We have entered the FRN 240sx in to win some “Enjuku Cash” from Enjuku Racing! In case some of you are not familiar the FRN 240sx is a car that is being built to promote women in motorsports. A few years ago we purchased a car to be used solely as a drift car but after a few months we realized we didn’t want to keep it to ourselves. Thus the idea of building a car for other ladies to use came to us. The car is now being built to allow other females to use it for drift, AutoX, track days, etc. While the specifics are still being determined it would allow a girl to use the car for an event to test the waters of motorsports. We hope that this will allow more girls to become involved in grassroots level racing. To vote for the FRN 240 all you have to do is follow this link Enjuku Racing Facebook  find “Amanda Martin” (should be at the top) in the list of cars and cast your vote. We have a lot of catching up to do and hope that all the FRN readers will take the time to help us out with this.

Thanks so much for everything!

The FRN Crew!

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Firstly, I will introduce myself – I am Sarah Burgess of BMI Racing, along with my husband I own the RX8 4 Rotor that competed in the Formula Drift series last year.  Female Racing News has given me the opportunity to cover the first round of Formula Drift from a different perspective.

Similar to any other motorsport, it is mainly a male dominated sport, and always there are a few diamonds in the rough.  While there are currently no professional female drifters out there competing, there are quite a few women in the background; I had the great opportunity of seeing these great ladies every month last year at each round of Formula Drift.  So I thought it would be great to highlight some of these pretty cool, hard working girls.

Casidi Tanaka Fixmer has one of the toughest jobs in Formula Drift; her title is Operations Co-coordinator – what does that mean? She is responsible for ensuring everything happens – and within a timely manner.  From dealing with drivers and team owners, organizing logistics, sending out notifications to all the teams and staff (and I have received those emails at 3 o’clock in the morning sometimes), to being in attendance at the Will Call desk all weekend and dealing with everybody’s crisis.  Amazingly she stays cool, calm and collected.  Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to speak with her this weekend, but I hear she too also drifts (or has drifted in the past).(...)
Read the rest of FRN Exculsive: Behind the Scenes Look at the Women Involved in Formula Drift.

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Due to some unforeseen circumstances the FemaleRacingNews.com Crew is in a bit of a bind… This weekend is the first annual “Drive Like a Woman” event being held at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The event is a private track day for girls both beginner and intermediate to have fun and get seat time.  Owner and creator of FRN Amanda would be attending this event, along with Lieze Truter. This would be Lieze’s first event who is currently without a car of her own. Amanda offered up the use of the FRN 240sx since she would be also attending the event.

As the event grew closer and the build of the FRN 240sx going slowly due to funding they were going to have to use another car. The car Amanda drove previous to the 240sx was a 1986 Toyota Corolla she had shared with her fiancé. After a drift event this past weekend the Corolla is inoperable and unable to make the trip.  So now the heat is on to get the FRN 240sx up and going before this weekend. If you would like to help the FRN Crew get to the event at Atlanta Motor Speedway this weekend we have set up a ChipIn or email us at info [at] femaleracingnews.com with other offers.  The car currently needs suspension, tires, wheels and a clutch, if you would like to donate any of these items shoot us an email as well.

Thanks in advance for all that help. It’s very much appreciated.

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Zhang Yan, China’s only qualified professional female race car and drifting driver, is determined to prove , people wrong who think this is only a sport men can be successful in achieving.She is just 26 and there are just about 10 other women besides her.She feels elated and proud to have excelled in car racing with a total of just 2000 racers in this field in China.

With a flick of the steering wheel and timely application of brakes, Zhang burns rubber, skidding and turning across a parking lot in the outskirts of Beijing, which is used as a practice arena for the sport.(...)
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Original Article: The Lady and the Chump

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I think the opening shot of this girl checking over her R32′s rear tires perfectly represents this past Sunday’s event at Nikko.

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I’m not going to bother doing a big event report on this year’s Nikko Queen event, since a lot of the stuff I shot would be more fun as part of a few mini-features, so look forward to those.

Just to get the formalities out of the way though, here are the ladies who placed in the Expert Class competition!

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Cindy McCain doesn’t remember all the details. It might have been six years ago. Maybe seven. But this much, at least, McCain recalls with perfect clarity: She was watching television with her oldest son, Jack, when footage flashed across the screen of race cars skidding sideways as though they were on ice.

Looks kind of cool, McCain thought to herself, but how’d they do that?(...)
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We caught up with Lisa Klassen at Drift Day Comp 2. She is recently known as the rally girl gone drift. We got to speak with her briefly as she was practicing with the International All Star’s powered by Mazda, a team in which she is a part of.

EverythingDrift: You’ve been drifting for how long now?
Lisa Klassen: For around 3 months, but I’ve been driving rally for a lot longer, which is almost like drifting sometimes. Real tarmac competitive drifting only 3 months.

ED: You’ve been testing and R&D’ing lately?
LK: We’ve been testing with International AllStars powered by Mazda. We have 2 MX-5’s which have been fully built for drifting. Right now we’re working on some different gearbox setups, we’re also tuning the suspension and tire pressures.

ED: When will the public get to see you competing?
LK: My first display – we recently did an exhibition in Laughlin for some of the officials there, and just last week we did a demo for the city of Long Beach to promote the racing and drifting at the Long Beach Grand Prix, I’m pretty excited about that.

ED: How about Formula Drift for you?
LK: I’m going to be drifting for KA’AZ USA, my first event will be in Atlanta in May, provided things go well in practice *crossing fingers*. Rhys Millen is a good friend of mine, he’s been helping me out, and I know Tanner from rally racing, so he will be helping me out some too. Hopefully I’ll be up to speed by the time I need to be, I have faith in myself. I’m a rally driver, I can do anything!!

ED: Welcome to the drift world! Hope to see big things for you!

Look forward to seeing her first official professional appearance in Formula Drift as a contender in Atlanta.

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