Tammy Jo Kirk

Tammy Jo Kirk (born May 6, 1962) is an American stock car racing and motorcycle racer. She was the first woman to race in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and later returned to NASCAR to run the Busch Series. She has not driven in NASCAR since 2003.

Early career Kirk began her racing career in motorcycles at the age of nine, moving up through the ranks of the sport during her teenage years and finally reaching the peak of the sport, the A.M.A. Grand National Championship. She became the first woman in history to reach a Grand National Championship final when she earned a spot in the 1983 Knoxville Half Mile event. In 1986, she made history by winning a Class C flat track race in Knoxville, Tennessee. she moved on to late model racing in 1989. Kirk joined the NASCAR Winston All-American Challenge Series in 1991, becoming the first female driver to compete in the series. In 1994, she was named the Most Popular Driver in the series, which had been renamed the Slim Jim All Pro Series, and would finish seventh in series points two years later. Kirk became the second woman to win a NASCAR touring series event (the first being Shawna Robinson in 1988, in the Goody's Dash Series ) when she won the 1994 Snowball Derby, which was at the time a points race in the All Pro Series. the sponsorship was reported to be worth US$1.2 million. When the season was over, she had run 19 of 26 races and had finished seventh in the Rookie of the Year chase. and she shut down her team in 1999. She would not race in the Truck Series again; her best career finish in the series was 11th, at Heartland Park Topeka in 1997.

Craftsman Truck Series NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Pts Ref 1997 Geoff Bodine Racing 07 Ford WDW24 TUSDNQ NSV14 20th 2174 7 HOM23 PHO12 POR14 EVG16 I7025 NHA13 TEX13 BRI19 NZH16 MLW16 LVL14 CNS17 HPT11 IRP34 FLM19 MacDonald Motorsports 72 Chevy GLNDNQ RCH30 MARDNQ SON MMR Circle Bar Racing 74 Ford CAL35 PHO RGR Racing 27 Ford LVSDNQ 1998 Kirk Motorsports 51 Ford WDW17 HOM15 PHO POR EVG I7019 GLN TEX15 BRI13 MLWDNQ NZH16 CAL32 PPR34 IRP31 NHA34 FLM NSV26 HPT LVL RCHDNQ MEM21 GTY MAR SON MMR PHO LVS36 29th 1296