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Posted By: butchknouse37 on March 03 2012 at 08:16:30 PM
Speaking of which, does anybody know what's happening with Natalie Sather?
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Natalie Sather Joins MAKE Motorsports Natalie Sather
SHELBY, N.C. — Former sprint-car racer Natalie Sather has joined MAKE Motorsports as a development driver.
The 27-year-old Fargo, N.D., native will pilot the No. 50 MAKE Motorsports entry in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for two scheduled events — the Kroger 250 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway March 31 and the Good Sam Roadside Assistance Carolina 200 presented by Cheerwine at Rockingham Speedway April 15.
Sather is currently scheduled to make her debut in a MAKE Motorsports NASCAR Nationwide Series entry at Richmond. Additional races will be added as Sather and the team add partners and continue the development of their program.
Crew chief for Sather’s truck will be Mark Zakalowski, who is also crew chief on the No. 50 MAKE Motorsports NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) effort.
“I have been racing for more than 18 years with one goal in mind, NASCAR competition,” said Sather, who will also be driving additional races with other teams and in other series as she continues her path. “This opportunity to work with MAKE Motorsports will assist me in furthering my dreams and honing my skills for an eventual run to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.”
Like many professional drivers, Sather’s first experience was in karts at the tender age of nine. She worked on her skills and eventually won three track championships (1998 – 2001), two regional championships (1999, 2000) and was the 2001 IKF Grand National Champion on Pavement, the first female driver to achieve that honor.
Sather soon took her skills to the dirt behind the wheel of a sprint car and in 2007 became the first woman to win a major American Sprint Car Series trophy, followed up by a 2008 in which Sather finished top-10 in Knoxville Raceway point standings and was the first woman to receive the Knoxville Raceway 360 Rookie of the Year award.
Stock car competition began for Sather in 2009, with participation in the NASCAR Drive for Diversity program. Despite breaking her wrist in the third event of the season in 2010, Sather recovered and did not miss a race, resulting in multiple top-five and top-10 finishes.
2011 found Sather back in the Whelen Series, resulting in 14 top fives and 18 top 10s in only 26 starts. Sather was honored with not only a fifth-place ranking in the Virginia series standings and second spot in track points at South Boston, but was the recipient of the Wendell Scott Trailblazer Award.
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