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Reema Juffali
Reema Juffali was the first Saudi woman to race cars competitively, in the modern era at least. Shortly after the Saudi government allowed women to apply for driving licenses in 2018, she entered her...
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Amna al-Qubaisi
Amna (right) on the podium in Abu DhabiAmna al-Qubaisi is an Emirati single-seater driver who races alongside her younger sister, Hamda.She made her senior racing debut at the start of the 2018 season...
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Chrissie Ashford
Chrissie Ashford's Vauxhall MagnumChrissie Ashford was Britain’s leading female rally driver in the mid to late 1970s, picking up two ladies’ championships in the later part of her career.She rallied...
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Ann Moore
Ann leaps over her FF2000 car on PsalmAnn Moore was a British showjumping champion who had a brief motorsport career in 1976, promoted by John Webb of Shellsport.Ann won a silver medal in individual...
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Circuit Racers in the Gulf States and the Middle East
The al-Qubaisi sisters (right) with Reema Juffali (left) and Scottish driver Logan Hannah at the 2019 Abu Dhabi GPThe motorsport scene in the Gulf States and the Middle East has only recently opened up...
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Linda Ludemann
Linda Ludemann raced in IMSA between 1987 and 1990, alongside Scott Schubot. She is the first recorded female winner of an IMSA title, having won the Lights class in 1989, but she is more widely known...
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Alice Graves
Alice Graves raced in IMSA in 1983 and 1984. She was regarded as America’s oldest female professional racing driver at the time, being in her fifties and a grandmother.Her car was a Porsche 914/6,...
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Mira Erda
Mira Erda is an Indian racer who is the youngest Indian woman to race cars. She was only fourteen years old when she made her debut in LGB Formula 4 in 2014. She continued to race in LGB F4 (not the...
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Bianca Steiner
Bianca Steiner is an Austrian driver who has competed across Europe in almost all categories of single-seaters. She began racing in 2004 in Hungary, in the E-2000 Championship for 2000cc...
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The VW Polo Ladies' Cup Turkey
Ann Tahincioglu, Nuray Esener and Melis CekerThe Volkswagen Polo Ladies’ Cup was an all-female one-make series which ran in Turkey between 2005 and 2006. It was announced as part of a package of new...
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Martine Renier
Martine Renier is a rather enigmatic driver who competed in both circuit racing and rallying in and around France in the 1970s.She was probably a more prolific rally driver, but she showed considerable...
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Arlene Hiss
Arlene Hiss was the first woman to qualify for and complete an Indycar race, in 1976. Her single Indycar outing was at Phoenix. Although badly off the pace, she reached the finish in fourteenth. Plans...
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Alexandra Whitley
Alexandra Whitley is an Australian driver who is chiefly known for racing a Ute in New Zealand, as part of the SsangYong Actyon Ute series. She is one of its most successful female drivers.The...
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Sabrina Shaw
Sabrina Shaw found fame as the youngest-ever competitor on the RAC Rally, aged seventeen years and two months, in 1998. She was briefly British rallying’s “next big thing”, following on from Janie...
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The Oulton Park Ladies' Handicap
This picture was possibly taken at the Ladies' Handicap. Gabriel Konig is in dark overalls and Rosemary Smith is next to her in a raincoatA Ladies’ Handicap was held at Oulton Park in April 1967,...
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Alba Cano
Alba Cano is a driver from Malaga who is the 2019 Spanish TCR Champion.Even though she is one of the world’s most successful female drivers today, she is relatively unknown outside Spain.Her 2019...
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Nicole Drought
Nicole Drought is an Irish driver who mostly races saloon cars. She was the first female driver to win a round of the C1 Challenge in 2019.Nicole first came to prominence racing touring cars in the...
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Elisabeth de Fresquet
Elisabeth de Fresquet enjoyed a long rallying career in France in the 1980s and 1990s and won six Coupes des Dames in the Monte Carlo Rally.She rallied in a series of small cars, including a Trabant....
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Pascale Neyret
Pascale Neyret rallied in France in the 1980s, having got into professional competition through the 1984 Citroen Total Trophy.She had grown up around rallying as the daughter of Bob Neyret, creator of...
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Janet Brise
Janet Brise raced sportscars in the UK in the 1970s. She took to racing after the death of her husband, Formula One driver Tony Brise.Janet was a model prior to her marriage. She married Tony in 1975...
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