Angelique Bell: Perseverance, Passion, and Pink Tail Tanks in Sprint Car Racing
· Guest: Angelique Bell – Sprint Car Driver, California · Topics Covere…
Women's Motorsports Network Podcast shares the stories of women involved in motorsports from around the world. The first episode was in 2018 and new episodes are added each week. Feel free to suggest potential guests to Melinda at melinda@wmnnation.com.
Fuel Her Future with Melinda Russell is a solo podcast that began in June of 2026,
Fueling Your Future with Inspiration, Encouragement, Courage, Confidence, and Community.
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Fifteen-year-old Legend Car driver Zoey Smith may be young, but her racing journey is already filled with determination, perseverance, and life lessons that racers of every age can appreciate.
Send us Fan Mail Dirt tracks have a way of revealing who you are the moment you turn in. Maddy Brook is only 17, but she already talks like someone who has learned that speed is equal parts courage, composure, and community. She joins us from Western Sydney to share how her life as a zookeeper at th...
Send us Fan Mail A rear tire flies off on the last lap and you still take the win by crossing the finish line backwards. That’s the kind of real-world racing story we love, and teen driver Jillian Cole brings it with honesty, humor, and a clear look at what youth motorsports actually demands. We sit...
Send us Fan Mail A $5 an hour summer job at a racetrack doesn’t sound like the start of a major motorsports career, but that’s exactly where Lauri Eberhart begins. From Michigan International Speedway to Nazareth Speedway to the NASCAR hub in North Carolina, Lori shows how motorsports careers are bu...
Send us Fan Mail A 10-year-old with a trophy shelf behind her sounds adorable until you realize she’s also a serious driver with a clear head for speed, strategy, and safety. We sit down with Laci Mitchell from Victoria, Australia, a fourth-generation racer who started at five and now races both qua...
Send us Fan Mail Most racing stories start with childhood karting, but Katrina “Kat” Gray takes a route that feels a lot more like real life. Kat joins us from Lincolnshire in the UK, where she teaches people to drive for a living and still finds time to chase lap times on some of the most iconic ro...
Send us Fan Mail You don’t need to start racing at five years old to belong on a racetrack. Melinda Russell sits down with Kim Estep, a Porsche racer who didn’t take her first laps until her 30s, and still built a path into real competition through coaching, club racing, and the kind of community th...
Send us Fan Mail Drag racing taught Danika Miles how to perform under pressure, but dirt racing forced her to rebuild everything she thought she knew. Danika is 18, already nine years into motorsports, and she’s not sugarcoating what it takes to grow up around racing, sponsors, and serious expectati...
· Guest: Angelique Bell – Sprint Car Driver, California · Topics Covere…
Key Topics Covered: · How Caylie went from “no interest in racing” to becoming hooked after her first start …
· Guest: Eileen Noyes — host of Unsidelined podcast, coach, mom/stepmom to a blended family of 15 · &n…
· Guest: Ava Weil – senior at LaVille Junior Senior High School, racer at Mocharts of Marshall County (Argus, India…
Guest: Lisa Kubo Key Topics Covered: · Growing up in a street racing family in California · &n…
Show Notes Guest: Sadie Parsons In this episode, Sadie Parsons shares her journey from her first go-kart at age five to racing multiple divi...


