Women In Motor Racing

[Devinda_Z]

I can't recall there being a dedicated thread for this though post relating to females and motoring gets a lot of attention so i've decided to be brave and put up a topic

Feel free to contribute lads!

i'll get the ball rolling with a few of the more famous ones...

Michèle Mouton

Michèle Mouton (born 23 June 1951 in Grasse) is a former French rally driver. She is the most successful and well-known female rally driver of all time, as well as arguably the most successful female in motor racing as a whole.[1]

She was the first (and so far the only) woman to win a round of the World Rally Championship, the Rallye Sanremo in 1981. She went on to finish a close second overall in the 1982 WRC after wins in Portugal, Brazil and Acropolis, with only the unreliability of the Audi Quattro that she was driving ultimately enabling Opel rival Walter Röhrl to snatch the title.

In 1985, she was the first woman to win the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb race in the United States. Mouton effectively quit rallying after the Group B category was banned in late 1986, both unwilling to take part in a new, slower championship under Group A rules, and eager to start a family. However, she was to be a key figure in the organization of the rallying Race of Champions in 1988, in memory of Henri Toivonen.

She also has taken part in the 1975 24 Hours of Le Mans, in an all-female team.

In 2000, she finished 2nd driving a Porsche 911 in the London-Sydney Marathon with co-driver 1993 winner Francis Tuthill, behind ex-teammate Stig Blomqvist.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michèle_Mouton

Vicki Butler Henderson

....i know i know she isn't really exactly the most awarded female racing driver but she is famous for driving cars fast!

Born into a racing family, her grandfather used to race a Frazer Nash at Brooklands, her father was in the British karting team and her brother Charlie is a racing driver. She has an older sister, Charlotte, who does not race. Butler-Henderson grew up on the family farm, and was educated at The Perse School for Girls in Cambridge.

Butler-Henderson started racing karts at the age of 12, being overtaken by David Coulthard in her first race. She holds a Race National C licence as well as a power boat racing licence. After supplementing her income as a racing instructor at Silverstone Circuit, she also undertook a dual career in journalism where she worked on numerous British motoring magazines including Auto Express, What Car? and Performance Car. She was the assistant launch editor and mechanic in Max Power magazine, referred to simply as "VBH."

Media career

In 1997, she joined the BBC's flagship motoring show Top Gear. After the BBC cancelled the original show in 2001, Butler-Henderson, along with co-presenters Quentin Willson and Tiff Needell, moved to Five in 2002 to continue their work on a show now called Fifth Gear. In 2004, she presented ITV's coverage of the British Touring Car Championship, in which her brother Charlie briefly competed in 2004; and from February 2006 the ten-part series Wrecks To Riches for Discovery Real Time.

Butler-Henderson has in later years broadened her media career outside racing and cars to become a general presenter. After co-hosting radio shows on Virgin Radio, in 2005, she presented a daytime television show for ITV called Date My Daughter in which a single man 'dates' three mothers after which they decide if he is worthy enough to date their daughter.

She has recorded voice overs for radio and television advertisements, including Wrigleys Extra Thin Ice and Sony Stores. She also provided a voiceover for the Playstation 2 game Gran Turismo 4 Prologue. In January 2006, Butler-Henderson appeared in a TV commercial for the Kent & Medway Safety Camera Partnershipin which she stated that the Partnership "don't want your cash, they just want you to slow down". In 2009 she starred in several Dutch commercials for Toyota. She worked at Absolute Radio doing traffic news on the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show. She left the breakfast show on 9 July 2009.

Personal life

Butler-Henderson is married to former Fifth Gear producer and current Top Gear Series Director, Phil Churchward.

Butler-Henderson drives a Mk II Golf GTI, a Honda S2000 and a Ducati Monster 750.[2][7] She is a fan of snooker and darts, and is an avid skier.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Butler-Henderson

[da_kool_guy]

wat abt local ones?

shehara?

[virensti]

Nice one mate. Here's my favourite of them all. I think she's a goddess for the way she can drive around that amazing track!

Sabine Schmitz

Sabine Schmitz

Sabine, in 2007.

Born 14 May 1969 (1969-05-14) (age 40)

Adenau, Germany

Other name(s) Sabine Reck

Occupation Racing driver,

Television personality

Official website

Sabine Schmitz (Sabine Reck while married; born 14 May 1969), is a German former professional motor racing driver for BMW, now known for driving the BMW "Ring taxi" around the Nürburgring race track as well as being a television personality.

