A few years from now, when your buddy asks if you’ve heard about the 4-foot-4 NASCAR driver who regularly wins races, you can smile and pat him on the back.
Uh, yeah. You heard of Rico Abreu way back in 2015, when he won his first stock car race in just his seventh start.
Abreu is on the fast track to NASCAR’s national series, and his win Saturday night in the K&N East Series race at Columbus Motor Speedway showed why. The 23-year-old Californian, who uses longer pedals and moves his seat closer in order to race, didn’t even start driving competitively until he was 15 (most pro racers start before they’re 10).