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From driving go-karts as a child to making history in US motor racing, Toni Breidinger has become the first Arab-American female to participate in Nascar stock car racing.
California-native Breidinger, 21, made her debut in the 2021 stock car competition ARCA Menards Series and the Nascar Camping World Truck Series, which began at Daytona International Speedway in Florida on Saturday.
But she had already made her mark on the sport as the most successful female in
United States Auto Club history with 19 wins under her belt.
“Daytona has always been on my bucket list to race at,” she told CNN
before her debut. “Every driver’s dream is to race there one day, it’s such a historic track. It’s a step in the right direction to hopefully race in the Daytona 500 one day.”