Black Nascar Driver

[SlavesandBulldozers]

has there ever been a black Nascar driver? I'm doing a paper on african-americans in motor sport and I need some data ;). Thanks in advance.

[greyfox]

1. Yes, there has....

and his name escapes me now... check the net and I will, too...

[hippiechick]

2. Not NASCAR, but Willy T Ribbs ran the Indy 500

... and some of the sportscar series races in the early 80's ...

and a couple years back, Bill Cosby was part owner of a car that didn't qualify for the 500. Not sure who the driver was.

[punpirate]

3. Yes, NASCAR....

Look up Wendell Scott. Richard Pryor made a movie based on his life story about twenty years ago.

Cheers.

[greyfox]

4. That's him... and also...

http://www.generalmills.com/corporate/media_center/news_release_detail.aspx?itemID=2182&catID=227

[hippiechick]

7. Too Groovy ! Thanks to you and Punpirate !

I learned something today ! :hi:



:hippie:

[punpirate]

21. You might want to check out the movie...

... if it's on TV or on video. Called "Greased Lightning," made in the late `70s, early `80s, maybe. It's a good cast and a so-so script. Even Richie Havens has a bit part in it as one of Scott's mechanics.

Cheers.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

6. thank you

i vaguely remember this movie. thought it was fiction.

[greyfox]

10. Not at all....

I knew Wendell and it blew my mind I could not think of his name after all these years -- he was a super nice guy... very humble )of course the time called for it)....

[auburngrad82]

20. Wendell Scott actually won a NASCAR race

but the NASCAR folks refused to give him the trophy. After the race track had emptied they gave him the prize money but they wouldn't publicly acknowledge that he was the winner.

[ohio_liberal]

17. Willy T Ribbs

drove in the NASCAR Craftsman truck series also.

Edited to add:

Ribbs is the first African American in the modern era to compete full time in a major NASCAR division.

http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=169&category=sportsMakers

[Lugnut]

22. Bill Lester

Is a former sports car racer who is now in the Craftsman Truck Series. There is also a very talented young man coming through the ranks who was just signed to a development contract with Hendrick Motorsports (think Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson). I can't pull his name off the top of my head right this minute but he's about 15 years old and his dad owns his late model dirt race team.

[auburngrad82]

18. Willy Ribbs tried his hand at NASCAR in the mid-eighties

He was a very good roadtrack driver but couldn't quite get the stock cars to go fast enough to qualify for a race. I suspect his heart just wasn't in oval tracks.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

5. got one

"Morty Buckles and the team will be Miller Racing Group"

http://www.pointedmagazine.com/010218nascarblack.htm

[Jennie125]

8. i can drive a car fast too

Today 3 Nascar drivers are coming to my work to sign autographs. I am thinking ebay ebay ebay....

[SlavesandBulldozers]

9. ask them about aa's in nascar

id be interested in seeing their reaction.

[ret5hd]

11. why there will never be a black Nascar driver:

warning: language

http://albinoblacksheep.com/audio/nascar.php

(hey maybe there was but these are REAL rednecks)

[zbdent]

13. Seems to me, a black man in the South driving a fast car with

a lot of white men driving fast cars chasing after him usually has nothing to do with organized auto racing and more like trying to avoid a neck stretching . . .

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

12. Also...

I think Magic Johnson serves on NASCAR's efforts to make racing more minority friendly

[Blue_Tires]

14. look at last week's AutoWeek magazine

GREAT story about the past and future of blacks in motorsports

[theboss]

15. There is going to be one soon

I can't remember the kid's name, but he is a teenage motocorss star who is moving into Nascar.

[muffin_man]

16. There is and has been for awhile..

Been driving for about 3-4 years now.Bill Lester. Drives the #22 Toyota truck for Bill Davis racing. The truck series is Nascar. Its not Nextel cup but you asked for an AA Nascar driver. Here he is.....



http://www.billlester.com/news.php?pageName=archive

[Darknyte7]

19. Google...

Wendell Scott...