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Sylvia Österberg
Sylvia Österberg was Swedish driver active in the 1960s and 1970s, winner of the European Ladies’ Rally Championship in 1963.Her earliest motorsport experiences were in rallycross, at club level. She...
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Sylvie Seignobeaux
Sylvie (right) with Sylviane Sitarz in 1984Sylvie Seignobeaux is a French rally driver, and was the winner of the Citroen Total Trophée Féminin in 1984. Born in 1957, she enjoyed cars and driving from...
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Circuit Racers from India
L-R: Mira Erda, Sneha Sharma, Neha Dabas, Ria DabasThe Indian motorsport scene is growing rapidly. In the past two or three years, female drivers have been part of this, in both single-seaters and...
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Female Drivers in the "Marathon Rallies" of the 1960s and 1970s
Bronwyn Burrell, Katrina Kerridge and Tish Ozanne in 1970The late 1960s saw the first of a series of cross-continental marathon rallies taking place. The first of these was organised by the Daily...
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Charlotte Versigny
Charlotte (left) in a Bugatti T35, 1928Charlotte Versigny competed in races and rallies in France, in the late 1920s. She often drove a Talbot or a Bugatti.Her beginnings in motorsport are not very...
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Jean Denton
Jean Denton with her MGBJean Denton was an international rally driver between 1969 and 1972, after some years as a circuit racer. She did particularly well in long-distance events, such as the 1968...
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Lili Reisenbichler
Lili on a motorbikeLili Reisenbichler raced in German touring car championships from 1974 to 1987, including touring-based prototypes in sportscar races. Slovenian-born but living in Germany, she got...
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Leona Chin
Leona Chin came to prominence as a member of Malaysia’s Red Bull Rookies all-female driving squad in 2008. She beat many other young Malaysian women to the coveted team spot.She was sixth in Class B in...
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"The Paris Scene", c1927-1932
"Albertine" Derancourt in her Bugatti, 1929In the late 1920s and early 1930s, there was a considerable vogue for women’s motorsport events in Paris, and women in motoring generally. It seems to have...
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Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky
Mikaela in 2015Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky is a Swedish driver who has raced in international one-make series for Volkswagen and Audi.She began karting at the age of twelve, and spent five years in...
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Morna Vaughan
Morna with her Standard in 1933Morna Vaughan was a British rally driver from the 1930s onward. She is mostly remembered for her drives in the Monte Carlo Rally between 1931 and 1952, which were often...
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Francesca Linossi
Francesca with her Ford MustangFrancesca Linossi is a versatile Italian racer, active since the age of 16. She is from Brescia.Her senior career began in 2007. Following several years of karting, she...
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Claudia Steffek
Claudia Steffek is an Austrian former Formula 3 driver who had a high profile during her short career in the late 1990s. She was a rival to her fellow Austrian, Osmunde Dolischka, and was touted as a...
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Women Drivers in National Sportscar Racing: the Nordic countries
Heidi FrydenhaugThis post consists mainly of entries split off from the Women Drivers in National Sportscar Racing post. The Nordic countries have produced several women drivers for their domestic...
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Anett György
Anett in 2016Anett György is a Hungarian driver who races a Lotus Elise in the Hankook Racer Cup in Hungary. She began her racing career in 2013, in the Lotus Ladies’ Cup, which was based in Eastern...
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Lucile Cypriano
Lucile on the podium in 2015Lucile is a French driver who races saloons. She was the winner of the 2013 FIA Women in Motorsport Scirocco-R Shootout.Prior to her burgeoning senior career, she raced...
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Lucette Pointet
Lucette (right) with Jacqueline Fougeray and the DS, after their 1966 Monte Coupe des DamesLucette Pointet was a French rally driver and co-driver, who often drove a Citroen DS.Born in 1936, she...
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Robyn Hamilton ("Charlie")
Robyn at Bathurst, with Frank Gardner and Ralph RadburnRobyn Haimlton raced in saloons and Formula Ford in Australia, with some success, in the 1970s. She was famous for using the nom de course of...
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Female Drivers at the Macau Grand Prix
Tatiana Calderon in 2014The Macau Grand Prix is the longest-standing motorsport event in Asia. It started life as a motorised treasure hunt, then became a sportscar race, before evolving into a...
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Natalie Goodwin
Natalie in the Lotus 7/20Natalie Goodwin is most famous for racing in Formula 3 in the 1960s. The British Women Racing Drivers’ Club’s annual racing trophy is named after her.Natalie was from a...
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