Saturday in Nashville at the Music City Motorplex Rogelio Lopez took home a $7,500 winner’s check (and a cool guitar) for winning the Busch East Series race, an event sanctioned by the king of stock car sanctioning bodies, NASCAR.
Up in the outpost of Oxford, Maine, a little known driver raced to victory in a Late Model event that paid just a little less than five times what the big boys of NASCAR were shelling out to their winner on Sunday. Shawn Courchesne, Courant.com
NASCAR’s Busch East Series has become the shining symbol this year of NASCAR’s diversity efforts.
Sunday in Nashville it was a Mexican born driver showing that the efforts to diversify aren’t all just for show.
Rogelio Lopez held off a charging Joey Logano to win the Busch East Music City 150 at the Music City Motorplex in Nashville. Shawn Courchesne, Courant.com
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