Toy Hamilton has been fascinated with racecars since she was a little girl, plus her father was a racecar driver. Hamilton's father is a well known drag racer in the Midwest, so her passion for the sport is no mystery. At the age of 7 years old, Hamilton informed her parents of her dream to be a race car driver. This was something unheard of because there was no such thing as a black female race car driver. Hamilton continued dreaming about one day driving her own race car but until then, she began to focus on her other love, which was to be an engineer. After graduating high school, Hamilton attended Prairie View A&M University where she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering. In an engineering role, Hamilton worked for several Fortunes 500 companies in various functional positions: process engineer, customer and product quality engineer, integration test engineer, technical consultant, and system test engineer.

Throughout Hamilton's life she has always thought about driving a race car. In 2001 the technology industry took a major hit. Companies were laying people off by the thousands. Hamilton was no exception. That August Hamilton took a trip down south to visit family. While visiting, Hamilton found out a family friend was selling a 1977 Chevy Monza but at the time Hamilton thought nothing of this discovery. When Hamilton returned home she began dreaming about the car. This went on for several months but her main focus was using her engineering degree. After much time Hamilton began thinking about the opportunity of for filling her childhood dream and that was to purchase the race car. "Hamilton asked, What better time than now." Then Hamilton asked her father to look at the car and see if it was worth purchasing. The current owner did not feel comfortable about selling to Hamilton until he could speak to her about the dangers of drag racing. Hamilton explained her passion and the pitfalls that she had seen first hand by watching her father over the years. After several discusses of the danger and her being a female. On April of 2002, Hamilton purchased a 1977 Red and Yellow Chevy Monza. Hamilton purchased the car on Friday and at the track on Sunday going for a test drive. Her first official racing competition was June 23, 2002 at US19 drag way in Albany, Georgia. Out of one hundred cars, she made it to the fourth round and fourteenth car. Hamilton has been Bracket Racing for the past six years. Hamilton is a member of the National Hot Rod Association and has a NHRA Competition License. Her red and yellow Chevy Monza was running 6.39 ET (elapsed time) on an eighth-mile track at 106 mph and on the Quarter Mile track; she is running 9.90 ET at 139 mph.

Hamilton has also been a headliner at several professional races in Middle Georgia. Toy's Racing Team participated in the United Black Drag Racing Association at Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois. E.S.P.N aired high lights of the 2003 September race on Sports Vision television show. In 2005 and 2008, Hamilton participated in the Bud Billiken Parade held in Chicago. Among many accomplishments, she has been featured in the Dodge County Newspaper in Eastman, Georgia, Rolling Out Urban Style Weekly Magazine in Dallas, Chicago and Atlanta, Chicago's Citizen Newspaper and Urban Influence Magazine. Hamilton has done interviews about her racing adventures on Chicago's news channels ABC's Harry Porterfield Someone You Should Know, CBS News, Chicago Tonight on WTTW Channel 11 and the Herb Kent Show on V103 and Saturday Morning Garage Party with Mitch Faulkner on 102.5 fm. In 2008 Hamilton received an award from Dorothy Brown - The Clerk's Office Women's Advisory Committee for Outstanding Women in Sports Award. When Hamilton is not working or racing she spends time speaking at schools, libraries, churches and college fairs about the importance of an education.