Madeline Stewart

 

Madeline Stewart races sportscars and saloons in Australia.

She is a former junior and senior karter from New Zealand who began racing in the Super3 Series in Australia in 2019. This championship is the official third-level series for V8 Supercars and she went straight into it from karting.

The then 19-year-old drove a Holden Commodore for Brad Jones Racing and picked up three top-ten finishes. The best of these was an eighth place at Winton. She was fourteenth in the championship. 

As well as saloons, she also raced single-seaters in the bike-engined Formula 1000 series. She was sixth in her state championship, driving a Stohr F1000. She was racing against her sister Ashleigh in a Radical. 

Her 2020 Super3 season was limited to two races due to the international coronavirus crisis, but she showed promise with a pair of fourth places at Sydney Motorsports Park. The team entered her for the Townsville Tin Tops meeting the following month, using the same car. After one second and two third places, Madeline was declared the winner. 

Later, she joined the McElrea team for Super Tin Tops at The Bend, this time racing a Porsche 991 in the Super Cup class. She was fifth, finishing fifth or fourth in all three races. This in turn led to a guest spot in the Australian Super GT championship at Queensland, where she was sixth in the first race and fourth in the other two.

In 2021, she continued racing a Porsche, entering both the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge and part of the Australian Carrera Cup, for Earl Bamber's team. The hookup with Bamber was meant to begin with a run in the 2020 Asian Carrera Cup, but this was cancelled.

The Sprint Cup brought more success, with Madeline narrowly missing out on a top ten at Sydney Motorsports Park. This eleventh place was her best finish in the car; her guest appearance at Mount Panorama for the December Australian Carrera Cup meeting had a best result of 18th. It was a short season, finishing in May.

Her best race of the year was the Bathurst 6 Hours, in which she drove an HSV VXR Turbo with Chris Holdt and David Ling. They were fifth in class. 

Another Bathurst 6 Hours in a Holden Astra in 2022 followed, as well as an extensive sportscar programme. She was tenth in the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge, driving for the Bamber team again, with a best finish of third at The Bend. 

Before beginning the Sprint Challenge, she also made a guest appearance in a Ginetta G55 for the Fanatec GT World Challenge races at Phillip Island, finishing third twice for Griffith Corp.

For the first time, she raced outside Oceania in 2023, entering the Porsche Sprint Challenge North America. She was competing in the 992 Pro-Am class and finished third, with four third places at Sebring, Barber and Mid-Ohio. She combined this with karting in Australia.

Her American adventures continued in 2024, when she moved up to the Carrera Cup, still with JDX Racing. In a large field, she was 15th overall, finishing in the top ten twice. The best of these was a seventh place at Road America.

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Alessandra Brena

 

Alessandra Brena is a versatile Italian driver whose career has taken in single-seaters, touring cars and even rallying, in both petrol and electric vehicles. 

She began competing as a senior in Italy in 2011, at the age of fifteen. This followed seven years in a kart.

She drove in Formula Abarth, mainly concentrating on the Italian championship for the junior single-seater. Her best finish seems to have been eleventh, at Misano. Unfortunately, she was unable to complete the season, due to an injury sustained during a race. She also drove in two European championship events, also at Misano. 

In 2012, she drove in the Green Scout Cup for alternative-fuel vehicles, in a Kia. She won at least one race. This was the first of two seasons with alternative fuels; the second one led to a race win and a championship win in the Kia.

As well as hybrids, she raced more traditional internal-combustion cars, including a Ginetta G50 and a Lamborghini Gallardo, which she used in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo. She was thirteenth in the championship. She ended the year named as Italy’s best woman driver, still in her teens.

She raced the Ginetta again in a couple of rounds of the 2014 European GT4 Challenge for the Scuderia Giudici team, having impressed team owner Gianni Giudici. She was thirteenth and fifteenth at Misano, having performed well in qualifying alongside co-driver Walter Conforti. She was the youngest driver in the championship.

It was time to diversify in 2015. She did some rounds of the Germanol Adria Race Cup in a Renault Twingo, as well as entering some Italian rallies in a Peugeot 208. Her best result in the Renault seems to have been a fifth place. She won the Coupe des Dames in the Rally Due Valli, and was 28th overall. 

In 2016, she rallied the Peugeot in the Franciacorta Rally Show, and was 32nd overall. A guest appearance in the Italian Clio Cup at the end of the season led to a fourth-place finish.

Buoyed by her small success, a full-time return to the circuits in 2017 took the form of the Italian TCS Touring Car Championship. She was third overall, winning twice. 

Her career hit a fallow patch after that. She attempted to qualify for the W Series in 2019 but was eliminated from the first selection event. Later in the year, she went back to alternative power for the Mille Miglia Green, driving a Mercedes EQC. Since then, she has done some drifting but no actual racing.

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Charlotte Birch

 

Charlotte Birch is a British sportscar racer who is most associated with Ginettas.

Her career started early. She began racing cars at fourteen. Unusually, she stepped straight into junior motorsport without having done any karting beforehand. 

Her first destination in cars was the Junior Saloon Car Championship in the UK in 2017. In her first year she had a best finish of tenth, at Rockingham, Knockhill, Croft and Brands Hatch. She was fourteenth in the championship.

This improved to second in 2018, at Anglesey, plus a third place at Rockingham. The Anglesey podium came after a tenth-place grid start. She continued to improve in spite of quite a nasty accident at Silverstone at the start of the season. A couple of missed races and some indifferent finishes meant that she was thirteenth overall, a final leaderboard position that did not quite demonstrate her ability.

Her aim is to race in the BTCC or endurance racing and she took her first step towards this by competing in the senior Ginetta G40 championship in 2019. She was seventh in the championship after contesting all of the rounds apart from the Zandvoort away weekend and had a best finish of seventh, which she earned three times, at Oulton Park and Brands Hatch. 

In 2020, she raced a Vinna Sport Ginetta in the Britcar Trophy with Adriano Medeiros. Charlotte led the championship mid-season but dropped scores meant that she was fourth in the end, third in class. Charlotte was often the fastest driver in her class and ran as well as the highly-experienced Adriano Medeiros. 

She raced the Vinna Ginetta again in 2021, attempting to continue her form as a solo driver in Britcar. It turned out to be a very shortened season, but she did return to the Endurance class in a Ligier prototype at the end of the season. She and Jamie Vinall-Meyer won their class at Donington in October.

Vinna and Charlotte also founded a prize for the best female driver in the JSCC. Charlotte also appeared on BBC's Top Gear in a group of current and recent JSCC drivers for a racing segment.

She moved away from the Vinna operation as a driver in 2022, joining up with Topcats Racing for the GT Cup. The car was a Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo which she shared with team owner Charlotte Gilbert. Charlotte was 14th as an individual driver in the Sprint Challenge and seventh in the Sporting Challenge with her team-mate.

There was not much racing for Charlotte in 2023; she worked as a team manager for Vinna and did some rounds of the Honda Civic Cup towards the end of the year. She also tried out for the Rafa Racing Porsche scholarship in the USA, but was not selected.

In 2024, she also competed quite irregularly, racing a Honda Civic in two rounds of the Milltek Civic Cup in the UK. She also reunited with a Ginetta G55 for a round of the British Endurance Championship.

