Racing Revisited - Part 1: Karting days

Welcome to a new article series on my blog! In the Racing Revisited, I will bring you articles about Susie´s stages in the motorsport, from karting to the moment when for the first time in 22 years Susie became the first woman in F1 at British Grand Prix 2014 where female racing driver participated in the racing weekend. New article will be published every Saturday! Stay tuned!

Karting is an inseparable part at the start of the career for many racing drivers. Susie started karting around 1989 - 1990. In the 1996, Susie was named The British Woman Kart Racing Driver of the year. The following year she joined many different karting series where she was very successful. Susie finished first in the 24hr Middle East Kart Championship and became champion in The Scottish Junior Intercontinental "A" and The Scottish Open Junior Interncontinental "A" categories. She got named British Kart Racing Driver of the year for the second time. To be honest, I never delved deep into karting and its series. Very interesting that like in other bigger series, karting has endurance type of series too. 

In 1998, Susie entered the season with moving to the British Junior Intercontinental "A" Championship, where she finished in the 10th place overall. Later that year, Susie also competed in the Federation Cup European Intercontinental "A" Championship and placed 11th overall. Susie got named The British Kart Racing Driver of the year for the 3rd time in a row.

Interesting fact: Do you know what connects Susie Wolff and David Coulthard, two big Scottish F1 stars from the past? They both competed at Golspie´s North Of Scotland Kart Club.

In 1999, Susie started racing in The British Formula "A" Championship where she finished overall 13th and 34th in The Formula "A" World Championship, which also helped her to win the British Woman Kart Racing Driver of the Year for the fourth time. 

In the following year, Susie improved her overall results in the series and finished on 10th place in the local Formula "A" and 15th in the World. As the result of the strong season, Susie won The Top Female Kart Driver in the world award. Around this time, she was also racing against Lewis Hamilton, who is known in the present as one of the best racing drivers.

That year marked the end of Susie´s karting career, before she joined her first single seater series in Super Formula, about which I will write in the second part next Saturday! 

Back To F1 (Author´s POV)

 Hi Susie´s fans!

Haven´t posted an article for a really long time. The truth is I didn´t take a brake only from the blog, but slowly from F1 too. It started later in the 2016 or in the mid 2017, I am not exactly sure because it was more like I missed a lot of races, but not the whole season.

Last year, my love for Formula 1 and racing in general came back and I started following the season right from the beginning. Supporting Checo Pérez and Red Bull Racing, Carlos Sainz, Oscar Piastri and Lance Stroll.

Checo has a very strong start, but very soon Max Verstappen found a way where he simply couldn´t be defeated, except Singapore where Carlos Sainz won. Singaporean GP wasn´t really suiting Red Bull´s RB 19, where both drivers had unstable car through the whole racing weekend.

2023 season brought us also F1 Academy, all women racing series, where Susie Wolff became the managing director of the series. Originally, the first season for F1 Academy was planned already in 2020, but because of Covid-19 Pandemic and financial issues, the racing series couldn´t start earlier.

I am planning to post more retrospective articles about Susie and her career.

It´s race week and I am so excited for the new season!

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Formula E - First 6 races

Hello Susie Lovers!

I am really sorry for my inactivity. Here is article after long time with summary of the first 6 races.

1. Ad Diriyah E-prix

Susie´s debut race as team principal in Formula E. The results were 17th for Massa and 19th for Mortara.

2. Marrakesh E-prix

13th place for Mortara and 18th place for Massa.

3. Santiago E-prix

4th place for Mortara and DNF for Massa. Venturi got their first points this season!

4. Mexico City E-prix

3rd place for Mortara and 8th place for Massa. What a great result!

5. Hong Kong E-prix

1st place for Mortara and 5th place for Massa. It´s first victory for the team this season and also first victory in Susie´s carrier as team principal.

6. Sanya E-prix

10th place for Massa and 13th for Mortara.

I can´t wait for the next races. Susie is doing really good job and the results are really awesome. The team is currently on 6th place. Edoardo Mortara is on 6th place and Felipe is on 15th place in driver standings. Good luck Venturi in the next race!

I have also some news for you Susie lovers. Soon I will add all full races which are avaible to our website.

Formula E is coming

Hi Susie's lovers! Formula E is there about less than 6 days! Stay tuned for more news, pics, videos and more.

News about Susie, finishing the new design of the web

Hello Susie Lovers! ☺ Sorry for my inactivity. I know I said it few times but really sorry. Today I decided that I should continue with my fanblog and fanpage about our favorite and the fastest woman in the world.

Let's start with very happy news: Susie is back in racing. In June, Venturi Formula E team annouced her as team principal!

"When I decided to stop as a professional driver in 2015, I knew that I wanted to continue with the challenge of competitive racing, just not behind the wheel," said Wolff. "You can’t just switch off your competitive instincts when you stop driving and that determination and desire to achieve still burn brightly inside me.

"I took time to carefully decide the right direction for that challenge and I have now found the perfect next step, with the opportunity to become both a shareholder and Team Principal of Venturi Formula E Team." said Susie.

CEO of the team, Gildo Pastor, also said that thanks to Susie's personal experience, she will certainly lead the to the top. 

Personally, I can't wait for the new season of Formula E!

Since I didn't really posted pictures and articles about Jack, here are some photos:

Aren't they cute together? 🖤

These days I am going to finish everything on my blog what I added and wasn't finished yet, also I am planning to add more new things so stay tuned and I hope you liked this post. If you want, you can add my blog also to your RSS. If anyone is interested, we can also exchange banners.

See you in the next article!

Driven - The fastest woman in the world

Hi everyone! Now you can watch Driven - The fastest woman in the world also on my blog! 😊 Driven is great documentary movie about Susie's career before joining the F1, her big challenge which started in 2012 and also about crossing the boundaries to show everyone that motorsport is not just men world. It has 6,4/10 rating on IMDb.

If you want to watch the documentary, click here.

DTM: 2011 season (6th part)

Hi #teamSusieWolff! I'm back with new post about Susie's 6th year in DTM. In her penultimate season she was racing for Persson Motorsport team with AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2008 car and her team mates were Christian Vietoris and Render van der Zande. In 2011, Susie got married with Toto Wolff.

Here are her positions by the races:

• Hockenheim - 15th
• Valencia - 11th
• Oschersleben - DNF
• Brands Hatch - 14th
• Nurburgring - 14th
• Norisring - 13th
• Spielberg - 13th
• Zandvoort - 12th
• Hockenheim - 12th

Susie finished on 18th place in the driver standings. She raced the whole season with her maiden name Susie Stoddart except the Hockenheim finale.

Video from Susie's pitstop at Valencia. Warning - rather turn down the volume on your device if you are using headphones during listening to this video because of the powerful sound of the engine in the beginning and in the end.

I hope you liked the post. 😊

picture credits: susiewolff.com riotengine.in motorsport.com hiveminer.com