March 18, 2026

Dystany Spurlock: What Changes When Women Stop Waiting For Permission To Race

Send a text Dystany Spurlock doesn’t talk like someone waiting to be picked. She talks like a driver who decided to learn the game, earn the seat, and bring other women with her. We sit down with Dystany to trace a journey that starts with childhood power wheels and turns into real-world racing across motorcycle drag racing, NHRA ambitions, and an upcoming ARCA Menards Series debut under the NASCAR umbrella. She explains how reaction time, precision, and confidence built on two wheels can tr...

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Dystany Spurlock doesn’t talk like someone waiting to be picked. She talks like a driver who decided to learn the game, earn the seat, and bring other women with her.

We sit down with Dystany to trace a journey that starts with childhood power wheels and turns into real-world racing across motorcycle drag racing, NHRA ambitions, and an upcoming ARCA Menards Series debut under the NASCAR umbrella. She explains how reaction time, precision, and confidence built on two wheels can transfer into stock cars, while also admitting what gets harder fast: learning tracks, mastering racecraft in traffic, and staying sharp when the schedule gets heavy.

The conversation goes deeper than driving. Dystany lays out the business reality of motorsports sponsorship and why so many talented women in motorsports never get the opportunity they deserve. She shares what it means to “learn the business before you get in the business,” including building an EPK, creating a sponsorship packet, and refusing to gatekeep information that could help the next generation.

We also talk about representation and motorsports diversity, plus the vision behind her What’s Your Dystany Foundation, designed to expose kids to racing and to the careers around it, from pit crew to engineering and data. If you’re searching for real insight into the road from local racing to professional motorsports, this one is packed with practical lessons and honest motivation.

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00:00 - Welcome To Women In Motorsports

01:02 - Meet Destiny Spurlock

02:13 - Childhood Roots Of A Racer

06:05 - NHRA Breakthrough And ARCA Plans

07:25 - Bike Skills In Stock Cars

09:02 - Representation And The Sponsorship Game

13:04 - Foundation Vision And Daily Discipline

18:03 - Hard Days, Wins, And Resilience

29:34 - Where To Follow Destiny

39:04 - Closing Thanks And Subscribe

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Welcome to the Women's Motorsports Network Podcast, the show that puts the spotlight on the incredible women who fuel the world of motorsports.

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From drivers to crew members, engineers to fans, and everyone in between, we're here to celebrate the trail risers, dreamers, and doers shaping the sport we love.

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Each episode, we share inspiring stories of females of all ages from every corner of the motorsports universe, past, present, and future.

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It's a journey through the seasons of life filled with heartfelt moments, laughter, and a whole lot of horsepower.

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So whether you're a lifelong fan, a racer yourself, or simply curious about the extraordinary women behind the wheel, settle in, relax, and enjoy a fun and uplifting ride with us.

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This is the Women's Motorsports Network Podcast, connecting and celebrating women in motorsports one story at a time.

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Let's hit the track.

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Good morning, everyone.

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This is Melinda Russell with the Women's Motorsports Network Podcast.

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And I have a very special guest today.

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Destiny Spurlock is with me.

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And Destiny's gonna tell us all about herself and her story.

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But first, I want to welcome you to the show, Destiny.

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And would you share a little bit about yourself?

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Yeah.

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So as she said, my name is Destiny Spurlock, and I am just a big ball of energy.

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She wanted me to share a little bit about like my personal life.

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So I'm the middle child, it's six of us total.

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I have an amazing dog named Drago.

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So you might hear him in the background, maybe, but he's a Kane Corso.

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That's my baby.

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I'm an adventurous person, a very adrenaline junky girl.

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But the real story is what I do.

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I no longer have to work anymore.

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I'm actually racing full-time now.

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So yeah, that's where we're at.

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That's awesome.

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I mean, you know, when you when you think about it, it is a lot of work what you do, but it doesn't seem like it because it's your passion.

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So, how did all of that get started?

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Go way back to the beginning and tell me from the very start, how did you get interested in motorsport?

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So I wouldn't say it was motorsports when I first started.

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It was more like battery-powered.

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My mom and dad, they got me a Barbie Jeep and a Barbie Corvette before I was one, so I could barely walk.

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So I started there.

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Then fast forward, I turned three and I started riding on the back of the motorcycle with my parents because my mom and dad, they both rode motorcycles, they didn't race.

