Tia Norfleet has been profiled by the Jordan Schultz of the Huffington Post as the lady who might have the honor to become the very first African-American NASCAR driver.
Bobby Norfleet was a professional racer and now his daughter Tia Norfleet, who is currently 24 years of age, is all set to enter the NASCAR racing world and compete with all the other international drivers. The unusual thing about this news is that, female-drivers are very rare seen on the NASCAR tracks, and in addition to that, black-women have never been heard of.
But Norfleet plans to change the usual. Although she has not been qualified for tracks such as Dayton and Talladega, which are the longer-distance tracks, but she has successfully made her place in the shorter tracks and drag-racing.
Norfleet told Schultz that ever since she was 14 years old, she just knew that racing was her passion and it was what she had chosen to do for living.
She also shared her best memory of racing experience. She said that when she was 5 years old, she had a small car in which her father put the batteries so she drove that Corvette until its wheels came off. She added that since that day, she has been extremely
enthusiastic about every motor sport, especially car racing.
Her father was a prominent driver of the ‘90s and it was because of him that the sport gathered popularity in clack community.
According to the tradition of NASCAR drivers and fans, it has been a sport of white, working-class males but now Norfleet is about to change it.
Bobby Norfleet was a professional racer and now his daughter Tia Norfleet, who is currently 24 years of age, is all set to enter the NASCAR racing world and compete with all the other international drivers. The unusual thing about this news is that, female-drivers are very rare seen on the NASCAR tracks, and in addition to that, black-women have never been heard of.
But Norfleet plans to change the usual. Although she has not been qualified for tracks such as Dayton and Talladega, which are the longer-distance tracks, but she has successfully made her place in the shorter tracks and drag-racing.
Norfleet told Schultz that ever since she was 14 years old, she just knew that racing was her passion and it was what she had chosen to do for living.
She also shared her best memory of racing experience. She said that when she was 5 years old, she had a small car in which her father put the batteries so she drove that Corvette until its wheels came off. She added that since that day, she has been extremely
enthusiastic about every motor sport, especially car racing.
According to the tradition of NASCAR drivers and fans, it has been a sport of white, working-class males but now Norfleet is about to change it.
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