Leilani Münter

Leilani Münter 2014

Leilani Maaja Münter (born February 18, 1974 in Rochester ) is an American racing driver and environmental activist.

Family and personal

Münter is the youngest of four daughters of a German doctor and a nurse from Hawaii . She holds a degree in biology from the University of California at San Diego . She has been married to a New Zealand engineer since March 2009 and lives in Charlotte . The musician Bob Weir is her brother-in-law. She has been vegan since 2011 , after having been vegetarian for decades .

Racing career

Münter's career as a racing driver began in 2001. At the end of 2006, she passed the beginner's test at Daytona International Speedway , which gave her the license to take part in the NASCAR races there . In 2007 she was the fourth woman to take part in the Indy Pro Series . Several long-time IndyCar officials and drivers, including Jaques Lazier , noticed her positively there, as she started in fifth place and reached the fifth fastest lap in the race. In the next race at Chicagoland Speedway , she was thirteenth. Lack of sponsors they had their single-seater but cancel -Career. She has been a stock car driver ever since.

activism

In 2007, Münter undertook to sponsor one acre of rainforest for every race she drives . In 2010 she drove a car in Daytona promoting the documentary The Bay . In 2013, she fought against a planned ban on the Tesla Model S electric car in her home state of North Carolina . A year later, their racing car was painted to look like an orca ; that was also the advertisement for the film Blackfish . On February 18, 2017, she drove a car on the Daytona Speedway promoting the vegan diet.

Movie and TV

2002 acted Münter in The Scorpion King as a double for Kelly Hu . She did the same in Traffic - Power of the Cartel and America's Sweethearts for Catherine Zeta-Jones . In 2015, Münter appeared in the documentary Racing Extinction .

Web links

• Homepage
• Leilani Münter in the Internet Movie Database (English)