Bubba Wallace

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🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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On episode 20 of Club Shay Shay, Shannon welcomes in the first African-American driver to win Rookie of the Year in a NASCAR Series, and 2018 Daytona 500 runner up, Bubba Wallace. Bubba talks about how joining Michael Jordan’s 23XI Racing team has put him in a place to succeed this season, at the Daytona 500 and beyond. He and Shannon go over the ins and outs of NASCAR, covering how drivers practice, how to prepare for different tracks, and the setbacks and challenges Bubba has faced as the sport’s only African-American driver. Bubba & Shannon also discuss the intersection of sports, politics, entertainment and humanity, touching on Bubba’s role banning the Confederate flag from racing, putting #BlackLivesMatter on his car, pushing to make NASCAR more inclusive, and much more. Bubba provides a fascinating insight into the world of NASCAR. His passion and knowledge for racing shine through in this important conversation. #DoSomethinB4TwoSomethin & Follow Club Shay Shay: https://www.instagram.com/clubshayshay https://twitter.com/clubshayshay https://www.facebook.com/clubshayshay https://www.youtube.com/c/clubshayshay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to another edition of Club Shashay. I am your host also the
0:03.6	proponent of Club Shashay and the guy that's stopping by for conversation
0:06.8	and the drink today is the first African American driver to win
0:10.1	rookie of the year in NASCAR. He's the first African American driver in 50 years
0:14.0	to win a NASCAR truck series. He's the highest finishing NASCAR driver in
0:18.4	Daytona 500 history. Spending second in 2018. The long
0:22.8	African American full-time driver in NASCAR.
0:25.6	Bubba Wilder.
0:49.6	Bubba, how you doing, bro? I'm all good, bro. I appreciate you having me on.
0:53.2	Thank you for coming all. I want to ask you a question. When you were growing up in
0:57.6	your friends started calling you Bubba. Did you object to it at first or you
1:02.8	like, okay, I'll be Bubba. I honestly, I don't, I think it's
1:08.3	weird for people to call me Darrell because I'm so used to Bubba.
1:12.7	Like, starting out on my sister the day I was born and so all of my family
1:17.2	cousins, uncles, aunts, aunts, and aunts, everybody, just everything was Bubba.
1:21.0	And so once you got to the racetrack we were we were using Darrell a little bit.
1:25.2	And so I was so used to Bubba that it never really felt different to me.
1:30.3	So how was it when you got around people that didn't call you Bubba and everybody
1:35.5	of referred to you as Bubba and they looking at you like, what, that's Darrell,
1:39.2	why did they call you Bubba? Yeah, so that was funny seeing
1:42.4	playing the the name game with a lot of people. You know, now I've kind of used the Bubba brand
1:49.8	in the racing career. So Bubba is kind of the household name now.
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