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Olympic Speedqueens
Divina Galica (left) and Ann MooreMany Speedqueens have achieved success in other sports. Here are five of the best-known Olympian female racing drivers. This is in no way an exhaustive list.Divina...
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F1 Academy
F1 Academy is the latest in a long line of female-only development championships, launched in 2023. It was brought forward by the FIA after the demise of W Series and unlike W Series, has the support...
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Toni Breidinger
Toni Breidinger races in the NASCAR Truck series and has been a regular in the ARCA Menards Series for several seasons.She made her ARCA debut in 2018, aged 19, driving a Toyota for Venturini...
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Vicki Smith
Vicki Smith raced sportscars up to international level in the early 1980s. She credited her interest in motorsport to her stepfather's Porsche, which she described herself as "crazy about" as a child....
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Jess Bäckman
Jessica Bäckman is a Swedish driver who races touring cars. She was a long-term karter who has won two Swedish championships and switched to cars for the 2018 season, aged 21. Her first-ever races were...
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"Madame Laumaille"
Madame Laumaille as a passenger at Spa in 1896"Madame Laumaille", whose name may have been Marie Laumaille, was one of the earliest recorded woman racing drivers. She was French and married to Albert...
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Janis Taylor
Janis and Del Russo Taylor in 1983Janis Taylor raced sportscars in the 1980s, in the USA. She was from Denver, but settled in Florida. Her father had been an automotive enthusiast and she had grown up...
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Janie Eaton
Janie with Ari Vatanen in 1997Janie Eaton rallied in the UK in the 1990s and 2000s and gained attention at the time as one of Britain's youngest female drivers. She was from Essex and apparently had...
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Tina Hausmann
Tina Hausmann is a Swiss driver racing single-seaters in Europe. Her first experience of car racing, after some success in karts in Switzerland, was in the 2023 Formula Winter Series, a Formula 4...
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Gisela Blume
Gisela (left) with Petra SchusterGisela Blume drove in European rallies in the 1980s. She was a contemporary and rival of the similarly-named Rena Blome. She began rallying as a co-driver, in 1978. She...
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Cecilia Rabelo
Cecilia Rabelo is a Brazilian driver who began her senior career in 2022. She was 15 years old when she took part in two rounds of the Paulista Formula Delta championship, finishing ninth and eighth....
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Hila Paulson Sweet
Hila with Parnelli JonesHila Paulson Sweet was an American driver known for her stock car racing in the 1950s, and for being instrumental in setting up all-female racing clubs.Born in Compton, Los...
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Natasha Tundo
Natasha co-driving for her father, FrankNatasha Tundo is a Kenyan rally driver whose usual car is a Subaru Impreza. She is from a rallying family; her father Frank and brother Karl are also rally...
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Elizabeth can be seen briefly in her Oldsmobile Cutlass, at the back of the grid, at the startElizabeth Kleinschmidt raced sportscars in the USA in the 1970s and '80s, almost always alongside her...
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Rafaela Ferreira
Rafaela Ferreira races single-seaters in Brazil. She began her senior career in 2023, after several years in karting and some tests in F3 and F4 cars. She had been active in karting since the age of...
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