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Through the 1950s and 1960s, female racers made only a handful of starts in NASCAR's touring series. Betty Skelton Erde wasn't technically a NASCAR driver, but she drove the pace car at Daytona in 1954, and was clocked at a speed of 105.88 mph (170.40 km/h) on the sand, setting a stock car speed record for women. [6]
In 2017, Daniels was the first African American woman to go over the wall in a national racing series in ARCA's race at Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville, Tennessee. [ 6 ] She became a tire changer for ARCA driver Thad Moffit at Toledo Speedway in Ohio with O'Leary, pitted in NASCAR's Camping World Truck Series for Cody Ware , and pitted in the ...
The 27-year-old, who made history as NASCAR's first Black woman pit crew member in 2016, continues her trailblazing path for women and people of color.
Amber Balcaen (born March 7, 1992) is a Canadian professional stock car racing driver. She competes full-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 22 Toyota Camry for Venturini Motorsports. She is most known for being the first Canadian woman to win in a NASCAR-sanctioned race in the United States.
Race car driving may be a male dominated industry, but Toni Breidinger, the first female Arab NASCAR driver, is about to shake up the track with a little help from Huda Beauty.. The 21-year-old ...
Murphy was also the "first woman licensed to drive a nitromethane-fueled car" [7] and the first woman to have a fuel funny car license from the National Hot Rod Association. [ 3 ] In the 1960s and 1970s she set numerous speed records, including a Mexico to Canada route, a New York to Los Angeles route, the women's land speed record , and the ...
The finish was the best-ever and only Top 5 finish by a woman in NASCAR series history, though on a regional series level it was eclipsed by Shawna Robinson at the New Asheville Speedway on June 10, 1988, when she won the Charlotte-Daytona Dash (a 4-cylinder class) AC-Delco 100 to become the first woman to win a NASCAR touring series race.
In 2000, Norfleet switched to entry level spec racing competing in Bandolero cars, [2] then moving to late model stock car racing on short tracks starting with the 2004 racing season; [4] she became the first female African-American driver to purchase a NASCAR Late Model Series racing license.