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Alison Davis

Alison Davis was one of Britain's most successful female club racers and the first woman to win a club championship outright. 

She won the 1979 BRDC Production Sportscar Championship in a Ginetta G15 and also won races in the 1984 MG Metro Challenge. 

The first racing car that she owned was a Diva GT which she and her husband Roger bought from Frank Williams in 1970. Before that, she had done some hillclimbs and sprints in borrowed cars or her roadgoing Austin Healey. The Diva helped her to transition from speed events to wheel-to-wheel racing but it was replaced for the 1971 season by a Ginetta G15.

The Ginetta was her most successful car; it also gave her a string of class wins in the few-holds-barred Modsports championship 1971 and 1972. She was voted Driver of the Day at Brands Hatch in 1972 and won the British Women Racing Drivers’ Club’s Embassy Trophy for the best performance by a club member in circuit racing. This was one of a collection of trophies she earned that year.

Alison’s time in Modsports was supported by an unusual sponsor: feminine hygiene product Femfresh. She even appeared in 19 magazine as part of a promotional competition where a reader could win herself a Ginetta sportscar.

The Femfresh G15 was sold at the end of the 1972 season. Alison experimented with a number of different cars. She was a leading competitor in the BWRDC Shellsport Ladies’ Escort series, finishing second in the 1976 and 1977 championships with several wins. Two further standalone ladies’ races were held in 1978 and Alison won one of them. 

One of the cars she raced was a Fiat 124ST and it was this that she used on the 1973 Avon Tour of Britain. She was partnered by Sheila Scott, a pilot. They competed against eventual winner James Hunt, Graham Hill, Rosemary Smith and others.

Most of her outings during this time were in production saloons. She often competed alone, but sometimes teamed up with other drivers, including future Le Mans starter Juliette Slaughter, with whom she shared a Triumph TR7.

Coming back to a Ginetta brought her back to winning ways in 1979. Her new car was a yellow G15 that she and Roger converted from road spec. It always carried the number 33 and became a common and popular sight in parc ferme. Alison had the most successful year of her career in it, winning the BRDC Prodsports championship with a clean sweep of class wins. This was the first time a woman had won a British racing championship outright and she was awarded the BWRDC Wakefield Trophy, for outstanding contribution to motorsport by a woman. 

The trophy was not just the result of her BRDC Prodsports win. Her BRDC campaign was run in tandem with a strong attempt on the similar BRSCC CAV championship, finishing second ten times and setting three lap records at Silverstone, Castle Combe and Brands Hatch.

Although she did not win the championship again outright, she was joint champion in the DB Prodsports series in 1981, winning five times. In between, she scored two further wins and twelve second places in the 1980 season.

Despite her success in the Ginetta, Alison moved on to an MG Metro for the 1982 MG Metro Challenge. It was a steep learning curve for her and she crashed out of her first race. She made up for this by becoming a permanent fixture in the top six by the end of the season. This continued during the 1983 season while Roger and her team of mechanics got to grips with the Metro.

In 1984, she was offered a seat in Terry Drury’s Alfa Romeo GTV for the Tourist Trophy Six Hours at Silverstone. According to newspaper reports at the time, she had to embark on a funding drive to be able to take up her drive. She managed it, although she and Paul Everett were unable to finish the race itself.

For the Metro series itself, she was sponsored by the Melitta coffee brand.

Away from this disappointment, the team had finally got to grips with the Metro and Alison was flying at last. She won the first three races of the 1984 championship and cemented her reputation as a wet-track specialist with a victory at a rainy Silverstone. After her third win, a protest was lodged and she was accused of having an illegal car. A thorough examination by the scrutineers proved this allegation to be false and probably the result of wounded male pride.

Alison left motorsport on a high, as a leading driver in Metros and in Prodsports. She turned to showing Irish draught horses and entered the Horse of the Year Show on five occasions.

Her husband Roger points out that she would have been eligible for membership of the British Racing Drivers’ Club, but it would be another few years before that august organisation permitted female members.

(Thanks to Roger Davis for the information and picture)

Alline Cipriani

Alline Cipriani is a Brazilian driver who races in both her home country and the USA. She won her class in the 2013 Brazilian Endurance Championship and the 2018 Chase for the Trigon Trophy. 

She began racing in 2011, after a serious injury ended her jetski racing career. She competed in the Audi DTCC (Driver Touring Car Cup) for two rounds, as well as trying out single-seaters in the shape of Formula Vee. 

She entered the whole DTCC Cup in 2012 and had two top-ten finishes, the best of these being an eighth place at Interlagos. She was eleventh in the championship. 

In 2013, she moved away from Audi power and acquired a Ford Focus, in which she competed in the Brazilian Endurance Championship. Partnering Adolpho Rossi Neto, she won the Class V championship outright. Had she had entered all four rounds, she would have helped her team-mates to a Class IV championship as well. As it stood, she was second in that class, with her team-mates as winners. She also raced in some rounds of the single-make Sprint Race series, finishing 19th in the championship.

In 2012, she and Adolpho, who are a couple, had shared a Volvo C30 for the Tarumã 12 Hours, which they managed to finish. Driving together again and with two further co-drivers, they were eighth in the 2013 Parana Endurance race, using a Volkswagen Gol.

Since 2013, Alline has been racing a Ginetta in endurance events in the USA, mostly those in the FARA series. She was a class winner in FARA in 2014 and 2015 and became a FARA Ambassador in the process.

Brazilian motorsport had not been forgotten completely. Alline was seventh in the 2014 Sprint Race championship, having completed two-thirds of the season. In 2015, she raced in the Mercedes-Benz Challenge in a C250. Her best finish in this one-make championship was seventh at Interlagos. 

She raced the Ginetta in the States again in 2016, making a guest appearance at Barber in the Pirelli World Challenge. Her best result was a fifteenth place; the weekend was wet and she had not qualified well. She did better in FARA events and ended the year vice-champion in the series.  

After taking some time out to have her son, she raced again in the States in 2018, winning the Chase For The Trigon Trophy TA3 series. Her car was a Ginetta G55 sponsored by Ginetta USA. Her particular class win was a first for a female driver and the first for a Brazilian in an American series.

She raced once more for Ginetta in her home country in 2020. The Stillux Ginetta team entered a G55 GT4 into the Imperio Endurance Brasil series. Alline competed at Sao Paulo, Goiania and Curitiba, but did not manage to finish a race.

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Katie Milner

Katie Milner won the Junior Saloon Car Championship in 2016. She now races Ginettas.

She first raced in the Junior Saloon Car Championship in 2015, driving a Citroen Saxo. This was her first season of circuit racing full-stop. She was ninth in the championship. Her best finish was fourth, at Croft, and she had two other top-five positions at Croft and Oulton Park.

Prior to her season in the JSCC, she was a successful autograss racer for four seasons between 2012 and 2015, with five junior titles. Autograss takes place on a short, oval grass track. Other saloon racers including Alice Hughes have used it as a training ground. Her first JSCC campaign overlapped with her last autograss title.

She also tried out the Ginetta Junior series at Brands Hatch during the 2015-2016 off-season. This was a challenge for her and she only had a highest finish of eleventh.