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So then at five, I got me a go-kart.

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I begged my dad to give me a go-kart, and I woke up Christmas morning and it was there, which I still have to this day, by the way.

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And then I went to some tractor pools with my poppy, who is my grandfather, at six, I think it was.

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And I just loved that because I loved being outside barefoot and like it's dirt, it's loud vehicles.

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I love this.

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So then fast forward to I don't know what age I got introduced, probably around the same time, like six, seven-ish.

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He introduced me to NASCAR.

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So we grew up about two miles from the Richmond International Raceway.

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So we would watch the races on TV.

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My poppy would have the windows up so we can hear them because it was that close.

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So I used to love doing that on Sundays with my poppy.

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Then I turned 12.

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I went to the drag strip with my godfather, and I just fell in love with it.

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He's the one who dragged race motorcycles.

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So I came home, I'm like, Ma, I want to race a motorcycle.

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She's like, Okay, let's do it.

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Turn 16.

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She got me my first motorcycle, which was a Suzuki Jixer 750.

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I raced that for about two months.

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Then BMW came out with a new motorcycle called the S1000 Double R.

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And I got the chance to race that.

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I set the record on it, and then I became an ambassador for BMW.

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So then at this point, I'm like, I can really take this thing to the next level.

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I really want to race an NHRA.

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But outside of that, I always wanted to get into NASCAR.

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So after I became an ambassador for BMW, I did do some late model testing in a car.

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That deal fell through.

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So then this opportunity came up where I could race arena cars at the Richmond Coliseum, which are half-scale NASCARs.

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So that was so much fun.

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I continue to do that and race motorcycles at the same time.

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But I'm also still striving to get to NHRA, still striving to find a way into NASCAR.

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So let's see what happened next.

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So then I got another deal.

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This is right before COVID to race a NASCAR again, start the journey.

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Well, COVID came, killed that.

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I'm like, you know what?

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Forget it.

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We're just gonna say we're gonna focus on NHRA, and that's where we're gonna go.

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So for those of you who don't know what NHRA is, it is the like the NASCAR of drag racing.

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So it's the the top most professional level of drag racing you can do in the States.

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So still racing my normal bike at our local series and all the good things.

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So then I met my sponsor now, which is Foxteca.

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So I met Chris, he's one of the owners.

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I met him five years ago, and he always told me, Destiny, you are a unicorn.

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If there's some type of way that we can get behind you to back you to make your dreams come true, we're gonna do it.

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So then he met his partner Kelly.

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So they created Fox Techa.

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Long story short, last year in June, I think it was June, July, somewhere up in there, they helped me debut to get into NHRA.

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So that was amazing.

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Dream come true, loved it, did absolutely amazing.

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Now this year, it's what March tomorrow.

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So yeah, so in a few weeks, we'll be debuting in NASCAR in the Arkham Minard series.

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Wow, that you told that pretty quickly, but what a journey! Yeah, and and you never let go of your dream.

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I love that part of your story.

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Yes, thank you.

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I have a huge support system.

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My family, they've always been beside me, regardless of what I wanted to do.

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My mom has always told me, go after your dreams, don't you know shy away from them.

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So when she told me that at four years old, that's exactly what I did.

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Like, I wanted to play football in middle school and high school.

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My family supported me.

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They're at the games, they're like, go do it.

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So yeah.

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Oh, that's that's so so fun.

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And so when is your gonna be your first race in ARCA?

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Yes, first race in ARCA would be at Hickory in Hickory, North Carolina on March 28th.

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March 28th, okay.

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And how many races are you hoping to do in ARCA?

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I think we're still gonna schedule together, so it's right under 20 or right at 20, somewhere up in there.

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Okay, all right, yeah, and then a half season for NHRA this year.

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Oh my gosh.

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So, okay.

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I don't often talk to somebody who races motorcycles NHRA and NASCAR, ARCA's NASCAR because they own it.

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Yes, so tell me what is the biggest difference?

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Like when you go from a motorcycle to a car, what's the hardest thing to transition?

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I get asked that question often.

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I really still have not found an answer yet because they each of them help the other.

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So, you know, drag racing, you have to be on your reaction times, you have to be quick, you have to be precise with your movements, and so that helps me, I feel like, in the car because speed is definitely a factor, but it's not anything that I'm not used to, so I'm good there, and then the reaction from the motorcycle helps me with the quick movement, so you never know what's gonna happen in front of you, and then you have to, you know, hit your lines correctly and get into the throttle and the brake where you need to.

