Corinna Kamper
There are now enough Austrian single-seater drivers to warrant their own post. Most of the drivers here have been split off from Female Single-Seater Drivers Around the World: Germany, Austria & Switzerland.
Osmunde Dolischka– rose through the European single-seater ranks during the 1990s, after winning a regional karting title in 1993. In 1995, she raced in the German Formula Ford championship, winning the last round, at Salzburg, and finishing seventh overall. In 1998, she raced in Formula 3 in central Europe, driving for the Fritz Kopp team. After a string of top-five and top-ten places, including runner-up spots and the A1-Ring and Brno, she was third in the Austrian Cup. Her form was sufficient to attract the attention of Peter Sauber, who wanted to run her in Formula 3000, but her biggest sponsor, Fujitsu-Siemens, pulled out in favour of her rival, Claudia Steffek, making this impossible. That year, she raced a Porsche in endurance races, and a VW Beetle, but this was her last serious season. She attempted a comeback as a rally driver, in 2007, but crashed her VW Golf on her first event, and thought better of it. She is still involved in motorsport, running a kart hire firm and supporting her daughter’s karting career.
Corinna Kamper - Austrian racer who began her senior career in 2011, after some years of karting. That year, she used a Formula BMW in two different series: the Intersteps Championship in the UK, and Formula Lista Junior in continental Europe. She did best in Formula Lista, scoring a win in her maiden season, at Monza. She was sixth overall. Her best Intersteps finish was fourth, at Brands Hatch. She was tenth in that championship. In 2012, she moved up to the Northern Europe Formula Renault series, hoping to finish in the top third of the drivers’ table. It proved much harder going. Although she had a good finishing record, her best result was only a twelfth place, at Oschersleben. She was 41st overall. She continued in the series in 2013, driving for Fortec. Her best finishes were fourteenth places, at Spa and Zandvoort. She was 34th overall. In 2014, she raced in Formula Masters in Germany, at two of the meetings, at the Red Bull Ring and Oschersleben. Her best result was ninth, at the Red Bull Ring, which is her home track. She was 16th in the championship, driving in a single-driver team (HS Engineering).
Claudia Kreuzsaler - Austrian Formula Three driver in the 1990s. She entered the German, Austrian and French championships between 1991 and 1995, driving different cars for different teams. During this time, she did not manage a complete season with one team, perhaps due to sponsorship issues. Her best finish was third at Salzburg, in an Austrian race. She was less successful in Germany and France. Her highest overall position was twelfth, in the 1993 German series, although she had only driven in two races.
Claudia Steffek– Formula 3 driver who had a high profile in the late 1990s. She was a rival to Osmunde Dolischka. After a short but successful karting career from the ages of thirteen to sixteen, she started racing Formula Ford at 17, in 1996. Her first season brought her first win, in the last race of the year, at Brno. In 1997, she was second in the German international championship. The same year, she stepped up to Formula 3, in Hungary, and was third in the championship. Formula 3 was her main focus in 1998, and she had a best finish of fourth in the Austrian championship, at Brno. She was running in the Austria Cup class for older cars, but finished above drivers in much more recent machinery on several occasions. Her final position was sixth in Austrian F3, and she was also fifth in the Austrian Racing Championship. She was also third twice in the German championship. 1999 was her best season yet, and she had a best finish of second in the Austrian series. She was third overall, after a string of top-fives, again in an older car. After poaching a sponsor from Osmunde Dolischka for the 1999 season, she set her sights on Italian Formula 3000 for 2000. She was named as a driver for the Malta Racing team, and stated that her aim was Formula One, by the 2002 season. The team, however, pulled out, and she does not appear to have raced since.
Bianca Steiner - Austrian driver who has competed across Europe. She began racing in 1994, in Hungary, in the E-2000 Championship. Despite being only fourteen years old at the time, she came fourth. She was ninth in 2005, and that year, she branched out into Formula Junior in Italy, driving for the Hungarian Szsasz team. This arrangement continued in 2006, and she was tenth in the championship. As well as the Italian Junior series, she entered a Formula Renault Winter series, and a few Formula 3000 races with the Coloni Rookies team.
For 2007, her programme was more focused, and she now had her own team. She drove to a disappointing 31st place in Italian Formula Renault, and made a few outings in the Eurocup. In 2008, she moved to the Northern Europe Championship, but did not fare much better. After four races back in the Italian championship in 2009, with a best finish of fourth, she appears to have left the series. She also did some hillclimbing in a Formula Nippon car in 2009.
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