Melissa Wright

Position: Columnist / Media Representative / Public Relations

Column: Over the Wall

Email: melissawright@skirtsandscuffs.com
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Melissa grew up in LaPorte, Indiana. She's been in the racing circuit her whole life. Her father raced late models and ASA. At one point in the 80s he was Mark Martin's crew chief. The short tracks were her playground as a kid. They included Plymouth and South Bend Motor Speedway, Winchester, Salem, Anderson and so on. As a teenager, she helped with her father's racing enterprise prior to moving to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1991.

Melissa's first NASCAR race was the Daytona 500 in 1984 where the 3-Time National Motorsports Press Association Driver of the Year, Cale Yarborough, captured his last 500 victory. Some of her greatest memories as a kid were hanging out with drivers such as Ted Musgrave, Dick Trickle, Rusty Wallace, Ricky Rudd, Darrell Waltrip, Scott Stovall and Bobby Allison. Oh and sliding down the back banking on trash bags on rainy race weekends at Winchester.

She's a proud single mother of two children,a son, Tyler, 19,  who is a recent high school graduate and a daughter Autumn, 16, who will graduate in the class of 2013. Some of her hobbies include art, photography, karaoke, wine tasting and spending a lot of time at the beach. Her favorite things in life are: advocacy, pizza, attending NHL, NFL and MLB games, great friends, the beach, her dog and all things racing.

She has recently established her own business called Integrated Motorsports Marketing Group in which she seeks sponsorship and promotes drivers through marketing, primarily in the NASCAR circuit. Melissa has been a part of the Event Staff at Texas Motor Speedway for four years and became a grassroots advocate for the Be The Match Foundation last fall. For more information on how to become a donor and part of the registry, you can go to www.marrow.org or email her at unattainable13@gmail.com. Her column “Over the Wall” focuses on the unsung heroes in motorsports. She can be found on Twitter as @MelissaJWrightand also as @ntegratedgroup.

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