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For the past 100 years, auto racing has been consistently dominated by men. Well, times have changed. Nowadays, some pretty hot female drivers are making names for themselves on and off the track.
It can’t be denied that women are starting to make an impact in NASCAR, IndyCar, NHRA, and more. Women have also started entering the foray of car racing and they are not just adding speed but also the glamour and sexy quotient to the game.
Well, these ladies are not driving just cars, they are driving men crazy with their looks and hotness, and now the cars are also getting competition from them in terms of slick design.
So we give you the lists of 6 of the most talented smokin’ babes who don’t mind putting the pedal to the metal and getting a little greasy.
6. Ashley Force Hood
Ashley made a name for herself in the league of the best drag racers across the world before quitting the sport to focus on raising her family. She does, however, have the advantage of being the daughter of a legendary drag racer, John Force.
Ashley was born on November 29, 1982, in the town of Yorba Linda, California to John Force, who is a sixteen-time NHRA Top Fuel Funny Car national champion, and his wife, Laurie Force.
Either way, she’s a smokin’ hot babe who enjoys blasting down the tarmac at 250 mph.
5. Leilani Munter
Leilani Maaja Münter (born February 18, 1976) a native in Minnesota, she drives for Mark Gibson Racing in the ARCA Racing Series. She previously drove in the Firestone Indy Circuit, a development league for IndyCar.
She is also a former professional stock car racing driver and environmental activist. She debuted with a seventh-place finish. In 2002 Münter made the move to Mooresville, North Carolina, widely regarded as the center for NASCAR racing. In 2003, she had her first start in the NASCAR Weekly Racing Series at South Boston Speedway, she finished ninth.
4. Claire Jedrek – Singapore
Jerdek wasn’t interested in motorsports at first because she is already a TV personality and fitness instructor from Singapore. But as a part of a journalistic team that broadcasted a Formula One event, she developed an interest in racing.
Jerdek started from the bottom, her first race was go-karts, and she proved to be highly successful.
In July 2018 she completed her first come back race in at the Bangsaen GP after the birth of first child in January. Her second child came about unexpectedly 2019 August and by December she had won Singapore’s inaugural 12 hour karting endurance race with 5 other teammates.
3. Vicky Piria
Vittoria “Vicky” Piria is an Italian-British racing driver who currently races in Formula Renault Eurocup and W Series born on the 11th of November 1993 in Milan.
In 2013 Piria raced in the European F3 Open with BVM Racing. She finished tenth in points. In 2014 she will race for JDC MotorSports in the Pro Mazda Championship, part of the Mazda Road to Indy. She is one of three female drivers contesting the 2014 championship.
In 2019, Piria participated in the selections for the newly created W Series. She passed the first phase and the final selection, becoming one of the 18 drivers to compete in the 6-event series, the only Italian in it.
2. Inessa Tushkanova
Inessa started racing in 2006, she was born in Ukraine in 1987, but she’s since moved to Moscow in the pursuit of better opportunities in racing.
She started modeling before driving professionally, her handling of a powerful car on the track is by far her passion.
In 2013, she started her first year in the Finnish Rally Championship, which is two steps down from the major leagues of the World Rally Championship. She rallies all sorts of cars, while still keeping several precious four-wheelers at home, such as a tuned Subaru wagon, two Mitsubishi Evo, and a V10 BMW M6.
The international motorsports competitor and model talked about her passion for racing and the thrill she gets off driving fast in a short discussion with Michael Finger of Nishimachi Photography at the 2013 Yokohama World Time Attach Challenge.
1. Danica Patrick
Danica Sue Patrick was born on March 25, 1982, in Beloit, Wisconsin, Patrick began racing go-karts with her sister at age 10. Patrick is a high school dropped out who pursue a career in racing, and in 2002, she signed with Rahal Letterman Racing.
In 2005, Patrick became the first woman to hold the lead during the Indianapolis 500. Three years later, she was the first to record a win on the IndyCar circuit. Switching to stock cars, Patrick won the time trials at the 2013 Daytona 500, becoming the first woman to win the pole position at the famous NASCAR event.
Patrick began making the transition to stock car racing in 2010 and joined the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The following year, she scored a fourth-place finish at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the best ever by a woman in a NASCAR national stock car series.
In 2013, during her first full season on the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit, Patrick won the time trials at the Daytona 500. This victory made for another first—she became the first woman to win the pole position at the famous NASCAR event.
Following her retirement from racing in 2018, she began hosting the Pretty Intense weekly podcast.
