AWMN in Profile: Chelsea Smith20190110100033
AWMN in Profile: Chelsea Smith
January 10, 2019
Chelsea was born to be a drag racer, after all, she was at the track cheering on her dad when she was only a few weeks old. By the age of 4, Chelsea already had plans to be "just like dad", although now she has the ultimate dream of following in Kell...
AWMN in Profile: Sally Mewett20190110100030
AWMN in Profile: Sally Mewett
January 10, 2019
"I love working in an industry like this." Sally tells us that it's the hands-on and variety of tasks that keep her interested. "After all, we know that girls can do anything ... I think engineering is a great career and its a lot of fun!"...
AWMN in Profile: Jill Hickey20190110090044
AWMN in Profile: Jill Hickey
January 10, 2019
Six years ago, Jill's husband gave her a little red Toyota Corolla and said: "give Khana Cross a try" ... but the chicanes and the lack of speed really didn't impress her, so instead she signed up for the next Hillclimb. "I absolutely loved it," Jill...
AWMN in Profile: Robyn-Lee Holland20181106074855
AWMN in Profile: Robyn-Lee Holland
November 6, 2018
Introduced into dirt track racing as a junior by her father and brother, Rolly now races the bright pink number 92 sedan in Fender Bender at least once a month - preferring to let her racing speak for itself in pictures rather than words....
AWMN in Profile: Lara O’Leary20181104110340
AWMN in Profile: Lara O’Leary
November 4, 2018
While her friends at school don't ride, it's the boys in particular who think what she does is very cool. This princess of dirt racing is working hard and aiming high to reach her ultimate goal of hitting the world championships. But for now, she wou...
AWMN in Profile: Maria Mare20181001164312
AWMN in Profile: Maria Mare
October 1, 2018
It's a true love story ... love of racing, love of man, then rediscovering the love of racing.
But without a new race mechanic, Mia's dream may not be able to continue....
AWMN in Profile: Pyper Kent20180907060017
AWMN in Profile: Pyper Kent
September 7, 2018
Having been a competitive dancer from the age of 2, and doing up to 9 classes a week, Pyper decided at the tender age of 6 that it "wasn't really my thing".
"So what's your thing," asked Pyper's mum, Shaz.
"Motorbikes!"
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AWMN in Profile: Natalie & Shavaun Harvey20180905074507
AWMN in Profile: Natalie & Shavaun Harvey
September 5, 2018
Natalie Harvey is talking on the headset: the race about to start: she fist bumps her junior drag racing daughter and says “you’ve got this” but closing the door to her world record husband’s car she says “drive like you stole it darling”....
AWMN in Profile: Courtney Fender20180831080057
AWMN in Profile: Courtney Fender
August 31, 2018
Even though she started out with oval track racing, Courtney saw that hardly any girls were drag racing, so she took this as a challenge to prove that she could, and took her 2008 Yamaha Nytro Snowmobile drag racing. ...
AWMN in Profile: Stephanie Huysmans20180831060008
AWMN in Profile: Stephanie Huysmans
August 31, 2018
"Just concentrate and don't take your eye off your lights"
Unless your car decides to pull an awe-inspiring wheelstand off the start line. Steph might laugh about the situation now, but at the time the brand new engine was a little more powerful tha...
AWMN in Profile: Dani Richardson20180826080013
AWMN in Profile: Dani Richardson
August 26, 2018
Not content to just take photos of the team cars, Dani started to get more and more involved in the actual history and stories behind each of the Beat the Heat race vehicles until she finally decided it was time to get behind the wheel and have a dri...
AWMN in Profile: Vicky Creed20180820145129
AWMN in Profile: Vicky Creed
August 20, 2018
Vicky is a huge advocate for becoming a marshal over actually racing on the track, and when you have the opportunity to tell Bernie Ecclestone that he can't go on track because he has the wrong pass, you can see why she gets so much enjoyment out of ...
AWMN in Profile: Lauren Cornes20180812130010
AWMN in Profile: Lauren Cornes
August 12, 2018
Back when Lauren was only 12 and her mum joined a car club, Lauren couldn't understand not wanting to be hands-on involved in all the activities, which is probably one of the reasons she has such a long list motorsports hats to wear....
AWMN in Profile: Belinda Vernon20180801143651
AWMN in Profile: Belinda Vernon
August 1, 2018
If your mum was drag racing a hot pink VT Commodore at 10.87sec @ 124mph, I reckon you would be one of the most popular kids at school. Well, Belinda's sons (Ryder, Brayden) are exactly those very lucky and proud kids, su...
AWMN in Profile: Kellie Kidd20180729132853
AWMN in Profile: Kellie Kidd
July 29, 2018
To be the best person and driver you can be, challenge yourself, stay grounded be a humble winner and a gracious loser, accepting you can't win all the races. Learn from those losses and take each win as a stepping stone towards becoming the Champion...
AWMN in Profile: Melissa Theuerkauf20180715122719
AWMN in Profile: Melissa Theuerkauf
July 15, 2018
Mel started out on the sidelines of the race track, photographing hubby as he raced, and helping out with his race car. But there comes a point for every racer girl, when deep down you and everyone around you know that you want to get behind the whee...
AWMN in Profile: Jac Phillips20180715063247
AWMN in Profile: Jac Phillips
July 15, 2018
While watching a Super Cars event on TV, Jac noticed all these people (Officials) performing different roles and was keen to know how they got involved and thought that it would be exciting to be part of the action....
AWMN in Profile: Janelle Mannix20180709142220
AWMN in Profile: Janelle Mannix
July 9, 2018
Janelle Mannix is a self-confessed drag racing addict. If you ask her friends they'd say she has an insane level of excitement for the sport, but ask her son or granddaughter and they just reckon she's the coolest....
AWMN in Profile: Kelly Bettes20180611091547
AWMN in Profile: Kelly Bettes
June 11, 2018
Kelly Bettes has become Australia’s first professional drag racing champion after claiming the 400 Thunder Top Fuel Championship at the Winternationals. Bettes despatched of Wayne Newby in the semi-final with a narrow 3.801s to 3.842s pass, a ...
Badass grandma, Mary McGee wasn’t your average housewife20180608091035
Badass grandma, Mary McGee wasn’t your average housewife
June 8, 2018
History has no shortage of fascinating people who did things differently at a time when we didn’t have all the fancy technologies and equipment we do now. So when you hear about a car and bike-racing woman who defied the odds and kicked opened a few ...