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So I just think they both help each other for me.

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That's good because I know people that have you know, like race a couple different kinds of cars, like they might race a street stock and then a late model or whatever it is, and you would think, oh, it's not that big a deal to jump from one to the other, but every car is different, and so it is harder.

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But I can I can see where the motorcycle takes one set of skills, really, and the car takes another, but they overlap.

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Yep, exactly.

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I mean, of course, it's it's more difficult in the car because you have tracks that you have to learn.

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Drag strip is just straight, so you really have to focus on the racecraft of everything in the car.

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So, yeah, yeah.

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What's your favorite thing about being involved in motorsports?

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That I get to be an inspiration for others.

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I love that.

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Like I tell everyone, I love to race, it's great, it's fun, it's what I was created to do.

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But to be able to show someone that they can do it too, that is the biggest thing because I do a lot of work in inner city schools, and there's so many kids that don't even know that motorcycle drag racing exists.

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They, I mean, they know of NASCAR, but they don't know that they can do it as well, whether they're a racer or they're on the pit crew or they're in the engineering department.

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There's so many things that I will be able to expose them to to know that if this something you want to do, you can actually do it.

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You know, Destiny, there's a saying that if you see her, you can be her.

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Yeah, and that's that's that's who you are because a lot of little girls might look at NASCAR or ARCA or any kind of motorcycle.

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There's a lot of women in motorcycle racing, but they don't see someone that looks like you, do they?

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They don't, they really don't.

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It's it's far and few, it's not a lot of us at all.

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Like, for example, in NHRA, you have myself and Peggy.

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We are like the only brown faces that are out there, and I I don't like that we're so rare, but hopefully, you know, the work that we have done and we continue to do will get more women of color out there because like we need it, we need everybody.

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Well, and that's true, and and you know, I'm not I'm not picking on you about that either.

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I think it's wonderful.

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And you look around and why not?

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Why aren't there more women that look like you?

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I think it's just because so, for example, for me, when I grew up, the only way I've thought that you can get into a high level in motorsports, whether it's NASCAR or NHRA, was if you had money or if you were born into it.

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So I'm like, how am I gonna do this?

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Because we don't have the money.

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Well, we have money, but not that amount.

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And then I wasn't born in it, so then you know, I I someone told me early on, they said learn the business before you get in the business.

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So then I started doing my research, and then I realized, okay, I can do this, but I have to obtain sponsorship.

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So, how do I get sponsorships?

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Okay, I have to get an EPK together, I have to get a sponsorship packet together, you know.

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So that is another reason why I'm so glad I'm here because I have never been a gatekeeper.

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I want to show people the way it what you need to do, what it takes, what it looks like.

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So I feel like I'm gonna be able to do that.

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I'm gonna be able to get a lot more women in the space.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And excuse me, not just and not just as a driver, you know.

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Destiny, I interview women who do all kinds of things as far as jobs and in racing.

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And I just think that we don't expose little girls, younger, if they're not like you said, if if you're not involved, your family's not involved in racing, it's much harder to expose those girls, boys too, but you know, mostly little girls because they're dancing or playing softball or doing all those things, which my kids all did, you know, my girls did all that, but I would have never thought that they would have wanted to drive a race car.

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That was what my son wanted to do.

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Yep.

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And so, yeah, and then you know, the more I got involved when he was racing and that, the more I saw the women that were there and started Women's Mother Sports Network 2017.

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I was shocked, destiny really, especially in the junior dragsters, how many little girls there are.

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There's just tons of little girls, and they're starting to advance now to the higher levels.

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Yes, and I love that you brought that up.

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So I also have a foundation called What's Your Destiny Foundation, and it's to help expose children to the world of motorsports.

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So, my goal is once I you know get everything together, I want to have a few NA NHR, a few Junior Dragsters and a few bandoleros, and a few legend cars.

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So that way it starts them at the beginning, but I don't just want to teach them racing, I want to teach them the stuff on the track and off the track, you know, how to look at a graph to read your data from when you're on the track, how do you take care of yourself, your your mental health, you know, working out?

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What are we eating, you know, that type of stuff.

