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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]
This is a list of notable, professional, and female racing drivers or riders in any form of ... List of female NASCAR drivers; List of female 24 Hours of Le Mans ...
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.
Kelly Renae "Girl" Sutton (born September 24, 1971) [1] is a former NASCAR driver. Sutton started 54 races, mostly in her family-owned No. 02 Chevrolet Silverado , in the Craftsman Truck Series . She was the only stock-car racer, male or female, known to race with multiple sclerosis before Trevor Bayne 's diagnosis in 2013.
[5] [3] [4] [6] [7] She and O'Leary made history as the first female duo to work a pit crew, changing tires for Ray Black Jr. [7] Daniels participated in the Cup race just under two years after she began her training. [3] In 2019, Daniels pitted with O'Leary for Cody Ware in the Daytona 500 qualifying race and the race itself. [4]
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.
Many of the current drivers and some of the former drivers have previously been or are currently members of NASCAR's Drive for Diversity program. Wendell Scott (1 win) and Bubba Wallace (2 wins) are the only two drivers to have won NASCAR Cup Series races. Wallace also has 6 wins and is the first African-American winner in the Truck Series.
Louise Smith (July 31, 1916, in Barnesville, Georgia – April 15, 2006) was tied for the second woman to race in NASCAR at the top level. She was known as "the first lady of racing." [1] She went as a spectator to her first NASCAR race at the Daytona Beach Road Course in 1949. She could not stand watching the races, so she entered her family's ...