what would an 18, 17-year-old college student briana daniels think of you right now?ecially a little black girl like myself at that time, definitely was like, i'm never getting into nascar. it wasn't even a thought in my mind. >> reporter: now not only is briana in nascar, she's making history. becoming the organization's first black female pit crew member in 2017. >> j want people to know that women can do what the men do. i just wish that we could be treated equally. i'm working to change that. >> reporter: nascar has always contended with a lack of gender and racial diversity within its ranks. it wasn't until 2012, 64 years after nascar began, that it signed on its first female pit crew member, christmas abbott. since then, only 15 pit crew members have been women. just three have been women of color. even nascar's fan base is overwhelmingly white with black fans making up only 9% of the den graphic. >> nascar hasn't had very much success with the african-american community at large because of nascar's association with the confederate flag. you see that symbol, you