Racer Profile: Shannon-Lee “Shanna” Smallpage20250102081231
Racer Profile: Shannon-Lee “Shanna” Smallpage
Your Story MattersJanuary 2, 2025
When it comes to motorsport, there’s more than one way to be involved, and Shannon-Lee “Shanna” Smallpage has found her niche as a dedicated volunteer official. Specialising in scrutiny – the vital task of ensuring cars meet the stringent safety and ...
Racer Profile: Imogen Radburn20241011030020
Racer Profile: Imogen Radburn
Your Story MattersOctober 11, 2024
Imogen Radburn’s motorsport journey is one driven by sheer passion and determination. At just 18, she’s racing on circuits many only dream of, but it wasn’t an easy start. She spent four years begging her parents to let her race go-karts, finally con...
Profile: Jacqui “Jax” Carroll20240703090012
Profile: Jacqui “Jax” Carroll
Your Story MattersJuly 3, 2024
The Maestro of Motorsports Management
In the high-speed world of motorsport, it's often the drivers who bask in the limelight. But behind every successful team is someone like Jacqui Carroll—known to friends and colleagues as Jax or Jacs—who orchest...
Tayla Purves: Crafting Stories in the World of Motorsport20240703084248
Tayla Purves: Crafting Stories in the World of Motorsport
Your Story MattersJuly 3, 2024
Today, Tayla channels her passion into making a difference in the motorsport community. She thrives on sharing creativity and enhancing storylines with compelling facts, bringing the thrilling world of racing to life for fans and followers. Her role ...
Profile: Meri Inglis20190117070055
Profile: Meri Inglis
Your Story MattersJanuary 17, 2019
For some people, like Meri, it's just not enough to simply go out there and do it for themselves. Meri is all about getting more women on 2 wheels....
Profile: Sally “Sal” Mewett20190110100030
Profile: Sally “Sal” Mewett
Your Story MattersJanuary 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!"...
Profile: Vicky Creed20180820145129
Profile: Vicky Creed
Your Story MattersAugust 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 ...
Profile: Jac Phillips20180715063247
Profile: Jac Phillips
Your Story MattersJuly 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....
Profile: Janelle Mannix20180709142220
Profile: Janelle Mannix
Your Story MattersJuly 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....
Profile on one of two female lead engineers in NASCAR Cup Series20180608091235
Profile on one of two female lead engineers in NASCAR Cup Series
Myrtle MotorheadJune 8, 2018
Ashmore followed her childhood dreams and passion, and these days, she is a rare female working in the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series. The 2006 Coopersville High School graduate is the lead engineer on the No. 38 Front Row Motorsports MDS Transport...
The WWI Ambulance Driver Who Dominated Banked Race Tracks20180521090222
The WWI Ambulance Driver Who Dominated Banked Race Tracks
Myrtle MotorheadMay 21, 2018
War had a habit of making women into racers. With the men occupied on the battlefield, someone had to maneuver ambulances through shell-cratered roads at high speed, rushing to and from emergencies. Some women became absolutely infatuated with the ch...
For most female racecar drivers, breaking through asphalt ceiling proves elusive20180517100357
For most female racecar drivers, breaking through asphalt ceiling proves elusive
Myrtle MotorheadMay 17, 2018
Somewhere out there in the future, a woman will drive her racecar into victory lane at the end of a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race and lift the winner’s trophy high into the air. That day will make history of a remarkable sort. Since 1949, whe...