Let’s look at some NASCAR history, shall we?
This is about Wendell Scott, black driver in NASCAR.
In 1961, he moved up to the Grand National Series. In the 1963 season, he finished 15th in points, and on December 1 of that year, driving a Chevrolet Bel Air that he purchased from Ned Jarrett, he won a race on the half-mile dirt track at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Florida—the first (and, to date, only) Grand National event won by an African-American (Darrell Wallace Jr. recently became the second African-American driver in NASCAR’s top 3 series to win with his 2013 Kroger 200 win at Martinsville). Scott passed Richard Petty, who was driving an ailing car, with 25 laps remaining for the win. Scott was not announced as the winner of the race at the time, presumably due to the racist culture of the time. Buck Baker, the second-place driver, was initially declared the winner, but race officials discovered two hours later that Scott had not only won, but was two laps in front of the rest of the field.[9] NASCAR awarded Scott the win two years later, but his family never actually received the trophy he had earned until 2010–47 years after the race, and 20 years after Scott had died.[3][10]
Relevant to today and this driver’s accusations how? I believe it has been proven that the particular non slip knot not noose was in use for months on a number of garages doors not just his.
Wendell Scott was a badass. Built his own cars, ran his own team on a shoestring, and had to deal with *real* discrimination in the Jim Crow era. The other drivers respected the hell out of him.
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