WRC – Finalists for Past Rally Ladies’s Driver Growth Programme introduced
Fifiteen candidates from 13 totally different international locations advance to the subsequent stage and can be part of a Coaching Camp at M-Sport Poland headquarters in Krakow from 16-18 September. Three seats will probably be accessible for the WRC’s Central European Rally in October.
WRC Promoter has chosen the 15 feminine candidates for the subsequent step of its Past Rally Ladies’s Driver Growth Programme who will meet subsequent month to show themselves worthy of considered one of three accessible seats in a Rally3 automobile at October’s WRC Central European Rally.
The candidates, chosen from an excitingly international record of candidates, will attend a three-day coaching camp from 16 – 18 September at M-Sport Poland’s Krakow headquarters the place they may search to show their rally preparedness, mechanical data, media nous and driving capability on blended surfaces.
The camp will probably be run by a workforce of rallying consultants and a panel of judges, together with FIA Ladies in Motorsport Chairwoman Burcu Çetinkaya, will probably be accountable for deciding on probably the most promising three drivers to contest October’s Central European Rally, the penultimate spherical of the 2024 FIA World Rally Championship. They’ll compete in M-Sport Poland-prepared Ford Fiesta Rally3 vehicles in a totally supported programme.
Following on from Central European Rally, a driver will probably be chosen for a totally supported marketing campaign within the 2025 FIA Junior WRC.
The profitable candidates, from a various vary of motorsports backgrounds, signify 13 international locations throughout three continents.
The 15 profitable candidates are:
• Lyssia Baudet – Belgium
• Emma Chalvin – France
• Ann Felke – Germany
• Joanna Hassoun – Lebanon
• Mako Hirakawa – Japan
• Hannah Jakobsson – Sweden
• Suvi Jyrkiäinen – Finland
• Luz Marina – Spain
• Nuria Pons – Spain
• Aoife Raftery – Eire
• Claire Schönborn – Germany
• Madelyn Tabor – USA
• Alexandra Teslovan – Romania
• Hanna Lisette Aabna – Estonia
• Dorka Zagyva – Hungary
“We had been utterly overwhelmed by the quantity and high quality of candidates,” expressed WRC Promoter’s Senior Director of Sport Peter Thul. “Choosing the closing 15 was an extremely difficult activity and there have been some troublesome calls to make.
“We don’t want any of the unfortunate candidates to be discouraged and we do hope they may apply once more sooner or later as we’re completely dedicated to this programme for a number of years. We at the moment are excited to give attention to subsequent month’s coaching camp.”
