Bubba Wallace

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Bubba Wallace in August 2019

Darrell "Bubba" Wallace Jr. (born October 8, 1993 in Mobile , Alabama ) is an American NASCAR racing driver.

Career

Wallace, who was born in Alabama, grew up in Concord , North Carolina . At the age of nine he started in races in the Bandolero car racing and Legends car racing classes. In 2013 he entered the NextEra Energy Resources 250 race of the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series for the first time . On October 26, 2013, he became the first dark-skinned driver to win a NASCAR race since 1963. Wallace was victorious at Martinsville Speedway .

Wallace first appeared in the NASCAR Cup Series in the 2017 season .

In the course of the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd , Wallace became known nationwide. He was committed to Black Lives Matter and the removal of the Confederate States flag at competitive events, whereupon a rope was found in Wallace's garage in the pit lane on June 21, 2020. However, the FBI soon expressed doubts about the authenticity of the story, which was not classified as a hate crime, since the alleged gallows rope has been hanging in the box as a pulling rope for the garage door since at least October 2019, after evaluating older photos.

Trivia

In the movie Cars 3: Evolution Wallace dubbed the character Bubba Wheelhouse.

Web links

Commons : Bubba Wallace  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nate Ryan: Darrell Wallace Jr. makes NASCAR history with victory. Retrieved June 24, 2020 (American English).
  2. ^ A b Süddeutsche Zeitung: Nascar: Bubba Wallace not a victim of a hate crime. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
  3. ^ Maria Cramer: Bubba Wallace Wants NASCAR to Ban the Confederate Flag . In: The New York Times . June 9, 2020, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 24, 2020]).
  4. ↑ NASCAR says noose found in garage Wallace's. June 22, 2020, accessed June 24, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Christina Maxouris CNN: Bubba Wallace responds to FBI findings: 'Whether tied in 2019, or whatever, it was a noose'. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
  6. ↑ 'Cars 3' to feature 12 NASCAR personalities. February 23, 2017, accessed June 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wallace, Bubba
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallace Jr., Darrell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American NASCAR racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Mobile , Alabama