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May Cunliffe
May Cunliffe was particularly known for her exploits in a Sunbeam or a Bentley on sand in the 1920s.Born in 1906, she was only sixteen when she first drove at speed. Her father Alfred and older brother...
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Angela Ruch (Cope)
Angela Ruch, previously known as Angela Cope, races in the NASCAR Truck series in the USA. She is one of the more controversial figures in the stock-car world. At the beginning of her career, she...
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Alma Cacciandra
Alma Cacciandra was an Italian driver who competed in sportscars in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Like her contemporary and one-time team-mate Anna Maria Peduzzi, she raced almost exclusively in her...
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Jonna Eson Brådhe
Jonna Eson Brådhe is a Swedish rally driver active since 2010. She is the third generation of female drivers in her family, after her grandmother Margot and mother Liz.She started as a teenager...
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Women in the Toyota Long Beach Pro-Celebrity Race
Dara Torres and Sarah Fisher celebrateToyota held its annual Pro-Celebrity race on the Long Beach road course between 1977 and 2016. The race usually featured a selection of professional drivers taking...
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Rina Ito
Rina Ito is a Japanese driver who has competed in both racing and rallying, in Japan and also in the rest of Asia. In common with other drivers including Keiko Ihara, Rina’s first introduction to...
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Michelle Halder
Michelle Halder races in the German TCR series and became the first female driver to win a race outright in 2019. She was driving a Honda Civic Type-R and her historic win came at Zandvoort. The car is...
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Louise Roberge
Louise Roberge was a Canadian racer of the late 1960s and early 1970s, most famous for her exploits in a Formula Ford car. She was a contemporary and rival of Monique Proulx. According to a newspaper...
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Janina Depping
Janina (left) with Ina SchaarschmidtJanina Depping was one of Germany’s foremost female rally drivers of the early 2000s. She is most associated with the Mitusbishi Lancer.She took part in seven World...
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The W Series
(For a more detailed discussion of Speedqueens’ stance on W Series and a review of the TV show, click here.)The inaugural W Series championship ran in the summer of 2019. It was billed as the...
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Diane Teel
Diane Teel raced in the NASCAR Nationwide (now Xfinity) Series in 1982 and 1983 and was one of its most successful female drivers. In 1982, she scored her first top ten finish, an eighth place at...
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Marie-Odile Desvignes
Marie-Odile Desvignes is a rally driver and one of the original members of the all-female Team Aseptogyl as well as one of its longest-serving. She began her rally career with the team in 1971,...
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Veronika Cicha (Jaksch)
Veronika Cicha is a Czech driver who races a GP2 car in the BOSS and MaxxFormula championships in Europe. She began her career in hillclimbs, driving Mitsubishi Lancers. Between 2011 and 2014, she...
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Zenita Neville
Zenita Neville raced in the USA and Canada in the 1920s. She was one of IMCA’s earliest “Champion Woman Drivers of the World”.IMCA (International Motor Competition Association) was America’s leading...
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Female Drivers Around the World: Korea
Kwon Bo MiThis page has been created to document the increasing numbers of women racing cars in Korea. It will be expanded but the profiles below have been split off from Circuit Racers from Southeast...
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Deborah Renshaw
Deborah Renshaw raced in NASCAR in the 2000s. She was most successful in the Truck series but her career was overshadowed by controversy. She began racing in the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series in 2001,...
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Marie-Pierre Palayer
Marie-Pierre Palayer is a multi-talented French driver who raced between 1968 and 1973. She is most famous as a member of the all-female Team Aseptogyl rally squad.Considering the time period,...
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Gabrielle Renault
A Renault R8 Gordini from 1966, similar to those rallied by GabrielleGabrielle Renault, often known as Gaby, competed in European rallies in the 1960s. She was the winner of the Paris-St. Raphael...
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Luisa Rezzonico
Luisa Rezzonico was a Swiss-Italian driver who died following a crash whilst competing in the 1954 Autogiro d’Italia, driving a Lancia Aurelia. She started racing at the age of nineteen, in 1951. After...
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The Twingo R1 Coupe des Dames
Twingo podium in 2014The French rallycross championship has included a dedicated women’s trophy since 2014. It runs as part of the one-make Twingo R1 Rallycross Cup and is supported by Renault. A Coupe...
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