In 2016, she raced in the JSCC for a final season before she turned seventeen. The disappointments of the Ginetta winter series were forgotten. It was a dramatic year; she was one of the leading drivers, with seven wins, but her championship title was only awarded after appeals. She was excluded for technical reasons at Knockhill, but was reinstated, and crowned the winner.

In 2017, she raced in the Ginetta GT5 Championship, as a senior. It was a somewhat inconsistent season, but she managed two fourth places and one fifth at Rockingham.

At the end of the season, she won the BWRDC Ladies' Race at the Walter Hayes Trophy on handicap, having finished second on scratch to Sarah Moore in another Ginetta.

She was ninth overall in her second season of GT5 racing. driving the same car. Her best finish was a fifth place at Thruxton.

Most of 2019 was spent in the Ginetta, in the same championship. Her season looked to be a more consistent one at the start, but the big grids and competitive nature of the series meant that she got caught up in several bumps not of her making, dropping her down the order. Her best finish was a fifth place again, this time at Snetterton, and she scored two pole positions at Thruxton.

Mid-season, she teamed up with Alice Hughes for the Citroen C1 Challenge, racing as Team Merlin International supported by Motorsport Woman. The two Yorkshire women finished second in their first three-hour race at Croft, leading the race at one point. They were joined by Jem Hepworth and Sami Bowler for the C1 24 Hours at Silverstone, running as Team Motorsport Woman, and finished fifth.

Katie was due to contest the British GT championship as an official driver for McLaren in 2020, but coronavirus meant that the programme was shelved. She raced in 2021, having been retained as a McLaren development driver. Her partner for the Rocket RJN 570S was Harry Hayek of Australia. 

It was a challenging year for both drivers. Katie was not on terms with the leading GT4 cars and had a best finish of fourth in class at Snetterton. Her finishing record was good and she faced some obstacles from other cars, but the Milner/Hayek pair was not as quick as the other McLaren development team and she may not be retained by the team for 2022.

In addition to British GTs, she raced in the USA for the first time in 2021, finishing sixth in a guest appearance at Circuit of the Americas, the sixth round of the Pure McLaren GT Series.

Katie is the daughter of rally driver Johnny Milner.

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Flick Haigh

Flick in 2016

Flick Haigh races GT cars in endurance events, in the UK and abroad.

She got into motorsport through a track day in 2005, when she was 21, and through her father’s historic rallying. For a long time at the beginning of her career, she was a Caterham racer. She started in the Caterham Classic Graduates series in 2007, and was seventh in her first year. In her second, she was fifth, and she won the series in 2009.

Between 2010 and 2013, she raced in the Caterham R300 Superlight Championship, finishing seventh overall in 2010 and 2012.

During this time, she also raced a Ginetta in some Britcar endurance races, as well as in the Dubai 24 Hours in 2013. She was 27th in a Ginetta G50, run by Optimum Motorsport and shared with Lee Mowle, Joe Osborne and Ryan Ratcliffe. Ratcliffe was her partner for Britcar; they won their class in a night race at Donington in 2012, despite Flick never having raced in the dark before, and almost running out of fuel at the end.

In 2014, she partnered Sarah Reader in the VdeV Endurance Challenge in France. The car was a Juno prototype. Their best overall result was ninth, at Paul Ricard, although they scored well in class. They were 39th overall, as their other results were not as good as their Paul Ricard efforts.

In 2015, Flick took part in her second Dubai 24 Hours, driving an Aston Martin Vantage for Speedworks Motorsport. She was third in the SP3 class, 29th overall, driving with Paul O’Neill, Devon Modell and Paul Gilbert. Driving a Ginetta G55 for Optimum Motorsport, she won her class in the Mugello 12 Hours, and was 16th overall, as part of a three-driver team. A similar team was 34th in the Barcelona 24 Hours.

Back at home, she made guest appearances in the GTA Cup and the Ginetta GT4 Supercup, driving the G55. In April, she entered the Donington rounds of the GTA Cup, and won the GTA class in her first race. She started the second from pole, but was seventh overall, and then did not finish. Later, in August, she tackled the Snetterton Ginetta Supercup meeting, and left with a tenth and two sixth places.

She did several international endurance races in 2016, starting with the Dubai 24 Hours, driving an Audi R8 LMS for Optimum Motorsport. She and her four team-mates were fourth overall. They were tenth in the Mugello round of the 24-Hour Series, but did not finish at Paul Ricard. A return to the track for the Michelin GT3 Le Mans Cup in August gave them a fourth place. In December, they were an impressive second in the Gulf 12 Hours, held at Yas Marina. This was a positive end to a strong year.

She stuck with the same car and team for 2017. Her first race was the Dubai 24 Hours, in which she was fourth in class. The other drivers were her regular team-mates Joe Osborne and Ryan Ratcliffe, plus Christopher Haase of Germany.

She was also fifth in the GT3 class of the Michelin Le Mans Cup, with three podium finishes from five races. She and Joe Osborne were third at Paul Ricard and the Red Bull Ring, and second in the season opener at Monza. They also entered the the two Le Mans races, and were ninth and fourteenth.

Her plans are more home-based in 2018. She is contesting the British GT Championship in an Aston Martin Vantage. The seat is a continuation of her long-running association with Optimum Motorsport and her team-mate is Jonny Adam.

Her first race in British GTs made history: at Oulton Park, Flick became the first female driver to win a British GT race, having started from pole. This was not only a first for a woman, but a first win for Flick the first time out in the car. She and Jonny Adam won again at Donington at the end of the year and were crowned British GT3 champions. This was the first time a female driver had won the top-level GT3 class and a remarkable achievement for a series debutant.

Flick had hoped to compete in Europe in 2019, but she was unable to raise sufficient sponsorship funds for the whole season, despite her 2018 triumph. She made guest appearances at the Le Mans rounds of the Michelin Le Mans Cup in an Aston Martin Vantage GT3, finishing eleventh and sixth with Tom Gamble.

At the end of the year she took part in the GT Cup section of the inaugural FIA Motorsport Games at Vallelunga, which pitted national teams against one another. She drove a Ferrari 488 with Chris Froggatt. They finished fourth in their first race but car problems intervened after that, dropping them to tenth and fifteenth places.

She was meant to join the Iron Dames team for the 2021 Italian GT championship, but was unable to take up her seat. After a year on the sidelines, she made a three-race return to British GTs in 2022, driving a Mercedes-AMG for 2Seas. Her best finish was a third place in the GT3 class at Snetterton.

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Sarah Moore

Sarah with the John Cooper Mini

Sarah Moore made history in 2009 by winning the Ginetta Junior championship outright. She was the under-17 series’s first female champion. She has since gone on to race saloons and sportscars in the UK and Europe.

She completed her first season of the Ginetta Junior series in 2008. She managed to finish in the top ten six times, with a best result of sixth. This followed a part-season in 2007, when she was fourteen. As well as full-size cars, Sarah also raced karts.

Her championship-winning season included five wins, making her the first female driver to secure victory in a TOCA-sanctioned race. She was awarded a BRDC Rising Star at the end of the year.

She returned to the series in 2010 for a final year, but did not manage another win. She was seventh overall. This year, she moved from her family’s team, Tockwith Motorsport, to Eurotech.

In 2011, after turning seventeen, she switched to single-seaters and raced in the Intersteps Formula, supported by Tockwith again. Her best finish was fourth, achieved twice at Silverstone, and she was sixth overall. Later, she described her foray into single-seaters as “difficult”.

