Let's not beat around the proverbial shrubbery: I'm lucky enough to have an awesome job as Motorsport Communications Manager for a leading energy drink manufacturer and it would be pretty damn rude of me to keep this fun-fuelled life all to myself.

The vast majority of women you meet in motorsports are on the communications side, but it doesn't have to be that way. Former motorsports PR diva Lindsay Orridge decided that if she's tough enough to save Tiff Needell from muggers, she's tough enough to get in there and race with the boys.

You know Lindsay Orridge as the "pint-sized blonde" motorsport marketing executive who foiled a mugging of Fifth Gear presenter Tiff Needell with her stiletto heel. We were curious about how Lindsay deals with working among the testosterone cases of the racing world. So she told us. -Ed.