Amee Blue

Short Track Racer

Thirty-year-old Amee Blue was born and raised in Southern California, she calls Norwalk home, and racing is in her blood. She is at a racetrack every Saturday night, and has been all of her life, mainly at the now closed Saugus Speedway, where she can name virtually every racer who ever started more than one race. She now spends her time at Irwindale Speedway, except on rare occasions when California Speedway, Las Vegas Speedway, or any other NASCAR Cup, tour, or series race is within driving distance; then she is off to Arizona or central California for her racing fix.

Amee's personal hero will always be her cousin Jim Robinson, a NASCAR Southwest Tour/Winston West driver, who was injured at Phoenix in 1988 and has since passed away. All the local drivers and officials remember Robinson as a guy who had talent and knew how to use it. Amee's goal in racing is to move up to the half mile track at Irwindale driving a super stock, a car that increases the weekly budget by threefold, and that's after investing more money purchasing a faster Chevrolet Nova, Camaro, Chevelle, or Nova, which most of the super stocks are. One senses that driving the V8 pure stock only added to her passion of going faster on the half mile, as she is quoted as saying she could get another three tenths out of the borrowed pure stock if Irwindale adds another ladies race.

Today, most women would rather race in the open division with the men, as many race cars now have power steering and better brakes, making everything more about a driver's skill than strength or stamina, especially in any race of 40 laps or less. Somewhere in the near future, ladies races might not exist, but right now, this entry level pure stock racing for ladies only division gives a couple, whether married or dating, mother and son, or just friends or co-workers, a chance to share the same race car in two divisions, which makes it affordable for even the tight budget teams.

A race on May 22 nd 2004 in which Amee Blue was an entrant, might just have made history at Irwindale Speedway. It was the first ladies only race on the NASCAR oval track, which has been in existence for about six years, as the inaugural ladies pure stock race drew six women racers to take the green flag for ten laps on the third mile.

Four of the ladies knew each other well, as they have been racing each other at the Orange Show Speedway in San Bernardino for several years, the remaining two ladies also have race experience, as Wendi Westbrook [one of the track announcers] raced factory stocks on dirt, a similar car but on dirt instead of asphalt and drives a legends car, and Amee Blue has raced at Irwindale for just over two years in the mini stock division, also on the third mile but with light four cylinder cars.

Amee was at a disadvantage because she only took three laps of practice in a borrowed car, and she had never raced anything with a V8, or anything this big and heavy. She started at the front but quickly got passed dropping to the rear of the field as the more experienced lady racers battled it out for the impressive first, second, and third place plaques given to all main event winners at Irwindale Speedway. It didn't take her long to figure out how to drive this “Taxi Cab” to make it faster, and she quickly adjusted her driving line to pass many of the cars back, eventually taking the third place plaque [her first trophy ever in stock car racing].

Right now Amee can be found driving her orange number 78 Ford Pinto mini-stock, sponsored by Stick Shift Trans, Ron's Rear Ends, McComb Motorsports, and Loverock Motorsports. Her crew consists of cousin Ed and brother Jason, who is also co-owner of her car. She is learning fast. Her crew is learning, and she is having fun in the mini stocks, but super stocks is where she's headed in a couple of year; if the right sponsor comes along.

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