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So I'm really that's one of my most prize possessions, like to get started, because like you just said, they don't know what they don't know.

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So I I want to be the example to show them.

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I I love that.

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And it is do you spell it like your name, destiny like your name?

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Yeah, I figured you did.

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Um that's that's pretty exciting, and while the young women that that will touch, yes, uh, once that gets going, because I think that'll spread like wildfire.

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Absolutely.

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You know, it's it's about educating young women and little girls, and you know, like if like for instance, my I'll go back to my girls, they're 40 and 38.

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So a long time ago when they were little, we never went there, we never went to the drag strip to watch.

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I didn't even really know that much about it.

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We did go to the the dirt circle track because my son was interested in racing, and so the more we can show women doing and outperforming oftentimes the men, the better for these little girls, the better, yes.

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I love it because we can do it, yeah, for sure, for sure we can do it.

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So, destiny, you're high energy.

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We we've established that.

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How do you keep yourself in balance?

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So, work, health, eating, you still go buy groceries, you still have to do the laundry, you still have to do all those things.

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How do you keep all of that in balance?

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So, when I'm not traveling, it's a lot easier.

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The traveling part gets difficult, but on a normal week, when I'm home, I wake up, brush my teeth, wash my face like everybody else, and then I go straight to the gym, to our workout facility here in North Carolina.

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So I do that.

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Then once I come home, I have a whole routine I do.

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Like I go meditate.

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Of course, I walk my pup because that's my baby, and I really I don't watch a lot of TV or anything like that.

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I do a lot of reading or researching on the computer, studying the tracks that I have to go to next.

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I'm just a very mellow person when I'm at home because that's the only quiet time I get.

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That's kind of your down, that's kind of your downtime to recharge for when you go to the track or to the for racing for sure.

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So, Arca, we talked about your one sponsor.

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Do you have any other sponsors or people that are supporting you that you want to share?

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So for now, we only have Fox Tucker.

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Of course, we are looking for other partners and sponsors to come along because this is a journey that is it's very expensive to be to be frank.

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But no, we just have Fox Tucker right now, and yeah, yeah.

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Well, it's gonna get their name out there, we know that, and it's definitely gonna get your name out there, and and that's really all it takes is you know, for people to see and and find out who you are.

00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:11.599
You know, I love that you were talking about your foundation wants to give girls the knowledge of the whole picture.

00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:26.720
It's one thing if you can race down, you know, race what 200 and some miles an hour down the drag strip, or or go, you know, go into ARCA with there's a few women in ARCA on and off.

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Go into ARCA and and show them that you know there's a lot of women out there who are talented, they just need the opportunity.

00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:36.079
Yes, right?

00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:37.680
That's what it's all about.

00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:56.079
Yep, that's what it's all about, it's just getting that opportunity, and so that's part of what I do is try to give women a platform to get their name out there and to share what they're doing and who they are because there's just not that many places for you to do it.

00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:57.359
That's so true.

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It's getting better for sure.

00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:02.480
It's getting better, yeah.

00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:14.880
So in all the racing that you've done, do you have a moment that just sticks out to you or a couple moments that would be like something that you'll never forget?

00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.160
Oh goodness, it's quite a few of those.

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What is the one that sticks out the most?

00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:24.160
Yeah, well, I'll okay, I'll go to arena racing.

00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:27.920
So arena racing was really amazing.

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When I first started, of course, I had one of the slower cars, which sucked because I am a competitor by nature, so I understand they did it, you know, so I can get my feet wet and learn everything.

00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:43.279
Cool.

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But once I got that bigger carburetor for my car, and that car started flying, I'll never forget the day that I actually won my first race.

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It was truly like a dream come true, and then to be able to look back at how how I started versus where I was in that point, it was really beautiful because there were some challenging things that I had to overcome.

00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:12.480
I had some racers that deliberately tried to wreck me every time.

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But once I learned the track, learned the car, learned how to flow, I didn't give up.

00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:23.920
And I they try to push me, I pushed them right back, and I got myself into the winner's circle.

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And I had a few, a lot of top three finishes.

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So I think that that was really beautiful to see.

00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:42.240
So, you know, probably a question that I don't ask up many other people is was there was there prejudice against you when you started racing?

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Was there, you know, some of that?

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So I'll yeah, I'll say like directly to me, no, but you can you can sense, you can see how people act.

