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  1. 1Michèle MoutonMichèle MoutonMouton’s 1981 Sanremo win in an Audi Quattro is a good starting point for her rally career. She finished second in the 1982 World Rally Championship, and she’d already shared a class win at Le Mans in 1975. The two results make a useful pair if you want to compare long-distance circuit racing with…0
  2. 2Shirley MuldowneyShirley MuldowneyBorn Jun 19, 1940Start with her 1977 Top Fuel season. Three consecutive summer wins helped build the lead that delivered her first championship. She won the title again in 1980 and 1982. A Top Fuel run is over quickly, but those seasons show what it took to keep winning across a calendar.0
  3. 3Odette SikoOdette SikoSiko and Louis Charavel finished fourth overall at Le Mans in 1932. Start there if you’re looking at the early years of endurance racing. An overall finish tells you where their car ended up against the whole field, and the shared result tells you to look up both drivers.0
  4. 4Lella LombardiLella LombardiBorn Mar 26, 1941The half-point next to Lombardi’s name in the 1975 standings came from sixth place in the shortened Spanish Grand Prix. She drove a March. Start with the result sheet if you’ve only heard the half-point mentioned in passing. It shows where she finished and how a shortened race affected the points.0
  5. 5Janet GuthrieJanet GuthrieBorn Mar 7, 1938Guthrie’s sixth place at Bristol in 1977 is a good result to look up alongside her more famous appearances. It was her best finish in NASCAR’s top series. The race gives you a way into her career through where she ran and finished on a short oval.0
  6. 6Desiré WilsonDesiré WilsonBorn Nov 26, 1953Wilson won at Brands Hatch in 1980 in the British Aurora series, which ran Formula One machinery. She also won at Monza and Silverstone in the world sports car championship that year. Keep the series names handy when you look up her results. They show two different kinds of success in the same…0
  7. 7Jutta KleinschmidtJutta KleinschmidtBorn Aug 29, 1962Kleinschmidt first entered the Dakar on a motorcycle, won a special stage in a car in 1997, and took the overall car victory in a Mitsubishi in 2001. The stage win and the overall win tell different stories. One is about the fastest time on a section, and the other is about getting the best result…0
  8. 8Danica PatrickDanica PatrickStart with Patrick’s win at Motegi in 2008 and watch the closing stages against Hélio Castroneves. For a different look at her oval racing, try the 2013 Daytona 500, where she finished eighth. The switch from Indy cars to stock cars changes the way the drivers race in a pack.0
  9. 9Erica EndersErica EndersBorn Oct 8, 1983Look at how Enders clinched her sixth Pro Stock title. A first-round win over Fernando Cuadra Sr. at the 2023 finale secured it. That’s a useful introduction to a drag racing championship. You can see what one head-to-head run means after the points from a whole season have added up.0
  10. 10Brittany ForceBrittany ForceBorn Jul 8, 1986Force took her second Top Fuel title in 2022. In 2025 she broke the 340-mph barrier in NHRA competition and won the fall event in Las Vegas. That season gives you two ways to follow her: track the speed on a single run, then look at how she won rounds against the driver in the other lane.0