Randy Bethea News Today

A Cup championship by a Black driver would be one of the most remarkable achievements in sports history.

Throughout the 1970s Tennessee racer Randy Bethea was a regular competitor in NASCAR's second tier series now known as the Nationwide Series. In 1975 he made history, becoming one of only seven African Americans to compete at NASCAR's highest level, the Cup Series. But like many racers his dream of NASCAR success was unfulfilled for reasons he attributes to color. That color was green, and like the majority of up-and-coming drivers of that era Bethea didn't have enough green to co...