{"id":14221,"date":"2014-08-04T13:25:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T17:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=14221"},"modified":"2014-08-04T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T17:25:37","slug":"milka-duno-to-become-first-hispanic-female-driver-in-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/08\/04\/milka-duno-to-become-first-hispanic-female-driver-in-nascar\/","title":{"rendered":"Milka Duno to become first Hispanic female driver in NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/milkaduno.jpg\" alt=\"milkaduno\" width=\"640\" height=\"305\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/milkaduno.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/milkaduno-594x283.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/milkaduno-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nRAB Racing has signed Milka Duno to a limited contract that will allow her to become the first Hispanic female driver to compete in one of NASCAR&#8217;s top three series.<\/p>\n<p>Duno has eight major race wins in the highest classes (Prototype) in the American Le Mans Series and the Grand American Rolex Series and the highest finish ever by a female driver (2nd  place) in the 24 Hours at Daytona.<\/p>\n<p>When she won the Rolex Series Grand Prix of Miami she became the first woman in history to win a major international race in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Duno has competed in the Indianapolis 500 (2007( and has also been running in the ARCA Racing Series in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really very excited and honored to enter into NASCAR and the Nationwide Series,\u201d said Duno in a released statement. \u201cIt has always been a goal and dream of mine to compete in NASCAR and I worked very hard in ARCA to turn this goal into a reality. I always strive to challenge myself as a driver and I\u2019ve been fortunate to compete in many types of racing &#8211; and while the competition is always my number one focus &#8211; I am very proud of the history that I have made as a female driver, and the Hispanic sports history as well, that has been made along the way.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNASCAR is the most competitive and popular racing series in the USA and I\u2019m very proud to enter the series with RAB Racing and I look forward to competing with them in their No. 29 Toyota Camry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Rice will be the crew chief of the car driven by Duno. He served as the crew chief for Alex Bowman in the No. 99 Toyota Camry last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAB Racing has signed Milka Duno to a limited contract that will allow her to become the first Hispanic female driver to compete in one of NASCAR&#8217;s top three series. Duno has eight major race wins in the highest classes (Prototype) in the American Le Mans Series and the Grand American Rolex Series and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,788],"tags":[741,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-14221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xfinity","8":"category-news","9":"tag-milka-duno","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14221"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}