She also did four races in the Smart 4Two championship, scoring two podium finishes. This was a new championship for the UK, based on the unlikely Brabus-prepared Smart micro-car.

She continued in the 4Two series in 2012, and scored a second at Spa and a two thirds at Snetterton. Her team-mate was her younger brother, David. They have another brother, Nigel, and all three pair up at various times.

A career hiatus followed. For a season, Sarah concentrated on her work as a driver coach, and only competed in karting. Even then, it was to help develop her student drivers.

In 2014, she was ready to race again. Alongside her brother Nigel, she travelled to Germany, to compete in the VLN, held on the legendary Nordschleife of the Nürburgring. She was racing in the Toyota GT86 Cup class. They won the class twice.

The pair aimed to return to the VLN in 2015, but it was not to be. Sarah kept her hand in by racing in kart enduros. She was the European ProKart Endurance Champion, with her team-mate Matthew Greenwood.

After another year spent mostly on the sidelines, Tockwith Motorsport entered Sarah into six rounds of the LMP3 Cup. She was driving a championship-standard Nissan-engined Ligier. If she had been able to complete the season, she would have been in line for a good position: she and co-driver Richard Dean were third at Donington and second at Spa.

As well as sampling prototype racing, Sarah continued to gain experience in different saloons. She entered five rounds of the UK Mini Challenge, all at Brands Hatch. She drove in both the Cooper Pro and JCW classes. Her best finish was fourth in the JCW car, in August.

Minis were a theme during her 2017 season. The intention had been for her to run a full season of the Mighty Mini championship. This was restricted to four rounds, but she won two of them.

The other cars she raced were a Smart ForFour, which she used for some rounds of the Britcar championship, and a Ginetta G50. The latter car she used in the BWRDC’s Ladies’ Handicap in November. She was the runaway winner on scratch, lapping almost all of the field twice. However, she was given a very low handicap, and was tenth in the final results.

In 2018 she drove a Ginetta in Britcar with Matt Greenwood. They won the Endurance championship in the Tockwith Motorsport G50.

2019 involved another season in Britcar and Sarah also tried to get back into single-seaters in the female-only W Series. Her season started well enough and she led during the first race at Hockenheim, but she could not get onto the podium and had a best finish of fifth, at Hockenheim and Zolder. She was eighth in the championship and will race again in 2020.

In mixed competition, she entered the Algarve round of the GT4 South European Series, driving a Ginetta G50 run by Tockwith. She and Moh Ritson were second in class in both races.

W Series was cancelled for 2020 due to the coronavirus crisis but Sarah picked up a drive in the UK Porsche Sprint Challenge. She raced at Donington and Croft, earning two fourth places and a sixth.

Her 2021 season was based around W Series, in which she finished fifth. She began the season well at the Red Bull Ring with a second place and was a fairly consistent top-ten finisher, apart from a mid-season dip in form. She was due for automatic inclusion in the 2022 championship and was picked for the Scuderia W team. 

In 2022, she was a consistent finisher in the lower half of the top ten in W Series. Her best result was seventh, achieved in Hungary and Singapore, and she was eleventh in the championship.

W Series folded at the start of 2023 so there was little competitive racing for Sarah that year. Late in the season, she was signed by the Bangalore Speedsters for the Indian Racing League, sharing the car with Kyle Kumaran. Sarah won the first race at Madras and was fourth and seventh in her other two races, leading the Speedsters to a championship win. Individually, she was fourth.

Moving away from competiton, she was announced as a driver coach for the More Than Equal female driver training programme.

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Women Drivers in National Sportscar Racing: the Nordic countries

Heidi Frydenhaug

This 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 sportscar series in recent years, both in one-make championships like the Ginetta Cup, and in the popular Thundersports category.

Jenna Brorsson - Swedish sportscar driver. The Porsche Carrera Cup of Scandinavia was her home in the 2004 and 2005 seasons. She came seventh in 2004, despite only entering four rounds, and sixth in 2005. After a break in 2006, she switched to the Swedish Ginetta Cup in a G20, winning a race in 2007 and coming third in the championship. Although she could not repeat her race win in 2008, she was never out of the top ten, apart from one retirement. Her best finish was third, at Falkenberg, and she was sixth in the championship standings. She also takes part in historic events: her earliest motorsport experiences were in her father's Lotus Cortina, and she competed internationally in a Porsche 962 in 2005. 

Heidi Frydenhaug – Norwegian driver who races in the Danish Thundersports Championship (DTC), in a Ford Mustang. 2016 was her second season in Thundersports; she was 22^nd in the 2015 championship, with a best finish of ninth, at Rudskogen. In 2016, she almost got into the top ten at Rudskogen and Aarhus, but her season was badly affected by a string of DNFs in the middle. She was 23rd overall. She combined Thundersports with the Citroen DS3 Cup in 2017, and was reasonably competitive in the DS3. She finished in the top ten in seven of her ten races, and was eleventh overall. Previously, she raced in the Seven championship in Norway, and was the winner of the Junior Rookie Cup in 2010, at the age of 21. She began her senior racing career in 2009, in the Seven, after ten years of karting. In between racing the Seven and the Mustang, she drove a Renault Clio in the Norwegian GT4 championship.

Linda Johansson - Swedish driver who began her senior racing career in 2005, in the Swedish Renault Junior Cup. She was eleventh overall in a Renault 5. After a break where she returned to karting for a while, she reappeared in 2010, in the Ginetta G20 Cup. She was immediately in the top ten, and had a best finish of sixth, at Kinnekulle. She was eighth overall. Her second G20 season did not go quite so well, with several DNFs and only eleventh in the championship, although she managed to better her top finish to fifth, again at Kinnekulle. Her 2012 season was curtailed due to pregnancy, although she rejoined the G20 championship and posted seven top-ten finishes, including a fourth, at her favoured Kinnekulle track. She was seventh overall, despite missing almost half of the season. In 2013, she raced in the Swedish Clio Cup. Her best finishes were two fifth places, at Karlskoga and Ostersund, and she was normally in the top ten. She was ninth overall. In 2014, she had a very good year in the Clio Cup, with a win at Göteborg, and four other podiums. She was fourth in the championship. She does not appear to have raced in 2015, but she returned in 2016, to contest the Swedish Clio Cup. She was sixteenth in the championship, with a best finish of eighth, at Skovde. Since then, she has raced a CrossCar in the Nordic rallycross championship. 

Kirsi Kangas - has raced Porsches in her native Finland since at least 2011, when she took part in some national-level GT racing in a 997, in the mixed Avon GT and Porsche GT championship. In 2012, she raced in both her club’s Porsche GT Racing Cup, and the Finnish GT3 Cup, in a 997 GT3. She was eleventh in the club cup and sixth in the GT3 Cup, with several seventh places as her best finishes. In 2013, she raced in the GT3 Cup again, which was part of the Finrace championships. She did not do as well as in 2012, partly because the field was much larger this year, and finished fourteenth overall. Her best result was eleventh, at Ahvenisto. She was active in Porsche club motorsport in Finland in 2014, and was quite successful, earning a number of runner-up spots. 

