*It turns out Tia Norfleet, the 20-year-old race car beauty who sold us on the idea that she was “the first African American woman to race in NASCAR,” straight up lied.
The truth of the matter, according to racing officials, is the only sanctioned race she entered was some low level event last year, reports the NY Times.
Damn!
Norfleet, who has engaged students and the media at various speaking engagements over the years; solicited sponsorships and even has a PayPal account on her website; where her bio and videos can be seen. Woman went out and hired herself a marketing team that produced a savvy campaign that gained her nationwide publicity. What they failed to mention while promoting her “accomplishments,” was her criminal record. 
Her Web site, Tianorfleet34.com, even indicates that she intends to compete in a full schedule this season in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series, one rung below the top-tier Sprint Cup series. Now how in the world was she going to do that? Apparently, she thought her game would play out forever.
Guess she’s what you call a “ride-or-die chick.”
So sad.
Read the full story at the New York Times
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Guess you have to get that 15 minutes wherever you can find it. At least her hair ain’t fake.
Minorities can be too gullible at times with race segregation marketing. The fact that NASCAR itself was not promoting her should have been a clue. When someone is marketing hard to me and it is not a black hair product, I question it.
Well, I’ll be “tawana’brawley”!?!?!.. Oh well, the upside of this is . . .Meagan Good is the “spitting image” of this fake-woman-lady-driver . . .I smell an ABC movie in the offing or a “Bogus & Furious” !!! . .Her acting leaves a lot to be desired but, if she can play a “skripper”, a con artist should be a cake-walk, at least she’ll keep her clothes on.
I’m sure that officials at NASCAR were ultimately behind this. Danika Patrick has been running some races, and only recently have I heard of her “placing” in some events.
Jack, saying Danika Patrick has been running some races and “placing in some events” is like saying Tiger woods has played some golf and “placed in some events”. Danika Patrick is the first female driver to claim pole position at any top division Nascar race. The most successful woman in the history of American open wheel racing, holds the highest finish by a woman in the Indy 500, is the ONLY woman to win a race in the Indy car series, is the highest pole qualifier since 1990 for the Daytona 500. She is the first female to win a NASCAR sprint cup series pole, she was named rookie of the year for 2005 Indy 500 and the 2005 Indy car series season. She had the highest finish by a woman in the Indy 500 in 2009. Holds the IRL record for most consecutive races running at the finish AND she started off kart racing and has become one of the highest paid drivers on the circuit. NASCAR did not create her story and NASCAR is not behind this hot mess. What could NASCAR possibly gain by creating this clusterfuck?
It is amazing how many “Reporting Agencies” spin articles off of an article they “assume” is correct without doing any of their own investigating…I guess this is easier than doing their own work. Tia Norfleet never told anyone that she is racing above any level than the ones she was racing, “unsanctioned races”, NASCAR would have shut her down if she was out there lying, they haven’t marketed her because of reasons internal to individuals within NASCAR. There’s nothing wrong with promoting yourself as the first African American female driver…that’s what she is. The patch on the fire suit was donated to her by a sponsor and the schedule was put there by a third party website designer, still her responsibility but she was not trying to mislead. Everyone wants to shoot her down but no one seems to notice her for what she is trying to do. I’ve done my research and the article is wrong.
One thing that I would like to make clear to Kay…YEESSS her hair is fake. I’ve seen it up close in personal! Just to let everyone know, this past FridayJune 7, 2013 she paparticipated in jumping and beating up a 16 yr old girl along with her sister. Not only is she a fake NASCAR race car driver but she cause the fight by punching the youth’s mother in the face for no apparent reason which in turn started the whole incident. NASCAR do not need to attach their name to a person of such a negative public figure! I hope that NASCAR take a look into the things that up and coming drivers are doing. So that NASCAR will NOT have the wrong people representing the brand!