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William Darrell "Bubba" Wallace Jr. is a professional stock car racing driver and one of the most successful African American drivers in the history of NASCAR.
Wallace was born in Mobile, Alabama, and raised in the city of Concord, North Carolina, where he attended Northwest Cabarrus High School.
Born to a black mother and a white father, Wallace is the son of Darrell Wallace Sr. and Desiree Wallace. His father is the owner of an industrial cleaning company and his mother is a social worker who ran track at the University of Tennessee.
Wallace is best friends with fellow NASCAR Cup Series driver Ryan Blaney. The two had first met when they raced Bandoleros in their youth.
In 2019, Wallace revealed that he dealt with and continues to deal with depression for most of his racing career. After others reached out to him to thank him for bringing awareness to depression, Wallace said he did not know it was such a widespread problem; for him, being depressed was an honest answer to a media question.
Wallace founded and runs the Live to be Different Foundation. He was also the National Motorsports Press Association's Pocono Spirit Award winner for the second quarter of 2020 and the recipient of the Comcast Community Champion of the Year award for 2020.
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