[Gregory-H21594]

I would say the reason owes in part to all of the factors you mentioned. I can’t comment on Indy Car racing, but American stock car racing has its origins in Southern moonshine runners (think Dukes of Hazzard) souping up their individual cars to allow them to outrun the vehicles of the authorities. When this started (1920s/1930s), very few, if any, Southern blacks even had cars. When it became more of a pasttime than a business necessity, blacks had no knowledge of it, no connection to it, no car, no money or time to work on such a car and no interest in it. They did, however, have baseball gloves, basketballs and empty lots to play in. Such sports were accessible and depended not so much on equipment or money as they did on active, physical bodies. Nowadays, the cost of maintaining a pro racing team is prohibitive, and the things needed to get started in the sport – experience racing on amateur circuits, cars, engines, etc. – keep most blacks from getting into it. Plus the sport just never caught on in black America, so there is no following and no push to try to get into it.

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