Rajah Caruth comments on the importance of increasing representation in NASCAR

This past weekend in Las Vegas, Rajah Caruth made history with his first career win in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. However, he doesn’t want the focus on that history to take from his personal accomplishments.

Rajah Caruth became just the third Black driver to win a NASCAR national series race. He joined Wendell Scott and Bubba Wallace on that shortlist.

Ideally, Caruth would like NASCAR to get to a point where it’s not a big deal when a Black driver or other minority accomplishes something in the sport. The Spire Motorsports driver talked about how he personally views the situation with Matt Weaver of Sportsnaut.

“I think honestly right, it’s authentic to my personality and how I grew up, right, but it also doesn’t necessarily define me, right? Hopefully, we continue over the years to continue to grow more representation, because we see it on our pit crews, we are starting to see it in race teams whether it be through our engineering, our PR departments, obviously at NASCAR, so hopefully, you start seeing it more through the drivers so that way that’s not the headline anymore it’s just like how good are our drivers.

“Just because you don’t see it in any other sport, right? For the most part. Naturally, that’s kind of through the origins of the sport though it’s continuing to change. I don’t really know, I think again it’s authentic to me, it’s part of my heritage and I’m proud of it but also it’s not like a whole personality trait of myself.”