This post is about drivers who have mostly competed in single-seater classes other than Formula One, or Indycars. A few may need to move between categories in the future. Heather Baillie now has her own profile, as do Logan Hannah, Natalie Goodwin, Amanda Whitaker and Ann Moore.
Megan Bruce - English driver who competed in the F4-based GB4 series in 2024. This was her second season in cars, having done some races in the Caterham Academy championship in 2023, earning one podium finish. She drove for the Fox Motorsport team in GB4 and was a frequent top ten finisher, the best of these being a sixth place at Snetterton in the middle of the season. She was eleventh in the championship.
Tiffany Chittenden - graduated to Formula Renault part-way through the 2006 season after a long career in karts, although she did not achieve great success. She also tried Formula Ford, but that did not give her the results she wanted either. As a karter, she was a front-runner in National 100 for several seasons. She returned to karting after leaving Formula Renault. For this, she was rewarded with the British Rotax DD2 Championship, and good results in the World and European series, in which she scored one podium place. For 2008, she joined the Wild Kart team for the European Championships. The following year, she tried a few more car races, making two appearances in the UK Porsche Carrera Cup. She finished fifteenth and twelfth. In 2011, she accepted an offer to drive in the AMOC GT4 Challenge series, and won a race at Donington, in a Vantage. She returned to karting in 2012, plus demonstration driving for Abarth UK. In 2015, whilst karting in New Zealand, she got herself a race seat in the Toyota 86 championship. Her best finish was a seventh place, at Manfeild. She was thirteenth in the championship. She returned to karting in 2017 and was second in the Rotax Challenge New Zealand, where she now lives.
Alyx Coby - Irish driver who began her senior motorsport career in 2022, after several years of karting as a junior and a senior. Her first race was the first round of the US AER Endurance championship, driving a BMW M2 run by the Random Vandals team. She and her team-mates Jessica Tracy and Michael Kaniszcak won both races. She then entered the Danish F4 championship with the FSP team and finished second in class in her first race at Padborg. She did the first six rounds, finishing seventh overall three times. In 2023, she rejoined Random Vandals for some rounds of the World Racing League.
Kayleigh (Kayls) Cole - karter who made her move into cars in 2021. She signed up for the 750MC F1000 championship for bike-engined single-seaters and made her debut at Silverstone. Her final championship position was 24th and she admitted to struggling with starts. In 2022 she was quicker, finishing tenth in one race, but a series of mechancial problems put her out of contention. As well as some F1000 rounds, she entered the Formula 3 class of the BOSS Ireland championship, finishing fifth and winning her class. She had intended to start her senior career in 2020, but the coronavirus crisis and its related financial problems intervened. She is a former BWRDC Junior Gold Star winner.
Molly Dodd - began racing in the Junior Saloon Car Championship in the UK. Her car was a series-standard Citroen Saxo. In 2018, she had a best finish of ninth at Rockingham and was 16th in the championship. As well as racing the Saxo, Molly took part in the FIA’s Girls on Track all-female karting challenge in October 2018. In 2019, she competed in both the JSCC and Ginetta Juniors. Her results in the JSCC were better; she finished as high as seventh at Snetterton. It was more difficult in the Ginetta and her best finish was 15th at Brands Hatch. 2020 was her final season in the JSCC as she turned 17 that year. She was ninth overall and best female driver, just missing the podium once at Croft. From there, she moved into the Historic Formula Ford 2000 championship, driving a Royale. She quickly got on the pace and won a qualification race at Donington, only to be demoted for a faulty transponder. She also raced Mandie Hadfield's Merlyn Mk20 FF1600 car at the Walter Hayes Trophy, running as high as fifth in the Historic final before spinning at Brooklands. She did some modern Formula Ford races in 2022, finishing eighth in her heat at the Formula Ford Festival in October.
Vicky Dyson - has competed in Formula Jedi in the UK since 2004, usually in the 600cc Class A. She scored well in her class consistently. 2005 and 2006 were her best seasons, points-wise. She was sixth in class in 2005 after a strong of top-five places, including one third. After the A class declined and then disappeared after 2007, she has done less well, but continues to compete.
Sheila Islip (Underwood) - raced in the UK from the late 1960s. She first raced in Formula Ford and was quite competitive from the beginning, scoring a fourth place in her first race of 1968. A native of Birmingham, she learned to drive at the Jim Russell racing school in 1966 or 1967. By early 1969 she had entered more than 30 races and held an International license, according to an article in the Brentwood Gazette. Her Formula Ford cars included two Alexis chassis and a Merlyn Mk20 which she raced in 1971, alongside another driver called Sandy Morgan. As well as Formula Ford, she entered some of the women-only races organised by the BWRDC, including the Fast Girls Consul Challenge, held at Brands Hatch in 1972. She was tenth.
Kirsty Jeffrey - competed in the Formula Palmer Audi Autumn series in 2006. She was 23rd overall. Previously, that year, she had been one of the leading drivers in the all-female Formula Woman championship, in a Caterham. She was scheduled to race in Caterhams in 2007, but did not appear on the start lists.
Clare Redgrave - raced in the UK in the 1990s. According to BWRDC records, she began in 1990. She was mainly a single-seater driver, and progressed as far as Formula Renault, although she did do some saloon competition. In 1993, she was seventh in the British Group N series, driving a Honda Civic for Mardi Gras Motorsport. She is now involved in a different role, as a motorsport administrator.
Lucy Rogers - raced in Formula Ford and saloons in the 1980s, often at Brands Hatch. Her career began at Brands in 1986 after a long time spent practicing, racing a Formula Ford in the Champion of Brands series. In that first year, she won at least one qualification race. In October, she also won the City Celebrity Challenge at Brands, driving a Ford Escort XR3i. A lengthy absence followed, partly due to the death of her brother, Peter, during a race. She was tipped for a seat in the BTCC in 1990 after impressing the BMW Junior team, but she did not race and disappeared from the scene shortly after.
Emma Selway - a former karter who started racing cars in 2006, in club Formula Renault. Her best result was third. She then competed in the last two rounds round of the National series and all of the Winter Series, with the Eurotek team. In 2007, she switched to Formula Palmer Audi for its Autumn Trophy, and signed up for the full championship in 2008. Her best finish was seventh at Snetterton, and she finished just outside the top ten for most of the season. Her final position was fourteenth. In 2011, she returned to motorsport in the form of the Lotus Elise Trophy. She won two races and was third in another. After a year out, she was set to contest the VW Cup in 2013, but only seems to have managed one round, in a Scirocco. She then switched to motorcycle racing, in preparation for a full season in 2014.
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