NASCAR'S Bubba Wallace inspires Austin teens ahead of COTA race

AUSTIN, Texas – Ahead of Sunday’s NASCAR race at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas, a driver sat down with a group of Central Texas teens.

Bubba Wallace meets Central Texas teens

What they’re saying:

If you had asked these teenagers 24 hours ago who their favorite NASCAR driver was, most of them would have told you they were just excited to see the track.

“This is my first time at the Circuit of the Americas. For someone that is really local to the Del Valley area, I thought it was pretty amazing to be here,” said Everardo Tovar, a senior at KIPP Texas Public Schools.

Now, they can confidently say they’re huge Bubba Wallace fans.

“He’s definitely my number one now,” said Tovar.

Wallace talked with teens from the Boys and Girls Club and KIPP Texas Public Schools, an open-enrollment, free public charter school network where 94 percent of its students are Black or Latino.

“I feel like this is a once-in-a-lifetime type of thing. Like, if I didn’t come with the Boys and Girls Club, I don’t think I ever would have attended an event like this,” said Na’sih with the Boys and Girls Club.

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