Darrell Wallace Jr. | |||||||
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Wallace at Road America in 2016
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Born |
Mobile, Alabama |
October 8, 1993 ||||||
Awards | 2010 K&N Pro Series East Rookie of the Year | ||||||
NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
78 races run over 5 years | |||||||
Car no., team | No. 6 (Roush Fenway Racing) | ||||||
2016 position | 11th | ||||||
Best finish | 7th (2015) | ||||||
First race | 2012 Pioneer Hi-Bred 250 (Iowa) | ||||||
Last race | 2017 My Bariatric Solutions 300 (Texas) | ||||||
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career | |||||||
43 races run over 2 years | |||||||
2014 position | 3rd | ||||||
Best finish | 3rd (2014) | ||||||
First race | 2013 NextEra Energy Resources 250 (Daytona) | ||||||
Last race | 2014 Ford EcoBoost 200 (Homestead) | ||||||
First win | 2013 Kroger 200 (Martinsville) | ||||||
Last win | 2014 Ford EcoBoost 200 (Homestead) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of April 8, 2017. |
Darrell Wallace Jr. (born October 8, 1993), also known as Bubba Wallace, is an American professional driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 6 Ford Mustang for Roush Fenway Racing. Previously Wallace was signed as a development driver for Joe Gibbs Racing where Wallace competed in the Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 54 Toyota Tundra for Kyle Busch Motorsports.
The son of a white father and black mother, Wallace was born in Mobile, Alabama but grew up in Concord, North Carolina. He started racing in the Bandolero and Legends car racing series, as well as local late model events, at the age of nine. In 2005, he won 35 of the Bandolero Series' 48 races held that year; in 2008 he became the youngest driver to win at Franklin County Speedway in Virginia.
In 2010, Wallace began competing in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, a regional and developmental series. Wallace drove for Rev Racing as part of NASCAR's Drive for Diversity program, and was signed as a development driver for Joe Gibbs Racing. He won his very first race in the series, at Greenville-Pickens Speedway, becoming the youngest driver ever to win at the track, as well as the first black driver to win there; he was also the youngest and first African-American driver to win in the history of the series, which began as the Busch North Series in 1987. He also won later in the year at Lee USA Speedway in New Hampshire, on his way to finishing third in series points and winning the series' Rookie of the Year award. He was the first black to win the Rookie of the Year award in a NASCAR series. Wallace's 2011 season would see him winning three times, at Richmond International Raceway, Columbus Motor Speedway, and Dover International Speedway, and he finished second in points to Max Gresham.