Jeremy Clements has been suspended by nascar for comments made to a reporter on the day of the Nationwide race at Daytona. Initial reports didn’t specify the word used. When pressed at an ESPN interview, he had this to say:

Asked again, “Was it racial or not? Maybe not in context, but in term?” Clements replied: “Correct.” “When you say ‘racial’ remark, it wasn’t used to describe anybody or anything,” Clements said. “So that’s all I’m going to say to that.

I wonder if he used this one.

UPDATE:

From Jaysk, quoting the reporter who interviewed Clements:

“I was there to do a fish-out-of-water story about going to NASCAR and having a wild, crazy weekend. And, we were doing interviews with many of the drivers, and I was on the way to another interview  we were looking for [driver] Johanna Long’s trailer  and the NASCAR publicist called Mr. Clements over and asked him for help finding her,” Beckerman said. “He walked us toward where she was, and on the way over, I explained to him that Guy Code is rules for guys, how you treat your friends, how you treat your ladies, things like that. I was there to do a humor piece, so I asked him what would be Guy Code for race car drivers, and he blurted out [a phrase that used the n-word].”

Not sure how he got from Johanna Long to the n-word, but either way, this “Guy Code” thing sounds incredibly sexist (what do you expect from MTV?), and there is no excuse for using the n-word, even if you are trying to be humorous.