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Anita Liden
Anita Lidén is a Swedish driver who is most famous for attempting to build a career in NASCAR in 1970.She tried to enter the Motor Trend 500 at Riverside, but never made the start, having no car and...
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Liliana de Menna
Liliana de Menna was a stalwart of the Italian touring car scene who was active between 1963 and 1994. Her first efforts were in races for small-engined saloons, when she competed under the name of...
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Barbara Johansson
Barbara Johansson was a Swedish race and rally driver most active in the 1960s. She usually drove small cars and is most associated with the Mini. She was nicknamed "Bra-Bra" by the Swedish press, with...
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Lisa Clark
Lisa Clark is an American driver who has competed in the US Ferrari Challenge since 2017. She is known online as "Racer Mom".Speed was a family thing when she was growing up; her father raced dirt...
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Gaby dela Merced
Gaby dela Merced is a Filipino driver who raced single-seaters in the 2000s, up to Asian Formula 3 level.She was fourteenth in the 2006 Asian Formula 3 championship, racing in the Promotion class. Her...
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Kornelia Olkucka
Kornelia Olkucka is a Polish single-seater racer who has competed in F4 across Europe.She raced in CEZ F4 in 2024. This was her debut in cars and she raced for the Swiss Maffi team. The first two...
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Rita Rampinelli
Rita Rampinelli was a Swiss driver active in the 1950s. She mostly competed in hillclimbs across Europe, first in a Cisitalia D46, and later, a Porsche 550 Spyder. The Cisitalia was a Formula 2-spec...
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Carole Vergnaud
Carole Vergnaud is a French driver who was a member of the Citroen works team for rallies. She won the 1986 Mille Pistes Rally outright, in a Citroen Visa with Marie-Claude Jouan as co-driver.She got...
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Nadia Cutro
Nadia Cutro is and Argentine driver who usually competed alongside her navigating sister, Florencia (Flor), in the early part of her career. They have been rallying since at least 2005, when Nadia was...
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Female Drivers in Saloons and Touring Cars: Spain, Andorra and Portugal
Catalina Bruguera and Oliver CamposThere are many women from the Iberian peninsula who have raced saloon cars in recent years, both in one-make and open championships. Below are some short profiles....
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Gabi Husar
Gabi Husar is a rally-winning driver and co-driver from Austria. In the 1980s, she was one of the leading drivers in Austrian national rallies. She was known for her brave and uncompromising driving...
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Jackie Astbury
Jackie Astbury was a British driver who rallied from 1933, in the UK and France. She is normally credited as "Miss J Astbury".She drove a Wolseley Hornet in the 1933 RAC Rally, which was then held in...
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Nattanid Leewatanavaragul (Kat Lee)
Nattanid Leewatanavalagul is a Thai racer who competes in saloons and sportscar racing in Southeast Asia. She sometimes uses the anglicised name of Kat Lee.Probably her most notable result was when she...
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Zihara Esteban
Zihara Esteban is a well-travelled Spanish driver whose racing has taken her in many different directions, taking in competition on two continents and in multiple disciplines, including rallying.She...
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Isabella Robusto
Isabella Robusto is an American driver who mainly races stock cars.She was a member of the NASCAR Drive For Diversity scheme from the age of 12, being selected in 2016. After a long career in the...
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Vivian Siu
Vivian Siu (Siu Wing Man) is a Hong Kong driver who races single-seaters. As a teenager, she became interested in motorsport after becoming "addicted" to arcade racing games, something she did while...
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Iris Capell
Lady Iris Capell rallied and trialled cars in the British Isles in the early 1930s. Born in 1895, she was the first daughter of George Capell, the fifth Earl of Essex. She grew up in a privileged...
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Geraldine Hedges
Geraldine Hedges raced in and around Brooklands in the 1930s, normally as "Miss G Hedges".She first appears in the entry lists in the JCC’s High Speed Trial, in 1932, driving a Riley, but she was most...
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Karen Gaillard
Karen Gaillard is a Swiss driver who races sportscars internationally, having begun in touring cars.2019 was her first season in cars. Her first steps up from karting were to enter the Cupra Young...
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Nerea Marti
Nerea Marti is a Spanish driver who graduated from karts to cars at the beginning of 2019. She has raced in both F1 Academy and W Series and gone on to compete in endurance.Her first steps in cars were...
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Lady Margaret Oldham
Margaret on the 1936 RAC RallyLady Margaret Oldham was a British rally driver in the 1930s. Having been born in 1878, she was fairly mature when she took up rallying and had been a widow since 1926....
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Aurelia Nobels
Aurelia Nobels is a Brazilian-Belgian driver born in the USA, who began racing in Danish Formula 4 in 2022, when she was fifteen. She has competed under both a Belgian and Brazilian license.Her first...
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Helga Heinrich (Steudel)
Helga Heinrich, formerly known as Helga Steudel, is a German driver and motorcyclist, originally from East Germany. She started out in motorcycle racing in 1959, aged 20, having learned to ride at...
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Nuria Vinas
Nuria in 1968Nuria Viñas Panades was a double winner of the Spanish women’s rally championship, in 1972 and 1973. She also won the Catalan women's championship in 1969, 1971, 1973 and 1975.Born in...
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Courtney Prince
Courtney Prince is an Australian driver who races sportscars and single-seaters. She was one of her country’s youngest-ever single-seater drivers when she entered a few rounds of the Australian Formula...
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