According to Wright, he dropped out of school in the seventh grade, to help his family financially, after his father, a coal miner, broke his back at work.
[2] Claiming to be a 33-year-old driver with 43 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series starts, Wright also announced country artists Merle Haggard, T. G. Sheppard, and Waylon Jennings were to sponsor his team.
[4] As part of Music City Racing, Lloyd Barber and Rick Wright also applied for drivers permits, while Dunaway, Freddy Case, Willis Judd, Michael Smith, and Ellis White requested mechanics licenses.
[5] Wright approached B. W. "Bernie" Terrell, head of Nashville-based Space Age Marketing, for assistance in buying and sponsoring a car.
[5] Other payments included $1,500–1,800 to Goodyear for tires, $1,200 to driver Travis Tiller for parts, and $168 to the Southern Textile Association's Wayne Wilson for racing jackets.
[7] While missing, he was announced as having failed to qualify for the next race, the Cracker Barrel Country Store 420 at Nashville Speedway.
[12] On February 13, 2023, Wright was arrested in Knox County, Tennessee, by the United States Marshals Fugitive Task Force.