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Four Selected For NASCAR Drive For Diversity Youth Driver Development Program
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Four talented youth drivers have been selected to hone their racing skills as participants in the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Youth Driver Development Program after a national talent search in March.
NASCAR and Rev Racing hosted a youth driver combine at GoPro Motorplex in Mooresville, North Carolina, where drivers ages 12 to 16 were evaluated during practice sessions and heat races.
Four drivers were selected to the 2019 class, including Rajah Caruth, 16, an iRacing competitor from Washington D.C., with aspirations of a traditional racing career. Among the new participants are Lacy Kuehl, 12, of Sarasota, Florida, who has experience racing dirt oval flat karts, and Blake Lothian, 16, a World Formula Kart driver from Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Fourteen-year-old U.S. Legends car driver Isabella Robusto of Fort Mill, South Carolina, returns to Rev Racing having trained with the youth driver development program in 2017 and 2018.
“Each driver demonstrated strong potential and we believe will be successful in racing. The four selected stood out based on their abilities both on and off the track, have great experience and left quite the positive impression on our evaluators,” said Jusan Hamilton, the NASCAR director of racing operations and event management.
Rev Racing, the competition arm of the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Youth Driver Development Program, will put the four drivers in INEX Legend Cars in 2019. Each driver will compete in the Bojangles’ Summer Shootout at Charlotte Motor Speedway in June and July, and several other events throughout the summer.
The youth development program serves as a stepping stone for drivers to eventually move to NASCAR Whelen All-American Series and NASCAR K&N Pro Series race cars with the goal of one day competing for a NASCAR national series team.
For more information of the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Youth Driver Development Program, visit here.
In related NASCAR news, NASCAR officials have announced that all three national series will return to single-car qualifying at all oval tracks.
The adjustment brings an end to just over five years of the group qualifying format, which will remain for the series’ three road-course events.
For more on this story, visit NASCAR.com here.
NASCAR and Rev Racing hosted a youth driver combine at GoPro Motorplex in Mooresville, North Carolina, where drivers ages 12 to 16 were evaluated during practice sessions and heat races.
Four drivers were selected to the 2019 class, including Rajah Caruth, 16, an iRacing competitor from Washington D.C., with aspirations of a traditional racing career. Among the new participants are Lacy Kuehl, 12, of Sarasota, Florida, who has experience racing dirt oval flat karts, and Blake Lothian, 16, a World Formula Kart driver from Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Fourteen-year-old U.S. Legends car driver Isabella Robusto of Fort Mill, South Carolina, returns to Rev Racing having trained with the youth driver development program in 2017 and 2018.
“Each driver demonstrated strong potential and we believe will be successful in racing. The four selected stood out based on their abilities both on and off the track, have great experience and left quite the positive impression on our evaluators,” said Jusan Hamilton, the NASCAR director of racing operations and event management.
Rev Racing, the competition arm of the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Youth Driver Development Program, will put the four drivers in INEX Legend Cars in 2019. Each driver will compete in the Bojangles’ Summer Shootout at Charlotte Motor Speedway in June and July, and several other events throughout the summer.
The youth development program serves as a stepping stone for drivers to eventually move to NASCAR Whelen All-American Series and NASCAR K&N Pro Series race cars with the goal of one day competing for a NASCAR national series team.
For more information of the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Youth Driver Development Program, visit here.
In related NASCAR news, NASCAR officials have announced that all three national series will return to single-car qualifying at all oval tracks.
The adjustment brings an end to just over five years of the group qualifying format, which will remain for the series’ three road-course events.
For more on this story, visit NASCAR.com here.
