Michele Abbate is the Founder and Owner of the Grr Racing Team and currently drives the Trans
Am #30 Ghost Energy/Lucas Oil Ford Mustang in the TA2 Series. She is a 4x Road Racing Champion, raced in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, was heralded as the youngest female to podium in the GT-1 category of the SCCA Runoffs and was the first woman to receive the “Lindley Bothwell Driver of the Year” award since its 1955 inception. She was also the first woman to take a step on a TA2 podium (2020), the first female to compete full-time in Trans Am’s National Championship (2022) and is a multiple-time winner of Trans Am’s most popular driver award. In 2023, she was named one of five PMH Powering Diversity Scholarship recipients.