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And when I first started, you know, I would hear that that's a thing, you know, and drag racing and stuff.

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I'm like, no, it's not.

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And when I saw, I was like, hmm, okay, all right.

00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:11.519
But for me, like I am such a happy-go-lucky person.

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Like, I don't allow others' energy or what they feel or what they think about me affect me because I can't control that.

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I can only control what I do.

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So I'm gonna continue to be me, continue to be that example, and go out there and race and beat them.

00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:31.119
Right.

00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:35.359
If if you know it lets your racing do the talking, right?

00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:36.240
That's it.

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That's it.

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So we all oh, excuse me, we all have bad days, and when we race, there's always a day that just you wish you could forget.

00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:59.200
When you have one of those days, whether it be you know, drag racing or arc or whatever it might be, how do you handle that?

00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:03.839
What was you know, was there ever a time you just said, I'm done, I can't do this?

00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:05.680
Oh, it was a lot of times.

00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:06.799
Yeah, absolutely.

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Especially when I was first starting, because I was super young, you know, so I'm still learning about myself.

00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:19.839
So when I first started, there were days when I would lose, I would just cry.

00:21:20.079 --> 00:21:22.640
Honestly, I would just cry and be upset.

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And then my mom had a talk with me one day.

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She's like, Destiny, it's okay.

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Like, you're gonna win some and you're gonna lose some.

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But as they say, you'll live to fight another day.

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But once she when my mom told me that, because my mom's my best friend, I listened to her and I'm like, you know what, you're right.

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So as I continued on in this journey, when I lost, it became more detrimental to me.

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It was just like, okay, next, let's let's go out and try again, or let's come out next week, or however that looks.

00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:56.240
It hurts, but at the same time, you you're gonna learn something from it and you're gonna do better the next time.

00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:59.680
So yeah, nowadays it's just like okay, let's go.

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And unfortunately, we lose more than we win in NASCAR.

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I don't care if you're the best there is.

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Yeah.

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You know, last year Connor Zilich won 10 races.

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So that means he lost double the amount that he won.

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And he was exceptional.

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And so it's it's kind of like, okay, you know, I'm going into a sport that's really going to challenge me and and put my myself to the test of what can I endure and still stick with it.

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And those are the people that get sponsored.

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The ones the ones that don't give up, they keep moving forward and they keep getting better, regardless of what's going on around them for sure.

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Absolutely.

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So when you know, when you look at at the sport of motorsports, do you think that's a good sport for women to be involved in?

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And I know you do, but I'm asking the question.

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And then why?

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Why motorsports for women?

00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:08.079
I feel like so.

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One, they say women's reaction times are faster than men.

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Okay.

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So you have an advantage already.

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But for me, I just feel like it's so different because we're so used to the cheerleading, the golf, the you know, sticking ball sports and things.

00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:31.680
But with motorsports, it's not just about being a racer, it's so many other departments that are in it.

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So, like for example, a few years ago, I went to where was I at?

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I can't remember where I was.

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Anyway, I was at some track race and I saw a woman, and she was, yeah, okay, so it was the NHRA race.

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This is before I raced there.

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And she, I think she did something with the engines on the top fuel cars.

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And I'm just sitting there in awe.

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Like, oh my gosh, you're really doing that.

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And we actually became good friends.

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So I feel like there's not a lot of women in the sport.

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So I feel like they should come in and to show and prove that we can do this too.

00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:07.920
Okay.

00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:16.559
So there's more and more women, you know, obviously getting into the sport, and not just as drivers, but you know, engineers.

00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:23.519
My friend Liz works on, she's a tire specialist for NASCAR, and she works with Tyler Reddick.

00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:28.799
So she's gotten two wins in a row, and I'm so happy for her.

00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:29.920
She deserves it.

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She's been working hard for a long time, you know.

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And and so, you know, you look at those women and they just get right in there with the guys.

00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:41.599
I can remember watching her.

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We were in Chicago a few years ago, back when you could have NASCAR there, and you know, it was like almost a hundred degrees, and the humidity, and they're there from like seven in the morning till seven or ten, they're a little later at night.

00:24:58.079 --> 00:25:01.440
Yeah, and it's it's hard work, yeah.

00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:05.759
And and yet that's her passion.

00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:08.960
That's it, and so does it feel like work?

00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:13.680
Yeah, some days it does, but would you want to do anything else?

