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How Formula Woman is helping find female racing stars

How Formula Woman is helping find female racing stars

Growing up with motorsport around me, I was always going to get involved in some way! My dad did road rallying and hillclimbing so it’s always been in the family and I was taken down to Mallory Park and Donington Park as a child.

I started off as a grid girl for a GT team and then moved into getting my hands dirty after races if I was needed, using my very small experience of tinkering with cars at home. I was then given the opportunity to do a couple of test days as a number two mechanic and it blossomed from there.

Since then, I’ve been fortunate enough to travel around Europe and the world as a mechanic. The last couple of seasons I’ve mainly been in GT Cup, GT World Challenge and British GT, but I’ve also done European Rallycross, working with ex-Formula 1 driver Perry McCarthy – and that was really good fun.

You see these motorsport scholarships pop up and they’re often for people with karting experience or racing experience. But, with Formula Woman, you can’t…

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