Rajah Caruth didn’t step into a race car until 2019 but even before his first lap Mike Beam, the man who owns that car, knew he would be a great driver.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the Daytona 500 in double overtime and under caution Sunday in the longest running of “The Great American Race.”, a virtual esports competition that uses ultra-realistic software to mimic real-life racing without having to put on a fire suit.
His first stop was the ARCA Series, in which he drove for Rev Racing, finishing in the top 10 in 18 of his 25 races in 2020-21. He stepped up to the Craftsman Truck Series last year, finishing 11th in his debut. Last weekend at Daytona, in his first race of the new season, he failed to finish after causing a seven-truck crash on the 58th lap of the 250-mile race. His best finish in seven Xfinity races in 2022 was 12th.
“At first, I didn’t really figure out how to kind of marry the two. But now, being a little bit in, they really work hand in hand where I almost feel like I have a leg up. I’m only used to having so many, I guess ports would be the word, kind of like how you have like USB stuff on a laptop, right? I have way more than I’m used to when I get in the real-life car and that gives me a leg up sometimes.
“The program is so realistic you can feel the bumps. You feel everything and you get a real sense of the race car,” Beam said. “Whether he’ll make it, I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t. He’s a good, clean racer. He brought the car home in one piece, got everything out of the car he possibly could. That means a lot. The thing I always tell young drivers is you will get out of this what you put in. Rajah, he believes that. He is not going to miss out on this opportunity.”
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