International Women’s Motorsports AssociationDecember 2017

IWMA Nation NewsLiz Prestella Shows that Women

Can Break Into NASCAR

Allie Bailey Loves Speedand Motorcycles

Lyndsay Foote Shares theLife of a Race-Wife

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Photos from PRI in Indianapolis

17 Stories about Women Involved in Motorsports

Race Shoppers Last Minute Gift Guide for Kids & Adults

Quick & Easy Holiday RecipesAnthony and Bentley Foote cheer on dad, AJ Foote, at Galesburg, MI Speedway

Merry Christmas &Happy New Year

The Line Up

ABOUT and FOR Females of ANY age,Involved in ANY Capacity

with ANY Type of Motorsports,Now or in the Past.

JANUARY our Focus will beSisters or Moms & Daughterswho Race. Send your info to

iwmanation@gmail.com

Jet Dragster Elaine Larsen,Pippa Mann, British IndyCar driver, and Dina Parise, Pro Modified Drag Racer presented a special workshop

about Women in Racing, at thePerformance Racing Industry Show

in Indianapolis.

From the Race Director Page 3Liz Prestella Page 4Allie Bailey Page 5PRI Photo Gallery Page 6Stephanie O’Toole & Rose Castor Page 8Allison Bowman Page 10Nicole Lambert Page 11Lauren Alwine Page 12Kamille Fitzpatrick Page 14Maja Udtian Page 16Sarah Edwards Page 18Angel Hardaway Page 20Nicole Chambrello Page 22Michelle Devilbiss Page 24Lyndsay Foote Page 26Holley Hollan Page 27Elizabeth Gullikson Page 31Glenda Cochran Page 32Women’s Lifestyle Recipes Page 34 Racer’s Shopping Guide Page 37

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and small racetracks. Some ideas we have are race sponsorship for top 3 women finishers; networking breakfast (lunch or dinner), working with Direc-tors of race series to provide trophy or money for races, hosting an after-race event, and more. If you have any sug-gestions for event ideas and for race tracks that would like to partner with us, please email me at iwmanation@gmail.com. We will be able to put on events, contests, provide trophies and prize money thanks to everyone who joins our association. The more mem-bers we have, the more events we will be able to do. We still have a few of the $59/year Founder’s Club Mem-berships available. We also have mem-berships for businesses at $200/year and if your business or track want to be an affiliate, contact me! We offer great benefits for our affiliates! We would like to focus our Jan-uary issue on sisters that race, moth-er-daughters who race, mother-sons who race, husbands and wives who race. If you know someone who fits that bill, please send me their names and info to iwmanation@gmail.com. Please continue to share your news, photos, and updates on your teams. This magazie is NOT just for drivers; we want to do interviews on track owners, workers, crew members, parents, etc...ANY Woman, of ANY age, who is involved in ANY type of motorsports, either now or in the past.

IS THAT YOU? We’d love to inter-view you!

REMEMBER: Together We

ConnectTogether We

Celebrate

From the Race Director By: Melinda Russell

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Volume 1 No. 2December 2017

Have you ever been to the PRI Show in Indianapolis? If not, be sure to put it on your must do list for 2018. It’s always held the second weekend in December at the Indiana Convention Center, downtown Indy. I was able to meet up with my friend Angi Mor-g an -T hor n -ton from Los Cruces, NM and met sever-al women in-volved in rac-ing that I’ll be connecting with more this year. I also was able to share about our new association with many of the women working in the booths, and at-tending the show. What a privilege to meet women of all ages in racing such as Mandy Chick, Alyssa Lasater, Au-drey Gerberding and Michelle Devil-biss to name a few. Check out the pho-to display on pages 6-7. Many tracks are posting their 2018 schedules and special events to their FB pages. If you are part of a track FB page, invite me to LIKE it and I will share as much as possible. Feel free to post these items to the In-ternation Women’s Motorsports Asso-ciation FB page as well. We welcome all posts regarding schedules and events, as well as news involving wom-en in motorsports. With 2018 fast approaching, we are working on setting up some events around the country at both big

Liz Prestella is a tire specialist at JTG Racing and works on the Chris Buescher #37 NASCAR team. Over the years Liz has learned that she has made herself more valuable by learning to do almost anything on the cars. The majority of the garage is very sup-

