Earlier this month, Tia Norfleet made her debut as the first African American female licensed by NASCAR. In a new interview, she explains how she was inspired by her father, Bobby Norfleet, who also raced cars:
Thanks to a combination of Lady Gaga lyrics, deodorant strong enough for men but made just for us, and pole dancing classes, women are now more equal with men than ever. We're out-enrolling men in college, we're installing tampon machines in executive suite bathrooms, and we still enjoy a commanding lead in the…
In January, we read about a woman named Noor Daoud — born in Texas, former member of the Olympic swim team, former player on the Palestinian national soccer team — currently racing cars in Formula 3.
Unless you're a fan of automobiles traveling rapidly around a tilted oval, you probably didn't watch the 96th Indy 500 today. Spoiler alert: Dario Franchitti won. That's a big deal for him, I guess, but someone wins every year and he'd already won twice before. It's not every year, however, that someone has an…
This morning, an amendment proposed by Minnesota Representative Betty McCollum and one of her Republican colleagues, Jack Kingston of Georgia, passed through the House Appropriations Committee. The proposal aimed to cut $80 million from the federal government's budget by barring the Department of Defense from spending…
Pictured above is Noor Daoud. She was born in Texas, likes fast cars, but also was on an Olympic swim team and on the Palestinian national soccer team. Right now, though, she's focused on racing Formula 3. According to reports, Daoud is the first Palestinian, male or female, to participate in and win an Israeli race.…
NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne has apologized for a Tweet wherein he called the sight of a woman breastfeeding her child "nasty," and a follow up Tweet wherein he called a woman who criticized his calling the woman nasty a "bitch." Someone who makes obscene amounts of money as a professional athlete/amusement has a…
Yesterday one of the biggest crashes in Indy car race history occurred in Las Vegas at the Indy 300, resulting in the tragic loss of driver Dan Wheldon's life. In addition to Wheldon, two other drivers were brought to the hospital: JR Hildebrand and Pippa Mann.
You may not have heard of the late aviatix and all around daredevil Betty Skelton, but after reading this article about her life, you might kind of want to be her.
Indianapolis, IN, May 22: IndyCar driver Pippa Mann, of England, clowns with a photographer after she qualified on the final day of time trials for the Indianapolis 500 auto race. (AP Photo/Tom Strattman)
[Ashley Judd plants a kiss on husband Dario Franchitti after he wins the championship at the 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series Cafes do Brasil Indy 300. Homestead, Florida; October 2. Image via INFDaily.]
In the new film Racing Dreams, eleven-year-old go-kart racer and NASCAR hopeful Annabeth Barnes shows what it's like to be a girl in fast-paced sport still dominated by boys.
Says Danica Patrick, "I actually feel very different than maybe the stereotypical breakthrough people do-‘I'm doing it for women,' and stuff like that...I don't feel like that at all. Because then it's only just fuelling the gender separation, again."
• After realizing that the "blind have been left out in a culture saturated with sexual images," Lisa Murphy created porn for the blind, illustrated with raised images of a woman with "perfect breasts" and a "male love robot." •
[Arcadia, California; November 7. Image via Getty]
This Sunday, Anna Chatten will make history as the first woman to work in the pits on the Indianapolis 500. "Women didn't even stand near pit lane 30 years ago," said Chatten. [IndyStar via Feministing]
