Vicki Wood (1919–2020), record-setting woman NASCAR driver
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legacy.comth, but won the next race, and the one after that. Soon she was dominating her female competition. In 1959 Bill France, who founded NASCAR and built Daytona speedway, invited her to race at his track.
When gatekeepers attempted to bar her entry to the pits he angrily responded, “Vicki Wood is not a woman. She’s a driver, and she’s allowed in the pits.”“I was a better driver than half of the men they had,” Wood said, describing her male competition at the Detroit-area short tracks during the 1950s in a 2019 Autoweek interview.The first live NASCAR broadcast was on CBS on Jan.
31, 1960. They aired Daytona 500 qualifying races, a compact car race, and a 2 lap compact car race for women. 17 million people watched as Barbara Bundy edged out.
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