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Rajah Caruth reveals his race day breakfast and it's amazing

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Rajah Caruth
Mar 1, 2024; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; NASCAR Truck Series driver Rajah Caruth (71) celebrates his victory of the Victorias Voice Foundation 200 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports

Rajah Caruth is having a great 2024 NASCAR Truck Series season, and a reason for that is what he eats for breakfast during race day. The 22-year-old driver appeared on CBS Sunday Morning earlier this month and revealed what he eats for breakfast before competing.

“I always get eggs and pancakes to start,” Caruth said, “which is mostly every day but definitely on race days as well. Four eggs or one or two pancakes, chocolate milk, that’s my thing. I love chocolate milk.”

Caruth won his first Truck Series race earlier this year in Las Vegas. So far this season, Caruth has earned five top-10 finishes, including a P3 finish at Daytona to start the year. This is his second season driving in the Truck Series full-time. He has also competed in more than a handful of Xfinity Series races and drove the No. 17 car for Hendrick Motorsports in the finale at Phoenix last year.

“I was just a huge fan of the sport, period,” Caruth said. “Of just being a student of it, I got this encyclopedia when I was seven. … I just was obsessed with it. So, my first favorite driver was Jimmie Johnson. He just carried himself like a champion so that was really infectious and I got to spend a little time with him and his family last year and so, that was really special. Because it’s like the man you grow up watching and idolizing on television to have a personal relationship with him is cool.”

Rajah Caruth talks having more representation in NASCAR

The win for Caruth was big as he became the first Black driver to win a NASCAR national series race with the other two being Wendell Scott and Bubba Wallace. While speaking with Matt Weaver of Sportsnaut, the driver for Spire Motorsports talked about increasing representation in NASCAR.

“I think honestly right, it’s authentic to my personality and how I grew up, right, but it also doesn’t necessarily define me, right?” Caruth said. “Hopefully, we continue over the years to continue to grow more representation, because we see it on our pit crews, we are starting to see it in race teams whether it be through our engineering, our PR departments, obviously at NASCAR, so hopefully, you start seeing it more through the drivers so that way that’s not the headline anymore it’s just like how good are our drivers.”

On3’s Jonathan Howard contributed to this story.