LOS ANGELES — Dale Earnhardt Jr. proved he could drive fast in the front seat of his daddy's stock car on short tracks throughout the Carolinas. Jeff Gordon was trading paint in quarter midgets in Northern California 11 years before he was old enough to have a driver's license.
Most NASCAR drivers got started in similar ways.
Not Rajah Caruth. He learned how to handle a race car by playing video games and he says there are a lot of Generation Z drivers getting ready to follow him.