00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:18.480
No, Destiny, you want to do anything else?

00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:21.279
No, I would not want to do anything else.

00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:24.640
I have been working so long to get to this point.

00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:27.519
For example, I used to be a Delta flight attendant.

00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:29.519
I worked in hospitality for a while.

00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:33.119
I had my CDL, I drove tractor trailers for a long time.

00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:39.440
So my my sponsors, Fox Teca, they made January 15th, I think it was.

00:25:39.519 --> 00:25:44.720
Yeah, January 15th, 2026, my last day of true work, punching the clock.

00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:51.039
So I say all that to say no, I would not want to do anything else but be a full-time professional racer.

00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:53.759
Yeah, yeah, and you're so excited.

00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:57.359
I can hear it in your voice and see it in your in your smile.

00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:00.400
I'm excited for you too, for sure.

00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:08.960
So if some if someone came up to you and said, My little girl, you know, follows you, she wants to be just like you.

00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:10.960
What would you say to them?

00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:18.160
I would tell them if they want to be an actual racer, go to your local tracks, find out their test and tune days.

00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:20.799
You know, now we have marketplace.

00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:25.839
So it's not hard to find a car or junior dragster or any of that anymore.

00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:37.200
You know, find a local mechanic that you trust, have them look over whatever the car or vehicle or motorcycle that you're looking at, make sure it's good, and just practice.

00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:38.480
Go at your own pace.

00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:43.359
You're gonna have so many people that's gonna tell you do this, do that, do this, do that.

00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:45.119
Find what works for you.

00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:51.119
Don't let anybody push you out your comfort zone until you're ready and lock in and stay focused.

00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:53.119
So that's what I would tell them.

00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:59.599
That's good advice for anybody that's in racing, and it's a good advice for life.

00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:07.200
Don't try to be over here, this person or that person, be who you are, be authentic.

00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:12.960
Yes, that is my biggest and be authentically you exactly.

00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:18.720
So, do you have a track that you're really looking forward to going to and racing on?

00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:20.319
Of course, Daytona.

00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:33.839
Daytona is the Mecca, so yes, I really want to go Daytona, of course, Talladega, because they just have so much fun in the infield during the race and Phoenix.

00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:36.160
Yeah, I'm looking forward to going to Phoenix.

00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:48.559
I love Phoenix, so my youngest two daughters live in the Phoenix area, so I've been to the Phoenix track more than I've been to any other racetrack, and I absolutely love Phoenix.

00:27:48.960 --> 00:28:05.599
Uh, you know, they were getting a lot of they were getting a lot of pushback to have the championship for NASCAR there, and I get it, you know, you need a change and whatever, but honestly, the weather, the track, the accommodations, the parking, you name it.

00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:07.279
Phoenix knows how to do it.

00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:10.960
And they that's right, that was that was my favorite.

00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:12.799
Insta Liz my favorite track.

00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:15.039
So I think they're there next weekend.

00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:16.480
I'm not gonna be able to be there.

00:28:16.559 --> 00:28:17.759
I I can't fly yet.

00:28:17.839 --> 00:28:25.839
I had some surgery on my back, and so I can't fly yet, so I can't go, but maybe maybe I'll hit one of the other tracks later.

00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:28.000
But yeah, I love I love Phoenix.

00:28:28.079 --> 00:28:30.079
You're gonna you're gonna love racing there for sure.

00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:31.519
Yeah, I'm excited.

00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:32.960
That's good to hear.

00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:35.279
You're you're gonna love it.

00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:40.240
So, who you know, you've got to have a crew, you can't be doing this all by yourself.

00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:48.960
Do you have a set of people that help you with both drag racing and gonna help with the ARCA, or is it different people?

00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:51.119
Tell me about your support system.

00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:59.359
Yes, have to have a team because this girl cannot do it all by herself, even though she did on the motorcycle staff for a little bit.

00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:11.119
But this year we have Carlong with MBM, so he is my crew chief, his entire shop, Garage 66, they're gonna get everything together for me.

00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:18.400
And then on the NHRE side, I can't speak on that yet because we're still okay, you know, that's underground.

00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:22.240
Yes, okay, all right.

00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:24.480
Okay, that's all right.

00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:31.839
There's still, you know, it's it's this time of year, there's a lot of that going on, little little secrets here and there that we can't tell yet.

