So if Max Siegel buys DEI is there a black driver that could be a possible driver for DEI?

Question

The link below says Max could be the one buying it with the help of investors.

http://captainthunderracing.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5460

Answer 1

Is there a back seat in those NASCAR cars?

Answer 2

I don't think so. And besides, DEI already has drivers.

JGR might be looking for a black driver though.

Answer 3

If a white guy buys a basketball team will he hire white players even if they are not as good??? Same thing.

Answer 4

Does skin color really matter if the person can actually run well?

Answer 5

Bill Lester? There may be some in development that we just haven't heard of yet.

Answer 6

Maybe he'll make a deal with RWR to get 18 yr old Chase Austin (although he is mixed) - still needs to get some nationwide races under his belt - but maybe he could finish his development at DEI. There are a couple more drivers in development at JGR too,but I can't think of who they are. Only know of Chase Austin because he came up the ranks with Logano.

Logano, Austin might soon take rivalry to NASCAR's highest level

By Brant James, Times Staff Writer

In print: Saturday, May 31, 2008

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DAYTONA BEACH — The current embodiments of NASCAR's long-term future sat about five strides apart, facing each other in directors' chairs during a media session at Daytona International Speedway in February. When foot traffic provided a slot, one would lean to see what the other was doing.

They've been doing that for years, Joey Logano and Chase Austin, on Charlotte kart tracks and minor-league stock car circuits. They hope to take their friendly rivalry to NASCAR's highest level very soon.

"It would be pretty cool,'' Logano said of possibly racing against his best friend for a few more decades. "We always talk about that stuff. We'll race each other clean all day, but if it's coming to the line, I told him, 'I'm going to door-slam you a few times.' ''

Logano likely will get there first. The self-described "string bean" of a wunderkind has spent three years beating adults and convincing drivers such as Mark Martin he's ready for Sprint Cup right now. Today, just days after turning 18 and meeting NASCAR's minimum age requirement, Logano makes his top-three NASCAR series debut in a Nationwide series race at Dover. His first start for Joe Gibbs Racing has been anticipated since he was 15 and became the youngest to win in the minor league USAR series — in just his second start.

Austin, also 18 but eight months older, a former member of the Hendrick Motor­sports developmental program (at age 14) still has work to do. While Logano was winning the NASCAR East championship last year, Austin was still trying to recover from the dissolution of the Hendrick feeder system. He languished as other opportunities fell through and relied on his family to fund whatever racing they could afford. A member of the Rusty Wallace Racing developmental program since last spring, he will generate the same level of excitement as Logano if he makes it to Sprint Cup.

Austin would be the third full-time African-American driver in NASCAR's 61-year history. Having made his Nationwide debut last year at Memphis, he's scheduled to run four Nationwide races for RWR this season, beginning in New Hampshire in June, but the family isn't certain of anything anymore until it happens, said his mother, Marianne.

"We just keep digging," she said. The family is paying to subsidize Austin's Late Model career.

Cognizant of how much responsibility the sport could eventually foist upon them, Logano and Austin say they are still just kids. They like it that way. Racing, they say frequently, is more fun than work.

"I love racing," Austin said, "so I would have kept going as long as I could if the (RWR) opportunity had come by or not

Answer 7

It would be cool to see Bill Lester get into a good ride,he definitely knows how to drive.But all that I have heard is that they are only looking for investors .

Answer 8

They'd have to buy the contract of a Gibbs development driver.

But I don't understand why Siegel is required for an African-American driver to drive to DEI.

Answer 9

ya i guess he could drive but owners usally dont drive some do tho

Answer 10

The only black driver that has competed in Nascar in some time was Bill Lester. He moved to sports car racing now. I doubt any black driver will rise through the sport that quick, but Lewis Hamilton could come to nascar.

Answer 11

I don't know what some of you so caled intelligent people problems are. There have been 2 african american drivers in nascar with limited success. Nascar as a whole has done more to reach ou to the black, ispanic and whatever other 'special interest group" there is out there thru a diversity progrsam. has the nba, mlb  football,soccer etc so called sports organizations done half as much? leaarn to read and do some investigating first. Max Seigel will if he purchases DEI do the best thing he can for DEI to be successful not make it a "Springboard" for "black" drivers