Contents [hide]

1 Biography

1.1 Nürburgring

1.2 Television career

2 Race results

3 References

4 External links

4.1 Video footage

[edit] Biography

Born to the local hotel and restaurant owning Schmitz family, Sabine and her two elder sisters grew up in the "Hotel am Tiergarten" (in the basement of which is the Pistenklause restaurant) in Nürburg within the Nürburgring Nordschleife.[1]

Sabine trained as Hotelfachfrau and Sommelière. During her marriage to a hotelier she lived in Pulheim, but after her divorce in 2000, up until 2003, she owned a bar-restaurant in Nürburg named the Fuchsröhre (Foxhole) after a track section. In 2004[citation needed] she qualified as a helicopter pilot[2].

Following occasional drives with the family car on the Nordschleife, all three sisters started racing, but only Sabine continued and collected victories. Sabine won in CHC and VLN race events, the VLN endurance racing championship in 1998, and is the first woman to win a major 24h race, the 24 Hours Nürburgring, in 1996 and 1997, all with a BMW M3 entered and co-driven by local veteran Johannes Scheid. In 2006 Sabine and Klaus Abbelen drove the #97 Porsche 997 in the Nürburgring VLN endurance racing series, entered by Land Motorsport. They finished a strong third in the 24h 2008, beaten only by the factory-backed Manthey-entered winners of 2007 and 2006.

[edit] Nürburgring

Sabine came to mass public attention driving one of the two BMW M5 "Ring taxi" around the 20.8 km long race track in an entertaining manner.

According to her own estimates, Sabine has gone around the track more than 20,000 times, increasing by approximately 1200 per year. Her familiarity with the circuit earned her the nicknames "Queen of the Nürburgring" and "the fastest taxi driver in the world". She says her favourite parts of the track are Schwedenkreuz and Fuchsrohre.[3]

Claudia Hürtgen is her main rival, winning the championship in 2006, and scoring pole and victory in the third VLN race of 2008, with a BMW Z4.

Her company, Nürburgring-based Sabine Schmitz Motorsport, offers advanced driver training and a "Ring Taxi" service for passengers.

[edit] Television career

As a result of her popularity as "the fastest taxi driver in the world", Sabine became an occasional motorsport guest commentator, known for her gleefully dry descriptions of driving incidents. Since September 2006, Sabine has co-hosted a motoring show on German television, D Motor on the DMAX TV channel. In each show, Sabine takes on another challenge, for example Sabine in a Ferrari 360 vs. a 1200hp Race Truck, or Sabine in a Formula Renault race car vs. a race sidecar.

In December 2004, Schmitz gained recognition in the United Kingdom after appearing in the BBC television show Top Gear with presenter Jeremy Clarkson. On her only attempt, using the same car, she beat his best lap time of 9 minutes 59 seconds in a Jaguar S-Type diesel by 47 seconds (Season 5, Episode 5), having castigated his best lap with the comment "I tell you something, I could do that lap time in a van".

Thus, in her second appearance on Top Gear, she actually drove a Ford Transit van in an attempt to beat Clarkson's time set in the Jaguar S-Type diesel. Her final time with the Transit stripped (hub caps, spare tyre, toolkit and Richard Hammond removed, and they also drove a Dodge Viper in front to help slipstream or draft the aerodynamically challenged van) was 10 minutes and 8 seconds (Season 6, Episode 7). When trying to film Schmitz, the team couldn't keep up so they used Jaguar test driver Wolfgang Schubauer to drive the Jaguar S-Type R chase car[4].

Her third appearance was at the 2005 Top Gear Awards to collect the award for 'Best German' (Season 7, Episode 6).

In 2007, she appeared in Clarkson's Supercar Showdown DVD where she raced an Audi R8 against The Stig in a Porsche 911 GT3.

Schmitz also appeared in the sixth episode of the Top Gear's 11th series, in a competition between the German motoring show she co-presents, and the British Top Gear team. Both groups engaged each other in a series of challenges, in which Schmitz's main role came in the double decker car race. She and one of her co-presenters beat Jeremy Clarkson and his co-driver, Kiff, to win the event. The overall result was a win for the Top Gear team.