Molly Pettit - Norwegian driver who races a Ford Mustang in Scandinavia. She began in the Norwegian GT championship in 2009, in a Nissan 200SX, which she used for several seasons. After changing it for a Toyota Altezza in 2012, she was second in the GT4 class. In 2013, she switched to stock cars in the Mustang, competing in Thundersports. In her first season, she was eleventh in the Danish championship, with a best finish of seventh, at Padborg, and second in the Norwegian series. In 2014, she continued this arrangement. She was fifteenth in the Danish championship, and made one appearance in the Northern European championship. In 2015, she raced in Danish Thundersports again. However, her season was cut short by a massive accident in the second race. For 2016, she moved into the Danish Supertourisme championship. Her best finish was seventh, at Padborg, and she was fourteenth overall. 2017 panned out in a similar way, with a championship 17th and a best finish of sixth, at Rudskogen. As well as her own racing, she got a job as a TV reporter for the FIA World Rallycross Championship.

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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 international races. She had previously been quite successful in senior Rotax karting in Colombia. When she finally made it onto the track, it was the realisation of a long-term ambition; she had been interested in cars from early childhood, despite having no history of motorsport in her family. Her mother has blamed this on cravings she had for the smell of petrol during her pregnancy!

In 2010, she made the switch to cars, whilst still based in Europe. Driving for Monolite Racing, she entered eight rounds of the Italian Clio Cup, and was 24th overall. Her best finish was eighth, at Mugello. This happened right at the end of the season; she started as a backmarker. Back home, she did five TC2000 races in Colombia, in a Mazda 626. She shared the car with Mario Andres Rojas, and was 32^nd in the championship.

Her programme was similar in 2011, although she was now with Rangoni Corse in Europe. The season began in Italy, for the start of the Clio Cup. The season began inauspiciously with a DNF, but picked up again. Later, she managed and eighth at Red Bull Ring and a tenth at Mugello. Towards the end of the season, she flew back to Colombia for two TC2000 races in a Chevrolet, at Bogotá, finishing fifth and eleventh, then it was back to Italy, where she scored her season’s-best: two fifth places at Varano. She was thirteenth overall. Her season was rounded out by a run in a Dacia Logan in the Bogotá  6 Hours, in which she was third in class. It was her second attempt at the race.

The Clio Cup was initially her principal focus for 2012, but initially in Spain rather than Italy, taking in some Eurocup rounds. She was fifteenth in the championship, and top female driver, after at least two top-ten finishes, ninths at Navarra and Aragon. Another part-season in Italy yielded some great results, the best of these being a second place at Varano in the Super Touring class, having started from pole.

In 2013, she moved back to Italy and entered the Ginetta G50 Cup, still with Rangoni Corse. It was her first experience of GT racing. She scored a ninth place, in her first race at Misano, and her best finishes seem to have been fourth, at Salzburg, and fifth at the Red Bull Ring. She was tenth overall.

She also did some karting, as part of a Colombian team. 

Her 2014 season does not seem to have gone to plan. She was set to contest the European GT4 Cup in the Ginetta, but this did not happen. Instead, she took part in some Top Race events in Argentina, and scored a fifth place at Rio Hondo. Her car was a Volvo.

In 2015, she did another part-season in Top Race, scoring one top-ten finish, a tenth place at Parana. This time, she was driving a Chevrolet.

In interviews, Manuela has said that her future aims include the British and World Touring Car Championships. However, despite having some strong sponsors on board, her racing career has not taken off in the way that it might have done. For the last couple of years, she has been doing media work, including a desert adventure reality TV series in Colombia, in 2014.

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Jamie Chadwick

Jamie (right), Ross Gunn and the Beechdean Aston Martin

Jamie Chadwick graduated to senior motorsport in 2015. She is a product of the Ginetta sportscar racing development ladder, one of a few female racers to utilise this route into the sport.

Jamie began karting at the age of twelve. Taking advantage of the opportunities in the UK for juniors to race on full circuits, she switched to cars after only two years.

She was the winner of the Ginetta Junior Scholarship in 2012, at fourteen, beating around sixty other young drivers to the prize of a fully-funded season in the Ginetta Junior Championship in 2013.

She took up her prize-drive in Ginetta Juniors in 2013. Between her scholarship win and the start of the season proper, she took part in the three-round Winter Series at Rockingham, finishing seventh. She was the highest-scoring first-timer.

During her 2013 season, her best result was fifth, at Knockhill.  She was usually inside the top ten, averaging seventh place, but she also had some disappointments; she racked up three DNFs that year. She was tenth overall. Her brother, Ollie, also raced in the series against her.

She had a second full season of Ginetta Juniors in 2014. Her year started well, with a podium: a third place at Brands Hatch. She racked up four more podium finishes, all thirds, and was eighth in the championship. 

Following her seventeenth birthday in 2015, it was time to move on. Jamie jumped straight into the British GT Championship, in the GT4 class. Her car was no less than an Aston Martin Vantage, run by the Beechdean-AMR team. With her partner, Ross Gunn, she got off to another good start, with two second places at Oulton Park, followed by two wins, at Rockingham and Silverstone, a second place at Spa and a third at Brands Hatch. The only real disappointment of the season was a disqualification at Oulton, following their second place on the track. The exclusion was for causing an accident, although it was not deliberate. At the end of the season, this did not count for much; Jamie and Ross were British GT4 champions. Jamie is the youngest ever winner of the title.

2015 had one more adventure for Jamie. The Beechdean team entered the Vantage in the Britcar 24 Hours at Silverstone, driven by Jamie, plus Jonny Adam, Harry Whale and Andrew Howard. They won the race from pole. This was the first win for a female driver in this event.

In recognition of her achievements, the BRDC nominated Jamie as one of their Rising Stars in 2015, along with the support that the award entails. The BWRDC has put her forward for their Gold Star award, for outstanding female drivers. She is also part of the Evolution Academy for young drivers, run by Aston Martin and Prodrive.

She remained a Team AMR driver for 2016, and raced the Aston Martin again in the British GT Championship. Her best finish was fourth, at Brands Hatch. As she missed a couple of races mid-season, she was thirteenth in the championship. Among her team-mates was Great British Bake Off's Paul Hollywood.

Her career changed direction in 2017 when she entered the BRDC Formula 3 Championship. This was her first time in a single-seater. Her first meeting in the Double R-run car was at Oulton, and did not quite go to plan. She was eleventh in her first race, then got disqualified from the second and did not finish the third. The second round at Rockingham went better; she was eighth in the first race, which translated to pole position in the reverse-grid second race. She was third, her best finish of the year. At the end of the season, she was ninth, after being a regular top-ten finisher, but not quite on the winning pace yet.

After the season ended, she took part in her first Formula Ford races at the Walter Hayes Trophy. She was third in her heat at the Silverstone event, following a battle with Michael Mallock, but car trouble intervened and she had to fight for a twelfth place in the final.

Her second season in BRDC F3 was somewhat of a mixed bag of results, but in August she became the first woman to win a British F3 race, following her victory at Brands Hatch.

Earlier in the year, she returned to her Aston Martin roots with a run in the Nurburgring 24 Hours. She was fifth in the SP8 class, driving a Vantage with Jonny Adam, Alex Lynn and Peter Cate. They were classified 63rd overall after a difficult race.

