Eighteen-year-old Bianca Bustamante, who spent time growing up in the Bay Area, just became the first Filipino to win an F1 Academy race in the new all-female racing series founded by Formula 1.
Bustamante is proud to represent the 113 million people living in the Philippines and Filipinos around the world but is also well aware of the challenges her family faced growing up, both in the Philippines and the United States, specifically in the Bay Area.
While Bianca's recent F1 Academy win was big, she'll never forget winning the Macau International Kart Grand Prix at the age of nine. Bianca says she has always looked up to former NASCAR and IndyCar racer Danica Patrick. She's not shy when it comes to talking about racing in a field dominated by men.
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