[edit] Race results

24 Hours Nürburgring: Overall winner in 1996 and 1997 (BMW), third in 2008 (Porsche)

Source : <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Schmitz" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Schmitz</a>

Edited October 23, 2009 by virensti

[Devinda_Z]

Leilani Munter

Is former NASCAR star, current Indy Car driver and environmental activist Leilani Munter the hottest female in motor sports? Automopedia has already done a run down of 2008’s Sexiest Female in Sports Racing, but Firestone Indy Lights driver (in conjunction with IndyCar) Leilani Munter has left her stock car career behind to become the 4th woman to perform open wheel racing.

Leilani has been involved with competitive driving since 2001, where she finished seventh in the Allison Legacy Series. In 2003, she had her first start in the NASCAR Weekly Racing Series at South Boston Speedway, and finished ninth. She made her first speedway start in 2004 at Texas Motor Speedway, setting a new record when she qualified fourth, the highest qualifying effort for a female driver at the track. In 2006 she had her first full time season in a car. With the completion of her Indy Pro Series rookie test drive Leilani is ready to take on an all new type of driving.

Aside from being one exceptional driver, and sexy as all hell, Mz. Munter holds a bachelor degree in biology from the University of California. She once worked as a photo double for Catherine Zeta-Jones, and is an avid environmental activist. She blogs in the green section of the Huffington Post and is active in the fight for environmental legislation. In March 2008, Leilani went to Capitol Hill with the National Wildlife Federation to speak with members of Congress on behalf of the Lieberman Warner Climate Security Act.

Source : http://www.automopedia.org/2009/03/26/leil...hottest-female/

[Devinda_Z]

Danica Patrick

The grace and seductiveness that brought sexiness back to racing, and no longer kept it a male-oriented sport. Not only that, but Danica has made history time and time again. Just this year she was the first female to take home an Indy 300 Japan win, and has won 1-2-3 pole positions at multiple races during her relatively short career. She’s been knocked for her abilities, her size being used as an advantage, and her sex. But none of those keeps Danica from proving that racing ability is not gender-bias.

Wiki : Danica Sue Patrick (born March 25, 1982 in Beloit, Wisconsin) is an American auto racing driver, currently competing in the IndyCar Series, as well as a model and advertising spokeswoman. She was raised in Roscoe, Illinois. Patrick was named the Rookie of the Year for both the 2005 Indianapolis 500 and the 2005 IndyCar Series season. In May 2006, she published her autobiography, Danica: Crossing the Line. With her win in the 2008 Indy Japan 300, Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy car race. Patrick currently drives the #7 Boost Mobile/GoDaddy.com Honda/Dallara for Andretti Green Racing. She also has an equity stake in her #7 team.[1] She placed 3rd in the 2009 Indianapolis 500, which was both a personal best for her at the track and the highest finish by a woman in the event's history.

Patrick has hosted several TV shows on Spike TV, including the "Powerblock", and she was featured in the 2005 documentary Girl Racers. On the August 23, 2007 episode of Diggnation, hosts Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose shot live at Infineon Raceway, where they were treated to a lap around the track in the IndyCar Safety Car driven by Patrick. On April 24, 2008, Patrick was a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night With Conan O'Brien on April 25, 2008.

Patrick was featured on the cover of the June 6, 2005 issue of Sports Illustrated, making her the first Indianapolis 500 driver on the cover since Al Unser, in victory lane, following his upset fourth victory in 1987. After her participation in the 2005 Indianapolis 500, she was asked by Playboy to have her pictures taken to be published in a future edition of its magazine. She declined the offer, but she did participate in a "20 Questions" interview with Jason Buhrmester for the magazine's July 2007 issue.[28] She had also previously posed for FHM, appearing in the April 2003 issue. She was on the cover of the September/October 2006 issue of travelgirl magazine and the October 2006 issue of American Libraries. Patrick appears in the February 15, 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She is featured in a 4-page photo spread.[29]

She appeared in commercials for Secret deodorant in 2005 and 2006 until she was replaced by Rihanna in 2007. She also appeared in Jay-Z's music video "Show Me What You Got," where she drives a Pagani Zonda Roadster. A spot for the Honda Civic Coupe features Patrick trying to avoid a speeding ticket.

Patrick on Pole Day at Indy, 2007.

Patrick was featured in an ESPN "This Is SportsCenter" commercial, which showed then-anchor Dan Patrick towing her IndyCar due to a reserved space misunderstanding (the space in question being reserved for "D. Patrick"). She can also be seen in award winning corporate training videos Four Weeks In May and T.E.A.M.W.O.R.K.

