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Inessa Tushkanova
Inessa in 2015Inessa Tushkanova is a driver and co-driver from Ukraine, now based in Russia. A quick Google image search for her would suggest that she is one of the models parachuted into motorsport...
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Women Drivers in International Formula 3000
Giovanna AmatiFormula 3000 was the official second-level single-seater championship, below Formula One, from 1985 until 2004. For most of its history, it was considered the final stepping stone to F1....
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Rosadele Facetti
Rosadele Facetti in 1969Rosadele Facetti was an Italian driver who raced in Formula 3 in the late 1960s. Rosadele had the advantage of being born into a motor-racing family. Her father, Piero, had...
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Marie Laurent
Marie with her Aseptogyl-sponsored Hemicuda in 1974Marie Laurent was a French driver who was most known for her membership of Team Aseptogyl, and her performances on-track in a Chrysler Hemicuda in the...
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Female Rally Drivers After 1950: Russia
Anastasia Mironova, second left, collects awards from the Karelia State Championship with her team-mates.Russia has produced quite a lot of female rally drivers, and there are several active at the...
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Women Drivers in One-Make Series: Croatia
Alenka JurašićCroatia is home to a surprising number of one-make Speedqueens. The Skoda Fabia Cup of the mid-2000s was a favoured series among female drivers. Alenka Jurašić – Croatian driver who...
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Barbara Cowell (Babbage)
The Kimber-Smith/Cowell Corolla in 1987Barbara raced in the British Touring Car Championship in 1988 and 1989. The first award she won in the world of motorsport was a first place in a fancy dress car...
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Female Drivers in One-Make Series: Hungary
Vivien KeszthelyiHungarian female drivers are making big strides into their domestic motorsport scene. The current favoured series is the RCM Cup, which allows very young drivers to race alongside more...
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Female Drivers at the Bathurst 1000
Christine GibsonThe Bathurst 1000 is Australia’s premier home-grown motorsport event. It began in 1960 as the Armstrong 500, and was actually held at Phillip Island for the first three years.In 1963,...
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Sanna Pinola
Sanna Pinola was a front-runner in Finnish and Nordic Formula 3 during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Born in 1975, she got into motorsport at an early age, and was karting by 1983, when she was...
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"Valli" (Valerie Stack)
Valli's helmet, and portraits of her“Valli” was the nom de course of Valerie Stack, a 1970s saloon racer, and Biba model, who managed to claim some good race finishes and a string of lap records too....
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Burcu Çetinkaya
Burcu Çetinkaya is a Turkish driver who has competed in Europe, and in the WRC. She began her rally career in 2005, after several years of representing Turkey in snowboarding competitions. Her first...
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Sarah Bovy
Sarah (left) on the BRCC podium in 2012Sarah Bovy is a Belgian driver who competes in Europe, and is based in Belgium. She started her senior motorsport career in 2004, in the Formula Renault Academy....
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Saloon and Ute Racing in New Zealand
Alyssa Clapperton with Craig Baird's Holden CommodoreNew Zealand female drivers have competed in both touring cars and Ute racing in recent years, both at home, and in Australia. For the earliest...
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Female Drivers in the Carrera Panamericana
Jacqueline Evans in her "Eva Peron" Porsche, 1953The Carrera Panamericana was a road race, organised by Enrique Martin Moreno, of Mexico. Its inaugural running followed the opening of the Mexican...
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Christina Orr-West
Christina in 2015Christina Orr, of New Zealand, is mostly known as a single-seater specialist. A precocious talent, she raced karts from an early age, and Formula First at twelve. This made her the...
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"Charlotte" (Cécile de Montgolfier)
"Charlotte" in 1975“Charlotte” was a French rally driver of the early 1970s. She never used her given name in connection with motorsport. She was from the Ardèche region, and worked as an ambulance...
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Jamie Chadwick
Jamie (right), Ross Gunn and the Beechdean Aston MartinJamie Chadwick graduated to senior motorsport in 2015. She is a product of the Ginetta sportscar racing development ladder, one of a few female...
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Ulrike Krafft
Ulrike on the ETCC podium in 2013Ulrike Krafft is a German driver who has been competing in the ETCC since 2011. She began at the age of 20, in slaloms in 2004, winning her first title in 2005, driving...
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Speedqueens is currently undergoing its yearly update and clean-up, so there will be no new posts for a while.Merry Christmas, see you all next year!
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