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Speedqueens sends its condolences to the family and friends of Maria Teresa...
11th November 1926 - 9th January 2016Read Maria Teresa's Speedqueens biography here.(Image from http://katyfairman.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/MariaTeresaDeFilippis.html)
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Christina Nielsen
Christina and team-mates on the Sebring podium, 2015Christina is a Danish driver who had her debut single-seater season in 2010. She now competes in sportscar racing, with considerable success....
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Charlotte Dalmasso
Charlotte in 2015Charlotte was the 2013 French Ladies’ Champion. She has been active as a driver since 2011, when she was twenty. Normally a tarmac specialist, she can and does compete on both...
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Valentina Albanese
Valentina on the podiumValentina is an Italian one-make specialist who often drives a SEAT, and is involved with the make on an official basis. She has achieved good results in individual and team...
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Amy Ruman
Amy with the Corvette in 2015Amy Ruman races in Trans-Am in the United States. In 2015, she made history by becoming the first woman to win the Trans-Am championship.Before Trans-Am, Amy was a multiple...
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Shea Holbrook
Shea on the podium in 2015Shea Holbrook races in the Pirelli World Challenge in the USA. Despite not coming from a motorsport family, she began racing in earnest in 2008, at 18, in a Mazda Miata...
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Lola Grounds
Lola, on the right, with Doreen Reece and their Ford Popular, 1952 RAC RallyLola Grounds was one of the Rootes team’s female driver roster in the 1950s. She acted as both a driver and a navigator,...
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Violeta Pernice
Violeta Pernice races touring cars in her homeland, Argentina. Most of her career has been spent in the Top Race tin-top series.Her first steps in senior motorsport were, initially, down the path of...
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Greta Molander
Greta as a Saab driver, in 1951Greta is probably best known as a works Saab driver from the 1950s. She competed from the 1930s to the 1970s, but was most successful in the ‘50s, winning many Coupes des...
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The Coupe des Dames in the Monte Carlo Rally: Part I
Mildred Bruce with her AC, 1927The Coupe des Dames was awarded to the best female finisher in the Monte Carlo Rally. The award was first made in 1927, to Mildred Mary Bruce, although she was not the...
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The Coupe des Dames in the Monte Carlo Rally: Part II
Ann Wisdom and Pat Moss with their Austin A40, 1959During the 1950s and ‘60s, the Coupe des Dames was considered important enough for manufacturer teams, such as Rootes and BMC, to field ladies’ crews...
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The Coupe des Dames in the Monte Carlo Rally: Part III
Michèle Mouton and Françoise Conconi with the Lancia Stratos, 1978After the inception of the World Rally Championship in 1973, the Coupe des Dames continued to be awarded. There was a lull in female...
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Manuela Vasquez
Manuela Vasquez is a Colombian driver who mostly races in Europe. She started relatively late in karting, at 23, and first travelled to Europe as a karter in 2008, as part of an Italian team, for some...
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Mildred ("Mrs Victor") Bruce
Mildred after the 1928 Bournemouth RallyMildred (Mrs Victor) Bruce was a pioneer racer, aviator and businesswoman. She was born Mildred Mary Petre in 1895. Her father was related to Kay Petre’s...
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Charlotte Berton
Charlotte (right) and Sabrina de Castelli with the Porsche 997 in 2015Charlotte Berton has been French ladies’ rally champion four times, between 2010 and 2012, and in 2014.Her rally career began in...
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Samín Gomez
Samín Gomez is a Venezuelan driver, who until recently raced in GP3. She was born in 1992, in Maracay. When she was seven, she started karting. After ten years of junior kart competition, she made the...
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Female Single-Seater Drivers Around the World: Argentina
Maria Jose Lorenzati in 2013In the past ten years, a number of female drivers have come through the junior single-seater ranks in Argentina. Some remain in open-wheel racing, whilst others moved into...
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La Journée Féminine de l’Automobile
Colette Salomon in her BugattiFrance between the wars had a thriving women’s motorsport scene. As well as comparatively high levels of female participation in Grands Prix, rallies and other races,...
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Irene Schwedler (Charlotte Sadler)
Alvis Speed 20 (not Irene's car)Irene Schwedler was part of the Brooklands ladies’ racing “set”, and an occasional rally driver. Her later, post-war career was in rallying, and under a new name.She was...
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Julia Ballario
Julia in Star MazdaJulia Ballario is an Argentine driver who competes in both single-seaters and touring cars, at home and in the USA.She was born in 1992, in Marcos Juárez near Cordoba. Her father was...
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