Two Female Pit Crew Members Made Their Debut In The Daytona 500

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Denny Hamlin may have been the winner of the 2019 Daytona 500 yesterday, but the "real winners" were the ladies!

Two female pit crew members from the NASCAR Drive for Diversity program made their debut yesterday in the Daytona 500, changing the tires for race car driver Rick Ware.

Brehanna Daniels and Breanna O’Leary were college athletes recruited in 2016 by the diversity program, which helps female and minority athletes train as drivers and pit crew members and break through in the predominantly white male sport.

Daniels is also the first African-American female tire changer to pit in a NASCAR national series.

And of course, the ladies were pretty excited about it.

WOW! I can barely put air in my tires, let alone do what they're doing!
These ladies are quite possibly the first female pit crew members in the Daytona 500! The NASCAR organization said it doesn’t have the records to confirm if they’re the first women to pit in the Daytona 500’s 61-year history, but they’re definitely the first from the diversity program, which began in 2004. 

Get it ladies! Keep up the amazing work!