Miss Sprint Cup girls Monica Palumbo, Paige Duke & Amanda Wright
Sprint Cup Girls have a new team member? Today at the Gatorade Duels I noticed a new face in that Cup Girl firesuit. She made that suit look good, and that ain’t easy! After doing my research, I see why!
The 2010 Miss Sprint Cup squad consists of Amanda Wright, Monica Palumbo and Paige Duke. They serve as abassadors for Sprint and NASCAR and perform various functions aside from standing around in victory circle behind the winner.
Monica Palumbo
Monica became a C up Girl in 2008. She has several years of promotional and acting work in her resume. Sporting News put her on “NASCAR’s 50 Most Beautiful People” list in ’08 and ’09.
She was crowned Miss North Carolina USA in ’01 and won the Miss Congeniality award in the Miss USA competition.
She’s also co-hosted on the ABC Morning Show Live with Regis and Kelly.
[Update 9-12-11: Monica Palumbo is leaving the Sprint Cup Girl Squad]
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Amanda Wright
Amanda hails from York, Maine. She nabbed the gig when she stopped by a Sprint Experience booth at Loudon. She kept in touch with the rep she met there and when the interviews began for the Miss Sprint Cup team, she drove 15 hours to interview for it.
For her, being in this squad is a life changing event. She move to North Carolina.
She became a NASCAR fan in 1995 and has participated in various commercials and fashion events before being the first runner-up in the 2009 Miss Maine USA Pageant. She has sung for US troops stationed in Iraq. Amanda loves following all types of motorsports.
She was attending the University of New Hampshire, getting her Business Administration major. While she’s showing up for her duties in NASCAR and Sprint, she will be continuing her educational goals online.
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Paige Duke
Paige is also new to the Miss Sprint Cup program and it is she whom I spotted in the winners circle on Thursday. She says she’s a “country girl” with a true appreciation for NASCAR and Southern tradition.
She graduated from Clemson University and has had previous stints with NASCAR and NHRA.
I also found some of her past modeling jobs or profiles to be more accurate, at Miss Hawaiian Tropic International Model Search and Jett Girl Model Search pages.
Paige is featured in country-music artist’s Brantley Gilbert’s music video for “Kick it in the Sticks.”
She likes hunting (Ya! We see that!), deep sea fishing & barrel racing.
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Ya know, after checking out the video intros, those fracking sprint suits do them no justice what-so-ever!
Here’s my original article from April of ’09 on NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Girls.
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Below are various resources and links for NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Girls of 2010:
http://www.facebook.com/misssprintcup
http://twitter.com/misssprintcup
Catchfence, Catchfense, (Of course I had to thoroughly explore these sites to be sure they were safe for you! >>) Jett Girl Model Search, Hawaiian Tropic Models.
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UPDATE: Sept 2011: Paige Duke was let go from the squad in July of 2011 for some actions from her past.
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Hi Monica,
It was a pleasure to meet you again. Thank you for spending time on Friday. I’m also trying to reach Jonathan to see if it is possible to have a copy of the photo with you & myself. Jonathan took it with his camera, my camera & your cell however it did not save in mine. ( My Facebook or Email which you should have) I’m very pleased you like the photos from 2008. Please ask Ann Marie if she would like a copy. I can send her a large print or small or both. It was a pleasure to meet you both in 2008.
Thank you,
Ken
Get rid of Monica Palumbo . She looks so fake and we are tired of seeing her.
She looks so unnatural…..
I’m an “over the road” truckdriver,(21yrs+),married to a most beautiful wife and mother of two great kids. Only recently,have I discovered my wife enjoys,or would enjoy,going to a”NASCAR” race. We just celebrated our 24th wedding anniversery . You know times are tough and we were thinking,how nice it would be to recieve a total,”VIP” NASCAR package next year,when we would be celebrating our,”SILVER” 25th wedding anniversery! Meet some of the DRIVERS,CREW MEMBERS,get a real up close look at the RACE CARS,and if we were real lucky,each of US,get a ride around the track,180mph,woooooooo! next “may 29th” is our 25th anniversery. Well,just thought I’d ask and see what might come of it,thanks,sincerely, DAVID