During testing at Phoenix International Raceway, GoDaddy filmed a commercial with Patrick that has also aired nationally. During the same test, at the invitation of GoDaddy, Patrick met with Paul Teutul, Sr. and Mikey Teutul, and subsequently appeared on an episode of American Chopper. Patrick was also in a 2008 "inspirational, feel-good" Go Daddy commercial called "Kart" that features a young girl who aspires to be like Patrick.[30] On February 1, 2009, Patrick appeared in two GoDaddy.com commercials advertised during Super Bowl XLIII. The Most Watched Super Bowl commercial of 2009, according to TiVo, was Patrick's "Enhancement" ad for GoDaddy.com.[31]

Recently she was voted sexiest athlete in Victoria's Secret "What is Sexy" list. Patrick also was voted #42 in 2006 and #85 in 2007 in FHM's 100 sexiest women in the world.

Patrick made a second appearance in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in February 2009, posing with a Shelby Cobra 427. [32]

Patrick is represented by IMG talent agency.

Recently starred in a Boost Mobile commercial to advertise their prepaid unlimited telephone plans.

Personal life

Patrick's parents, T.J. and Bev Patrick, met on a blind date at a snowmobile event in the 1970s when Bev was a mechanic for a friend's snowmobile.[33][34] T.J. raced snowmobiles, motocross, and midget cars. They have owned a Java Hut and a plate glass company.

Prior to getting into auto racing, she was a cheerleader at Hononegah Community High School near Beloit in 1996.[35] She dropped out of high school and attained a GED.[36]

Currently, T.J. helps his daughter by driving her motor coach and managing her Web site and merchandise trailer and Bev handles Patrick's business affairs. Patrick is married to Paul Edward Hospenthal, who had previously been her physical therapist while she was recovering from a yoga injury.[37] She converted to Roman Catholicism upon marrying Hospenthal in 2005.[38]

She won the 2008 Kids Choice Award for favorite female athlete.[39][40][41][42]

She has received two speeding tickets in her hometown of Scottsdale, Arizona. The first, in 2007, was for driving 57 mph (92 km/h) in a 40 mph (64 km/h) zone, for which she was ordered to attend traffic school; the second, in 2008, was for going 54 mph (87 km/h) in a 35 mph (56 km/h) zone, and she paid a $196 fine.[43]

Source : http://www.automopedia.org/2008/12/22/the-...008-motorsport/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danica_Patrick

Edited October 23, 2009 by Devinda_Z

[Devinda_Z]

Giovanna Amati

Giovanna Amati (born July 20, 1962 in Rome) is a former professional race car driver from Italy. She is best known as the last female driver to have entered the Formula One World Championship.

Born to wealthy parents, Amati had a colourful childhood, including being kidnapped for ransom, and buying a Honda motorcycle when she was 15, managing to hide it from her parents for two years. She began racing professionally in 1981, winning several times over the next four years in Formula Abarth before moving up to Italian Formula Three in 1985-86, again scoring a few wins. By 1987 she had moved up to Formula 3000, but by 1992 had recorded a best result of only 7th place in six seasons in both Europe and Japan.

Amati landed the second seat at the dying Brabham Formula One team for the 1992 Grand Prix season. Although she was an aggressive racer, with her previously mediocre results in a 1991 GJ Motorsports Reynard 91D Cosworth Formula 3000 car in which she posted 7 starts with 3 DNQs for GJ team owners and brothers Graham and Jim Warren, then Brabham using a barely changed version of their 1991 car and Amati's only previous Formula One experience being a test in a Benetton (courtesy of her then-partner Flavio Briatore), it was perhaps unsurprising that in three starts she failed to qualify. Following the Brazilian Grand Prix, she was dropped in favour of Damon Hill as her financial backing had not materialised.

Since then, Amati went on to carve out a respectable career in sportscars, placing 3rd overall in the SportsRacing World Cup SR2 class championship in 1999. She has also moved into media, writing columns in Italy for motorsport publications and providing television commentary.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanna_Amati

[Devinda_Z]

Milka Duno

The 36 year-old Duno drives part-time in the IRL for the Dreyer-Reinbold team.

Not only is Duno a smoking hot race car driver, she's also a very smart smoking hot race car driver. She holds master's degrees in maritime business, marine biology, organizational development and naval architecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milka_Duno

[Devinda_Z]

Milka Duno - Danica Partick CAT FIGHT !

