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Stretton was invited on to a television show to debate the proposal that "Women can't drive or race", and in light of her feisty and intellectual defence of women as drivers and her actual track record, was offered a position with Channel 4 to co-present their motorsports coverage under the title "Motorsport on 4" which included the British Formula 3, GT, MGF and Rally Championships, as well ...
This is a list of notable, professional, and female racing drivers or riders in any form of motorsport, sorted by country alphabetically. Albania
First woman to compete in a Formula 1 race: Maria Teresa De Filippis (first race entered: 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, first race contested: 1958 Belgian Grand Prix) [39] [40] First woman to score points: Lella Lombardi (1975 Spanish Grand Prix) [41] First race with more than one woman entered: 1976 British Grand Prix (Lella Lombardi, Divina Galica ...
Betty Skelton Erde wasn't technically a NASCAR driver, but she drove the pace car at Daytona in 1954, and was clocked at a speed of 105.88 mph (170.40 km/h) on the sand, setting a stock car speed record for women. [6] No woman had raced NASCAR in a decade when Janet Guthrie started the 1976 World 600, [7] finishing 15th, ahead of Dale Earnhardt ...
In recent years, however, women have been portrayed as skilled drivers (better than the men, in many cases) and the lead protagonists, in franchises like Mad Max: Fury Road and Fast & Furious, the ...
In doing so, she broke the 48-year-old women's land speed record, a 308.506 mph (496.492 km/h) run average set by Lee Breedlove in Spirit of America - Sonic 1 in 1965. [16] On September 7, 2016, Combs set a new top speed of 477.59 mph (768.61 km/h) driving the other American Eagle.
Danica Sue Patrick (/ ˈ d æ n ɪ k ə /; born March 25, 1982) is an American former professional racing driver and model.She is the most successful woman in the history of American open-wheel car racing—her victory in the 2008 Indy Japan 300 is the only win by a woman in an IndyCar Series race.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American racing drivers. It includes American racing drivers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.