Bubba Wallace turns into 1st Black driver to win NASCAR Cup Collection since 1963

“Talladega, we’re winners,” Wallace mentioned in a video posted on the Twitter account of Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway, the place the race passed off. “What an ideal weekend, or weekday, I ought to say. I simply knew one thing about it.”

Wallace was born in Alabama. And final 12 months on the similar observe, he discovered a noose in his storage stall, prompting an FBI hate-crime investigation.

“It is fairly becoming that it comes right here in Talladega,” he mentioned.

“It was a noose,” Wallace mentioned. “Whether or not tied in 2019 or no matter, it was a noose. So, it wasn’t directed at me however any person tied a noose. That is what I am saying.”

Requested on Monday what it meant to turn out to be the second Black driver to win the Cup Collection race, Wallace grew to become emotional.

“I by no means take into consideration these issues, and whenever you, whenever you say it like that, actually it brings a number of emotion, a number of pleasure, to my household, followers, associates. It is fairly rattling cool.”

This was Wallace’s first 12 months driving for 23XI Racing. The victory can be the primary for Jordan as an proprietor.