BRISTOL, Tenn.-- Darrell Wallace Jr. endured the range of emotions Monday at Bristol Motor Speedway, from leading laps to being lapped.
Wallace led Laps 375-380, the first laps he led in his 12-race NASCAR Cup Series career and the first laps led by an African-American driver since Wendell Scott won in Jacksonville (Fla.) in December 1963, but the handling of his car went away. He settled for a 16th-place finish, one lap down, in the Food City 500.
The 24-year-old Wallace, a rookie on the NASCAR Cup Series circuit driving for Richard Petty Motorsports, sat in his car for a moment after the race.