Ken Schrader gives a reasonable verdict on Hailie Deegan’s father’s claim of NASCAR being “not ready for “a successful girl racer”
Ex-Hendrick Motorsports star driver Ken Schrader has explained the issue with the lack of female drivers in NASCAR.
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Ken Schrader and Hailie Deegan (Via Fox news and IMAGO)
Hailie Deegan was one of the most promising female stock racing talents over the last few seasons. When she landed a Xfinity Series seat with AM Racing in 2024, many in the racing community were expecting her to finally establish herself as the future of the sport. But things went south for her, resulting in her losing the seat over poor5 performance midway to the season.
She has now switched her stock car racing career to IndyCar, with her debut set for the Indy NXT series for 2025. Amidst the controversies around Hailie Deegan. Her father and motor racing legend Brian Deegan made a comment that NASCAR isn’t ready for a successful female racer. In the latest episode of “Herm & Schrader”, ex-racer Kenny Wallace discussed these claims.
He asked co-host and fellow racer Ken Schrader about his opinion on his topic. Schrader defended NASCAR in the debate and pointed out that the sport is ready for the next-successful driver. He pointed out that NASCAR community really wants a female racer winning a race as big as the Daytona 500.
Well, I don’t believe that. I mean, I think about it some, but I don’t. NASCAR’s ready for whoever the next successful driver is. I gotta believe that there’s nothing that Daytona would like better than for a female, to be climbing out with some consistency of these vehicles in Victory Lane. Who wouldn’t want that?
Ken Schrader said via Kenny Wallace’s YouTube channel.
Ken Schrader use statics to explain why there isn’t any female star racer
While further talking about the point, Ken Schrader pointed out that there are thousands of good racers throughout the country and most of them don’t make it to the top tier. The female racers make just a small portion in the list, and so the chances of one of the racers making it is really low.
There’s thousands of good racers throughout the country. What percentage of them are even going to get to run at cup or Xfinity or whatever, our truck…So now we take all those thousands of drivers, and then we take just the female drivers. Well, the chances are, just you know, statistically it’s just not near the chance. But doesn’t mean they can’t.
Ken Schrader said.
The comment from Schrader shows it’s not the gender barrier, but the sample size that is the real reason for lack of female drivers in the top. The sport still has a female racer to root for in Toni Breidinger for 2025 and it will be interesting to see how she will perform next year.
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