WRC – Finalists for Past Rally Ladies’s Driver Improvement Programme introduced

Fifiteen candidates from 13 totally different nations 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 can be out there 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 Improvement Programme who will meet subsequent month to show themselves worthy of one in every of three out there seats in a Rally3 automobile at October’s WRC Central European Rally.

The candidates, chosen from an excitingly world checklist of candidates, will attend a three-day coaching camp from 16 – 18 September at M-Sport Poland’s Krakow headquarters the place they are going to search to show their rally preparedness, mechanical data, media nous and driving potential on blended surfaces.

The camp can be run by a group of rallying consultants and a panel of judges, together with FIA Ladies in Motorsport Chairwoman Burcu Çetinkaya, can be answerable for deciding on essentially 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 automobiles in a completely supported programme.

Following on from Central European Rally, a driver can be chosen for a completely supported marketing campaign within the 2025 FIA Junior WRC.

The profitable candidates, from a various vary of motorsports backgrounds, characterize 13 nations 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 have been fully overwhelmed by the quantity and high quality of candidates,” expressed WRC Promoter’s Senior Director of Sport Peter Thul. “Deciding on the remaining 15 was an extremely difficult activity and there have been some troublesome calls to make.

“We are not looking for any of the unfortunate candidates to be discouraged and we do hope they are going to 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.”