[Devinda_Z]

Vanina Ickx

Vanina Ickx (born on February 16, 1975, in Brussels) is a Belgian racecar driver. She is the daughter of Belgian Formula One driver Jacky Ickx.

She started racing at a relatively late age, entering the BMW Compact Cup in 1996, a sub-division to the national touring car championship, Belgian Procar, partnering the Cup's most successful entrant, Stéphane De Groodt. For 1997 she got a Cup racer of her own, before she moved up to the major class in 1998, which runs to Super Production regulations. She shared a BMW 320i with another girl racer, Sylvie Delcour, but the partnership wasn't to last long as she soon got herself a transfer to the more competitive Renault team.

She scored her first podium that year, partnered by French ace Franck Lagorce, but on the downside, when sharing a car with her father Jacky, she crashed out of the Spa 24 Hours, admittedly by her own fault. She remained a part of the Renault team in 1999, but it was harder to make herself stand out against total Peugeot domination.

In 2000 she joined the latter team, resulting in a career-high third place overall in that year's Spa 24 Hours. That same year she would also score her first victory, in the Ferrari Challenge.

2000 was also the first year when Vanina did not have a full-time program, so she ended up profiling herself as a bit of an all-rounder. Already having participated in two Rally Raid events the year before, she entered the gruelling Dakar for the first time, co-driving with her father, Jacky. Since then she has entered the raid two more times, the last time being in 2002.

In 2001 she tried her hand at single-seater racing for the first time, participating in the US-based Formula 2000. The rest of the year she filled with guest appearances in races all round Europe: the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Belgian Toyota Yaris Cup, the Porsche Supercup and the Spa 24 Hours.

With the exception of the Formula 2000 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Vanina's 2002 racing schedule was pretty similar to the one she had in 2001.

Her studies demanding more of her time as she neared graduation, 2003 proved to be a rather quiet year with participation in the Le Mans and Spa-Francorchamps classics, another Ferrari Challenge event and, last but not least, a guest-outing in the Formula Renault V6 Eurocup at the Portuguese Estoril track.

For 2004 she once again had a full-time program, this time in the Belgian GT championship Belcar, while not easing up on the usual guest outings in international events. The Belcar campaign proved successful as the year ended with Vanina taking home the Ladies Trophy. She scored another victory (only her second) in the Ferrari Challenge, while occupying the last step on the podium at the end of her one-off participations in the Oman Desert Rally Raid and the Monza round of the short-lived Formula X championship. She notched up a class-victory in the Spa 24 Hours and made her (seemingly obligatory) guest appearance in the Porsche Supercup at the Belgian Grand Prix.

2005 saw Vanina continue in the Belcar championship, racing the same spiced-up Mini Cooper she did the year before, and she netted her first class victory in the Tourisme division. At the same time, having made her debut in the Le Mans Endurance Series (LMES) the year before in the baby GT-class, she entered the main division impressively by finishing third three times in a row, driving the Rollcentre Dallara LMP sportscar. Another class victory came her way at the Chinese round of the FIA GT Championship, racing a Belgian-made Gillet Vertigo in the invitation class.

Thanks to her outstanding performances in the LMES, Vanina was snapped up by Audi to race in the German Touring Car Championship DTM in 2006, but she didn't do so well and was replaced by Katherine Legge for 2008

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanina_Ickx

[Devinda_Z]

Desiré Wilson

Every once in a while the average F1 fan wonders why there aren't any women in Grand Prix racing. Sure, these days you can spot loads of babes in the Whoah! category hovering the pitlane area, even in times when it's near impossible to get your hands on an access-all-areas pass for the weekend. It seems you need other credentials nowadays, preferably two of them. But in the end, the image of a killer babe, clad in the tightest of fire-proof overalls, actually and truly sliding into an F1 cockpit and put in a quick one to reach the sharp end of the grid is even more appealing to many of us - the small female crowd of followers notwithstanding. Imagine Eddie Jordan hiring Melinda Messenger to take on Michael Schumacher on even terms! I bet he wouldn't dare taking her off at the last corner...

But although Bernie Ecclestone might be attracted to the idea, there hasn't yet emerged a single female driver who combines talent with publicity-pleasing good looks. Some thought we got close when Italian blonde Giovanna Amati tried to qualify a Brabham in its last year of competition, while others might disagree.

