Rajah Caruth has had a really promising begin in his racing profession.
The Winston-Salem State scholar has already secured a full-time journey for the 2024 season. He’ll return to the Craftsman Truck Collection, becoming a member of Spire Motorsports, and can drive their No. 71 Chevy Silverado.
Jeff Dickerson, Spire Motorsports’ co-owner, was additionally impressed with the younger driver.
“Rajah Caruth is an distinctive younger man. He’s a really proficient driver with a vivid future. He’s younger in his profession, however he’s mature past his years.”
Carruth joined NASCAR’s Drive for Range, an academy-style coaching program designed to coach rising, proficient drivers from various backgrounds and supply them with teaching, mentoring, and improvement.
Chatting with WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, Caruth shed some gentle on what sparked his curiosity in racing.
“From the Automobiles motion pictures, I’ve seen them after I was youthful, to gathering diecast toys, actually as I grew older after which going to my first race after I turned 12, taking part in video video games on Ps, after which getting my begin in racing after I was 16 years previous,” Carruth mentioned.
In 2020, when he was simply 18 years previous, Caruth recorded ten high 10 finishes, three high finishes, and a win in 19 begins in NASCAR’s Late Mannequin collection.
In 2021, Carruth received three Late Mannequin races and ran a part-time schedule within the ARCA Menards Collection. That very same yr, Caruth additionally was honored with the Wendell Scott Trailblazer Award. Named after the primary Black man to race full-time and win a race in NASCAR’s premier collection, the award honors a younger minority driver within the sports activities’ Advance Auto Components Weekly collection who’s overcoming obstacles within the forging of their path as they climb the game’s ranks.
Caruth beforehand ran the total ARCA Menards Collection East Schedule, the place he tallied two high 5 finishes and 5 high 10 placings. His finest end was when he got here in third at Southern Nationwide Motorsports Park. Caruth additionally noticed seat time in 5 ARCA Menards Collection nationwide races, incomes a high 5 and 4 high 10 placements, together with his finest effort being a third-place end at Salem Speedway.
He competed within the ARCA Menard Collection in 2022 once more, ending third within the season factors standings. He additionally certified for seven races within the Xfinity Collection, NASCAR’s second-highest division, with a finest end of twelfth at Martinsville Speedway. He additionally made 4 begins within the NASCAR Craftsman Truck collection, together with his high end being eleventh at World Extensive Know-how Raceway.
Final season, Caruth joined GMS racing and ran a full-time schedule within the NASCAR Craftsman Truck collection. Piloting their No. 24 truck, Caruth achieved 4 top-10 finishes and was sixteenth within the season’s factors standings. He additionally ran part-time within the Xfinity Collection, his finest finishes being sixteenth at Darlington and twelfth at Martinsville.
Caruth debuted with Hendrick Motorsports, one of many sport’s most profitable and outstanding groups, within the Xfinity season finale, coming dwelling 14th on the Phoenix Raceway.
The 2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection will take its first inexperienced flag of the season on Friday within the Recent From Florida 250 on the Daytona Worldwide Speedway.
