{"id":8516,"date":"2011-07-18T16:12:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T20:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2011-07-18T14:40:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T18:40:16","slug":"black-racer-nicole-lyons-talks-%e2%80%98white-male%e2%80%99-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8516","title":{"rendered":"Black Racer Nicole Lyons Talks \u2018White Male\u2019 Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Race car driver <strong>Nicole Lyons<\/strong> gives a whole new meaning to what it means to be driven. Talented as she is beautiful, she\u2019s carving a name for herself as one of the rarest entities in drag racing: an African-American woman. Madame Noire caught up with her as she opened up about drag racing, her pro football husband\u2019s injuries, and her undying love for her parents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Madame Noire<\/strong>: Describe what a pro race car driver does.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicole Lyons<\/strong>: There are several different [race car competitions], NASCAR, NHRA, Indy. You have to be licensed in a particular field of racing. You definitely have to be making money&#8230;<strong>Danica Patrick<\/strong>, for example, makes upwards of $20 to $30 million a year&#8230;Ways to make money [include] winning races, getting sponsors, getting paid as a driver. The money [you can make] is endless when it comes to winnings, sponsorships&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MN<\/strong>: How much do you make?<\/p>\n<p><strong>NL<\/strong>: I probably pocket upwards of $500,000 to one million a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race car driver Nicole Lyons gives a whole new meaning to what it means to be driven. Talented as she is beautiful, she\u2019s carving a name for herself as one of the rarest entities in drag racing: an African-American woman. Madame Noire caught up with her as she opened up about drag racing, her pro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}