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When Annie Soisbault imagined herself as a figure in the sporting world, she didn’t see herself as a racing…
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Hailie Deegan, the 17-year-old daughter of motocross and rallycross legend Brian Deegan, has become the first woman…
In 1915, Louisette Texier’s father was hanged by the Turks in the midst of a large-scale extermination of Armenians.…
She appeared out of nowhere. France’s Odette Siko emerged from mystery in the late 1920s to get behind the wheel of…
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At five years old, Desiré Wilson (née Randall) was behind the wheel of a go-kart at local South African tracks. She…
In the winter of 1928, Fay Taylour boarded a ship that would take her across the tumultuous ocean, from England all…
History is full of one-hit wonders, the people who were just here to have a good time and somehow struck it big in…
For those of us in the 21st century, it’s hard to imagine racing without the technology it’s endowed with today. …
When Denise McCluggage was six years old, she spotted a beautiful Baby Austin 7 parked on the street of her hometown…
Jealous rivals called her a “moving chicane”. Circuits went out of their way to keep women away. But Anne-Cécile…
Roberta Cowell isn’t generally a name you hear when we talk about incredible women behind the wheel. Her laundry…