Rajah Caruth

Rajah Caruth, a product of the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Driver Development Program, competes full-time for Spire Motorsports in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Caruth competed part-time for Alpha Prime Racing during the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series season. Caruth scored his first career win at Las Vegas, becoming the third Black driver to win a national series race alongside Wendell Scott and Bubba Wallace. Caruth was named the 2021 Wendell Scott Trailblazer Award recipient in the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series, an award based on a driver‘s final Weekly Series national standing and on-track performance, sportsmanship and community service. (From nascar.com)

Rajah first got his love for racing after watching Disney Pixar's Cars as a kid. When he was 12, his parents surprised him with a trip to the NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway in September. In 2018, while juggling from school, basketball, track, and a summer job, Caruth and his family fundraised an iRacing sim, and once he turned 16 on June 11, he began racing virtually in the eNASCAR Ignite Series. Rajah was able to catch the attention of the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Program, which resulted in him having a shot to race in a legends car at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 2019 for the Bojangles' Southern Shootout. Rajah ended his rookie season getting two top 10s, and ending up 13th in the Semi-pro points. (From Wikipedia)