Bubba Wallace said becoming the first black driver in 58 years to win a race in Nascar’s premier series brought “a lot of emotion”.
Wallace took his first Nascar Cup Series win at Talladega Super speedway on Monday, after rain cut the race short with the 27-year-old in the lead.
The last black driver to do so was Wendell Scott in 1963.
Wallace is Nascar’s sole black full-time driver and last year successfully campaigned to get the Confederate flag banned from races.