Race car driver Christy Georges-Barnett won more than $1 million on a Las Vegas slot machine.Photo:Christy Georges-Barnett/Facebook;LasVegasLocally/X
Christy Georges-Barnett/Facebook;LasVegasLocally/X
Veteran race car driver Christy Georges-Barnett hit the jackpot in Las Vegas!
In the clip, Georges-Barnett could be seen pacing in front of the machine with her hands over her head in shock. She then raised her arms up in the air and exclaimed to her husband, Sherman Barnett, who stood off-camera, “It’s a million dollars! It’s a million dollars! Oh my God!”
The camera then zoomed in on the machine’s screen to reveal the precise amount she won: $1,185,599.
Georges-Barnett has been a fixture in the racing world for more than 40 years. According to herFacebook page, she has won more than 450 races, including 35 championships, and became the only woman in U.S. history to win a UMP Dirt National Championship.
She also holds a world record as the fastest woman in a NASCAR at Bonneville Salt Flats racing with a speed of 208 mph in 2007. Georges-Barnett shared the story of her incredible feat with the El Paso, Texas, radio stationKLAQlast year.
Christy Georges-Barnett celebrates her slot machine win.LasVegasLocally/X
LasVegasLocally/X
“A gentleman here locally had a friend who had a NASCAR Busch team in Indiana. For two years they hired a NASCAR driver to try and qualify for the Brickyard 400 race. They named the team Race El Paso, allowing people to pay to sign their names on the cars as sponsors,” she recounted.
“The third year they decided to try and break the land speed record at Bonneville,” she continued. “They called me and asked me to drive it because they wanted a local driver and a female. I ended up doing it and we let people sign the car and got local businesses to sponsor.”
She said the money raised was donated to a children’s literacy program.
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In a story similar to Georges-Barnett’s, a tourist passing through Las Vegas' Harry Reid International Airport in June won $1.3 million playing the “Wheel of Fortune Triple Double Emeralds” slot machine.
The next day, the airport retweeted the video and congratulated the lucky winner, quipping, “That’s one way to end a vacation — as a MILLIONAIRE!”
source: people.com
