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SHOW NOTES 10-04-2021

Cindy Lucchese

Cindy Lucchese is the Chief Strategy Officer for Penske Entertainment. Her life’s path has taken her full circle from growing up in Indianapolis and watching the Indy cars practice as a little girl, to now being involved daily as the Chief Strategy Officer for Penske Entertainment, working alongside Roger Penske and many other Penske devoted employees.

Cindy has a great story and shares her passion for motorsports, and the people involved.

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SHOW NOTES 9-22-2021

Kay-dub Myers Brewer Hydroplane Racer & Announcer

Kay-Dub started racing at 9 years old in the sport of Hydro-racing in the junior class. She has gone from 45-70mph in various outboard hydroplane boats. Her dad retired and began announcing at the boat races. After he passed in 2014, Kay-Dub was asked to start announcing. It has evolved from there and her announcing career has grown to many different series of boat racing.

Her career has taken her all around the United States and to several other countries.

Announcing is a lot of work, between learning the history of different events, the driver’s names, their sponsors and the cities they hale from.

Women make up about 1/3 or less of the total races.

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SHOW NOTES 9-20-2021

Christi Schimpke with Crash Jewelry

Christi Schimpke, founder & designer of Crash Jewelry lives in Culver City, CA. She has an art history background, with prior careers at UCLA and The Getty Museum. However she was never that happy in her career. She met her husband Dan and they were married 8 years ago. Dan is the owner of a body shop that works on high end foreign and American cars. He works long hours but is always excited to get up every day to go to work. He suggested Christi take some time off to see where her passion might take her.

She took some metalsmith classes and got pretty good at it, She began making traditional types of jewelry. Dan offered her some space in a garage next to the body shop. She was taking a break one day and the beautiful cars and colors caught her eye. She asked Dan what happened to the damaged pieces of the cars and he said they were recycled. She got the idea to try and make jewelry out of some of those metals.

Christi is in her 8th year of making Crash Jewelry. She had to develop her own production techniques and every piece is hand crafted and a little or maybe even a lot different than the others. Her goal is to maintain the original factory paint and integrity of the metal.

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INSPIRATION

Christi’s husband Dan encouraged her to find her passion, and it was right there in front of her!

CHALLENGE

Finding a career that made her excited to go to work every day! 

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Driver JoJo Wilkerson shares how her career started, where she is today, and her hopes for the future.

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Sasha and her assistant Molly were responsible for promoting prior to and during the Indy Car race in Nashville. Sasha shares how she got involved, some behind the scenes information, how Nashville got an Indy race and plans for 2022.

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Big Machine Music City Grand Prix

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Podcast Description

The Women’s Motorsports Network, produces this podcast, Racing Girls Rock, which features females that have one thing in common; their passion for motorsports! Your host, Melinda Russell, shares the stories of women from all walks of life who find the resources to pursue their passion. She also publishes a digital magazine featuring stories about women in all walks of the motorsports life, IWMA Nation News Magazine.

Show Notes 9-4-2021

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Driver Carson Hocevar

Playoff Qualifier and Rookie of the Year Candidate

I sat down with Carson and his mom Amy from Portage, MI to learn more about how Carson became interested in racing, where his career has been and where he is headed.

Carson is the winningest driver in Quarter Midget racing and transitioned to late models when he was just 12 years old. His story is one of a young man who has worked hard to get where he is and knows what he wants to do in the future.

FACEBOOK: Carson Hocevar Racing

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Podcast Description

The Women’s Motorsports Network, produces this podcast, Racing Girls Rock, which features females that have one thing in common; their passion for motorsports! Your host, Melinda Russell, shares the stories of women from all walks of life who find the resources to pursue their passion. She also publishes a digital magazine featuring stories about women in all walks of the motorsports life, IWMA Nation News Magazine.

Show Notes 9-2-2021

NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Racer Angie McBride Smith

Angie McBride Smith married into the family of racing. She started out as an Outlaw Pro Street racer with no wheelie bar and in 7 seconds went nearly 200 mph. She is the only girl to win a championship in this series.

As of this recording (August 31, 2021) she is 6th in points and one round out of 3rd or 4th. Points are tight but making the top 10 will allow her to compete for the championship when the points all get reset.

Her family loves what she does…NOW…but at first they were nervous. He dad is behind her 150%. He texts her every day at the track to race fast and be safe.

The next 3 races are in Indy, and the season ends in Ponoma and then the PRI show. When she is not racing she is very into fitness and works out every day. They also go snowmobiling in Eagle River in Michigan or a few spots in WI; she like to snowboard; she runs a very active schedule. She gets up at 4am every day to get her day going.

She hopes that a little girl will hear or see this interview and be inspired that they can do this too!

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Third generation family member Tiffany Olson shares how her family has kept Sycamore Speedway in Illinois going and growing! Take a listen!

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Show Notes 8-24-2021 Kolby Garrison

Blind since birth, Kolby Garrison has not let her visual challenge stop her from enjoying her favorite things…NASCAR, hockey, and bluegrass music. She is a singer, using her voice in a band and sharing her love of NASCAR with anyone who will listen.

Her ability to understand what she calls a “complex sport” is due to her keen listening ability. Her appreciation for Sirius XM Radio that hosts the NASCAR channel, is undeniable at the top of her Gratitude List, as well as the head of Sirius Daniel Norwood, and all the radio announces for MRN and PRN. Her favorite memory from being at the tracks is meeting the MRN staff in their hauler during a rain delay.

Some of the things she enjoys about being at the race are the sounds of the cars and the air gun hitting the lug nuts. She can tell just by listening if they missed one or not…some team needs to hire her to monitor that! She can smell the gas, and the glue they use for the lug nuts. She feels the texture of the tires, and the shape of the trophy. And the entire race day atmosphere is one that is hard to describe, but she recalls it vividly from a day during a rain delay when she was in the garage.

Her wish list includes meeting TJ Majors, Brett Griffin, and Freddie Kraft, as well as Casey Boat from Door Bumper Clear podcast which is one of her favorites, as well as Dale Jr. Download. She called the spotters “the guide dogs” for the drivers and I loved that analogy! She has her 4th guide dog River, who will make her first trip to a NASCAR race at Martinsville this fall.

Another wish is to get to sing the National Anthem again (she did it in 2013) and to be on the Fan Council for NASCAR. And her biggest wish is to work for a NASCAR team, in PR, or marketing, by sharing how motorsports includes and welcomes people from all walks of life, with a variety of differences and challenges. I hope she gets this opportunity.

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Kate Dillon has been involved in motorsports for several years and continues to grow not only her businesses but her presence and influence in the motorsports industry.

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