Lisa Clark

Lisa Clark is an American driver who has competed in the US Ferrari Challenge since 2017. She is known online as "Racer Mom".

Speed was a family thing when she was growing up; her father raced dirt bikes and the two used to ride together at night. Lisa always gravitated towards four wheels rather than two, and a payout she received after a motorcycle accident helped her to afford a Porsche, which she used for autocross. There was a long gap while she was having her children, but she never gave up on her plan. She found out about the Ferrari Corsa Pilota training programme when she bought her first road-going Ferrari, then realised that she could also race the car competitively. Preparation consisted of karting and some arrive-and-drive endurance races in Europe, then she was ready to go.

In her first season, she did just two races, at Bowmanville in Canada. She finished both, in tenth place. The following year, she did five of the championship's eight races, finishing in the top ten in three of them. The best of these was a sixth place at Watkins Glen. She was eleventh in the championship.

She secured her first trophy in 2019, coming home first in the Am class of the North American Challenge at Sebring. This was one of five podiums that season, on her way to sixth place.

She also raced in Europe, entering the Le Mans round of the European Ferrari Challenge, although she did not finish. The World Final at Mugello gave her a tenth place.

Her 2020 campaign was a part-season. She did just over two-thirds of the meetings and her best one was the away round at Misano, where she won the Am class twice. She was sixth in the World Final at Misano.

In 2021, she scored her first overall podium, a third at Homestead-Miami. After a stronger season, she was sixth in the championship. In Europe, she raced in the Ferrari Coppa Shell at Valencia and the Nurburgring, with a best finish of ninth at the Nurburgring.

She also did her first major race outside the Ferrari Challenge, and not in a Ferrari. Driving an Audi R8 LMS GT4 with Jeff Westphal, Martin Lechman and Mark Issa, she was third in class in the Barcelona 24H, 24th overall.

2022 was one of her best seasons yet, with three podium finishes in the Am class on her way to a class third overall in the Coppa Shell North America. She also raced in Europe at Portimao and Paul Ricard, scoring points in the Coppa Shell Europe.

In 2023, she was 15th in the championship and eleventh in the World Final. However, this was just gearing up for a busy year in 2024, with another full Ferrari Challenge season and some extras. She took part in the FIA Motorsport Games in the single-make GT section, finishing eleventh, and also raced her Ferrari in Europe in two rounds of the 24h Series. This was with the Pellin team who ran her in the Coppa Shell Europe, sharing a GT3 Ferrari 488 with Jeff Westphal and Kyle Marcelli. They were tenth and ninth in class in the two Mugello 12 Hour races. They were twelfth and 17th overall.

Another season split between the Ferrari Challenge and the 24H Series in Europe beckoned in 2025. She used the same Ferrari 296 for both.

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Her car is run by Ferrari of Beverly Hills in the American championship.

Doriane Pin

 

Doriane Pin is a French driver who races sportscars in Europe. She was one of the finalists in the FIA’s official Girls on Track - Rising Stars programme.

She began her senior career in 2020, racing in the Clio Cup in France. Her best finish in the Clio was a ninth place at Paul Ricard and she was fourteenth overall, but second in the Junior standings. This was combined with her Rising Stars assessments, in which the leading young female drivers competed for membership of the Ferrari Academy. Doriane finished second to Maya Weug.

She had intended to compete in French F4 in 2021 and was also one of the finalists for the Elf Winfield Scholarship. As a prize for being the best of the girls there, she tested an F4 car, but the Iron Dames all-female GT team signed her up and her focus became sportscars. She had already tested the team’s Ferrari as part of her Girls on Track assessments; the Iron Dames team works closely with Girls on Track.

Before this new phase of her career could get under way, she tried ice racing at the Andros Trophy, finishing fifth in an invitation race at Andorra. She was driving an Enedis electric prototype.

Back with petrol power, her first race as an Iron Dame was meant to be in April, but she sat out the first round of the Le Mans Cup. She made her debut in the team’s Ferrari 488 in July, at Paul Ricard, finishing third in the GT3 class. Her co-drivers for the season were Sarah Bovy and Manuela Gostner. This was one of six podium finishes for the team, who finished second at Monza and third at both Le Mans and Spa. Doriane was fifth in the GT3 drivers’ standings.

She also joined Iron Dame Sarah Bovy in a Ferrari for two rounds of the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup. They were sixth at Catalunya and Paul Ricard.

Late in the season, she joined another Iron Dames driver, champion Michelle Gatting, in the Ferrari Challenge. Doriane scored two sixth places at Mugello.

Before her Ferrari guest drive, she tested an FIA Formula 3 car at Magny-Cours, alongside Maya Weug.

