Transcript: Amber Balcaen on Player's Own Voice podcast
Anastasia: You can measure sports a hundred ways, but if you want to start with bums in seats, NASCAR is a beast. 60,000 people will show up at races and tens of millions tune in over the season. Baseball may be America's pastime, but NASCAR speaks to the heartland like nothing else. So it's great to see a woman, a Winnipegger, no less, in the thick of it. Amber Balcaen is not only the first Canadian woman to win a NASCAR sanctioned race, bombing around the track in her custom red and white car, She's also proof positive that there's no substitute for good old fashioned hustle.
