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The last two years, Grisham has worked as a test driver for the Pirelli tire company (she lives near Pirelli’s U.S. She has several victories in the World Racing League GP2 (an amateur sports car endurance series). So is Grisham, a Southern California native who has been racing since she was 6 in go-karts and since has won championships in Mazda and Miata ladder series. We’re committed to three years to do this and see if we can find the right person. “We didn’t want it to be someone who just comes from a socio-economic background that could afford to do it on their own course,” James said. The Phoenix audition included 10 finalists who were selected from 130 applicants to the program, which has been fully underwritten by Heart of Racing’s sponsors. The team also picked a third driver, 17-year-old Annie Rhule, for a 2023 testing program. The season will begin this weekend at Sonoma Raceway with Hannah Grisham and Rianna O’Meara-Hunt behind the wheel. Heart of Racing held its first female driver shootout last November at the APEX Motor Club in Phoenix, Arizona, to select two women who will co-drive an Aston Martin Vantage GT4 in the SRO SprintX Championship. Hannah Grisham at the Heart of Racing shootout (Mike Levitt/LAT) I felt like there was a void to give somebody a chance to really prove themselves.”ĭuring the offseason, the team took a major step toward remedying that. And I felt like we hadn’t really addressed the female driver situation. “ Our whole DNA at Heart of Racing is we give people opportunities in all types of situations where there’s been crew, personnel or drivers. “And I feel like there are a lot of women that haven’t had a fair crack at it in sports car racing. “They’re always saying, ‘Hey, you manage all these guys, and you help them, so why not a woman?’ ” Ian James told NBC Sports. It’s a topic that also was brought up by James’ wife, Kim. But she is interested (as a New York-based journalist) in writing about the sport’s efforts and growth in gender equality

Heart of Racing driver and team manager Ian James says his daughter, Gabby, isn’t so interested in auto racing.

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(Editor’s note: This story on the Heart of Racing sports cars shootout for women is one in an occasional Motorsports Talk series focusing on women in racing during March, which is Women’s History Month.)