portive of females and they are just another one of “the guys”.They don’t get special treatment nor do they get singled out. Liz began her career by taking auto shop in high school and she fell in love with working on cars. Shortly after she turned 18, she moved from California where her family lived, to North Carolina to attend a trade school so she could get into NASCAR. She received some good advice during that time. “Any guy who doesn’t respect a woman in the garage is insecure so show them you are better and ignore the comments.” Her long term goals are for her team to get some wins in the Cup series and get a Championship while still traveling. Liz is also quite an entrepreneur. She is starting a clothing line for women in racing and the automotive fields. The main line will be work pants and shirts designed for women that are affordable and can hold up to the day-to-day grind of working on cars. Liz grew up watching racing with her dad and went to her first cup race when she was 12. After that first race she was hooked. Driving has never interested her, just wrenching on the cars. After several years of odd jobs from oil changer to service advisor she finally got an internship with the Jennifer Jo Cobb truck racing team in 2012. After a few months she was hired on full time, and worked with that team for about a year and half before focus-ing more on being a tire changer at Xcalibur Pit School. She changed tires for her for about a year, but never had any coach-ing. She went to Derrike Cope’s team for a month or so as a mechanic and tire changer which is how she met Jay Robinson. She went on to change tires for Jay on his Cup car. By the end of 2014 she had changed tires in over 60 races that year, in the three major series races and a few ARCA races as well as being a full time tire specialist for Jay Robinson. In mid 2015 she went on to work for Tommy Baldwin Racing as a tire specialist but was still changing tires in Xfinity and Camping World Trucks when she could. She was with the Baldwin Race team until they shut down in 2016.

In 2017 JTG expanded to two teams and that was when Liz was hired on to do tires for the second car the #37. They had a very strong first year, especially for a new team. They fin-ished 26th in points after some unfortunate wrecks. The best finishes she has been a part of were 8th in Daytona in 2016, 3rd in Pocono in 2016 with Tommy Baldwin, 10th in Daytona in 2017, 9th in Indy in 2017, 6th in Michigan in 2017, and 6th in Kansas in 2017, all with Chris Buescher. Liz wants girls growing up to know that anything is pos-sible if they set their mind to it and no matter how mean or neg-ative people are you have control of your own life and how far you make it. Proving them wrong is just a perk of your success. Liz is ex-cited about her clothing line, as she should be! The clothing line is called Torq’d Cloth-ing. She is on Insta-gram at: @torq_d and is hoping to have an online store set up by mid De-cember, of cute shirts and sayings directed toward the women in the garages. The pants are currently in the pattern and sample making stage. She is hoping to have the production run done by February. She should have pre-orders available for the pants by mid January. She will keep her social media updated with the progress of the online store and the pants. Once she gets the pants going she will be working on button up work shirts along with work shorts and jackets. The goal of the clothing line is to have affordable work wear for women in racing and automotive fields that tailor to women’s bodies and can withstand the daily grind of their careers and life.To contact her find her at Twitter at @tiregirl37 and Instagram at @tiregirl and @torq_d. She keeps her Facebook private but all work and clothing line

information will be posted on Instagram and Twitter.I’m looking forward to watching Liz on tv and in person-break-ing the ice for other women to follow in her footsteps.

Liz Prestella is Invaluable to Her Team

Allie Bailey loves riding and racing motorcycles and working at the local stock car track, Mississippi Thunder Speedway. She is 18 years old and lives in Winona, MN. She loves speed and anything with an engine, and enjoys visiting new places. She says, “I can never relieve my wan-derlust.” Besides working at the racetrack, she also works at the local movie theater in town. She said people are always sur-prised when they find out that she races motorcycles on the weekends. Allie is a fresh-man Minneso-ta State College Southeast, and is planning to attend Motorcycle Mechanics Institute soon. Her classmates are surprised when she tells them she races motorcycles...Especially for being 4ft. 11.5in.tall, and she says that “.5” matters! Her long-term goal is to become a motorcycle me-chanic for a professional race team, while continuing her own racing efforts. Her dad bought her the first motorcycle when she was 7 years old and was her inspiration to start racing. She and her brother would spend their weekends riding in their backyard and fields around their house. She competed in her first race when she was 12 years old, and started her first complete season of Flat Track Racing in 2014.She says she could not do what she loves without her mar-

keting partners. They are Advanced Media Solutions, Mis-sissippi Thunder Speedway, Honda Town, and Rivercity Manufacturing and Machine. As with most race teams, the family is involved in every way. Her dad, brother, and other race friends all help her on and off the track. Allie was the 2016 District-23 125-Open Champi-on, and she has had several heat and main event wins. She races at the A.M.A District 23 (State of Minnesota) Flat Track events, riding a modified Honda XR200R, in the Maddog class.We asked her if she had a special memory, good or bad, and she said “I remember one event in 2016 at the Cedar Lake Speedway arena. In turn 2, a huge pile up developed all around me. After literally running over a competitor’s bike, I slammed into the concrete wall on the back stretch.” But that mishap didn’t stop Allie! Her race goals are to have fun each year and to keep getting faster. On race day, she usually listens to 80’s rock music, usually the Scorpions or AC-DC. Now that is some heart-pumping and adrennalin rushing music to get her ready to race.

Allie Bailey Loves Speed and Engines

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