Debra Ann Miceli (Alundra Blayze)

Debra Ann Miceli (born February 9, 1964) is a Monster truck driver and former professional wrestler. She is best known under her ring names Madusa (shorthand for Made in the USA) or Alundra Blayze. Her early career was spent in the American Wrestling Association, where she held the AWA World Women's Championship one time. In 1988, Miceli was also the first woman to be awarded Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Rookie of the Year. The following year, she signed a contract with All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, making her the first foreign wrestler to do so. She later joined World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where she was a member of the Dangerous Alliance, a group of wrestlers managed by Paul E. Dangerously. In 1993, she joined the rival World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the name Alundra Blayze. In the WWF, she feuded with Bull Nakano and Bertha Faye, while holding the WWF Women's Championship a total of three times. Two years after joining the WWF, Miceli returned to WCW, showing up on an episode of Monday Nitro to throw the WWF Women's Championship belt into a trash can. For the next six years, she worked in WCW, where she feuded with Bull Nakano, Oklahoma, and became the first woman to hold the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship. After training wrestlers at the WCW Power Plant, she left the company in 2001.

In addition to wrestling, Miceli competes in the world of monster trucks. She drives a truck named Madusa, which was also her ring name for much of her professional wrestling career. She won the 2004 co-championship at the Monster Jam World Finals for freestyle in the first-ever three-way tie. The following year, she was the only female competitor in the Super Bowl of Motorsports, and she won the Racing Championship in the Monster Jam World Finals



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Ring name(s) : Alundra Blayze
Madusa
Madusa Miceli
Billed height : 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Billed weight : 150 lb (68 kg)
Born : February 9, 1964 (age 47)
Milan, Italy[2]
Resides : Citrus County, Florida
Trained by : Eddie Sharkey
Brad Rheingans
Debut : 1984
Retired : 2001

Natacha Gachnang

Natacha Gachnang (born October 27, 1987 in Vevey, Switzerland) is a Swiss race driver and the cousin of Formula One driver Sébastien Buemi.

On 17 December 2008, it was announced she would be the first female to drive in the new Formula One feeder series FIA Formula Two Championship. She finished 23rd in the campaign, scoring two points.

For the 2010 season she will team up with Cyndie Allemann and race for the Swiss Matech team in a GT1 class Ford GT in the FIA GT1 World Championship During qualifying for the first round of the championship in Abu Dhabi, she crashed heavily, breaking her right tibia.

She returned to racing in the 24 hours of Le Mans, with Gachnang and Allemann being joined by fellow Swiss Rahel Frey. This was the first time since 1991 and team consisting Lyn St. James, Desire Wilson and Cathy Muller as complete female team was competing in Le Mans.

Cyndie Allemann

Cyndie Allemann (born April 4, 1986 in Moutier) is a Swiss female racing driver.

After beginning her career in karting, she moved to cars in 2004 in Formule Renault 2.0 Suisse and finished 6th. The next year she moved to the more highly regarded German championship for the same cars and finished 12th. In 2006 she moved up to the Formel 3 Cup, finishing in 9th place and winning the pole position at EuroSpeedway Lausitz. The following year she drove in the Formula Three Euroseries for British team Manor Motorsport racing a Dallara-Mercedes, but despite participating in all 20 races, failed to score points and was not classified in the season standings.

In 2008, Cyndie Allemann signed to race in Firestone Indy Lights Series for American Spirit Racing. She would go on to finish 14th in the final points standings with her best result being a 4th place in the second race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Course in July.


For the 2010 season she teamed up with Natacha Gachnang and race for the Swiss Matech team in a GT1 class Ford GT. Primarily racing in the FIA GT1 World Championship she also raced in the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans

Natalia Kowalska

Natalia Kowalska (born 31 December 1989) is a Polish racing driver, currently racing in Formula 2. Kowalska started her career in racing in karting in Poland. In 2007 she switched to formula racing. That year, she drove a partial program in the Formula Renault 2.0 both in the Nordic and in the Eurocup series.


In 2008 she drove six races in the Star Mazda North American Championship. After a break in 2009, in 2010 she took part in the FIA Formula Two Championship.

Ashley Force Hood

Ashley Force Hood (born November 29, 1982) is a funny car drag racer for John Force Racing. She is the daughter of 15-time NHRA Funny Car national champion John Force and his wife Laurie Force. She is married to Daniel Hood, who works for John Force Racing.

