Rajah Caruth
Rajah Kirby Caruth (born June 11, 2002) is an American professional stock car racing driver.On March 1, 2024, Caruth won the 2024 Victoria's Voice Foundation 200, becoming the third Black driver to win in one of NASCAR's three national series, joining Wendell Scott and Bubba Wallace.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] In 2020, Caruth moved up to the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series, where he won his first career late model race at Greenville-Pickens Speedway and ended the rest of the season with 3 top 5s and 9 top 10s in a total of 19 late model starts.[5][6] On February 3, 2021, Caruth announced that he would run full-time in the ARCA Menards Series East for Rev Racing, and will compete for Rookie of the Year honors.On August 30, 2021, Caruth announced that he would drive full-time in the 2022 ARCA Menards Series season with Rev Racing.[16] At the Pocono race, Caruth was involved in a vicious wreck with Alex Labbé on the first lap, resulting in another last-place finish.[19] On January 27, 2023, Caruth announced that he would return to Alpha Prime Racing for the 2023 season, running another partial schedule.[31] On the final lap of the season-opener at Daytona, Caruth drifted up the racetrack at the exit of turn two, spinning out Jack Wood and collecting numerous trucks.Caruth was born in Atlanta, Georgia to a Vincentian father and a Vincentian-Barbadian mother,[37] but was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and Washington, D.C.* Season still in progress 1 Ineligible for series points (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.
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