Speedqueens

Elena Samsonova was one of Russia’s earliest female racing drivers, active before the 1917 Revolution. She was born in 1890 and began...

Elfrieda Mais was a star of the early 20th-century fairground race circuit in the USA. She died in 1934 when a driving stunt went wrong....

Oksana Kosachenko is best known as a Formula One team official and as the former manager of Vitaly Petrov, but she began her motorsport ...

Jayne Auden-Row is a regular on the UK club rallying scene and Britain’s only hearing-impaired rally driver. She has been competin...

Janet Brise raced sportscars in the UK in the 1970s. She took to racing after the death of her husband, Formula One driver Tony Brise.  J...

Pascale Neyret rallied in France in the 1980s, having got into professional competition through the 1984 Citroen Total Trophy. She ha...

Elisabeth de Fresquet enjoyed a long rallying career in France in the 1980s and 1990s and won six Coupes des Dames in the Monte Carlo Ra...