The winter season was an opportunity to rack up more single-seater wins; she dominated the Bahrain round of the MRF Challenge in the Formula 2000 category, winning twice.

At the start of 2019, she was awarded the Wakefield Trophy for the most meritorious performance by a woman in motorsport. At around the same time, she was announced as one of the first 20 drivers for the all-female W Series. Jamie won the first W Series title in the summer, with two race wins.

Mixed-sex Formula 3 was on the cards too. She did a couple of rounds of the Asian F3 series for Seven GP at Sepang, picking up a best finish of fifth. She signed up for the 2019-20 winter series with Absolute Racing and earned a two second and two third places at Sepang and Chang. Her results improved towards the end of her campaign when team-mate Devlin DeFrancesco went home due to health concerns, leaving Jamie as number one driver. She was fourth in the championship.

Away from single-seaters, she remained part of the Aston Martin Academy. Her activities with the team centred on the VLN: one championship race and the Nurburgring 24 Hours, where she won her class with Alex Brundle and Peter Cate.

She also did some historic racing, finishing fourth in class in a Jaguar E-Type at the Spa Six Hours. At the end of the year, she raced a Formula Ford in the Walter Hayes Trophy at Silverstone. She qualified for the grand final but was taken out by another driver.

W Series was cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus crisis, so she could not defend her title. A move up to FIA F3 was rumoured, but she chose the Formula Regional European Championship, signing with the elite Prema Powerteam. Her season started well with a third place at Misano, but she was not quite able to reach those heights again and struggled with the car. She was ninth in the championship. 

In 2021, she signed up to contest the first Extreme E championship, racing an electric SUV on tracks in remote locations for the Veloce team. Her team-mate was Stephane Sarrazin, although he was replaced by Lance Woolridge for the final round in Dorset, England. Her own season startly inauspiciously as her car died in qualifying, but she did fight back with a second place in the Ocean ePrix, held in Senegal.

She missed two of the Extreme E events due to W Series commitments. Her second W title was only assured late in the season, as she was challenged strongly by her fellow Brit, Alice Powell. Her win tally was four to Alice's three, giving her the edge.

Her plans at the start of 2022 were unclear. She was replaced in the Veloce Extreme E team by Christine Giampaoli Zonca and was considered unlikely to be racing in W Series again. Apparently, an FIA F3 seat was discussed, but she declined to take it was it was not with a really competitive team.

It was back to W Series instead, although her return started raising questions about W's mission and its inability to move drivers on to higher levels of racing. Jamie won the championship again fairly easily, driving for Jenner Racing, winning five of the seven races in the series' shortened season. 

In order to save her professional career, it was obvious that she had to move on. At the end of 2022, she was announced as a driver for the Andretti Autosport team in the IndyNXT championship (formerly Indy Lights) for 2023. The option of another W title defence was also off the table because the championship folded at the beginning of 2023. 

Her IndyNXT season began the hard way with spins, contact and thirteenth place at the St Petersburg street circuit. By the time the Mid-Ohio round came around in July, she broke into the top ten for the first time. Her best finish of the season was a sixth place at Portland and she was twelfth in the championship. Her relatively high profile meant that she came in for considerable criticism, but she was retained by Andretti for 2024.

Her second-year perofrmance in IndyNXT was a real improvement. It began slowly with 20th places at St Petersburg and Barber Motorsports Park, but then she leapt up to the podium at Indianapolis, finishing third. A couple more disappointing finishes followed, but then she scored her first win at Road America, leading the most laps in the process.

Although she did not manage any more wins or podiums, a run of top-tens and a late fifth place at Milwaukee took her to championship seventh.

This was her last season in IndyNXT: she signed up with IDEC Sport to contest the European Le Mans Series in 2025. She will be racing in the LMP2 class. Her team-mates are F1 driver Logan Sargeant and Mathys Jaubert. 

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Women in National Sportscar Racing: the UK

Chloe and Jade Edwards

This post has been split off from Women in National Sportscar Racing, with some additions. Rebecca Jackson, Fiona James, Jade Paveley and Flick Haigh now have their own posts.

Judy Andreason (Day; also Vickery) - raced a variety of cars between 1967 and 1983. She was best known for her exploits in a Marcos 1500 with the numberplate “HOT1E”, which she raced in sportscar events at Castle Combe and Brands Hatch. She was an early exponent of historic racing, and owned two 1930s MGs, a Magnette and an NA. As well as circuit racing, she competed in trials and rallies. She was an enthusiastic early member of the British Women Racing Drivers’ Club, and unfortunately, injured her neck during an all-female BWRDC Demolition Derby. This forced her retirement in 1983. She died in 2017, aged 75.

Nicola Bernans – raced in the VdeV series in 2008 and 2009. She was driving a Juno in the Modern Endurance category, and made guest appearances both years. In 2008, this was at Magny-Cours, and she had a best finish of tenth in a sprint race. The year before, she had raced a Radical in Britsports, with her brother, Richard Bernans. The brother-sister duo also raced as Counter Solutions Racing in the Fun Cup in 2008. Nicola does not appear to have raced in recent years. 

Amanda Black – began racing through the Caterham Academy. She did her first couple of events in 2005 and 2006, but only really got her career started with the Academy, in 2011. That year, she scored her first race win, in the Graduates series. After more wins in 2012, she won the Graduate Sigma Championship, winning twelve of her sixteen races. In 2014 and 2015, she moved over to a Ginetta GT4 car. She raced in the MSA Endurance Series and Britcar, but did not have the funding for full championships. Despite this setback, she was a quick driver, with at least one second place in 2015. In 2016, she raced the Ginetta in the GT Cup championship, with Ian Anderson. They were sixth overall in the GTA standings. She switched to a Caterham for the 2017 season, and was eighth in the Sigma Graduates championship, following a part-season. She finished on the podium in all three of her races.

Jean Bloxam - mainly raced Aston Martins in Britain, in the 1950s. Beginning in 1952, she drove DB2 and DB3 models, mainly in National-level races at Silverstone and Goodwood. She was very successful at this level, with her first wins coming in 1956: a Ladies’ Handicap at Goodwood and a Closed Car Handicap at Silverstone. In the latter, she managed to beat Jeff Uren. The Ladies’ win was achieved in a Lotus Mark VIII. Other cars raced by Jean included a Ford Anglia and MG Magnette. Despite her string of strong finishes in National events, she only got to race in one big event, the 1967 Nürburgring 1000km. She and Patsy Burt drove an MGA, but had to retire with mechanical problems. Jean retired in 1961, after the death of her husband, Roy, at Goodwood. She died in 2016.

Angela Brown – raced in the early to mid-1950s. She almost always drove Aston Martin cars, which is unsurprising, given that her father was David Brown. Her best year was 1954; at a Silverstone meeting in July, she won a relay handicap with Reg Parnell, and was second in two other handicap races. Her car was a DB2. In 1955, she drove a DB3 and a DB2/4 around the UK, winning one Production Touring Car race at Castle Combe. This year, she drove a HWM-Jaguar belonging to George Abecassis in the Brighton Speed Trials, finishing well in the Ladies' class. She is also described as racing a Morris Minor at some point. Following her marriage to George Abecassis, she wound down her racing. Later, she owned racehorses. She died in 2000.

