BREAKING NEWS: Nascar driver without license Rajah Caruth is the wan who…

WASHINGTON – Rajah Caruth has navigated cars on racetracks at speeds of 150 mph. He has rubbed elbows with racing legends and may one day be a regular on the NASCAR circuit. But to his mother, Samantha Caruth, he is a 17-year-old with a learner’s permit whose recent run to the mall in the family Acura left her uncomfortable.

“He has this habit of using both his feet while he’s driving,” Samantha Caruth said recently. “He made me nervous.”

No, the lanky, soon-to-be high school graduate doesn’t yet own a driver’s license (he earned his permit last July), but he might already be the best race car driver in Washington.

Caruth is one of six drivers who was selected to participate in the 2020 NASCAR Drive for Diversity Driver Development Program, which is designed to help diversify motorsports and has helped launch the careers of current NASCAR drivers Bubba Wallace (second place in the 2018 Daytona 500), Kyle Larson (2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Rookie of the Year) and Daniel Suarez (2015 NASCAR Xfinity Series Rookie of the Year)

For Caruth, who will represent Rev Racing, his first season racing late-model cars was scheduled to begin this weekend at South Boston Speedway in Virginia. But the NASCAR season (along with much of the rest of the sports world) is currently on hold because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

His debut will have to wait.

“Nothing in my lifetime is comparable to what’s happening now,” Caruth said. “It’s impacted everyone, and we all have to adapt. When everything’s ready to pick up, I’ll be ready.”

Caruth said he’s been ready since he was a child, recalling when his father took him to the theater to see the movie Cars, the computer-animated film about auto racing. “I was only 3 or 4 at the time,” Caruth said. “But that movie stuck with me.”

His devotion to cars — especially fast cars — became more evident in a fifth-grade journal entry. “I want to win the Daytona 500 and be a cup series driver,” Caruth wrote.

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