Bill Lester, who in 2006 became the first black Sprint Cup driver in 20 years, won in the GT Series in Sunday's Grand-Am race at Virginia International Raceway, becoming the first black driver to win a Grand-Am race.
VIR is also located in the home city of Wendell Scott, the only African-American to win a Sprint Cup race and who was left off the ballot for the next class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Lester, who won the race with Jordan Taylor, made two Sprint Cup Series starts in 2006 after spending eight years and 142 races in the Camping World Truck Series. Lester recorded two top fives and seven top 10s in his Truck Series career.
This is Lester's fourth year in the Grand-Am series and the win was also the first for his team Autohaus. He spent the previous three years driving a Daytona Prototype (the faster cars in the division that Chip Ganassi dominates) before moving to GT this year.
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