Rajah Caruth finds victory lane as NASCAR profile grows
by Afro
Afro— Rajah Caruth, a 21-year-old student at Winston-Salem State University, has become the third Black driver to win one of NASCAR's three national series, after winning the 2024 Victoria's Voice Foundation 200.
Los Angeles Times—How do you follow up 'Drive My Car'? Director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi finds a new lane. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi has never felt an affinity for the great outdoors. “I didn’t really have a relationship with nature growing up,” the Japanese writer-director says from Tokyo over Zoom through an interpreter. “I wasn’t a Boy Scout. I barely went camping.” Little wonder, then, that the 45-year-old filmmaker behind 2021’s Oscar-winning “Drive My Car” has primarily set his character-driven stories in cities. Which is just one reason his latest stunner is so striking: “Evil Does Not Exist” (now in...
ESPN—Ryan Truex goes back-to-back at Dover for 2nd NASCAR victory. DOVER, Del. -- Make it three straight NASCAR wins for the Truex kids at the Monster Mile. Ryan Truex won the Xfinity Series race Saturday at...
GQ—Michael Jordan Wore a $2 Million Watch to Celebrate His NASCAR Team’s Victory. A couple of things you might not know about Michael Jordan: The GOAT co-owns a NASCAR team and absolutely loves his watches. (And we mean really loves ‘em—we’re talking about a man who got on the Datograph train well over 20 years ago.) Those two disparate worlds collided this week when MJ was spotted celebrating his 23XI team’s latest victory at the GEICO 500 with a rare, ludicrously expensive timepiece on his wrist: the Purnell Escape II Absolute Sapphire Blue Moon. Purnell, a Genevan producer...