Rajah Caruth made history on Friday (March 1) when he became the third Black driver to win a NASCAR national series race.
Caruth’s mistake-free race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway led to his first career win the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.
The Washington, D.C., native joined Spire Motorsports this season with sponsorship from HendrickCars.com, a deal that came together very last minute and that teams him up with Kyle Busch in five races. It’s Caruth’s second full season in Trucks and only his sixth driving real racecars after getting his start in iRacing.
Caruth has been mentored for several years by Bubba Wallace. That relationship was on full display after the season opener at Daytona International Speedway, when Wallace was seen on the broadcast lecturing Caruth after he was involved in a multi-truck pileup at the end. Wallace then discussed the matter further on the podcast Door Bumper Clear.
Just hours before the Vegas win, Frontstretch caught up with the 21-year-old to chat all of the above and more.
Michael Massie, Frontstretch: You and I have a little bit of a background in iRacing, running Monday Night Racing together. The most important question is who wrecked more people? You or me?
Rajah Caruth: Oh, me, 100%. I will say, I’m the type to own up to my mistakes, and I have crashed a lot of people on iRacing. But I can say 100% it has never been on purpose besides maybe like one time, and that was with Anthony [Alfredo]. But otherwise, anytime I’ve crashed somebody it’s never been on purpose. I can 100% say that.
Massie: Now that you’re doing Trucks full time, I know you use iRacing to help prep for races, but do you still have free time to get on there and goof off?
Caruth: Definitely. I was on the night before we flew here [to Vegas]. It’s a good cornerstone of my week to race on there, just to refresh myself with the racetrack.
The trucks on iRacing is not super realistic compared to real life, especially with the mile-and-a-halfs. But some of the places like the road courses and some of the other tracks, it’s not terrible at all.
So above all, I like driving the Next Gen stuff, like in the B-fixed. And honestly, this winter, I’ve done a lot of like road racing with the Dallaras, with the Ferraris, just trying to be a little bit better of a road racer. So although we only go to COTA [Circuit of the Americas]…
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