Vicki Butler-Henderson - better-known as a UK TV presenter and journalist, but raced in a number of saloon and sportscar series when she was younger. She did a full season in the Pentel Ginetta series in 2004. In 2004 she and Matthew Marsh also won a round of the Grand Prix-supporting Maserati Corse championship. Their car was a Coupe Cambiocorse. As well as this, she has driven and navigated in rallies, usually as part of her TV work. She has navigated for Louise Goodman and driven a Peugeot 206 in a British Championship round. Tiff Needell was her co-driver. In 2017, she came out of retirement to race in the Mini Challenge at Snetterton.

Brenda Dickinson – raced sportscars in the UK. She began early, at the age of seventeen. In 1961, she drove a Lola MkI, in which she won at least one race. That year, she was part of the Fury Team for the Silverstone 6 Hour Relay, although the result has been lost. She was 27 that year, and had been racing for some time. Her other cars, owned with her husband, Peter, included an Aston Martin, which she described as her favourite. She also took part in rallies, autocross and trials.

Valerie Diederichs - raced a Caterham in the UK between 2002 and 2004, as part of the Caterham Graduates programme. She moved up to Mega-Graduates in 2004 and won two "Best Improver" awards for advancing on her grid position, although she did not manage to get on to the podium. As well as Caterham Academy events, she also did some club racing. Until 2013, she was an aerodynamicist for the Mercedes Grand Prix team.

Chloe Edwards (Traves) - began her career in the Playstation 2 Ginetta Junior series in 2005, continuing into 2006. Her finishing record was good. In 2007 and 2008, she did some club saloon racing in an MG ZR, finishing midfield in Class B of the BARC/Dunlop SportMaxx Cup. She was racing with her father, Jim Edwards, a former BTCC driver. In 2010, she raced in the Max5 championship for Mazda MX-5s. She did not race for three years before taking part in the Aston Martin GT4 Challenge in 2014. She won the last round, at Donington, along with her sister. In 2015, she did a part-season in the British GT Championship, racing an Aston Martin Vantage in the GT4 series. She scored two thirteenth places at Oulton Park. 

Sally Erdmann - races a Radical SR1 in the UK, although she is from Germany and lives and works there. 2022 was her first season of senior competition, after some years of karting. She discovered the Radical by accident and took some time to test before embarking on her first race. She was eighth in the 2022 championship and second in the rookie standings. Her best finish was seventh, achieved at Snetterton and Brands Hatch. In 2023, she moved back to Germany and raced an Audi R8 LMS in the GTC championship. She scored at least one third place. After losing a major sponsor, she moved away from Radicals and the UK, racing a Nissan 370Z in the German national endurance series, the NES 500.

Emily Fletcher – raced between 2008 and 2012, usually in a Ginetta. She drove a G20 in the 2008 Havoline Ginetta Championship, and had a best finish of thirteenth, at Mallory Park. She had several DNFs, and was 26^th overall. In 2009, she did some races in the G50 Cup at Brands Hatch, as well as having a better season in the G20 series. She broke into the top ten on three occasions, at Knockhill and Donington, had a perfect finishing record and was thirteenth in the championship. After that, she competed less, and got some unwelcome attention when she temporarily lost her driving license, for speeding. She participated in the Britcar 24 Hours three times, from 2010 to 2012, twice in a Ginetta G50. Her best result came in a Marcos Mantis, in 2011, driving for the Topcats team. She and her three team-mates were eighth.

Tamsin Germain (Chittenden) – did her first car races in 2016, after a long and successful senior career in karting. In 2012, she won the Rotax DD2 Masters race at Genk in Belgium. She was second in both the Euro Open and the Euro Challenge championships that year. In 2014 and 2015, she was second in the BNL Karting Series. In 2016, she is racing a Ginetta G40 in the GRDC championship. Her best result was a seventh place, at Donington, and she was normally in the lower half of the top ten. Her sister is Tiffany Chittenden, and her mother is Micki Vandervell.

Tracy Hathaway - raced in Global GT Lights in the 1990s and early 2000s. She did at least two seasons in 1999 and 2000, picking up at least some top-five finishes. Her results are not readily available. Previously, she was involved in rallycross, in the Minicross class. She is the daughter of Graham Hathaway, the creator of the Global series. Her sister Jo also raced in the championship.

Michelle Hayward - a leading driver in the British Clubmans scene. She won the Clubmans Sports Prototype championship in 2018 and was named Britain’s no. 1 amateur driver as a result. She has been racing her Mallock in Clubmans since 2014, when she was second in the Sports 1600 class, with two wins. She did some races in 2020 after some time off, then some more guest appearances in 2021, including a three class wins. She returned to the BARC series in 2022 and was once again near the front. In 2023, she moved up to the CSP1 class and did most of the season, winning one race at Donington. In 2024, she raced a Phantom in Clubmans, winning races at Donington and Brands Hatch. Before that, she raced Caterhams and a Fun Cup VW Beetle, as well as karts. She first raced cars during the run-up to the cancelled 2006 Formula Woman championship.

Kathleen Howard - raced in club and national events in the UK in 1959 and 1960. Her car was a Climax-engined Lotus Eleven. Her most frequent track visited was Goodwood and she was third and second in handicaps there in 1959. She also ran well at Mallory, picking up a second place there in 1960. Occasionally, she raced with her husband, David Howard.

Trish Hunter - races a Clubmans sports prototype in the UK. Her car is a Mallock Mk16 which she races in Classic events, either with the BARC or the HSCC. Her career began in about 2010 and she initially shared her car with husband Brian, although they now race their own cars in separate classes. She returned to the track in 2021 with the HSCC after missing most of 2020, having damaged her car at Croft. Her adventures continued in 2022 and 2023. She has done particularly well in the BARC Clubmans Classic class, finishing third in 2014 and second in 2016.

Jodie Kidd - raced in the Maserati Trofeo in 2004 and won a round at Bologna with Fabio Babini. Since then, she has taken part in several “Gumball”-style road rally events, but no more actual races. She is better known as a fashion model.

Katrin Kristensen - Danish driver who races a Radical, mostly in the UK where she began her career in 2021, in the SR1 Cup. She competed with the Raw Motorsports team in 2022, with a best finish of eighth at Brands Donington. Later in the season, she entered a round of the Gulf Radical Cup at Dubai Autodrome and finished seventh in a sprint race. This was her first entry in the championship. In 2023, she did two races in the British championship.

Caroline Lucas - raced GTs in the UK in the mid to late 1990s. She was second in the 1995 Porsche Cup and entered the British GT championship in 1998 and 1999. In 1998, she and Diane Osborne finished some races in a Porsche 911 RSR run by PK Sport. In the two races they managed to finish, Spa and Silverstone, they were eleventh and thirteenth. In 1999, she and Paul Phillips entered a few races in a similar car. Their best finish was one ninth place, at Donington. Caroline does not appear to have raced since then.

Dorothy (Dot) Masarati - raced sportscars at club level in the UK, normally in a Porsche Carrera. She did at least one season in 1992, including a run in the 750MC Bill Taylor Memorial Race with David Bowden. Later, she admitted that she found racing quite nerve-wracking. Her sons are former British GT racers, Piers and Miles Masarati, and she remained involved with the sport for some time helping them. Her husband Jamie also raced.

