CITGO’s sponsorship of Milka Duno is a real coup in reaching out to the Hispanic market. Milka Duno has attracted attention worldwide for both her racing talents and educational background. The 2000 Venezuelan Auto Racing Driver of the Year is a naval engineer with four master’s degrees — in Organizational Development, Naval Architecture, Maritime Business and Marine Biology. She earned the last three simultaneously.

Duno was invited by a friend to participate in a Porsche Driving Clinic in 1998. In 2007, Milka scored a second-place finish in the 24 Hours At Daytona — earning the highest finish ever by a female driver in the 45-year history of the race. Milka holds the distinction of being the first woman ever to win a major North American sports car race. She is also the first woman and the first Latina in the history of the Grand American Road Racing Series to achieve an overall win. Duno also made history by becoming the first Latina to qualify and race in the Indianapolis 500. And, she has become a fashion/glamour icon featured in many magazines like Vogue, Esquire, and Selecta.

Duno appeared in Pontiac’s largest-ever Hispanic marketing campaign integrating language, culturally relevant broadcast, print, Web and promotional advertising to launch the Pontiac G6 sports sedan.

Duno also had the role of “Kellie Gearbox,” a race car driver,
in the movie that is based on the 1960’s classic anime series “Speed Racer.” She has published a book about the importance of education that is aimed at grade- and middle-school students and travels extensively to promote the benefits of education.