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Paula Elstrek
Paula Elstrek is an Australian driver who is known for racing touring cars, as well as breaking records on four wheels.Paula began racing cars in 1994, after a long international karting career, which...
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Marie-Léonie ("Albertine") Derancourt
Mme Derancourt, centre, 1929Marie-Léonie Derancourt, who used the name “Albertine”, was a popular but not particularly successful French racer of the late 1920s and early 1930s. In 1927, she entered...
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The Rallye des Femmes
Winners Bethany Cullen and Cath Donohue in 2016Despite its French name, the Rallye des Femmes is an Australian event, run in the Australian Capital Territory and organised by the Brindabella Motor...
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Kat Teasdale
Kat with the Bakeracing CorvetteKathryn Teasdale, known as Kat, was a Canadian driver, born in 1964. She started out in Formula 2000 in 1988, after having to give up competitive skiing due to a knee...
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Mara Reyes
Mara in 2016Mara Reyes was the first Mexican woman to race in NASCAR in the States. In recent years, she has been one of Mexico’s leading saloon racers.She comes from Pachuca, and like many other...
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Jade Edwards
Jade with the Mini in 2016Jade Edwards is a British sportscar racer. She is the younger sister of Chloe Edwards, and the pair sometimes race together. She began racing in 2006, in the Ginetta Junior...
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Abbie Eaton
Abbie Eaton is a British sportscar racer, who was a leading driver in the 2016 British GT championship.Abbie started competing in the SaxMax junior championship in 2007, after four years of competitive...
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The Women of NASCAR: the 21st century
Natalie, Paige and Claire DeckerBelow are profiles of some of the female NASCAR drivers who have tried to make their mark on the ovals, and began their careers after 2000. Earlier drivers can be found...
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Women in NASCAR: the results
The 1977 Firecracker 400: l-r, Janet Guthrie, Lella Lombardi, Lee Petty, Christine Beckers, Louise SmithBelow is a list of all of the female drivers who have competed in NASCAR’s top-level competition...
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Juliette Slaughter
Juliette with the Kelly Girl LolaJuliette Slaughter (née Scott-Gunn; also Brindley) was most famous for her Le Mans entry in 1978. Her racing career began in 1970, as Juliette Scott-Gunn, after she...
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Mette Kruuse
Mette Kruuse was a Danish driver, active in the 1960s and 1970s. She is most associated with the MkI Ford Escort.Her career began when she attended a racing drivers’ school, some time in the late...
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Laure Jaussaud
Laure in Monte CarloLaure Jaussaud is a French Tarmac specialist who has rallied in France since 2002, usually in a Renault Clio. She won the French ladies’ rally championship in 2007.Her usual...
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Ksenya Niks
Ksenya Niks is a Ukrainian driver who has raced in the European Touring Car Championship. She is very unusual for a professional driver, in that she did not start racing until she was over 40, and had...
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Women in the Dubai 24 Hours
The Reiter Engineering team in 2017The Dubai 24 Hours is an endurance race for sports, GT and touring cars, promoted by the Dutch Creventic organisation and run at the Dubai Autodrome. It is a...
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Sara Christian
Sara Christian was the first woman to race in NASCAR, in 1949, at the Charlotte Speedway. She was from the NASCAR heartland of Atlanta, Georgia.Her first NASCAR race was actually the first official...
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Delfina Frers
Delfina and Marily SchwanderDelfina Frers is an Argentine former actress and model, who has raced saloons extensively in South America. She has been racing since the mid-1990s, starting out, as many...
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Simin Bıçakcıoĝlu
Simin in 2015Simin Bıçakcıoĝlu is Turkey’s leading female driver in its domestic rally championship. She has won the Turkish ladies’ award four times. She began by racing a Honda Civic and a Fiat Palio...
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Rena Blome
Rena in 1984Rena Blome was the fastest female rally driver in Germany, in the mid-1980s. A former apprentice painter and decorator, she rallied internationally from 1981, initially in a Peugeot 104....
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Female Drivers in Touring Cars: the USA
Michele AbbateBelow are some profiles of women racing touring cars in the USA. Some of these have been split off from the Female Drivers in Touring Cars in the Rest of the World post. Shea Holbrook has...
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The European Ladies' Rally Championship
Ewy Rosqvist and Ursula WirthThe FIA European Rally Championship began in 1953. For the first thirteen years of its existence, a Ladies’ Championship prize was awarded to the overall highest-performing...
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