Autistic race car driver Cody Ware arrested for assault

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Cody Ware of the NASCAR Cup Series has been arrested on assault charges and has been suspended indefinitely by NASCAR.

In a rather troubling development, 27-year-old Cody Ware, a full-time driver in the NASCAR Cup Series, missed Sunday’s race because he had been arrested on assault charges.

Reports indicate he allegedly assaulted a female and inflicted serious injury on her in North Carolina.

Ware drives full-time for Rick Ware Racing in the Cup Series, a team owned by his father, Rick. He has been in the sports’ highest series on a full-time basis since 2021 after debuting back in 2016. His best career finish came in August of 2022 at the Daytona race when he finished sixth.

Ware had previously tweeted out (in 2018) that he deals with severe depression and anxiety, followed up three months later with a Facebook post announcing that he has Asperger syndrome.

Cody Ware, who was suspended by NASCAR after being arrested on separate counts of felony assault by strangulation and misdemeanor assault on a female on April 10, is now facing additional charges against him. He was released after posting a $3,000 bond.

Friday (April 14), Ware turned himself back to Iredell County Detention Center for additional misdemeanor charges: assault inflicting serious injury and communicating threats. His bond for the additional charges is placed at $5,000.

Both the previous charges and the new charges following an ICSO investigation are a result of actions that took place on April 3 when a woman called 9-1-1 and reported domestic assault according to the ICSO.