Emotional Bubba Wallace reflects on becoming NASCAR’s second Black Cup Series race winner: ‘It’s pretty damn cool’
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 5, 2021
Bubba Wallace on Monday became just the second Black driver in the history of NASCAR to win a race at its highest level of competition, driving to victory in a rain-shortened YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.
With his first Cup Series win, Wallace joins Wendell Scott as the only Black drivers to accomplish the feat; Scott was the first, winning the 1964 Jacksonville 200 on Dec. 1, 1963.
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