When is the last time you witnessed a African American woman work at a pitstop in Nascar? The answer is never! However that all changed this past week!
24-year-old Brehanna Daniels has put an end to that missing sight! Daniels is the first ever African American woman to ever work a professional nascar pitstop!
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Over the weekend, Daniels helped assist at the Coke Zero 400 in Daytona, FL. Daniels would make history twice as she worked with alongside another female, making them the first duo of women to ever be working a Nascar pitstop side by side!
The position came about when Nascar’s Drive for Diversity program (a program in which Nascar looks to find people outside of its predominately white / male fanbase) paid a visit to Norfolk State. Daniels attended the school and was a star on the basketball team. After her career, she decided she would enter the program, in which all the candidates go through intense physical training to see if they can survive in the world of Nascar.
Daniels not only survived, but she graduated from the program and made history this past Saturday! We applaud you Brehanna Daniels!
