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Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 8:52 pm
by DOLOMITE
So who is racing where racing in 2024?...

Ranked by Superlicense rating(hopefully)

FIA FORMULA 2

INDYCAR SERIES

FIA FORMULA 3
Sophia Floersch

FIA FORMULA E

FIA WORLD ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP (HYPERCAR)

FORMULA REGIONAL EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Lena Buhler
Marta Garcia

SUPER FORMULA CHAMPIONSHIP
Juju Noda

SUPER GT GT 500
Lilou Wadoux (GT300 class)

IMSA GTP

FORMULA REGIONAL
Formula Regional Middle East Championship
Formula Regional Asian Championship
Formula Regional Americas Championship
Nicole Havdra
Formula Regional Japanese Championship
Anna Inotsume
Formula Regional Oceania Championship
Formula Regional Indian Championship

DEUTSCHE TOURENWAGEN MASTERS

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP

NASCAR CUP SERIES

INDY NXT
Lindsey Brewer
Jamie Chadwick

EUROFORMULA OPEN

SUPER FORMULA LIGHTS

FORMULA 4
F4 Argentina0
F4 AustralianJoanne Ciconte1
F4 BrazilianCecilia RabeloRafaela Ferreira2
F4 BritishAbbi PullingChloe ChongNina PothofElla Lloyd4
F4 CEZKornelia OlkuckaMichelle Jandova2
F4 Chinese0
F4 Danish0
F4 Euro F40
F4 FrenchMathilda PlaatzLisa Billard2
F4 Indian0
F4 Italy0
F4 JapaneseRio Shimono1
F4 NACAM0
F4 NordicEmily Cotty1
F4 Saudi ArabianAmna AlqubaisiHamda Al QubaisiAurelia NobelsLaura Villars2
F4 South East Asia0
F4 Spanish0
F4 UAEAurelia NobelsCarrie SchrienerDoriane PinJessica EdgarLaura Villars5
F4 United StatesMaite Caceres1
F4 Winter SeriesCarrie SchreinerBianca BustamenteLia BlockElla Lloyd1
ASIAN LE MANS SERIES LMP2

FIA WEC LMGT3

NATIONAL FORMULA 3

FIA F1 Academy
TEAMDriverLivery
ARTBlockWilliams
ARTBustamenteMcLaren
ARTNobelsPuma
CamposChambersHaas
CamposSchreinerSauber
CamposMartiTommy Hillfigur
MPA Al QubaisiRB
MPde HeusRed Bull
MPH Al QubaisiRed Bull
PremaHausmannAston Martin
PremaPinMercedes
PremaWeugFerrari
RodinLovinfosseCharlotte Tilbury
RodinPullingAlpine
RodinEdgarF1 Academy
INDY PRO 2000 CHAMPIONSHIP

GB3

NASCAR (XFINITY SERIES)
Hailie Deegan

INTERNATIONAL GT3 SERIES

KARTING
FIA Karting World Championships Senior
FIA Karting Continental Championships Senior
FIA Karting World Championships Junior
FIA Karting Continental Championships Junior

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NON SUPERLICENSE Single-Seater CATEGORIES

Eurocup-3
Victoria Blokhina

GB4
Alisha Palmowski
Daniella Sutton
Lexie Belk
Megan Bruce

USF Juniors
Ava Dobson

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EXTREME E
Catie Munnings
Christine Giampaoli
Cristina Gutierrez
Dania Akeel
Gray Leadbetter
Klara Anderson
Laia Sanz
Mikaela Ahlin-Kottulinsky
Molly Taylor

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 9:00 pm
by fourearedfox
DOLOMITE wrote:Done this thread most years for a while now, trying to track the progress of female racing drivers around the world. Will update as I get time.

Ana Beatriz (Brazil)
Champ

Simona De Silvestro (Switzerland)
Champ

Rahel Frey (Switzerland)
DTM

Danica Patrick (USA)
NASCAR

Susie Wolff (Scotland)
DTM
Do they have to be hot to be mentioned in this thread?

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 10:22 pm
by ace10
Champ?

I hope we won't have to wait another four years for this to be updated....

