Darrell Wallace Jr.’s whole world is changing. And that’s just the way the high school junior from Mobile wants it.

Wallace is one of 11 drivers being presented Tuesday night in Daytona as this year’s participants in NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity program, the seventh year of an initiative intended to boost the number of minority and female drivers in the sport.

But D4D, as it is known, has yet to see one of its alums land a full-time ride in any of NASCAR’s top three series, so changes were made. This year, instead of sending D4D participants out to race teams like interns, D4D is clumping them together in one team known as Revolution Racing and run by Max Siegel, the former president of Dale Earnhardt Inc.

“We wanted to make the program better,” said Marcus Jadotte, NASCAR’s managing director of public affairs. “The move away from the old outsourcing model to an academy-style model is a significant step forward for the program.” Read the rest on AL.com

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