She stayed an Iron Dame in 2022, taking up the seat vacated by Michelle Gatting in the Ferrari Challenge. It was soon clear that she was the driver to beat, taking two wins from two pole positions in the first two races at Portimao. She won four of the six races, finishing third in another and fourth in another, both at Paul Ricard. Her dominance led to a win.

As the season went on, she played a bigger part in the main Iron Dames team. In July, she helped Sarah Bovy and Michelle Gatting to a class win in the ELMS LMGTE Drivers Trophy at Portimao, after a second at Spa. 

She remained part of the Iron Dames setup in 2023, although she raced for Prema in the LMP2 class in the WEC. She shared her car with ex-F1 driver Daniil Kvyat for most of the year, and they were ninth in their class. Mirko Bortolotti joined them for Le Mans, but a crash during Kvyat's night stint put them out at about one-third distance. Theyhad run as high as second in LMP2. Their best finish was a second in class at Sebring, at the beginning of the season.

She joined the Iron Dames in their Lamborghini Huracan for three rounds of the IMSA championship, beginning at Daytona. In what was a learning year, their best finish together was twelfth at Petit Le Mans. They also competed together as a four at the Spa 24 Hours, but did not finish. 

At the end of the season, Doriane made a surprising move back to single-seaters, with Prema. She did the Sepang rounds of the F4 Southeast Asia series, winning one race and scoring podium finishes in three more. She was linked to a Prema seat in the all-female F1 Academy for 2024 and the rumours were true; she became Mercedes' supported driver. After a win in the first race at Jeddah, she looked like a strong bet for the title, but a disqualification for post-race speeding dropped her to ninth in Race 2. She was then injured during her parallel campaign in FRECA for the Iron Dames, pulling out of the second Spa race, then the Zandvoort and Hungary rounds when she became ill. 

Although she did not miss any F1 Academy races, she was off the pace somewhat mid-season. She recovered and scored two more wins, at Zandvoort and Abu Dhabi, finishing second in the championship to Abbi Pulling. 

Her FRECA season was not as successful. This was the first time she had driven a single-seater at this level in competition and her best finish was only a fourteenth place at Paul Ricard. She was 27th in the championship.

As part of her continuing relationship with Iron Dames, she joined their sportscar team for the Daytona 24 Hours and two rounds of the World Endurance Championship, driving a Lamborghini Huracan. She and her team-mates Sarah Bovy, Michelle Gatting and Rahel Frey were sixth in the GTD class at Daytona, 25th overall. In the WEC, she did the Qatar and Imola rounds, finishing 23rd overall and eighth in class at Qatar, as part of a three-driver team.

She will continued as a Mercedes junior in F1 Acadamy in 2025.

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Fabienne Wohlwend

Fabienne Wohlwend is from Liechtenstein and is mostly known for racing in the Ferrari Challenge in Europe.

2016 was her first season of senior motorsport, after eight years of karting. She won two junior karting titles at home in Liechtenstein and also ran well in the Swiss championships.

She raced in Italian Formula 4 in 2016, as Liechtenstein has very few motorsport facilities of its own and no major championships. Switzerland hosts no petrol-powered motorsport at all. She did almost a complete season for Aragon Racing, as a single-car team. Her best finishes were two seventeenth places, at Adria and Vallelunga, and she was unplaced in the championship. At the end of the year, she chalked it all up as experience, describing Formula 4 as a “racing school”.

In 2017, she moved focus from single-seaters to tin-tops and sportscars. One reason for this was that she wished to continue her banking apprenticeship as well as her racing, and single-seaters required more intensive commitment. She was eleventh in the final season of the Audi Sport TT Cup, with four top-ten finishes. The best of these was an eighth place at Hockenheim. This was impressive considering that she had no budget to test the car, relying on track tests in a TCR-spec car and simulator work.

On the sportscar side, she raced in the Ferrari Challenge Europe in a 488, and won a race at Imola. Despite only doing six rounds of the fourteen-round championship, she was sixth overall, due to her four podium finishes. At the end of the year, she was third in the World Final, driving for the Octane 126 team.

Octane 126 retained her services for the 2018 season. She was racing their 488 in the Pirelli Trophy Amateur class of the Ferrari Challenge. The class was dominated by British driver Chris Froggatt, but Fabienne managed to win three times at Misano, from pole each time, and secure seven additional podiums. She was second in the class.  

At the end-of-season world finals, held at Monza, she won the Trofeo Pirelli for amateur drivers outright, leading comfortably from Martin Renaldi Hutasoit.

She was accepted as a driver for the all-female W Series in 2019 and often showed great pace in qualifying which did not always translate to on-track position. She was third at Misano after starting from pole and this was her best finish of the year. She was sixth in the championship.

