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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

MEET THE FIRST FEMALE NASCAR PIT CREW MEMBER NAMED ‘CHRISTMAS’ WHO ONLY WEIGHS 115 LBS


Christmas Abott loves CrossFit and Olympic lifting, she wrote on her Facebook fan page. She’s only 5’3″ and weighs 115 pounds, which she also notes means that she likes “surprising people with my strength.”

But she also likes tackling “any challenge that is said can’t be done.” Perhaps one of these was joining a NASCAR pit crew. It’s a physically demanding job where not only strength but speed are of the essence. Abott has proved that she both and joined a pit crew as the first female ever in NASCAR history.

ABC News featured Abott last month reporting she was trained for the job by Turner Motorsports. Her duty on the crew is in the front tire position where she cranks off all five lug nuts, pulls off the tire, replaces it with a fresh one and puts the lug nuts back on. Then repeat on the other side. According to ABC, the entire pit crew’s efforts take about 12 seconds. 

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

CrossFit people are koo-koo.

Anonymous said...


Christmas? more like Hollween!

Anonymous said...

Howdy! Y'all-
I wonder if her lip is packed with snuff? Or chawing a wad of tobacco.

Anonymous said...

The necessity for anyone to "attempt" to diminish the accomplishments of others, especially this young girl, is simply the work of small negative minds. She's more accomplished, wholesome, and driven then the majority of young people that I get to see or read about in the media today.

Anonymous said...

She will have fun in the Pits!

Anonymous said...

You go girlfriend!

Anonymous said...

Easy to guess how she got the job.

Anonymous said...

About as funny as driver #7 dannica ding-a-ling something.

Anonymous said...

That's no easy job, and I challenge any of the expert typists here to beat her tome. BTW, she got the job because she can not only beat the time, she's motivated and energetic about learning more.

How many of you commenting here have similar employees, co-workers, or even friends?

I know the answer to this, really.