AWW...YOU THOUGHT RACING WAS JUST FOR MEN, DIDN'T YOU?
Well bless your outdated heart.
There's more upsetting news about Santa and the Easter Bunny too, but before we move off the women-do-everything-now lesson, here's another racing mind-shift for you...
THE hub for women in motorsports
Racing is the
only major worldwide sport where men and women compete head-to-headthe reality
Read that again
… and let it sink in.Unlike tennis or golf or track or skiing or swimming or basketball or soccer or any other sport, in motorsports there is no women’s league, no handicaps, no equalizers. Helmets go on and gender disappears in the tire smoke.
When the winner of a race is a woman, she’s not the best woman, she’s the best, period.
And that, my now-up-to-speed darlings, is why even if you’ve never given a sh*t about racing before, you need to start now.
We’ve discovered an easy way to change the world to help these women continue their race (pun intended) to the top.
ALBA HARUP LARSEN - Karting Champion, F4 British + F1 Academy Racer
while you were sleeping on women in racing:
600+
racers added so far
23
Countries COVERED
12
Racing Categories covered
scan a sports site and count the stories about women in racing.
Go ahead. We’ll wait…*
the problem
ALL THE NEWS waiting for you!The most generous estimates of all media coverage of all women’s sports is 15% (it was 4%). Women in racing don’t even blip
Unlike all other women’s sports whose popularity is exploding, there’s no team, or league, or corporate PR department promoting them. Women in motorsports are not only battling perceptions, they’re invisible.
Until us. (Yes, that’s first-person plural.)“So whadda we do?”, we hear you asking, while we’re loving your use of the correct tense…
*that’s why we aggregate all the news here for you. press le bouton to see. You’re welcome.
MARTA GARCIA - F1 Academy Chamion and Iron Dames team member WOMEN HAVE BEEN IN RACING SINCE racing. YOU JUST DIDN'T KNOW it.
But don’t be ashamed. It’s not (totally) your fault. At least you knew women fly combat missions, perform sugery, cage fight, and give birth… right?
Before we move on to the GRRL! solution, we should make sure you get this isn’t some pie-in-the-sky fantasy. All women need to compete at the highest levels is something you’re already doing every day. But before we get to that let’s make sure you understand women are and have been more than capable of competing.
A quick history proving their racing racing heritage ...
We’re gonna go fast. Pay attention:
- Bertha Benz’s journey changed everything, taking the Benz Motorwagen on the first road trip in history. (1888)
- Hellé Nice (hellé of a name) a singer, model, and exotic dancer, became known as the Bugatti Queen by winning the Rallye Paris – Saint-Raphaël Féminin with Odette Siko (yes, yet another woman) in 1932.
- Sara Christian ran in the very first NASCAR race in 1949, and in 7 more that season, scoring 2 top-10 finishes.
- Ewi Rosqvist was told no girl could ever handle the 1962 Argentinian Grand Prix, one of the hardest in the world. So she went out and won it – beating the runner up by 3 hours!
Being the smartie you are, you’re probably sensing a theme here…
- Leila Lombardi raced in 17 – seventeen! – F1 races, and scored points! (1975)
- Michèle Mouton won the Rallye de Portugal, Acropolis Rally of Greece, and Rally of Brazil and finished the 1982 season as runner-up in the drivers’ world championship.
- Danica Patrick led the Indy 500 with 10 laps to go and finished an astounding 3rd. (2005)
- At 17 Jade Avedisian was the first woman to win the Xtreme Midget Championship. Not a race, the entire f*&cking championship. (2023)
- Lilou Wadoux (coolest name) was the first woman to win a WEC (the “E” stands for endurance) race at the 6-hours of SPA for Ferrari. She rocketed her team from 4th to 1st in her closing stint of the race. (2023)
- Brittany Force smashed the all-time NHRA Top Fuel speed record (343.16mph in 1,000 feet). Brittany holds 8 of the last 9 fastest times in history. (2025)
Admit it. That’s at least double the racers of any gender you can name, and we haven’t even turned the key.
the proof
Go-go RACERS!We could obviously go on and on and on – we’ve got over 500 women on this website – but you get the point. Women have been all over motorsports for forever.
So let’s get to the fix…
MIKAYLA MOORE - Motorcycle Racing Champion HOW CAN A CLICK CHANGE THE WORLD?
Yup. A simple click.
Racing is the most expensive sport on the planet (F1 engine: $15 million). Sponsorship isn’t important, it’s vital. So bringing sponsors to women motorsports is Part One.
Drive to Survive proved women can not only be interested in racing, they can be freaking fanatic. 50% of viewers and F1 ticket sales are to women (part 2).
Part Three, and mixing instructions...
While we’re not focused on the ultra-pinnacle of jet-set lifestyle, we are exclusively focused on women and a something more important and personal to each and every one: equality (part 3).
Mix those ingredients together with a heap of social media, and you have a way to level the playing field for women in motorsports – and women around the world.
GRRL! is focused on driving the social media presence of women in motorsports to a level sponsors can’t ignore. (You’re already seeing it start with E.L.F., Hilfiger, Charlotte Tilbury, AmEx, and more jump on board.)
Social media links are on each racers profile page. Check ’em out.
the solution
Find a RACER to Follow
BRITTANY FORCE - 2-Time NHRA Top Fuel Champion / All-Time Speed Record Holder GRRL! IS ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, infinity-plus-one not: man v woman.
WE'RE new v oldthe truth
GRRL!’s ONLY mandate is to elevate women. Men, dads, brothers, uncles, friends are alot of our biggest supporters.
Taking back "like a girl" insults...
We’re here to take back “like a girl”. “Hit like a girl”, “run like a girl”, and other insults are done. From this day forward to race like a GRRL! is to put your head down, work hard, and compete like hell while still being a good person. To do anything amazing is to do it like a GRRL!
- Exponentially raise visibility of women in all motorsports.
- Make sure sponsors notice the rapid growth in racer’s social media.
- Continue to help little girls around the world understand no doors are closed to them. They can be badass racers too.
Our goal is to inspire continued support for women, to get all of us rooting for equality for our wives, daughters, sisters, and friends. When a woman wins the Indy 500, Le Mans, Daytona, Formula 1, or any of the most important races around the world, we will have helped accomplish something far beyond racing.
Help us make it happen.
KATHERINE LEGGE - INDYCar / NASCAR / Sports Car / Racer
- FREE Memberships
- Weekly Newsletter
- Voting for Racer of the Week
- Subscribing to a Racer's Page
- Something called "Merch"
- ...and more.
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