BY JENNA FRYER
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Rajah Caruth was like any other 4-year-old boy the first time he watched the movies “Cars” and vowed to become his own version of Lightning McQueen.
He was, his family insists, obsessed with becoming a racecar driver. He just wasn’t sure he would ever get there.
Just days after HendrickCars.com signed on to sponsor the 21-year-old Caruth for the entire 2024 season, he earned his first career NASCAR national series victory in Friday night’s Truck Series Race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Caruth joined Wendell Scott and Bubba Wallace as the only Black drivers to win at NASCAR’s national level.
Born in Atlanta in a Caribbean household and raised in Washington, D.C., racing cars wasn’t really within his reach, even after his first in-person trip to a track — Richmond Raceway in Virginia in 2014 — only fueled his desire.
Just like reigning
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