US NASCAR star Kyle Larson used a racial slur on a live stream during a virtual race — the second driver in a week to draw scrutiny while using the online racing platform to fill time during the coronavirus pandemic.

Larson was competing in an iRacing event on Sunday night when he appeared to lose communication on his headset with his spotter. During a check of his microphone, he said: “You can’t hear me?” That was followed by the N-word.

Bubba Wallace one week earlier “rage quit” an official Nascar iRacing event televised live nationally and his sponsor fired him immediately. Wallace had been wrecked and, fed up, quit the game. He admitted it was out of anger on Twitter. 

Blue-Emu, a topical pain reliever who had sponsored Wallace for the virtual race and has an association with him on the track, replied to the tweet, firing him.