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Jessica Dana Found New Opportunities in North Carolina
Jessica Dana was born and raised in Olympia, WA. She moved to North Carolina in 2016 with only what she could fit in her car, searching for a new opportunity. It was hard leaving her family but thankfully she was blessed with a family that supported her 100%.
Her hobbies include anything that involves being outdoors, hiking, camping, fishing, etc. Her favorite vacation destination would be Alaska, as it is every outdoor lovers dream. The scenery is breath taking. In terms of advice the one that stuck with her was, “Driving a race car is only 10% of the work you have to put in just to be able to be a race car
driver.” and “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
Jessica works full time for her spon- sor, ProPac International. Her co-workers are very supportive of her racing. When Jessica is not racing, she is working and if she is not doing either of those she is train- ing. “I’ve devoted myself to this opportu- nity in racing.” she said.
Jeff Gordon is Jessica’s favorite race car driver. “I flew down to Charlotte, NC when I was 15 years old to compete at the Jeff Gordon Charity Kart Race. I qualified 1st out of 100 drivers and won the event. He was the person that not only inspired me but my parents as well to try and make a career out of racing.” she shared.
Jessica started racing at the age of 15 in indoor go karts. After a couple months of indoor karting she moved up to outdoor karting in a class called Rotax Sr where she owns 5 track records and 2 championships.
“When I turned 16 my father sold his 427 Shelby Cobra for our first Super Late Model, he sold everything that wasn’t bolt- ed down (literally) just so we could afford to put the race car on the track. I ran Super
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