This
week AskPatty.com is taking a trip around the motorsports world to see
what's happening with fantabulous females in the racing world. This
week we crawled the web to find all the posts and articles floating in
the blogosphere about women in motorsports.
Congratulations! NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle racer Peggy Llewellyn
won her first NHRA national event at, making the Countdown to One field
by the slenderest of margins. She'll join reigning world champ Andrew
Hines, Matt Smith, and Chip Ellis for a two-race showdown.
Kim Lopez-Johnson
changed the face of NASCAR this weekend at the Smith's Las Vegas 350.
She was the lead Official Starter located in the flagstand on the
start/finish line. It was a first for NASCAR: Lopez-Johnson became the
first female to wave the silks in any NASCAR national series race.
Serenity Sutherland remembers
growing up and asking her father if there were any women competing in
auto racing. She didn't think she would be allowed to race because she
was a girl. Her Dad told her she could do anything she wanted. Today,
Sutherland pilots her family-owned 358 modified at Black Rock Speedway
in Dundee. At 23, Sutherland is already in her 11th year of racing in
her fourth different class of cars.
Sunoco will climb onboard
with RCR Development driver Jessica Helberg and the BMR No. 20 Late
Model Team as the primary sponsor for the rest of the 2007 season.
Currently, Helberg is ranked third in the NASCAR All-American Whelan
Series point standings. She has garnered six top-5's and 12 top-10
finishes.
Jessica Brannam's
motto is simple, "I might be small, but I can haul". This 16-year-old
is making quite a splash in the racing world; she's won 16 National
Championships, 14 Regional Championships and 178 feature race
victories. But that's not enough for this feisty teenager, her ultimate
goal - Formula One racing.
Ashley Force
pulled out of the NHRA Funny Car semi-finals after her father, John
Force, sustained a compound fracture of his left ankle, a lacerated
right knee, a dislocated left wrist and abrasions on two fingers on s
right hand after a collision with Kenny Bernstein last Sunday at the
NHRA O'Reilly Fall Nationals in Dallas. Force is expected to make a
full recovery.
NASCAR Busch East Series rookie Michelle Theriault
made her Dover International Speedway debut this past Friday. While the
finish wasn't exactly what Team GLOCK was looking for, Theriault was
still happy with the results, "It wasn't the day we were looking for
but we persevered with a top-20 finish," Theriault said after the race.
"I couldn't get the car to turn the way I needed to and it wound up
hurting me all day long. We had a lot of support for the race and I
really was hoping to bring in a good finish, but a top-20 finish under
all the circumstances we faced is something I'll take." Next up for
Theriault: The NASCAR TOYOTA All-Star Showdown at Irwindale Speedway in
Irwindale, California on October 19 and 20.
AskPatty.com is a 2007 proud sponsor of the NASCAR No. 112 AskPatty.com
Chevrolet driven by the highest ranked professional female race car
driver Deborah Renshaw. Watch Deborah in the ARCA/ReMax Series event on
October 5th at Talladega Superspeedway broadcast live on Speed. Check out Deborah's website at www.deborahrenshaw.com.