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NASCAR playing catch-up in its Drive for Diversity

By Terry Blount
ESPN.com

Friday, June 15, 2007

INDIANAPOLIS -- Where is NASCAR's Lewis Hamilton? If Formula One can find a talented black driver and make him a winner, why can't NASCAR? Those questions came up in light of Hamilton's victory last weekend in the Canadian Grand Prix, when he became the first black driver to win an F1 event. Hamilton will compete in his first U.S. Grand Prix Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. F1 officials were concerned how this season would go without seven-time champion Michael Schumacher, who retired a ...

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