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 10:45 pm
by DOLOMITE
ace10 wrote:Champ?
I hope we won't have to wait another four years for this to be updated....
:blush: ;)

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 3:38 am
by Angel De La Muerte
http://www.alice-powell.com/

Currently in GP3, did not catch the result in Spain, will be interesting to see how she doees

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 7:52 am
by DOLOMITE
Angel De La Muerte wrote:http://www.alice-powell.com/

Currently in GP3, did not catch the result in Spain, will be interesting to see how she doees
thanks for that. I'd missed that she'd stepped up to GP3. P25-P11 in her 2nd race, despite not having raced there and having no pre-season testing - not bad!

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 12:41 pm
by DOLOMITE
What is it with Switzerland by the way? Natacha Gachnang as well although I've not included here yet as I'm not sure what she's up to this year.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 1:09 pm
by ace10
Kathering Legge is the third woman in Indycar currently.

She's been really of the pace of other like-engined entrants, though. Not quite to the point of Milka Duno's frightening performances, but really not up to speed with the rest of the field.

Speaking of Milka, she's terrorizing the ARCA series this year.

And oo-la-la, the lovely Maryeve Dufault looks to be without a ride this year. I saw her run the Nationwide event at CGV in 2011, and I believe she was a regular in ARCA that season, as well.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 1:20 pm
by DOLOMITE
ace10 wrote:Kathering Legge is the third woman in Indycar currently.

She's been really of the pace of other like-engined entrants, though. Not quite to the point of Milka Duno's frightening performances, but really not up to speed with the rest of the field.

Speaking of Milka, she's terrorizing the ARCA series this year.

And oo-la-la, the lovely Maryeve Dufault looks to be without a ride this year. I saw her run the Nationwide event at CGV in 2011, and I believe she was a regular in ARCA that season, as well.
Added Dufault, but you're right no sign of a drive this year. Will add Legge and Duno later. How does Duno keep getting a drive?...

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 2:45 pm
by ashley313
Duno has lots of Citgo money. That's how she got to drive for us at least...

She's very nice, but when she talks about cars you just sort of go, "wait, what?"

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 3:01 pm
by SnakeSVT2003
NHRA has a few women, my favorite being Courtney Force.

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Her car:

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Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 4:14 pm
by DOLOMITE
SnakeSVT2003 wrote:NHRA has a few women, my favorite being Courtney Force.

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is sis still racing as well?

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 5:44 pm
by the incubus
Geez... she's gotten to look more and more like her dad. So many cute qualities to her but in the end I feel like I'm checkin' out her dad! LOL
Girl has skills! She's beaten her dad before too!

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 10:30 am
by FatherOfThree
I found Carmen Jordá and Vicky Piria in GP3 as well.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 11:38 am
by ace10
Pippa Mann must be doing something these days. I know she's not in Indycar....

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 11:46 am
by Lentulus
Pippa is spending all her available waking hours hunting for sponsorship to get back into IndyCars.
She isn't racing anything else in the meantime unfortunately.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 11:55 am
by SehnKhan
Molly Taylor:
http://www.mollytaylor.com.au/

Australian Rally Driver coming up through the ranks.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 12:21 pm
by ace10
Forgot about Johanna Long. Nineteen year old rookie running nearly the full schedule in Nationwide. She and D. Patrick are the only two women in the the top two NASCAR series that are competing regularly.

http://www.johannalong.com/

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 12:56 pm
by DOLOMITE
FatherOfThree wrote:I found Carmen Jordá and Vicky Piria in GP3 as well.
oh really ;)

Will have to do some googling, i thought Carmens career had stalled.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 1:20 pm
by Tumppi57
What about Laura Tillett?

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Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 2:59 pm
by DOLOMITE
Tumppi57 wrote:What about Laura Tillett?
ah thanks - she's done alright since I last checked up she was still in Karts! and getting the usual "she's only there because of her dads connections" type comments. Anyway, will add her to the list, thanks.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 3:04 pm
by Lentulus
DOLOMITE wrote:
FatherOfThree wrote:I found Carmen Jordá and Vicky Piria in GP3 as well.
oh really ;)

Will have to do some googling, i thought Carmens career had stalled.
Her career isn't exactly stellar but she is moving up, and indeed is in GP3 this year.
She's kind of like fellow GP3 racer Alex Brundle, only much easier on the eyes :lol:

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 3:08 pm
by DOLOMITE
Lentulus wrote:
DOLOMITE wrote:
FatherOfThree wrote:I found Carmen Jordá and Vicky Piria in GP3 as well.
oh really ;)

Will have to do some googling, i thought Carmens career had stalled.
Her career isn't exactly stellar but she is moving up, and indeed is in GP3 this year.
She's kind of like fellow GP3 racer Alex Brundle, only much easier on the eyes :lol:
a LOT easier on the eyes. Although it's fair to say none of the women here have exactly been bashed with the ugly stick, several have done or still do modelling. Can't hurt their commercial prospectes.

