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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.
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.
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]
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.
Tori Breidinger. Brett Erickson 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 ...
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 ...
Rajah Caruth joined Wendall Scott and Bubba Wallace as the third Black driver to win a NASCAR National Series Race. Caruth assures fans there's "more to come".
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.