Bubba Wallace’s Talladega winning car set to displayed at Charlotte’s NASCAR Hall of Fame


Bubba Wallace’s Talladega winning car set to displayed at Charlotte’s NASCAR Hall of Fame

Bubba Wallace wins the 2021 Talladega YellaWood 500

NASCAR’s sole full-time black cup series driver Bubba Wallace is one of the most followed personas of the sport and he is only the second black driver to win a Cup Series race after Wendell Scott in the 60s. Darrel Wallace Jr. AKA Bubba Wallace had to go through a lot in his effort to perform well at the elite level of the white-dominated sports.

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This means Wallace has been the voice for the voiceless in NASCAR and he has been that throughout which attracted both criticism and praise for him. He was instrumental in NASCAR’s diversity initiative and its ban of the Confederate flag at races.

Now he has yet another historic feat to his name as his 23X1 racing Talladega, YellaWood 500 winning car to its displays for some time. This will be his second car to have indited to Hall of Fame displays the first one being his winning truck from the 2013 Camping World Truck Series in Martinsville, Virginia, the first f six wins that season.

Bubba Wallace's car
Bubba Wallace’s Talladega winning, No 23, (23X1 Racing car) displayed at Charlotte’s NASCAR Hall of Fame

Find out what executive director of the Hall of Fame Winston Kelley had to say about the induction of Bubba Wallace’s car

Winston Kelley
Executive director, NASCAR Hall of Fame Winston Kelley

Winston Kelley who is the executive manager of the NASCAR Hall of Fame acknowledged that Bubba Wallace’s car is iconic in many different ways one of its being the fact that he is only the second black driver after Wendell Scott to get a win a cup series race. He also acknowledged the part played by industry relations manager, Wendy Belk who pointed out that Bubba Wallces car is the last of its generation to win a race in superspeedway.

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“It’s the first time that an African American has won at the cup level since December of 1963 when 2015 inductee Wendell Scott won a race in Jacksonville, Florida,” Winston Kelley, said.

“That would have been the last race that this superspeedway car would have been run in this generation car. Wendy knew that it would not be going back out onto the track and 23XI Racing, co-owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin, were certainly willing to let us have it for a bit of time before it goes back into theirs and Bubba’s possession,” Winston Kelley added.

Bubba Wallace joins one of the Historic NASCAR figures, Wendell Scott, in Hall of Fame exhibits

Wendell Scott
Wendell Scott

Wendell Scott hailed from a segregated South in the ’60s, had to go through a lot to make his mark in NASCAR alongside his two sons. Being black he wasn’t allowed to stay in hotels or eat at restaurants like his fellow drivers and had to rebuild and fix his cars by himself alone.

All of the works turned out to be successful in 1963 as he won a cup series race in Jacksonville, Florida. The legend was indicted to NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2015 and the Hall of Fame has displays of a replica of the car Scott drove in the 1960s, along with the tools which he made by himself.

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