Amber to race the Bobby Isaac Memorial Race
Amber will be competing in the Bobby Isaac Memorial Race at Hickory Motor Speedway on Sept 24th and 25th. Amber is proud to be part of the 35th annual running of the Bobby Isaac Memorial as Bobby Isaac is a big piece of NASCAR History. Amber feels that competing in this race gives her a chance to be a part of that history and to pay a proper tribute to one of the personalities that help to shape NASCAR.
Bobby Isaac came from simple means and with no money or education, but he followed a dream, stayed true to that dream, and accomplished what so many others did not. “I hope that I can display the same determination and perseverance in chasing my dream to be the first female to win a NASCAR Championship.” said Amber. “I think there is a lot to learn from people like Robert Vance “Bobby” Isaac”. Amber said, “I hope that in many years to come people will be able to look back and see me in the same light as people like Bobby Isaac”. ”After all we have a few things in common. I too, come from a family of simple means, have run my 1st 8 years in substandard equipment, and I ran my 1st race in a Late Model at Hickory Motor Speedway at age 17.”
Bobby Isaac saw his first race at Hickory Motor Speedway, in 1949, at age 17 and many years later, ran his last race at Hickory Motor Speedway. After a rough and very traveled road and while racing anything he could, in 1970 Bobby Isaac sat 50 poles with 11 wins and won the NASCAR Grand National Championship. In 1977, while running a Late Model Sportsman race, at Hickory Motor Speedway, Bobby asked for a relief driver with 25 laps to go and collapsed after climbing from the car. The following morning Bobby died from a heart attack and was buried next door to the track on August 16, 1977. (The day that Elvis Presley died)
Bobby had also set a world record at Talladega running 201.104 MPH in 1970, along with 28 other land speed records of which some still stand. Bobby Isaac is and always will be a hero and one of the greats in NASCAR history.
While Bobby Isaac had very little education, he promoted education to those who looked up to him. ” I hope to be valedictorian when I graduate in 2012 and plan to go to college for a degree in Motorsports Engineering as well as Sports Marketing and Management. I feel that these two courses of study will give me an added advantage in my racing career.”
