Lizzy Musi was a professional race car driver and star of the reality series “Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings.”
- Died: June 27, 2024 (Who else died on June 27?)
- Details of death: Died of breast cancer at the age of 33.
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Lizzy Musi’s legacy
Lizzy Musi was surrounded by motors and racing growing up. Her father, Pat Musi, was a racer and the founder of Pat Musi Racing Engines, and she followed in his footsteps. Musi was a junior dragster racer and made her Pro Nitrous debut in 2014. That July, she became the first woman to break 200mph in eighth-mile doorslammer racing, and her win at the US Drags at Virginia Motorsports Park made her the first woman to win the Professional Drag Racers Association event. Overall, she won third place that year and earned PDRA’s “Rookie of the Year” prize.
Musi began to make a wider name for herself on the Discovery Channel show, “Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings,” where she raced her beloved car, Bonnie, as well as Bonnie 2.0, a Robert Hayes Race Cars-built 1969 Chevy Camaro. She was the first female driver to win a No Prep Kings event, and the first driver overall to win three in a row.
In addition to her time on the show and on the track, Musi was director of Musi Racing in Mooresville, North Carolina.
She was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in April 2023 and chronicled her fight on social media. By the time the disease was detected, it had already moved to her lymph nodes and liver.
On her cancer diagnosis
“I’m very thankful and blessed that I can keep doing what I’m doing. It hasn’t put me down. I still have the fire in me. I can still do what I do, and it hasn’t changed.” — Drag Illustrated Magazine, 2023
Tributes to Lizzy Musi
Full obituary: People