Force was also selected as the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series' Rookie–of–the–Year (Funny Car division) in November 2007. On April 27, 2008, Force earned her first ever NHRA professional win, defeating her father in the final round, and becoming the first woman to earn a win in the Funny Car class at the NHRA Summit Southern Nationals held at the Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Georgia.

Force garnered the second win of her career on March 29, 2009 at the O'Reilly NHRA Spring Nationals; in the finals she beat her former instructor Jack Beckman.

Jack beat Ashley in the first round of eliminations at the next race at Las Vegas. She then gathered her fourth career #1 qualifier at the southern nationals, in which Jack Beckman got payback by beating Force-Hood in the final. Ashley compiled her fifth career #1 qualifier at the Thunder Valley Nationals


At the Mac Tools US Nationals in Indianapolis, Ashley won over teammate Robert Hight to earn her the distinction of not only being the first female Funny Car driver to win at Indianapolis, but the first female driver to win in two different classes. She finished the 2009 season 2nd in points becoming the highest women finisher in funny car history.

Courtney Force

Courtney Force (born June 20, 1988) is a Top Alcohol drag racer for John Force Racing. She is the youngest daughter of 15-time NHRA Funny Car national champion John Force and his wife Laurie Force. She currently attends Cal State Fullerton and is majoring in Communications. On July 19, 2009 Courtney won her first National event in the Top Alcohol Dragster category at the 22nd annual NHRA Northwest Nationals in Seattle, Washington.

Courtney earned her NHRA competition drivers license in 2005 and her Alcohol-Fuel license in 2008. She began racing in Super Comp before graduating to the Top-Alcohol dragsters along with her sister Brittany in 2008. She reached the final round twice in 2009, at Seattle and Pomona, picking up the victory in Seattle. Force has raced her sister Brittany on three occasions, beating her every time. She recorded a career best RT of .006 in the final event of 2009 at Pomona raceway.


Courtney's primary sponsor throughout her Super Comp career and first year of Top Alcohol Dragster was Brandsource. In 2009, Force picked up sponsorship by Sanyo, as well as Ford.

Danica Patrick

Danica Sue Patrick (born March 25, 1982) is an American auto racing driver, currently competing in the IndyCar Series, the ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards, and the NASCAR Nationwide Series, as well as a model and advertising spokeswoman. Patrick was named the Rookie of the Year for both the 2005 Indianapolis 500 and the 2005 IndyCar Series season. With her win in the 2008 Indy Japan 300, Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy car race. Patrick currently drives the #7 GoDaddy.com Honda/Dallara for Andretti Autosport. In 2010, Patrick began racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, driving the #7 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet Impala for JR Motorsports part-time. She also has an equity stake in her #7 team. She placed 3rd in the 2009 Indianapolis 500, which was both a personal best for her at the track and the highest finish by a woman in the event's history.

The 2010 season saw Patrick returning to drive with the newly renamed Andretti Autosport in the IZOD Indycar Series, as well as a limited schedule with JR Motorsports in the Nascar Nationwide Series. She would be sponsored by GoDaddy.com in both series.

The 2010 Indianapolis 500 got off to a rough start for Patrick when difficulties with the car setup led her to blame her team for poor qualifying results. Her comments that the car was "absolutely awful" and that "its not my fault," led the crowd to boo Patrick loudly. Patrick was also booed during driver intros.Despite starting in 23rd position, Patrick moved up 17 positions to finish in 6th.

Patrick's top finishes of the season came at Texas and Homestead-Miami. She finished in 2nd place in both races, making it the first season since 2007 in which she had placed on the podium in multiple races during a season. She finished 10th in the championship points for the season, moving just 6 points ahead of Justin Wilson during the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

During the 2010 season, Patrick set the Indycar Series record for consecutive races finished running, having finished every race of the 2010 season as well as all but the first race of the 2009 season, for a total of 33 races.

The 2010 season would also see Patrick participating in the Drive4COPD campaign along with Patty Loveless, Bruce Jenner, Michael Strahan, and Jim Belushi. The team is working as part of a multi-year initiative to bring awareness of the dangers of COPD (which includes Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema), the 4th leading cause of death in the US today





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Nationality : American
Date of birth : March 25, 1982 (1982-03-25)
Place of birth : Beloit, Wisconsin
2010 IRL IndyCar Series
Debut season : 2005
Car no. : 7
Former teams : Rahal Letterman Racing
Starts : 98
Wins : 1
Poles : 3
Best finish : 5th in 2009
Awards
2005–07, 2009 : IndyCar Rookie of the Year
IndyCar Most Popular Driver