00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:33.279
So that's okay.

00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:38.799
So, Stephanie, how can people follow you, follow your journey?

00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:42.960
Because you know, I've known of you for a while.

00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:50.880
So, how Facebook, Instagram, how do you let people know where you're gonna be, what you're gonna do, so we can follow you?

00:29:51.200 --> 00:30:01.759
So, first, I have a docuseries that is out called Driven by Destiny Road to NASCAR, and that is presented by Fox Techa Media.

00:30:01.920 --> 00:30:10.000
So they, which is also my sponsor, so they have been following me through this whole journey on this road to NASCAR.

00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:14.160
So the second episode comes out on March 2nd.

00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:18.799
No, March 1st, but you tomorrow, yeah, tomorrow.

00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:23.839
But outside of that, you can find me at Destiny Spurlock on all platforms.

00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:28.640
So, but the docuseries is gonna be on Fox Tech's YouTube channel.

00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:32.880
Okay, okay, I'm gonna watch that.

00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:34.319
I'm writing that down.

00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:35.359
Nice.

00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:40.559
Well, the trailer for it is out now, so you can see what it's gonna be about.

00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:42.079
That's awesome though.

00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:44.720
So tomorrow's the first episode.

00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:45.839
No, second.

00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:49.599
Second, so the first episode's already out, yes, okay.

00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:50.319
Awesome.

00:30:50.559 --> 00:30:52.559
Well, that's exciting, you know.

00:30:52.640 --> 00:31:08.079
I love seeing there's a lot more of these docuseries coming out that are showcasing women and their journey, and so that's a great way for you to get your name out and get for people to see like what you've been doing for sure.

00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:09.519
Absolutely, yeah.

00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:11.599
So that's excited.

00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:12.880
No, go ahead.

00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:22.799
No, I was just saying, I'm really excited for everybody to come into my world to see it because so many people feel like I've been giving all these opportunities, or it has not been hard.

00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:30.400
So this really shows my vulnerability, and you can see what it's what the journey has really looked like.

00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:40.079
Yeah, people people don't understand when they're outside looking in, you know, when you go home at night, what you've gone through that day.

00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:42.240
Yes, exactly.

00:31:43.359 --> 00:31:46.720
So well it's it's good to show them, you know.

00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:57.039
I I often say people that love racing, they show up at the racetrack, you know, 30 minutes before the race, they watch the race, they're all excited, and they go home.

00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:59.839
They're not there at noon for a 7 p.m.

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:00.559
race.

00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:08.400
They're not they're not in the trenches, and and I wish that, you know, it's it's an impossible thing to happen.

00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:23.039
But every person needs to be part of a pit crew for a day and go to the track and do the things that the drivers and their team do, it would give them a new appreciation for motorsports.

00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:30.079
Absolutely, they would definitely respect it so much more because everybody thinks, oh, you're just turning left or you're just going straight.

00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:32.400
You have no idea what that's like.

00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:35.680
No, no, and not not at all, you know.

00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:40.799
And I uh I did the Richard Petty driving experience.

00:32:41.279 --> 00:32:43.359
My son, my son and I did.

00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:58.960
Now, my son actually drove because he was a race car driver, and then I rode with somebody, and you know, and it was funny because I I was sitting in the passenger seat, and you know, you're going pretty close to the wall.

00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:15.119
I mean, they they don't drive crazy, but faster than I would drive if I was on the track, and we were pretty close to the wall, and I was sitting with my arm kind of up on the thing of the race car, just you know, like I was on a Sunday drive.

00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:22.640
And the guy the guy says to me, Wow, you're not, you're pretty relaxed, you know.

00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:28.480
Going, I think I think we went, I shouldn't say, but I want to say 180.

00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:33.440
Yeah, and I said, Oh, this is I love this.

00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:39.440
And he said, I have people that get in this car and we do that and they say, Take me back.

00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:53.519
And and so I have my little plaque somewhere that says, you know, I did that, but I loved it, yes, yes, but we were the only car on the track, yeah.

00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:56.160
Now imagine a bunch of other ones around you.

00:33:56.319 --> 00:34:06.799
Now imagine that there's 30, 30, however many cars, let's just say 40 cars on the track, and they're all doing that, yeah.

00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:10.400
And some of them don't drive very well, yeah, exactly.

00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:15.920