Bubba Wallace wins NASCAR Cup race

Bubba Wallace won the rain-shortened YellaWood 500 astatine Talladega Superspeedway Monday.

With the victory, NASCAR says Wallace became the archetypal Black operator to triumph a Cup Series contention since Wendell Scott successful 1963. It was besides Wallace's archetypal successful the NASCAR Cup Series.

Wallace took the pb close earlier the rainfall came. NASCAR said Wallace led 5 of the 117 laps. The contention was scheduled for 190 laps, but officials called it disconnected owed to the rain, and the unlikelihood that the way would adust speedy capable aft the rainfall stopped.

The contention was primitively scheduled for Monday, but dense rains forced it to beryllium pushed backmost until Monday.

Wallace became an outspoken advocator successful NASCAR past year. He drove a Black Lives Matter car successful enactment of radical justice. He besides got NASCAR to prohibition Confederate flags.

The FBI besides investigated aft Wallace's squad recovered what appeared to beryllium a noose hanging from his garage. The FBI aboriginal determined that Wallace was not the people of a hatred crime. They said the rope, which was fashioned similar a noose, had been hanging from the store for months.