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Women in Toyota Atlantics/Formula Atlantic
Katherine Legge in 2005The Atlantic Championship is a one-make single-seater series in the US which has historically acted as a feeder for IndyCar and Champ Car. It evolved from Formula Atlantic,...
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Eeva Heinonen
Eeva Heinonen was the Finnish Ladies’ Champion four times, between 1971 and 1974. Born in 1946, she had quite an early start to her rally career, taking on her first major rallies as a driver in...
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Fiona James
Fiona James is a British sportscar drive who mostly races on the Continent. She also the founder and owner of Walero racewear, which manufactures body-temperature regulating fireproof underwear.Her...
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Judy Charlton (Witter)
Judy Charlton became the first woman to win a South African motor racing title when she won the Formula Vee championship in 1973.At the time, Judy was racing as Judy Witter, using a a Witter Formula...
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Chelsea Herbert
Chelsea Herbert races V8 stock cars in New Zealand. She is the first woman to win a V8 Series race.Chelsea is a former junior karter who took her first steps in senior competition in the 2014-2015...
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The Kyojo Cup
The Kyojo Cup is a one-make series for female drivers in Japan. It uses a small sports prototype built in Japan by West Racing Cars, called the VITA-01.The series was launched in 2017 at Fuji Motor...
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Madeleine Pochon
Madeleine, her navigator and the 4CV in 1954Madeleine Pochon was one of Europe’s top female drivers in the mid-1950s, winning the Coupe des Dames on the Monte Carlo Rally twice. Frenchwoman Madeleine...
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Megan Verlaque
Megan Verlaque competes in the South African rally championship. She began her own successful driving career after navigating for her sister, Lola. The Verlaques are a rallying family. Sisters Megan...
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Michaelle Burns-Greig
Michaelle Burns-Greig raced in the British Saloon Car Championship in the 1960s, usually in a Mini. Michaelle (sometimes referred to as Michelle) is from Duns in the Scottish borders. She may have...
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Carole Perrin
Carole Perrin is a former single-seater racer from France who has competed most recently in stock car racing in Europe. She was nicknamed “Pink Panther” due to her preference for pink cars.Her first...
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The RAC Rally Ladies' Cup
Ann Wisdom (left) and Pat Moss in 1961The RAC Rally, now known as the Wales Rally GB, has its own ladies’ award, usually for the best-performing all-female crew. It is not awarded every year, but this...
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Yvonne Simon
Yvonne and her co-driver Regine Gordine at the 1951 MonteYvonne Simon was a versatile French driver who showed skill in both sportscar racing and rallying in the 1950s.She raced Ferraris at Le Mans...
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Fabienne Wohlwend
Fabienne Wohlwend is from Liechtenstein and races in the Ferrari Challenge in Europe. 2016 was her first season of senior motorsport, after eight years of karting. She won two junior karting titles at...
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Margie Smith-Haas
Margie (Mary Margaret) Smith-Haas is an American sportscar driver who raced at Le Mans in 1984 and 1985. She usually drove Porsches.In 1984, she drove a Porsche 930 run by Charles Ivey Racing, sharing...
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Miki Koyama
Mihime “Miki“ Koyama races in Formula 4 in Japan. She was also the 2017 champion in the women-only Kyojo Cup.Miki was 18 when she first started racing cars, although she raced karts both at home in...
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Martina Danhelova
Martina (right) with co-driver Karolina Jugasova in 2015)Martina Daňhelová (also known as Martina Jerhotová-Daňhelová since 2015) is from the Czech Republic and is one of the leading female drivers in...
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Dorothy Champney
Dorothy (left) with Kay Petre at Le MansDorothy Champney is most famous for racing at Le Mans in 1934. She and Kay Petre were thirteenth, in a Riley Ulster Imp. A bout of diphtheria meant that Dorothy...
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Paige Bellerby
Paige Bellerby is a racewinning rallycross driver in the UK at both junior and senior level. She began racing in the BTRDA Junior Rallycross Championship in the winter of 2009, when she was fourteen....
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Katarina Kyvalova
Katarina Kyvalova is a German-based Slovakian driver most famous for her exploits in historic racing, at the Goodwood Revival and as part of the Bentley Belles team. She took her first steps in modern...
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Rallycross in Scandinavia
Magda AnderssonThe Scandinavian nations produce many rallycross drivers and women get in on the action too, especially in the national championships.My Adolfsson - rallycross driver from Sweden. She...
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