What a historical day for Darrell Wallace and nascar!

[elifromlovelady]

Bubba finished 2nd in the Daytona 500. He became the 1st black NASCAR driver since 1971 to start the 500. He had the best finish for a black man since 1963, and the 2nd black driver to have a top 10 (Wendell Scott) and he will be the 1st black man to drive a full season in MENCS since Scott last drove in 1971.  

 

I think this is great! Hopefully this will end the stereotype that NASCAR is a bunch of southern white rednecks. We need diversity. 

[Coach Rab]

12 hours ago, elifromlovelady said:

Bubba finished 2nd in the Daytona 500. He became the 1st black NASCAR driver since 1971 to start the 500. He had the best finish for a black man since 1963, and the 2nd black driver to have a top 10 (Wendell Scott) and he will be the 1st black man to drive a full season in MENCS since Scott last drove in 1971.  

 

I think this is great! Hopefully this will end the stereotype that NASCAR is a bunch of southern white rednecks. We need diversity. 

NASCAR has a lot of southern redneck white fans...  not so much drivers... a black man with strong finishes will help diversify the fan base the same way Tiger did golf.

[Stoney]

Bubba Wallace can race. Simple as that. This ain’t Danica wrecking cars every week to get demographics.

[Coach Rab]

3 hours ago, stoneykelly said:

Bubba Wallace can race. Simple as that. This ain’t Danica wrecking cars every week to get demographics.

Gosh she was a disaster in NASCAR... but she wasn't that bad in Indy... what is it about NASCAR that makes her decisions and reactions so much different and worse than INDY Cars?

[trueblue82]

On 2/19/2018 at 2:29 PM, MavGrad99 said:

Gosh she was a disaster in NASCAR... but she wasn't that bad in Indy... what is it about NASCAR that makes her decisions and reactions so much different and worse than INDY Cars?

Crew Chief Harry Hogg from “Days of Thunder”: “Now Cole, when you was runnin’ Indy cars, the tarrrs was twice as wide, and the car weighed half as much. Now, the tarrrs is half as wide, and the car weighs twice as much.”  Long story short, the smaller, harder tires combined with a much heavier car reduces the margin for error. That, combined with a driver who has absolutely no knowledge of what they need as far as setup, nor how to describe what they feel in the car, or how they need it to feel, is a recipe for disaster. She went from racing go-carts to Indy cars for a couple years to Nationwide to Cup. Not near enough time to learn what a driver needs. Most of the drivers who succeed in NASCAR spend quite a bit of time racing on dirt tracks. (Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon) This translates well to stock cars because they spend so much time sideways. You rarely see an Indy car driver go straight to stock cars without a lot of torn up sheet metal.