School and marriage and children came along, and her dream of sitting behind the pounding engine of a race car faded into nothing. She became a NASCAR fan, but the idea of ever driving a race car ...

Mott spoke with us during the week leading up to her race ... driving when she took us for a hot lap around the Rolex 24 at Daytona road course in a Mazda MX-5 Miata pace car.