It's a completely different story with South African Desiré Wilson, a fierce lady driver who was only in F1 for the sport. Up until now, she is the only woman who can claim to have won a post-war F1 race. Shame it happened to be a Aurora AFX race... (so "a race open to F1 machinery" might be a better way to describe it).

Desiré only once entered a World Championship race, the 1980 British GP, held at the venue where she won the second round of the Aurora championship just three months before. For the British GP she abandoned her regular Aurora steed, a Theodore-run Wolf WR3. Instead she stepped into an FW07 entered by Brands Hatch Racing. The same model was also driven by the other private entrant of the event, 1979 Aurora champ Rupert Keegan, who took the wheel of the No.50 entry shared by RAM Automotive and WPGE.

Only Keegan featured well in qualifying, lining up a cool 18th in his semi-works RAM car, actually ahead of a certain Gilles Villeneuve. Desire failed to qualify for her Championship debut, finishing Saturday qualifying dead last, half a second behind a certain Keke Rosberg and only a second behind the reigning World Champion, who qualified a lowly 23rd for a Ferrari team hitting another one of its low patches.

Desiré went to the States later on and became involved in the CART pace car programme. Her last competitive outing was in the now-defunct North American Touring Car Championship.

Source : http://forix.autosport.com/8w/dwilson.html

[Devinda_Z]

& for MasterDon a Biker Chick

Angie McBride

[Devinda_Z]

& some more for you blokes to explore http://www.eracemotorblog.it/2008/03/24/n°...i-entrambe.html

http://www.allleftturns.com/25-hottest-women-motorsports

Edited October 23, 2009 by Devinda_Z

[Devinda_Z]

Melanie Troxel

Vroooom! Saucy Melanie competed in her first drag race at the age of 16 in a car with an engine she rebuilt herself as a high-school project. Melanie became one of the quickest and fastest females in NHRA history when in 2005 she clocked a 4.458-second pass and 330.31-mph speed in Dallas. In 2007, she scored event wins in St. Louis and Memphis, twice runnered-up, and ended the season ranked No. 9.

Melanie grew up in Colorado and inherited both her love for the sport of drag racing and her work ethic from her parents. She began her professional career driving in a Top Alcohol dragster in 1997. She captured two NHRA national event victories in 1999, and finished second in the national points standings. Her first opportunity in a Top Fuel dragster came in 2000.

Melanie opened the 2006 season in amazing form, earning her first career Top Fuel victory in Pomona. A few weeks later in Las Vegas, she recorded her second Top Fuel victory and became the first NHRA Top Fuel driver to reach the final round in the first five events of a season. Melanie continued to race in the Top Fuel class in 2007 scoring two more wins (St. Louis and Memphis) during the season. In 2008, Melanie made the switch to Funny Cars and gladly accepted the challenge. In just her 8th race out, she recorded her first win in the class (Bristol). Melanie became just the 14th person and first female to score victories in both NHRA Top Fuel and Funny Car categories.

Source : http://reviews.carreview.com/blog/women-ra...just-the-track/

Edited October 23, 2009 by Devinda_Z

[Devinda_Z]

Sarah Fisher

Sexy Sarah Fisher signed a contract in 1999 to compete at the top level of open-wheel racing. This hottie qualified for her first Indianapolis 500 in May 2000 at the mere age 19–becoming just the third female race car driver to compete and one of the youngest drivers to ever race in the Indianapolis 500! In 2001, Fisher claimed a second place finish at the IndyCar series inaugural race in Homestead-Miami Speedway.

From age five, Fisher raced quarter-midgets and go-karts until she was a teenager, winning the 1991, 1993, and 1994 Workd Karting Association Grand National Championships. By age 15, Fisher was racing Winged Outlaw Sprinters and winning 1995 Dirt Track Racing Round-Up Rookie of the Year award.

In 2002, Fisher became the first woman ever to qualify fastest when she claimed the pole position at Kentucky Speedway. Sarah Fisher still holds the track qualifying record to this date. Fast forward to 2008, Fisher makes her seventh start the Indianapolis 500, tying Lynn St. James for the most starts by a woman, and her first start as team owner under the umbrella of Sarah Fisher Racing.

