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Robinson,
Shawna
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races a Ford Taurus in the
2000 ARCA Series in the USA. NASCAR Busch
series. She is one of only two women to have run a
full schedule in the Busch series (in the 1990's)
the other being Patty Moise. Shawna had 6 starts in
the 35 race Busch Series in 2005 and finished 79th
out of 149 with $159,670 in winnings. Two
additional women qualified for at least one race in
2005: Kim Crosby and Erin Crocker.
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Shawna Robinson has proven
to be ultra resilient in her efforts to establish
herself in the upper levels of NASCAR racing. After
an abortive attempt at the Daytona 500 in 1995, she
finally made her Winston Cup debut in 2001, making
one start in four attempts for MK Racing.
Robinson qualified 32nd
and finished 34th at Michigan, where she set an
ARCA qualifying record in 2000. She also made a
limited number of starts in the NASCAR Busch
Series. The BAM Racing team for which she planned
to drive in 2002 failed to qualify for five Winston
Cup races in 2001.
Robinson has been a race
driver ahead of her time since she was a
19-year-old slinging a big-rig tractor around
Midwest tracks on the Great American Truck Racing
tour, where she made her debut in 1980.
After setting landmarks in
the Goody's Dash Series, NASCAR Touring; NASCAR
Busch Series; and ARCA RE/MAX Series Robinson is
once again attempting to become the first female
driver to compete in more than a couple races in
more than 20 years.
After competing with GATR
from 1983-88, Robinson moved to NASCAR stock cars
in 1988, where she finished third in her debut race
in the Goody's Dash Series at Daytona International
Speedway. Later that season she became the first
woman to win a NASCAR Touring event when she won
the Dash race at New Asheville (N.C.) Speedway. She
was Goody's Dash Most Popular Driver and Rookie of
the Year that season.
The next year, she became
the first woman to win a NASCAR Touring pole
position in a Dash race at I-95 Speedway in
Florence, S.C. That was a feat she repeated in 1994
at a much higher level when, after several partial
schedules in the Busch Series and one full season,
she won the pole for the Busch Light 300 at Atlanta
Motor Speedway with a record lap.
In 2000, after taking the
better part of five years off to start a family,
Robinson, the mother of a young son and daughter,
became the first female to finish in the top-six of
a national motorsports oval series, running among
the point leaders in ARCA's premier series all
season. At the same time, she became the first
female to run a full season in a national stock car
racing series. She has scored top-10 finishes in
virtually half her ARCA starts.
"I never was a
cheerleader," she said. "I'm an athlete. I'm
probably not coordinated enough to be a cheerleader
but that doesn't matter. I've always wanted to
compete. And if I compete, I want to win. I was
born competitive and that's in my blood. Whatever
car I'm in, whatever series I'm running, whatever
track I'm racing -- I want to be a factor. I want
people to know Shawna Robinson was there."
In 2002, Robinson made
seven Winston Cup starts. Her best finish was 24th
at the Daytona 500 in February. She had four
finishes of 40th or worse and finished the year
52nd in the Winston Cup standings.
Source:
www.nascar.com/drivers/dps/srobinso00/bg/bio.html
Snippets
- she was the youngest of five children in a
racing family
- she started racing at the age of 19
- she acheived many accomplishments nationally
including first women to finish in the top ten
of a national oval-track racing series(6th in
2000), first woman to win a Busch Series Pole
position with a track record (1994) and first
women to win a NASCAR Touring Series event
(1988)
- started 52 Busch Series races in 1991, 1993
and 1994
- first women to win a pole position in the
NASCAR Busch Series and she achieved that with a
track record of 174.33 mph in 1994
- hometown: Des Moines, Iowa
- has an ex-husband Jeff Clark ( an engine
builder for Dale Earnhardt Inc. Jobs include
jackman and tuner for Dale Jr.'s crew), has two
children, Tanner and Samantha
- started 32nd and finished 34s in the Kmart
400 in Michigan in June 10, 2001
- competed in 7 races in 2002
- currently is trying to attempt to secure a
ride in NASCAR Winston Cup.
- Is currently racing in NASCAR Craftsmen
Truck Series
Source: ca.geocities.com/womeninnascar/shawnarobinson.html:
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