As well as W Series, she continued in the Ferrari Challenge in 2019. Her best finish during her Trofeo Pirelli Europe part-season was a fifth place at Imola, and she was fourth in the World Finals at Mugello.

Branching out further, she also entered a round of the VLN at the Nurburgring in a BMW, although she did not finish.

In 2020, she wanted to continue her double-headed attack on W Series and the Ferrari Challenge, but the ongoing coronavirus crisis meant that W Series was cancellled. Some possible races in the Formula Renault Eurocup were also shelved.

The Ferrari Challenge went ahead and she was one of the leading Trofeo Pirelli drivers from the start, finishing third at Imola. Even after missing the last four races due to car damage, she was second in the Trofeo, with five seconds and three thirds.

Despite her previous success, she left the Ferrari behind in 2021, racing in W Series and in the NLS (previously VLN). Her W Series season was inconsistent but generally positive, with a third at the Red Bull Ring and a second at Silverstone as her highlights. She was sixth overall and retains her place in the 2022 championship, should she choose to take it.

Her first NLS experience was in April, when she joined the Adrenalin Motorsport/Alzer team in their BMW G20. She was fourth and third in class in the first two rounds of the series. In June, she returned to the Nurburgring for the 24 Hour race, driving a BMW F30 for Giti Tyre Motorsport and sharing it with Nicolaj Kandborg, Niklas Kry and Tobias Wolf. They were ninth in their class.

Another visit to the Nurburgring followed in 2022, driving for the Gti Tyre/WS Racing Girls Only Team in the 24 Hours. The car was a BMW M4, shared with Carrie Schreiner, Pippa Mann and Celia Martin. They were third in their class, 35th overall.

Fabienne drove a CortDAO-branded car in W Series and had an inconsistent year, with a fourth place at Silverstone as her highlight. She was tenth in the championship. The season was shortened due to financial troubles and it is unclear whether it would run again, or whether Fabienne will take part.

At the end of the year, she travelled to India for the Indian Racing League, driving for the Godspeed Kochi team. The series used street circuits and a motorcycle-engined single-seater. The first round was cancelled due to problems with the track itself and with the cars, and the rest of the championship suffered many other issues, but Fabienne was the best of the female drivers and helped Godspeed Kochi to the teams' championship. Her best overall finishes were two second places at Chennai. 

She spent most of 2023 in the ADAC GT4 series, racing an Aston Martin Vantage with Celia Martin for the PROSport team. It was a fairly challenging season for them and they were 34th in the championship. Sachsenring was their best race and they were twelfth overall.

The was no W Series in 2023 due to its financial collapse, but Fabienne was able to revisit some of her other regular outings. She rejoined the Girls Only team for the Nurburgring 24 Hours, finishing in 81st place in a BMW with Celia, Beitske Visser and Pippa Mann. She also entered a round of the NLS with them. During the winter season, she raced in India again, going back to the Godspeed Kochi team. She shared a car with Ruhaan Alva but did not finish any of her own races.

2024 was split between Germany and the VLN, and India and the Indian Racing League. In the VLN, she did three races with the Girls Only team, which included Pippa Mans, Carrie Schreiner and Beitske Visser. They drove the WS BMW in three races and the Nurburgring 24 Hours, finishing second twice and third once. Although they did not finish the 24 Hours, they were classified 47th and third in class. 

The Godspeed Kochi team had been bought out and renamed Rarh Bengal Tigers in 2024, but the four drivers were retained, including Fabienne. She and Ruhaan Alva were third in the championship; Fabienne's personal best finishes were three fourth places.

Fabienne still worked part-time in banking to help fund her sporting activities until 2019.

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Manuela Gostner

Manuela Gostner raced in the 2017 European GT4 Championship, driving a Maserati. She is best known for driving a Ferrari. Unusually, she was almost 30 when she started competing.

She is the elder sister of Corinna Gostner, who races in the Coppa Shell Ferrari Challenge with Manuela and their father, Thomas. Their brother, David, also races. It was he who encouraged Manuela to take the wheel of his Ferrari at a test day in 2014.

She started racing only a few months later, at Brno. Her sister Corinna made her debut at the same time. Corinna finished just above Manuela in the first race, in tenth, and they swapped places for the second. Manuela returned for the season finale in Abu Dhabi. She was 20th in the championship.

In 2015, she enjoyed a bigger racing programme and contested the entire Coppa Shell Ferrari Challenge. Her car was a Ferrari 458 run by Ineco-MP Racing, who ran her in her first races. She started slowly but soon learned the car. By the third round at Mugello, she was into the top ten. In September, she broke into the top five for the first time, at Imola, and repeated this at Valencia. She was twelfth in the championship.