Source : http://reviews.carreview.com/blog/women-ra...just-the-track/

[Devinda_Z]

Ashley Force

In September of 2007, Ashley Force was voted the winner of the first annual “Hottest Athlete” poll on AOL Sports. Ashley beat out quarterback hunk Tom Brady, and fellow female driver Danica Patrick for the honor.

Sultry Ashley Force was also selected as the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series’ Rookie–of–the–Year in November 2007. On April 27, 2008, hottie Force earned her first ever NHRA professional win, defeating her father, John Force, in the final round, and becoming the first woman to earn a win in the Funny Car class at the NHRA Summit Southern Nationals held at the Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Georgia.

Three years after earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cal State-Fullerton, the former high school cheerleader is being hailed as a future star of the NHRA series and a possible successor to her father.

Source : http://reviews.carreview.com/blog/women-ra...just-the-track/

[Devinda_Z]

Erin Crocker

Is it just me or does she not look like Felicity Hufman from Desperate Housewives ??

Fiery redhead, Erin Crocker made headlines in 2006 as the only woman to compete full time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. She also ran in the ARCA and NASCAR Busch Series.

Erin Crocker first got behind the wheel of a car at the age of six. Even though it was a go-kart, it was still a motorized vehicle! The following year, she started racing quarter-midgets and she hasn’t taken her foot off the accelerator since.

Erin became only the 11th female driver to compete in the NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) Busch Series, considered the “minor leagues” to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the highest level of professional competition and home to the Daytona 500. The Wilbraham, Mass. native also races in the NASCAR Truck Series, which features pickup trucks.

Source : http://reviews.carreview.com/blog/women-ra...st-the-track/2/

[Devinda_Z]

Katherine Legge

Brit hottie Katherine Legge competed in 2005’s Toyota Atlantic Championship with Polestar Motor Racing. She created quite a stir in the North American Champ Car Series after winning the series opener at Long Beach in her first career Toyota Atlantic start. In doing so, Legge became the first woman to win a developmental open-wheel race in North America. She finished the season 3rd in the championship with three wins and five podiums. She also received the Toyota Atlantic BBS Rising Star 2005 Award.

The 27-year-old Briton Katherine Legge follows in the footsteps of Michèle Mouton, Tamara Vidali and Vanina Ickx. Over the last two years Katherine Legge is the most successful woman ever to have competed in the US counterpart to Formula 1.

Source : http://reviews.carreview.com/blog/women-ra...st-the-track/2/

[madmax]

Milka Duno

Looks like she's got a weight disadvantage. Silicon perhaps?

[Devinda_Z]

Looks like she's got a weight disadvantage. Silicon perhaps?

are you complaining?! hmmm she is south American so may not be..

if that her excuse for coming in second, i reckon those are two perfectly good "excuses"

[MasterDon]

Shirley Muldowney

Shirley Muldowney(née "Roque", born June 19, 1940in Schenectady, New York), the "First Lady of Drag Racing" was the first woman to receive a licence to drive a top fuel dragster by the NHRA. She won the NHRA Top Fuel championship in 1977, 1980 and 1982.After a crash in 1984 she was sidelined for a long period but returned to the circuit in the late 1980s. She continued to race, mostly without major sponsorship, throughout the 1990s in IHRA competition as well as match-racing events.She returned to the NHRA towards the end of her career, running select events until her retirement at the end of 2003.Recent activity include the authoring of a mongolian hot pot cookbook.

[miniace]

How dare you forget this great lady .....

Louise Aitken-Walker MBE

Louise Aitken-Walker MBE (born January 1960, Duns, Berwickshire) is a British rally and saloon car racing driver. Aitken-Walker entered competition in 1979 and finished 19th in her first Rally GB two years later. She contested the 1989 British Touring Car Championship in a Class C Vauxhall Astra finishing fourth in points, and was the 1990 Ladies World Champion, the pinnacle of a successful 14 year career. She was awarded the Segrave Trophy in 1990.

In September 2008, Aitken-Walker took part in the Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally, a round of the Scottish Rally Championship centred in Perth in Scotland. A historic Talbot Sunbeam Lotus was her chosen car for the event. She was one of a number of ex-world and British champions to take part in the event in memory of McRae, who died in 2007.

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Natacha Gachnang

Natacha Gachnang (born October 27, 1987 in Vevey, Switzerland) is a Swiss race driver and the cousin of Formula One driver Sébastien Buemi.

On 17 December 2008, it was announced she will be the first female to drive in the new Formula One feeder series FIA Formula Two Championship.