Women in Motorsport

Alexia Danielsson was just 14 years old when she first drove a Formula One car — a modified 2007 Williams owned by a family friend. Now 17, the Swedish racer is competing in the Central European F4 series, where she is taking on young drivers including 15-year-old Ella Hakkinen, daughter of retired two-time F1 world champion Mika Hakkinen. Danielsson, currently 26th among 49 drivers in the standings, has ambitions of eventually reaching the Formula One grid. “I don’t think anything is impossible, you

How often does the storyteller become the story? It’s as rare as sighting a globetrotting Formula One journalist from a cricket mad South Asian country in the giant media centre of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. And if the journalist is a woman, all the better to feed some mystique. It was love at first sight for Niharika Ghorpade and motorsport when she, a Formula One enthusiast’s daughter, was taken by her father to a karting track several moons ago. Although he hails from a family of