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Hold on. Every day I wake up, wake your ass up. The breakfast club. You're all finished or y'all done? Morning, everybody. It's D.E.J. N.V. Just hilarious. Salomey and the guy. We are the breakfast club. LaRose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. The brother, Raja Caruth. Welcome. Morning, morning. morning morning how you feeling great thank you guys for having me on now who is raja carouf for people that don't know

so uh like you said my name is raja uh i was born in alana but grew up in dc and um i guess i do

many things but mainly currently i race in n so cool but yeah HBC graduate grew up in

DC and racing at NASCAR second highest level and how did you get into NASCAR like what what

got you into it I think it's I want to say something your story is very ill because you you used to

drive the simulator yeah you turn virtual racing into a real life career yeah have you all y'all seen the Grand Tourismo movie? Yep. It's pretty much like that just 10 years, I guess, down the line.

Yeah, coming from Caribbean parents, my dad's right here in the back, me and from St. Vincent.

That's crazy because in Grand Turismo, his parents are Caribbean too. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, like you said, Charlemagne, I grew up watching racing. I was a big fan. But, I mean, I played other sports. Like, I played basketball, ran track, play soccer. But I always loved racing. And since I grew up in D.C., there wasn't any tracks or anything nearby. So I had to get it from racing online and learning how to drive from the computer. So is that something you wanted to do or the love came from just being on the sim?

No, the love came from like the Cars movie watching races on TV.

I once my first race at Richmond when I was probably 12.

So that's where the love really, really grew.

And I mean, I'd watch everything I could about racing from like

sports talk shows to people playing the games online. I just was a deep, deep fan of racing.

Did you ever steal your father's car? No. I mean, I never drove, so I was 15 years old. I mean,

you could just take the metro or walk or get lime scooters in dc so i mean you don't really need to

drive just like here so what's what's your like day-to-day like at work so like how does it

as an ass car driver so you go you don't clock in like normal like what is a normal day in the life

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