SONOMA, Calif. — For Daniel Suárez, driving was never the problem. From the first time he sat behind the wheel of a go-kart as a 10-year-old in Mexico, it was clear he could get a car around a racetrack better than just about anyone.
Yet to cash in on that talent in stock-car racing he would have to go to the U.S. He would have to go to NASCAR. And that's where the cartoons came in.
"I was scared I would not be able to compete because I didn't speak English. And I didn't have money to do classes to speak English," he said. "So I had to learn by myself by watching cartoons."
