About The Fast and the Fabulous
The Fast and the Fabulous is a motorsports blog dedicated to NASCAR and IndyCar, written by Valli Hilaire. Valli provides a female fan’s perspective of racing. She offers her opinions on the latest headlines and shares her race weekend experiences. It’s a reality show in blog format illustrated with photos, news, reviews and interviews.
The Fast and the Fabulous appears as a column in NASCAR Pole Position, a magazine that is distributed at all of the NASCAR Sprint Cup race weekends and in various supermarkets across the country.
In 2009, The Fast and the Fabulous was included in the NASCAR Citizen Journalists Media Corp, a new initiative by NASCAR to recognize the changing media landscape and provide more access to independent media publishers.
About Valli Hilaire (pronounced val-lay hill-air)
I was born and raised in Northern California. I graduated from high school early, attended college for a couple of years before deciding to take time off. I haven’t been back since.
I grew up in a family of sports fans and always considered myself to be an excellent spectator. For as long as I can remember I’ve loved writing, and I’ve loved business. I always knew that I wanted to do my own thing. It’s taken me a while to figure out exactly how I could meld all of my passions.
I became a race fan in 2001 because of the MTV documentary “True Life: I’m a race car driver.” It featured Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony Stewart. That’s what got me to spend my Sundays with NASCAR.
I attended my first race in 2003 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. It wasn’t until 2006 that I started blogging about NASCAR as a way to promote news items that I knew wouldn’t get play on the website I was working for at the time. I worked as a web producer for a major newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area and even though we only have one NASCAR race a year in Northern California I felt it was important to have a motorsports section on our site. Eventually I left that job and took The Fast and the Fabulous with me.
In the beginning it was about alerting people to promotions and pieces of racing news that never make it into the articles of mainstream media outlets, but now it’s become more personal. The Fast and the Fabulous is my baby and through it I get to share my opinions, perspective and experiences as it relates to racing and, more specifically, NASCAR.
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Photography by Fred Egan
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