Christmas Abbott has played on a boys baseball team and worked with mostly men for a defense contractor in Iraq.
She didn’t do those things as a display of toughness or to prove a point. She did them because, at the time, that’s what she wanted to do.
Christmas Abbott hopes to become NASCAR first female crewman to go over the wall full time. (Courtesy of Christmas Abbott)
That’s the same approach she takes to her new job: as a tire changer on a NASCAR pit crew.
In her quest to become the first female crewman to go over the wall on a weekly basis for a Sprint Cup team, the 31-year-old Abbott is doing it because, well, it’s fun.
“It’s not a gender issue for me,” Abbott said recently at Bristol Motor Speedway. “I decided to change tires because I liked what I did. I liked the excitement of it, the challenge and what it presented. That’s why I pursued this sport.”
Abbott is expected to change tires at Rockingham Speedway Sunday as a member of the pit crew for Camping World Truck Series driver Jennifer Jo Cobb. She made her NASCAR debut in February, helping pit Cobb’s truck during the race at Daytona International Speedway.
by Sporting News
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