In 2016, she raced both with and against Corinna: in the Ferrari Challenge, she was not quite as competitive, earning two top tens, the best of these being a ninth at Monza. She finished 21st overall. She and her sister shared the Ferrari in two Italian GT Championship rounds at Mugello, and were eighth and sixth in the GT Cup class. They were racing against their brother and father in another MP Racing Ferrari.

She made a move into the European GT4 championship in 2017. Her Maserati Gran Turismo  MC was run by Villorba Corse. She was third in the Am category, just in front of her Villorba team-mates, Romy Dall’Antonia and Giuseppe Fascicola. She won her class at Brands Hatch and Zandvoort and was third at the Red Bull Ring.

The Coppa Shell had not been forgotten. Back with the Ineco-MP team, she did most of the European Ferrari Challenge, and had a best finish of sixth at Paul Ricard. She was also sixth in the World Final at Mugello.

She was third in the 2018 Ferrari Challenge, winning races at Catalunya and Monza. Monza was also the scene of her third place in the World Finals. Away from the Ferrari Challenge, she raced a 488 for Kessel Racing in some bigger races. In October, she was fourth in the GT3 class in the Michelin Le Mans Cup at the Algarve circuit, sharing with Giorgio Sernagiotto. In December, she was part of an all-female team for the Gulf 12 Hours, alongside Michelle Gatting and Rahel Frey. They were second in class and sixth overall.

Her GT4 success has earned her a first FIA driver classification of Bronze. The Kessel team recruited Manuela and her Gulf 12 Hours team-mates for a campaign in the 2019 European Le Mans Series. The three women raced as the "Iron Dames" and became the first all-female team at Le Mans itself for almost ten years. They finished 38th overall and ninth in the GTE Am class, ahead of their all-male "sister" car.

In the wider ELMS series, Manuela and her team-mates had their fair share of car problems, but they still managed class second places at Silverstone and Paul Ricard, on their way to fourth in their class championship.

The Iron Dames got back together for the 2019 Gulf 12 Hours and were running in a strong fourth place when contact with a backmarker caused their retirement.

Her second season as an Iron Dame led to another run in the Ferrari in the ELMS. The three-woman team managed three third places in the GTE class, although it wasn't the easiest year for them. An eighth at Algarve dropped them to fifth in the championship, despite some strong performances and out-doing their "sister" Iron Lynx car.

The Dames got to the finish of their second Le Mans together, finishing 34th overall and ninth in the LMGTE Am class. 

Away from the Iron Dames setup, she also raced for her family team in the Creventic 24 Hours series. She shared an AMG Mercedes GT3 with her sister Corinna, brother David and father Thomas. They entered the double six-hour races at Monza and Mugello, finishing third twice at Mugello and fourth and fifth at Monza.

She was part of the Iron Dames team again in 2021, but only started the first two WEC races of the year and did not race at Le Mans. Her best finish was at Portimao, where she, Rahel and Michelle were seventh in class. 

She also did the first four rounds of the ELMS season, as part of the same driver trio. They only finished twice, but did manage a fourth place in the first round at Catalunya. Manuela's Ferrari was taken out at Paul Ricard by a Porsche driven by Michael Fassbender, which forced her retirement. Manuela had been in front when Fassbender tried an over-ambitious overtaking move, which was later penalised by the stewards.

After that, she moved into the Le Mans Cup, racing the Ferrari in the GT3 class. Her team-mates were Sarah Bovy and Doriane Pin and she had a best finish of third in class, achieved at Le Mans and Spa. The Le Mans race was the support to the 24 Hours itself.

After 2021 she stepped down from the Iron Dames, but continued to race. She competed in the Coppa Shell category of the Ferrari Challenge Europe, driving a familiar Ferrari 488. After a second and Paul Ricard and a third at the Hungaroring, she was fourth in the championship. At the end of the year, she joined her family team again for the Gulf 12 Hours in Bahrain. Driving a Mercedes-AMG, she was seventh overall.

She carried on in the Ferrari Challenge in 2023, finishing second in the Coppa Shell class with three wins and three additional podiums. Her victories came at Valencia, Le Mans and Spa. The family got together again for the Gulf 12 Hours in December, although this time they were only 18th in the Mercedes.

2024 continued in a similar vein, with two more Coppa Shell wins in the Ferrari Challenge, at Jerez and Portimao. A couple of additional podiums put her fourth overall in the Coppa Shell standings. The family team was back in action for four rounds of the 24H series, in the Mercedes. They were contesting the GT3 class and were fourteenth in the GT3 Am section. They were 26th at Mugello and 20th at Spa. Their final race of the year was the Gulf 12 Hours in December. They were 18th overall.

Away from the circuits, she competed internationally at both indoor and beach volleyball before having her two daughters.

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