American basketball superstar Breanna Stewart excitedly approached the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet sitting on Homestead-Miami Speedway pit road. As she looked over the car’s brightly colored, specially detailed pink and teal paint scheme, the 6-foot-4, three-time Olympic gold medalist wondered aloud how drivers climbed in through the small window opening.
The excitement was palpable as she and some of her fellow Unrivaled League players — Dijonai Carrington and Marina Mabrey — looked over the car Alex Bowman will steer in the March 23 NASCAR Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. It was the high-wattage result of sponsor Ally’s involvement in bringing together two popular sports worlds — stock car racing and women’s basketball.
The NASCAR race at Homestead will come a week after the Unrivaled League finishes its inaugural season of three-on-three women’s professional basketball that Stewart co-founded and of which Ally — which sponsors Bowman’s car — is a founding partner.
— NASCAR.com —