9 girl racers you need to look out for

Usually as they're speeding by

We hear plenty about Susie Wolff and Danica Patrick as they're female racers who, for a number of reasons, have made it to the top of motorsport. Since they started their careers, motorsport has changed and there are more and more women coming in at grassroots level. This means there are some amazing racers making their way up the ranks as we speak.

Jamie Chadwick

Credit: Jamie Chadwick

Credit: Jamie Chadwick

In 2015, Chadwick won the British GT Championship GT4 class alongside teamate Ross Gunn with Beechdean Motorsport in their Aston Martin V8 Vantage. She also became the youngest ever 24-hour race winner at the Silverstone Dunlop Britcar 24 Hour race. In 2017 she's moving to F3, making the switch to single-seaters.

Tatiana Calderon

Credit: Sauber

Credit: Sauber

It'd be silly not to mention Sauber's newest development driver here. For many women in F1, their previous race performance suggests they're there not on merit but instead gender.

Calderon, thankfully, has a number of wins, podiums and fastest laps under her belt. She also came second in the 2015/16 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship.

Alisha Roland

I think we're going to see a lot of this young karter in the future. Not only is she about to make the move up to cars - and looking very quick in testing - but her social media presence is fantastic.

Charlie Martin

You may have heard this name recently on Ninja Warrior UK. Martin made it through to the semi-finals and was the only woman to successfully tackle The Wall. This year she's racing with Schatz Competition in a Norma M20 FC prototype. An important step for Martin as she heads out in the Championnat de France de la Montagne once again.

Abbie Eaton

Eaton is a Two-time champion with wins in the Mazda MX-5 SuperCup and Production Touring Car Championship. After a year in the GT Cup, Eaton moved to British GT with Ebor GT in a Maserati GranTurismo MC GT4. Alongside her two championship titles, she has 22 wins, 38 podiums and 16 fastest laps in her eight years of car racing, making her one of the most successful British female racers.

Alice Powell

Credit: Renault Sport

Credit: Renault Sport

Powell is a single seater driver who in 2010 won the Formula Renault Championship and then in 2014 won the Asian Formula Renault Series. She has a whole host of podiums and wins under her belt and has been linked to Formula One too.

Recently, Powell has been working with the Electric GT series alongside Tom Coronel.

Rebecca JAckson

Jackson's racing history is interesting because she went from club racer in the Porsche Championship to competing in the Road to Le Mans race in an LMP3 car in just three years. She's a prime example of a racing driver with determination and ambition. In 2016 she competed in the RYS Championship in a KTM X-Bow GT4 and took third out of the female drivers.

Jade Edwards

Credit: Renault Sport

Credit: Renault Sport

In 2014, Edwards was scouted by Aston Martin and invited to test in Portugal. She then signed up to three GT4 races with the team and picked up two podiums and one win. In 2015 she was selected as an Aston Martin Evolution Academy Driver. In 2017 she's driving with Ciceley Motorsport in the Renault Clio Cup.

Nathalie McGloin

McGloin is paralysed from the chest down and races a hand-controlled Cayman S in the Porsche Club Championship, competing against able-bodied men. She was the first female with a spinal injury to be granted a race licence in the UK. Last year she finished second in class in the Race of Remembrance 1000km endurance race at Anglesey Circuit.

This list could go on and on. It's wonderful to see so many quick women on track these days and with more and more girls getting into karting and grassroots racing, the number we see moving through the ranks is only set to grow.

Who else do you think deserves a place on this list?

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