“They called me and asked me to drive it because they wanted a local driver and a female. 'The third year they decided to try and break the land speed record at Bonneville,' she continued.
They named the team Race El Paso, allowing people to pay to sign their names on the cars as sponsors.” For two years they hired a NASCAR driver to try and qualify for the Brickyard 400 race. In an interview with KLAQ radio, she revealed, “A gentleman here locally had a friend who had a NASCAR Busch team in Indiana. history to have won a UMP Dirt National Championship.Īdditionally, she also holds the world record for the fastest woman in NASCAR at Bonneville Salt Flats, where she reached an impressive speed of 208mph in 2007. Her list of accomplishments includes - a 4-time Dirt Track Pro Stock Track champion, a 4-time Open Wheel Dirt Modified Track champion, and a 2-time 3-wheeler Flat Track champ (250cc).
She has won over 450 races, including 35 championships, as per her Facebook page. Since then she has been an icon in the racing world for more than 40 years. Georges-Barnett fell in love with racing at the age of 20, when she bought her first dirt bike.
