Sarah Cornett-Ching (born May 8, 1991) is a Canadian professional stock car racing driver. She most recently competed full-time in the

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, driving the No. 2 Chevrolet/

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for the RACE 101 team in 2015 and 2016. Since then, she has been without a ride in any NASCAR series.

Racing career

Cornett-Ching started her motorsports career at the age of twelve. Cornett-Ching replaced

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full-time in the No. 2 Chevrolet for RACE 101Motorsports in

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, after Praytor left the team to form his own team, Max Force Racing. Her entry was fielded throughout the season in a partnership between Tony Blanchard's team, RACE 101 and Hixson Motorsports. The entry was a RACE 101 car but they utilized Wayne Hixson's team owners points. Blanchard had previously partnered with Hixson the prior year on Hixson's other car, the No. 3, with rookie Karl Weber. Her seventh-place finish in the 2015 ARCA standings put her tied with Steve Arpin (who also finished seventh in

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) as the second highest-finishing points finish by a Canadian driver in the history of the ARCA Series, behind Jerry Churchill's three top-10 points finishes of seventh, fifth, and third in the late 1980's. Cornett-Ching also set another record that year earning the highest-ever points standings finish by a female in the series.

Natalie Decker Natalie Marie Decker (born June 25, 1997) is an American professional stock car racing driver. She last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 33 Toyota Supra for Reaume Brothers Racing, the No. 28 Ford Mustang for RSS ...

would tie this record in

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. In addition to competing full-time in ARCA in 2015, she also made her NASCAR K&N Pro Series East debut at

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, driving for Shayne Lockhart and Sam Hunt's DRIVE Technology team. RACE 101 also helped the team out for that race. In September 2016, Cornett-Ching had a concussion while competing at Kentucky Speedway during the

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. She resumed racing in March 2017 at a race in North Carolina.

Personal life

She was born in

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and as of 2011, was living in

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. Some of her hobbies include longboarding, snowboarding, dirt biking, and camping.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(

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) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics'' – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

K&N Pro Series East

Canadian Tire Series

Season still in progress
Ineligible for series points

ARCA Racing Series

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) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics'' – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cornett-Ching, Sarah Living people 1991 births NASCAR drivers ARCA Menards Series drivers Canadian female racing drivers Racing drivers from British Columbia Sportspeople from Penticton Canadian racing drivers