NASCAR Drive for Diversity driver Rajah Caruth and NASCAR Diversity Internship Program graduate and current Rick Ware Racing engineer Monon Rahman organized the George Floyd 100 – an iRacing event helping raise awareness within the motorsports community about the Black Lives Matter movement. The race will take place Friday night at 8:30 PM ET and will be broadcast on YouTube provided by STN Racing.
Each entrant racing in the George Floyd 100 donated $9 to the Official George Floyd Memorial Fund and as of June 3, the over 101 entrants helped raise $1,286. During the race broadcast there will also be information for viewers to donate to the NAACP Legal Defense fund. Trading Paints will be backing a donation of $1 per unique stream/viewer of the race up to $1,000.
During the race, there will be a competition caution on Lap 20 to have three minutes of silence to signify the three minutes Floyd was unconscious. All iRacing participants have been encouraged to have paint schemes that pay tribute to Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others who have been killed.
Rajah Caruth spent his first season with Rev Racing, participating in the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Youth Development Program, running in the U.S. Legend Car Series. In 2020, In 2020, Caruth will pilot a full-time ride in the Whelen All-American Series as well as participate in the Bojangles Summer Shootout at Charlotte Motor Speedway beginning next week. Caruth is the first driver from a majority iRacing background to be selected for the program. He is a product of the eNASCAR IGNITE Series – a grassroots youth racing platform that identifies drivers without access to traditional racetracks around the world.