Female racers continue to jump through hurdles to get a shot in the male-dominated sport
It’s a sunny afternoon in northwestern France, and the most skilled and celebrated drivers in the world are gearing up for the most competitive endurance race of the season: 24 Hours of Le Mans. The eight-and-a-half-mile track is all that these drivers and their crews have seen for the last 10 days, and the surrounding paddocks and trailers have become home to them.
At the time, there were almost no female drivers in the sport, and therefore no one to offer Frey the guidance and support that so many male drivers are accustomed to. “When I first started, about 20 years ago, it was very difficult to navigate, and there were really no female role models to look up to,” the 37-year-old Swiss driver says. “There simply wasn’t information on how to do it.
For the Heart of Racing, an Aston Martin team with cars in the IMSA, WEC, and SRO series, creating opportunity for a diverse range of drivers has always been a priority, but for much of its four-year history, those opportunities never seemed to extend to women. Last year, the team decided it was time to change that, holding its first-ever annual female driver shootout last November, during the offseason.
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