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Alabama driver Brittany Finley pins her NASCAR hopes on this week’s tryouts in Virginia
Caught in the Catchfence™
If Brittany Finley, a 24-year-old driver from Ardmore, should make it through this week’s NASCAR Drive for Diversity combine that concludes on Tuesday, the head of Revolution Racing could be presiding over racing’s newest Alabama Gang.
Finley last week won the season championship in the trucks division at Gresham Motorsports Park in Georgia. In 2008 she became the first female in decades to win at Birmingham International Raceway in one of the last races before the venerable old track was torn down.
And now she hopes to take the leap to NASCAR with a tryout in the program designed to help female, black and Hispanic drivers get the exposure and experience they need to compete at the sport’s highest levels.
“I’m kind of nervous,” said Finley, who doesn’t have much experience driving the late models and legends cars used in the combine. “But I’m sure there’s other people out there that haven’t driven a legends car.”
Article Tags: Brittany Finley, Gresham (Ga.) Motorsports Park, Max Siege, NASCAR Drive for Diversity, Revolution Racing
