Flying Finn Mikko Hirvonen during Rally Sweden 2010.

1919 Clara Bow and Moon Roadster made in St. Louis MO

Dating in Los Angeles is hard, especially when you have a shitty car.

Smallest ever car to go into mass production was the fascinating "Peel" P50 car (you could almost carry it as a suitcase). Geez, imagine driving this down the road surrounded by giant SUV's. Yikes!

June 1943. "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Women garage attendants at the Atlantic Refining Company." The hard part here was figuring out that crazy clamshell hood. Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

Simca chose an odd theme for their display at the 1955 auto show.

I have no idea what's going on here, but props to this gal for standing there like a BOSS.

This postcard shows two Hangyoku (Young Geisha) sitting in an early Automobile. The car is a Colibri (Hummingbird) manufactured by the Norddeutsche Automobil-Werke (North German Auto Works) between 1908 and 1912.

I like this bike. Its a nice looking bike. Yeah.

Nothing more badass than wrenching on your own rig.

Betty Skelton, race driver.

Drive Like a Girl - Car insurance designed for women. WTF?

The Bare Devils by Cutex.

Does anyone have an ID on this lady?

You probably have seen the video of Amy picking up her Lamborghini Gallardo from her last trip to the states. Although she loves that, her dream car has always been the Audi R8! A week after getting back to the states she tracked down the perfect car and started making plans for a very unique look. We picked the car up from Lamborghini Carolinas and dropped it off the next day at Carbon Wraps (http://on.fb.me/YzQzbs) in Orlando, FL. Steve put in many 3AM nights over the course of a few weeks to get the car looking like a factory job! Every panel was removed and done completely right - HIGHLY recommend them if you're thinking of a wrap. She then finished it off with satin black 20" B18 Modulare Wheels. Amy couldn't be happier with how the car came out! Congrats on buying yourself your 2nd supercar by 22 babe :-) Super proud!

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Vicki's Toyota Test Prius Test.

Sabine Schmitz is a German former professional motor racing driver for BMW, later known for driving the BMW "Ring taxi" around the Nürburgring race track as well as being a television personality.

Schmitz came to mass public attention driving one of the two BMW M5 "Ring taxi" around the 20.8 km long race track in an entertaining manner.

According to her own estimates, Schmitz has gone around the track more than 20,000 times, increasing by approximately 1200 per year. Her familiarity with the circuit earned her the nicknames "Queen of the Nürburgring" and "the fastest taxi driver in the world". She says her favourite parts of the track are Schwedenkreuz and Fuchsröhre.

Susie Wolff (née Stoddart; born 6 December 1982 in Oban) is a British racing driver from Scotland. She has progressed through the ranks of motorsport, starting off in karting, then moving up to Formula Renault and Formula Three before moving to the DTM to compete for Mercedes-Benz since 2006. In 2012 she was signed by the Williams Formula One team to work as a development driver.

Vicki Butler-Henderson from the show Fifth Gear. Certified badass!

Actress Natalie Wood and her Mercedes 250SL.

Beccy Gordon gets her shot at Long Beach.

Robby Gordon's sister, primarily an off-road driver, will be in Saturday's Pro/Celebrity race.

Beccy Gordon just might be an accident waiting to happen Friday on the streets of downtown Long Beach.
It's not that NASCAR driver Robby Gordon's sister, one of the competitors in the Toyota Pro/Celebrity race, can't handle a race car. In 2006, the Dana Hills resident teamed with her sister Robyn Gordon and Heather Bonnani as part of All American Girl Racing and finished the Baja 1000 while competing in the Baja Challenge division. That made them the first all-female team in the race's history to complete one of the most grueling endurance tests in motor sports.

The way she learned how to drive, though, is as untamed as the terrain in the Mexican desert that she conquered two years ago.
Passing is not something that happens a whole lot in off-road racing. But whenever she happened to come up on a slower driver, she gives them a tap, a signal to let them know that it's time to move over and let her by.

Those kinds of tactics, though, might not play well on a narrow, twisty street course, like the one she will have to navigate today during today's qualifying session, which will set the starting lineup for Saturday's 10-lap race.