Courtney Milnes - races a Mazda in UK club events. She competed in both the BRSCC and 750MC Mazda MX-5 championships since 2015, as well as karting internationally in Spain as a junior. During her time in karting she raced against Carlos Sainz. She is currently a front-runner in the 750MC’s 5 Club MX5 Cup and has a best finish of fourth in 2021. She works as a test engineer in the automotive industry.

Nathalie McGloin – started racing in the Porsche Club championship in 2015. Her car is a Porsche Cayman. She did a second full season of the PCC in 2016, with a best finish of fifth, at Brands Hatch. She was twelfth in the 2017 Class 1 championship, as she only did a part-season. In 2018, she won her first race: the BWRDC Ladies' Handicap at Silverstone. This followed another season in the Porsche Club championship. In 2019, she took her Cayman rallying too, taking oart in two rounds of the Motorsport News Circuit Rally Championship and winning her class once. She was unable to race in 2020, but returned in 2021, competing in the 750MC's Tegiwa Roadsports series. Usually, she shared her car with husband Andrew Bayliss. She did more Roadsports races in 2022 but injured her neck and had to sit out a lot of the season. She attempted to come back for a race at Daytona in 2023 but was unable, so Andrew Bayliss took over. She is planning a comeback in 2024.  Nathalie is the only female racing driver in the UK who uses a wheelchair, as a result of spinal injuries. Her Porsche has hand controls.

Jemma Moore - took her first steps in circuit racing in 2017 when she entered the Brands Hatch rounds of the Junior Saloon Car Championship. In 2018, she started the season proper and took pole for her first race. She finished third. This was her best result of the season and she repeated it at Rockingham, on the way to seventh in the championship. In 2019, she won her first JSCC race at Knockhill. Later in the season, she traded in her junior licence and began competing as a senior, driving a Ginetta G50 in some rounds of the GT4 South European Series with Moh Ritson.They were first and second in class at the Algarve circuit. She entered the Jerez round in 2020 and was second overall, first in class. In 2021, she won the GTC class outright. Jemma is the younger sister of W Series and Britcar racer and former Ginetta Junior racewinner Sarah Moore. She had to step back from racing in 2022 due to illness.

Charlotte Osborn (Gilbert) – raced in British GTs in 2001 in a Promotasport Marcos Mantis, after some races in Marcos one-make series. Her co-driver was Andrew Davies. Their finishing record was patchy to begin with, but they managed a twelfth place at Croft as their best finish. Their reliability improved towards the end of the year. Since then, she has occasionally taken part in Britcar, in a Marcos Mantis Cup or GT4, as part of Topcats Racing, a team she runs with Warren Gilbert. The team has run in the GT Cup since 2019, with Charlotte sharing a Lamborghini Super Trofeo with Charlotte Birch in 2022. They were seventh in the championship. She carried on in the Lamborghini in the 2023 GT Cup, sharing with Gilbert Yates. They won the GTC class. She won the overall GT Cup in 2024, sharing the Lamborghini with Tom Rawlings. 

Diane Osborne - drove a Porsche 911 RSR in the British GT championship with Caroline Lucas in 1998. Their best finish was eleventh, at Spa. Previously, she had been third in class in the 1995 Pirelli Porsche Cup, driving a 944S2, and raced a Porsche 968CS at Castle Combe. She came twelfth in the Porsche Open Trophy. Presumably, she took part in other races in this championship as well. In more recent years, she has raced a MkI Jaguar in historic events, including Masters touring cars and the 2018 Le Mans Classic.  

Sarah Reader – British driver who began her career in Caterhams, coming up through the Caterham Academy ranks. In 2005, she was fifth in the Caterham Eurocup. Since then, she has raced other sportscars, mainly in Europe. Between 2009 and 2014, she raced a Juno prototype in the Speed Euroseries and the VdeV Modern Challenge. She was more successful in the Speed Euroseries, finishing fifth in 2011, after two second and two third places. She earned an additional podium at Paul Ricard, in 2012. In 2014, she raced the Juno in the VdeV Challenge Endurance Proto, with Flick Haigh. She raced in the VW Fun Cup in 2015. 

Louise Richardson - former karter, who began "senior" motorsport by competing in the Ginetta Junior series. She began racing the Ginetta in 2009, and was ninth in the championship that year after a string of late-season top five finshes. In 2010, she returned as a much more competitive driver. She finished third in the 2010 championship, thanks to two wins at Snetterton and Brands Hatch and a series of eleven podium places. 2010 was her last season of junior competiton, as she turned 17. In 2011, she moved into the senior Ginetta Supercup, and was sixth in the championship after three top-three finishes. She was also recommended for a series of awards for young and female drivers. In 2012, she was seventh in the Ginetta G50 Supercup, after four top-ten finishes. Although she only did a part-season in the G50 Supercup in 2013, she certainly made her presence felt, winning four of her five races, and finishing on the podium in all of them. She was fourth overall. In 2014, she changed direction, entering the British Formula Ford championship. She scored many top-ten positions, the best of them being a fourth place, at Rockingham. She was ninth overall. Her second season in the MSA Formula gave her her first podium, a third place at Croft. She was still somewhat inconsistent, but managed six top tens this year. She was sixteenth overall. 

Sian Stafford-Atkinson – races a Locost (Lotus 7 derivative) in the UK. She began racing in earnest as part of the original Formula Woman initiative, although she had done some track days before. She missed out on final selection for the 2005 series, but was one of the competitors for the 2006 championship, racing a Caterham Seven. Since 2009, she has been racing the Locost in the 750MC’s Locost Championship, and she is now one of the leading competitors in her class. In 2014, she was one of 29 female drivers who took part in the BWRDC’s “Race For A Record” ladies’ handicap at Silverstone, the largest ever all-female grid. 

Pippa Tanner-Wood - races Clubmans sports prototypes in the UK, both in the historic and modern championships. She won the CSP3 class of the BARC Clubmans series in 2018, earning several class wins in a Mallock Mk16. It was in this car that she set class lap records at Anglesey and Brands Hatch in 2018 and 2019. She has also raced a Mallock 20B in Classic and contemporary competition, winning her class twice in 2023. In 2021, she switched her focus to Classic F3, still within the HSCC. In 2024, she raced Clubmans again. Her first season of racing was in 2017 and she competes alongside her father, Clive.

Julie Thwaites - competed at club and National level in the UK in the 1980s, with considerable success. She scored her first class win in the Garelli Sportscar Championship in 1982, and later went on to achieve nine more in 1986 and 1987, driving a Davrian in the Kit Car Challenge. She was recognised as Britain’s most successful female circuit driver in 1985 and 1986.

Martina Ward - began circuit racing in 2023, racing a Mazda MX5 in the 750MC's Mazda championship. In her first season, she was 17th in the championship, with her best round being Silverstone and her best result being tenth in the third race there. For this, she was awarded a Driver of the Day award. In 2024, she continued to race the Mazda. She was previously a sim racer, competing for two years before switching to real-life track action.

Geena Mae Watkinson - had her debut season in cars in 2020. She raced a Mazda MX-5 in the Max5 championship. So far, she has performed well in her class, winning a couple of races, although her pace against the rest of the field has been a little lacking. She hopes to race sportscars professionally in the future and wants to take part in the Le Mans 24 Hours.

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