SALLY MOTT Caps Championship Run With Double Top-12s at Road Atlanta Finale

October 16, 2025

• SALLY MOTT delivered exactly what we needed to see from the highest-placed female driver in the championship – consistency when it mattered most. Her twin 12th-place finishes at Road Atlanta weren’t just lucky breaks, they were the product of staying clean in a chaotic weekend where qualifying got red-flagged twice and cars were dropping like flies around her. Claiming both female driver awards while finishing 12th overall in the final standings isn’t just a nice story, it’s proof that when women get proper seat time and support, we belong in the thick of the action.
• CHARLOTTE TRAYNOR’s weekend perfectly captured what makes this sport so demanding – and why we need to celebrate the grind as much as the glory. Missing both practice sessions due to health issues, she had to build speed and confidence from scratch at one of the more technical tracks on the calendar. Her 18th-place finish in race two, complete with last-lap racecraft that would make veterans proud, showed exactly the kind of progression that keeps teams interested and sponsors writing checks.
• The Road Atlanta finale served up the kind of racing chaos that separates the real drivers from the weekend warriors – multiple red flags, contact incidents, and strategic restarts that rewarded racers who could think on their feet. Both MOTT and TRAYNOR navigated through spinning cars and damaged machinery while consistently improving their lap times, proving they belong in a series where one mistake can cost you everything and clean driving is worth its weight in prize money.

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