"I guess I will have to do some of that … bumping on Saturday," she said with a laugh. "I have been pretty clean in practice, but we will have to see what happens on race day."

This whole experience, Gordon said, has been "surreal." She's getting a chance to drive on the same streets on which Robby finished third while driving in the featured CART Champ Car race during the 1994 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.

While her brother drove for Toyota, she kept pestering the Pro/Celebrity folks to give her a chance in their extremely popular race. And finally she's getting a chance.

But she's not just in the race. She is considered one of the pros, so on Saturday she'll have to beat defending NHRA Funny Car champion Tony Pedregon and Mike Skinner, who drives in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series like Robby, to win her class.

"I really can't believe this. I mean to be considered a pro … it's a huge honor," said Gordon, who was a part of the United State national softball team that traveled to the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992.

But being considered a pro is also a huge disadvantage for her because she will be starting 30 seconds behind the celebrity field, which includes Raymond Cruz ("The Closer), William Fichtner ("Prison Break") and Wilmer Valderrama ("That '70s Show").

That's a lot of time to give up for someone like Gordon, who never has done anything like this. Still, she hasn't ruled out winning the whole thing.

Her strategy: Keep Skinner in sight.

"If I can do that, then maybe he will make a mistake and then who knows? I think I can find a way to keep up with him, I will be fine," Gordon, 29, said. "But I am here to win. There's a difference between drivers and racers. Anyone can drive. It takes someone special to go out there and race. And if I am racing in it, I want to win it."

Besides going through the Pro/Celebrity training camp at Willow Springs International Motorsports Park in Rosamond, she's been driving go-karts with her boyfriend and IndyCar Series driver, Ryan Hunter-Reay. Just like Gordon's brother, Hunter-Reay has driven in the big race during the Grand Prix of Long Beach, so he's given her pointers on where to brake and shift on Long Beach's 1.968-mile street course.

But she will have to go it alone on race day. Hunter-Reay will be competing in the Indy Japan 300 in Motegi and her brother is in Hungary and Romania, driving his Hummer in the Central Europe Rally. It's a make-up event for the Dakar Rally, which was scheduled for January but was canceled because of terrorism concerns in Mauritania.

"Finally, I get my chance to race in Long Beach - and where are Robby and Ryan? My two biggest sources for info this weekend will be out of town," she said.

But her brother is going to be there for her this year in the Baja 500 and 1000. He's letting All American Girl Racing use his buggy, which she said will likely be entered in Class 1."But we keep pushing him to let us use his Hummer," she said. "Maybe if he brings it back in one piece from the rally, and it's just sitting in his shop in Anaheim, we might have a shot at racing it."

DOUBLE PODIUM FINISH FOR SARAH BENNETT-BAGGS!

Sarah’s inaugural outing in her new loaned 911 SC won her a double podium finish at Silverstone over the weekend. Extending her points for 2nd in the Championship.

Sarah Bennett-Baggs returned to the Porsche Club Championship at Silverstone last weekend – following a huge accident at Castle Combe three weeks ago, which wrote off her beautiful pink 1978 Porsche 911 SC.

Sarah was loaned an identical car Porsche 911, which was quickly prepared with her engine and gearbox by Harvey Racing, then wrapped in an eye-catching pink furry wrap by Cre8, Potters Bar based Creative Agency.

Whilst the new car didn’t handle nearly as well as the old one, Sarah still managed to qualified 3rd in class, and maintained that position for two race finishes in third position.

“In the first Race Adrian Stock and I were swapping places two or three times on a lap, and the lap before the last he was in front, so it was a good scrap, Adrian could still steal my 2nd position in the Championship so it was important to try and beat him to keep my points lead, I am happy with the result and looking forward to Spa.”

The last two rounds of the Porsche Club Championship are for double points and at the world famous alpine circuit of Spa Francorchamps, in Belgium in two weeks time.

"Queen of the Nurburgring" Sabine Schmitz attempts to beat Jeremy Clarkson in a Ford Transit Van.

This is part 2, where she does the lap. The intro can be watched here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQJKQjXpGQA