{"id":48683,"date":"2018-01-31T06:15:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T14:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=48683"},"modified":"2018-01-30T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T21:00:28","slug":"all-female-race-group-makes-history-at-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/all-female-race-group-makes-history-at-daytona\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Female Race Group Makes History at Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-48683-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/01\\\/DUbi60tVQAAwTY0-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;48686&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;All-Female Race Group Makes History at Daytona&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;All-Female Race Group Makes History at Daytona&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Click Here to Begin Slideshow\\n\\nImage courtesy Freiberg Twitter feed.\\n\\nOutside of NHRA racing, it\\u2019s relatively rare to see women in competition in motorsports. Sure, NASCAR had Danica Patrick for a few years, and Sara Christian, Ethel Mobley and Janet Guthrie before her, and the Nationwide Series recently had a group of women in the field. Audi has had a history of sponsoring women with promising driving careers, giving them the chance to strut their stuff on the big stage. At the Rolex 24 at Daytona this past weekend, they made history again.&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/01\\\/michele-mouton-1984-rac-rally-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;48689&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Audi Fielded First All-Female World Rally Team&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;All-Female Race Group Makes History at Daytona&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Mich\\u00e9le Mouton drove for Audi as the first female driver on a rally team. Mouton is shown here with longtime co-driver Fabrizia Pons.\\nImage courtesy Redbull Racing.\\n\\nAudi has a history of women taking the wheel in their race cars. Mich\\u00e9le Mouton became the first woman to drive in the World Rally Championship. Mouton was part of the first WRC team made up (almost) completely of women \\u0026#8211; driver, co-driver and mechanics. Audi currently has a number of women working in various roles, from drivers to mechanics and team engineers.&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/01\\\/DUb3RPXX0AAWC7U-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;48685&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Audi Fields First All-Female Driver Team for Rolex 24 at Daytona&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;All-Female Race Group Makes History at Daytona&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Image courtesy Freiberg Twitter feed.\\n\\nThe endurance races have seen mixed driver and co-driver teams at various times in the past. However, until the race this last weekend at Daytona, there has never been a team in the GS Class in which both drivers were women. This is also the first time since the Grand-Am and the American Le Mans Series merged in 2014 when an all-female team has competed at the international level in motorsports. The team is made up of American Ashley Freiberg and Polish Gosia Rdest, and is sponsored by the Audi Tire Center, Global Motorsports Group (GMG) Racing and GMG\\u2019s owner Daren Jorgensen. Freiberg and Rdest will be in the all-new Audi R8 LMS GT4 in its racing debut.&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/01\\\/images_original_3563-18GMGaudir8GT4PR1-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;48688&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;An Exciting Opportunity&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;All-Female Race Group Makes History at Daytona&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The car the two women drove.\\nImage courtesy Audi Racing USA.\\n\\nFreiberg told reporters, \\u201cWomen are few and far between in motorsports, so this opportunity to join an all-woman team with Audi is really exciting. My gender doesn\\u2019t make a difference when I\\u2019m behind the wheel. I still have to do a good job and drive the car hard; the data and lap times don\\u2019t lie. I think we\\u2019ll be a strong team, not because we\\u2019re female, but because we\\u2019re drivers who are ready to do the job well.\\u201d\\n\\nRdest echoed this sentiment: \\u201cI feel very privileged and honored to drive progress for women in motorsports. I have always thought that it\\u2019s not the gender, but the passion, endurance and hard work that are the mainstays of any winner.\\u201d&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/01\\\/cfe2b3e6-54c5-49a4-989d-848017e51830-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;48684&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Solid Driving History&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;All-Female Race Group Makes History at Daytona&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Via Freiberg Twitter feed.\\n\\nFreiberg is no stranger to Daytona and was the first woman to win an overall race at Daytona as well as in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge. Rdest has competed in the Audi Sport TT Cup for the last three years (2015-2017) and also has experience in GT4 and TCR series. Two weeks ago, Rdest drove her GT4 class car to a win at the Dubai 24 Hour. She\\u2019ll go back to her regular team of Phoenix Racing after the Daytona event and will compete in the 2018 SRO GT4 European Series.&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/01\\\/DUbi61iV4AA06Ph-min.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;48687&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Audi Says All-Female Team has been Planned Since 2012&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;All-Female Race Group Makes History at Daytona&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Image courtesy GMG Racing.\\n\\nTristan Herbert, senior manager of Motorsports and Customer Racing for Audi, said that Audi has planned an all-female team since the inception of their Audi Sport Customer Racing Program back in 2012. \\u201cIt\\u2019s only fitting that we continue this progress at the competition level within customer racing. We chose these drivers because they\\u2019re talented, professional and lay down impressive times in the front of the field.\\u201d&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}]\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ashley Freiberg and Gosia Rdest made history this past weekend as the first all-female driving team at the Rolex 24 at Daytona.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":48686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3697,3470,5029,4879],"tags":[5775,4037,4892,5776,1074,41,1632,450,4888],"class_list":["post-48683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galleries","category-news","category-racing","category-slideshow","tag-ashley-freiberg","tag-audi","tag-galleries","tag-gosia-rdest","tag-mike-aguilar","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-rolex-24-at-daytona","tag-slideshow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DUbi60tVQAAwTY0-min.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-cFd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48690,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48683\/revisions\/48690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}