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Donna Mae Mims
"Think Pink"Donna Mae Mims made history when she won the US National H-Production Championship in 1963, driving an Austin-Healey Sprite. Her racing career began in 1960, with a few outings in SCCA...
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Heather Baillie (McAlpine)
Heather is a Scottish racer, active in the 1980s and 1990s. She was a race winner in different driving disciplines, and enjoyed modest success on the track. Her career began in earnest when she won a...
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Female Drivers at the Bathurst 12 Hours: the results
Rahel Frey in the Audi pits in 2014Despite its relatively short history, the Bathurst 12 Hours is one of Australia’s biggest motorsport events. It began in 1991 as an endurance race for touring cars,...
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Women Drivers in the BTCC
Fiona Leggate as an MG driver, in 2007The British Touring Car Championship’s present format began in 1987, as a renamed, streamlined version of the British Saloon Racing Championship. Although the...
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Female Drivers in Truck Racing
Minna Kuoppala in 1995Women drivers have enjoyed some success in truck racing, both in Europe, especially France, and in the Brazilian Formula Truck series. Heather Baillie, Divina Galica, Ellen Lohr...
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Paola della Chiesa
Marisa Zambrini and Paola della Chiesa, (first and second left), pose for photos with their team-mates in 1954Paola della Chiesa mostly drove in rallies in Italy in the 1950s. She was associated most...
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Female Drivers in the Spa 24 Hours, up to 1973
Elyane Imbert and Simone des Forest with their Porsche in 1953The Spa 24 Hours has been in existence for almost as long as Le Mans, having begun the year after, in 1924. Pre-war, no female drivers made...
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Female Drivers in the Spa 24 Hours, 1974-2000
Henny Hemmes and Huub VermeulenThe Spa 24 Hours ran continuously throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. From 1974 to 1981, it was part of the Trophée de l'Avenir, with one "guest spot" as an ETCC race...
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Female Drivers in the Spa 24 Hours, 2001-present
A victorious Lilian Bryner and her Care Racing team-mates in 2004After 2000, the Spa 24 Hours became a race for sports and GT cars. It was part of the FIA GT Championship from 2001 until the series'...
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Gosia Rdest
Gosia as an Audi driverMalgorzata Rdest, always known as Malgosia or Gosia, is a Polish driver who races saloons and single-seaters in Europe.She was born in 1993, and started karting quite late for...
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Lorina McLaughlin (Boughton)
Lorina with her 1992 BenettonLorina is best known now for racing and hillclimbing Formula One cars from the 1970s and 1980s, but her career goes back much further than that.She has been racing since...
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Henny Hemmes
Henny as a champion, in 1987Henny Hemmes raced saloon cars in Europe from the 1970s to the 1990s. She entered the Spa 24 Hours fourteen times, and had a best finish of sixth.Like many other...
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Women Drivers in One-Make Series: the Netherlands in the 21st Century
L-R: Sandra Douma, Kim van den Berg, Laura Kool, Suzanne Jager, Theresia BalkA large number of female drivers competes in one-make series in the Netherlands. Those who began their careers after 2000...
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Female Rally Drivers After 1950: Malaysia
Gina Finanza Daud in 2014For most of its history, Malaysian rallying has been a largely male-only enclave, apart from a few overseas drivers. In recent years, home-grown female drivers have started to...
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Women Drivers in Indycar: the championship results
Sarah Fisher and Janet Guthrie, 2002This post lists the championship finishing position of women drivers in the USA's elite single-seater racing series, referred to in the title, for convenience, as...
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Jill Scott-Thomas
Jill in 1938Jill was a British racer of the late 1920s and early 1930s. She was born Eileen May Fountain in 1902, and was the daughter of a coal mine owner. Her entry into motorsport came via her first...
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Ekaterina Stratieva
Ekaterina at the 2014 Acropolis RallyEkaterina Stratieva is a Bulgarian driver who competes in the European Rally Championship (ERC). She has won two European Ladies’ Championships.Her family were...
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Corinne Koppenhague (Tarnaud)
Corinne, left, with Bob Wollek and Jacques Rey in 1970Corinne Koppenhague was a versatile French racer, probably best known for coming 11th at Le Mans in a Porsche Carrera in 1975, as Corinne Tarnaud....
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Naomi Schiff
Naomi with the KTM X-Bow in 2015Naomi Schiff is a Belgium-based South African driver. She is one of the most cosmopolitan speedqueens on this site, with a Belgian father and a Rwandan mother. She spent...
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Female Rally Drivers After 1950: the USA
Verena Mei (right), with co-driver Leanne JunnilaThe rally scene in the USA is growing every year, and female drivers are very much a part of that. Some of the profiles below originally came from the...
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