How did a fashion-loving girl from Montana get into NASCAR?
It’s actually not as strange of a story as you may think… During my senior year of high school I covered the races at the local track, Mission Valley Speedway, and it was here that I first fell – hard – for racing. Being young and eager to learn, I helped up in the box counting laps and making sure the driver’s positions changed on the pole when a pass was made. After doing that for a while I had the chance to write the weekly story about each Saturday’s race for my hometown newspaper. For a girl who was the editor of the high school paper, this was a ripe opportunity. I had one goal and one goal only – to get clips. Little did I know I would gain something far more valuable, an insatiable taste for racing. It was around this time that I had my first TV – in my room. This was a big deal for me. It’s not like now where every kid in middle school seems to have one. On that TV I got two stations, and every weekend one of those stations seemed to be showing cars … driving around in a circl