Still got a few to add but please keep the suggestions coming.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 4:31 pm
by huggybear
Lentulus wrote: Her career isn't exactly stellar
To say the least. When her European career had stalled and she went over to Indy Lights, she made Milka Duno look like a good driver. Jorda getting lapped was something that was going to happen every race, in the same way the main series always had an EJ Viso caused caution.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 6:36 pm
by the incubus
Tumppi57 wrote:What about Laura Tillett?

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Easily one of the prettiest female drivers today. Talk about easy on the eyes. LOL

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 11:11 pm
by DOLOMITE
de Silvestro made 'bump day' for Indy 500 so there will be

13. Ana Beatriz
30. Katherine Legge
32. Simona de Silvestro

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 12:08 am
by ace10
DOLOMITE wrote:de Silvestro made 'bump day' for Indy 500 so there will be

13. Ana Beatriz
30. Katherine Legge
32. Simona de Silvestro
All thirty three entries made the race-day field for the 2012 Indy 500. There were no bumps, and quali weekend was an awful bore.

We all can thank Lotus-Judd for that situation.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 12:37 am
by KateLM
Tumppi57 wrote:What about Laura Tillett?

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That is the most unintentionally funny website I've come across in a good while.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 7:30 am
by DOLOMITE
KateLM wrote:
Tumppi57 wrote: What about Laura Tillett?
That is the most unintentionally funny website I've come across in a good while.
Why is that?

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 8:12 am
by KateLM
DOLOMITE wrote:
KateLM wrote:
Tumppi57 wrote: What about Laura Tillett?
That is the most unintentionally funny website I've come across in a good while.
Why is that?
Have you read the "Achievements" section? It's just one long list of excuses!

That's not to mention the use of Formula 1 as a tab name for her wishlist and that under it she say she wants to make it on merit but then goes on to refer to a female driver in F1 as a 'novelty'.

Oh, and they've spelt Anthony Hamilton's name wrong.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 8:42 am
by DOLOMITE
KateLM wrote:
DOLOMITE wrote:
KateLM wrote:
Tumppi57 wrote: What about Laura Tillett?
That is the most unintentionally funny website I've come across in a good while.
Why is that?
Have you read the "Achievements" section? It's just one long list of excuses!

That's not to mention the use of Formula 1 as a tab name for her wishlist and that under it she say she wants to make it on merit but then goes on to refer to a female driver in F1 as a 'novelty'.

Oh, and they've spelt Anthony Hamilton's name wrong.
Yeah but that Achivements thing is pretty standard for drivers websites where they haven't actually won much outright. Brundles often referred to Racing Drivers Book Of Excuses!

To be fair she got to a pretty impressive level in karting.


This thread though, for me effectively answers the "why aren't there any womenin F1" question. It's simple, F1 is the top of the motor sports ladder and there's no females winning the feeder series. GP3 has a few in this year, but based on their previos form I can't see any of them being top 5 by the ened of the season and therefore shouldn't move up the ladder to GP2. Guess we'll see.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 10:25 pm
by KateLM
DOLOMITE wrote:
KateLM wrote:
DOLOMITE wrote:
KateLM wrote:
Tumppi57 wrote: What about Laura Tillett?
That is the most unintentionally funny website I've come across in a good while.
Why is that?
Have you read the "Achievements" section? It's just one long list of excuses!

That's not to mention the use of Formula 1 as a tab name for her wishlist and that under it she say she wants to make it on merit but then goes on to refer to a female driver in F1 as a 'novelty'.

Oh, and they've spelt Anthony Hamilton's name wrong.
Yeah but that Achivements thing is pretty standard for drivers websites where they haven't actually won much outright. Brundles often referred to Racing Drivers Book Of Excuses!

To be fair she got to a pretty impressive level in karting.


This thread though, for me effectively answers the "why aren't there any womenin F1" question. It's simple, F1 is the top of the motor sports ladder and there's no females winning the feeder series. GP3 has a few in this year, but based on their previos form I can't see any of them being top 5 by the ened of the season and therefore shouldn't move up the ladder to GP2. Guess we'll see.
I know, but that's by far the worst one I've ever seen.

