in a different way beyond performing.

He’s joining NASCAR’s ownership ranks as the latest big-name celebrity to join the racing world.

In addition to Michael Jordan — who teamed up with Denny Hamlin to create 23XI Racing and put Bubba Wallace behind the wheel — Pitbull is now a co-owner of the newly formed team, Trackhouse Racing Team, the organization announced Friday on Twitter.

Trackhouse Racing is also owned by former driver Justin Marks — the founder of Trackhouse Entertainment Group, the name of Marks’ ownership group — and Daniel Suárez will be the team’s first driver when it makes its debut for the 2021 season, which begins with the Daytona 500 on February 14. Suárez will pilot the No. 99 Chevrolet.

For Suárez going into his fifth Cup Series season, Trackhouse Racing is his fourth team in four seasons. The Monterrey, Mexico native previously competed for Joe Gibbs Racing, Stewart-Haas Racing and Gaunt Brothers Racing, and he posted eight top-5 finishes and 32 top-10s.

He’s also the 2016 second-tier XFINITY Series champion.

Trackhouse Racing is currently a one-car team, and it will have a technical alliance with Richard Childress Racing, which allows Trackhouse to use its people, technology and engineering. Trackhouse will also use ECR Engines, which partnered with defending championship team Hendrick Motorsports to develop one common Chevrolet engine.

The new Cup Series team has said that promoting STEM education and opportunities is a “central” commitment, which was loosely referenced in the Twitter video announcing Pitbull’s co-ownership.

More via a Trackhouse release via NASCAR.com:

Through a sizable contribution from the Marks Family Foundation, as well as support from the team’s partners, Trackhouse will design and execute an immersive STEM education initiative aimed at exposing America’s underrepresented youth to career opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Using the spectacle of NASCAR racing as a curriculum platform, Trackhouse will work with school districts, community organizations and youth groups to build the most impactful roadmap for those who are inspired to pursue STEM careers.

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