I'd go even further and say the reason why no women are winning at the top levels (and therefore aren't going to get into F1) is because none of the ones currently trying are good enough. Take Pippa Mann, for example. She got two years in a credible F1 feeder series in Fr3.5, not driving bad machinery either, which was a great chance to show the teams what she could do - and what she did was naff all worth mentioning. I do have a feeling that Powell will luck into a lower end points position in GP3 sooner or later and the British media will wet themselves with excitement. But the F1 teams will be looking at the drivers who are actually competing up at the front.

It's not that no woman can be good enough, it's that when you have so few girls karting with the boys aged 8 that the likelihood of a good one making it through the ranks is extremely slim. The amount of girls at this level does seem to be on the up in recent years but it's going to take close to a decade for the effects of that to be seen.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 10:38 pm
by ace10
I think Simona has a decent shot at making some headway in Indycar. The sooner she gets out of that

And in terms of attractiveness... Maryeve. By a mile. Or a kilometer or whatever measure you choose.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 10:53 pm
by SnakeSVT2003
DOLOMITE wrote:
SnakeSVT2003 wrote:NHRA has a few women, my favorite being Courtney Force.

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Her car:

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is sis still racing as well?
Nope. She's just wants to be a mother for now. I personally hope she replaces John Force one day. She has won in the past so I think she can keep that tradition going.

NHRA has a lot of women these days. Hillary Will (Top Fuel, 1 career win), Melanie Troxel (Top Fuel: 4 wins, Funny Car: 1 win), Alexis DeJoria, (Funny Car rookie, daughter of John Paul DeJoria, the guy who owns Paul Mitchell and Patron Tequila), Erica Enders (Pro Stock), and several more in Pro Stock Motorcycle.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 10:54 pm
by SnakeSVT2003
the incubus wrote:Geez... she's gotten to look more and more like her dad. So many cute qualities to her but in the end I feel like I'm checkin' out her dad! LOL
Girl has skills! She's beaten her dad before too!
I thought that too but when they stand next to each other they don't really look all that much alike. She talks just like him, though.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 11:49 pm
by DOLOMITE
KateLM wrote: I'd go even further and say the reason why no women are winning at the top levels (and therefore aren't going to get into F1) is because none of the ones currently trying are good enough. Take Pippa Mann, for example. She got two years in a credible F1 feeder series in Fr3.5, not driving bad machinery either, which was a great chance to show the teams what she could do - and what she did was naff all worth mentioning. I do have a feeling that Powell will luck into a lower end points position in GP3 sooner or later and the British media will wet themselves with excitement. But the F1 teams will be looking at the drivers who are actually competing up at the front.

It's not that no woman can be good enough, it's that when you have so few girls karting with the boys aged 8 that the likelihood of a good one making it through the ranks is extremely slim. The amount of girls at this level does seem to be on the up in recent years but it's going to take close to a decade for the effects of that to be seen.
Absolutely, but the likelihood of making it through the ranks isn't based on %'s -even if they''re the only female racing, if they are good enough - i.e win, they can progress. I'm loving the fact that the GP3 field has got so many girls, but in all honestly none have them have racing CV's that suggest they are there solely on merit. And don't mention de Villota....

Thanks for reminding me about Pippa though, will add her. She was due to join the i1 Super Series, but that's been put back a year.


Oh and if you enjoyes Tillets site check this out: Duno

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 11:54 pm
by DOLOMITE
ace10 wrote: ...in terms of attractiveness... Maryeve. By a mile.
Yeah but I've not added Madalena Antas yet....

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 12:08 am
by DOLOMITE
DOLOMITE wrote:
ace10 wrote: ...in terms of attractiveness... Maryeve. By a mile.
Yeah but I've not added Madalena Antas yet....
or Catharina Felser...

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 12:23 am
by ace10
DOLOMITE wrote:
DOLOMITE wrote:
ace10 wrote: ...in terms of attractiveness... Maryeve. By a mile.
Yeah but I've not added Madalena Antas yet....
or Catharina Felser...

You're grasping at straws. Maryeve Dufault > everyone else posted to this point.

Re: Female Racing Drivers

Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 5:49 pm
by DOLOMITE
The GP3 girls line up.
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