Iron Dames,
Congratulations!
Hard work pays off. Always. They know it well and Iron Dames who in yesterday’s day conquered the 8h of Bahrain winning their first race in the GTE championship. After the extraordinary pole position taken by Belgian Sarah Bovy, the pink-clad trident was able to manage and administer the race winning a victory as historic as it was deserved. This is the first GTE championship victory for an all-female team, a new record, a new page in the great book of motorsport being written and signed by the Iron bridesmaids.
It’s Cinderella’s story, it’s Indiana Jones’ quest to find the last templar, this last race in the GTE category – of the championship and not only since there will be no more next year – ends in the best possible way. A finale that held everyone in suspense but, after all, this is also the WEC. A deserved, sought-after victory, slipped through the hands like a wet bar of soap until tonight. Sarah Bovy, Michelle Gatting and Rahel Frey, were flawless. The team? The David Copperfields of motorsport and the WEC.
The #85 Porsche handled by Pole Woman Bovy in the first phase of the race laid the foundation needed to launch Frey into the second stint of the race, in the final hour Gatting defended tooth and nail the position undermined by a goliardic Caspar Stevenson
on the Aston #777 D’Station (Fujii/Talbot), even managing to counterattack and gain ground, and in a garibaldian spirit, the Gatting stopped every attack by the Aston Martin bearer by taking margin. A dream come true. An extraordinary chapter. An all-pink team beats the male competition. How wonderful! Finally.
Déborah Mayer, entrepreneur and founder of the Iron Dames team, created the Race To Inspire in 2018: a long way has been covered, miles swallowed many, multiple commitments in the WEC have made this team solidify more and more create an increasingly perfect symbiosis. An all-pink excellence that proves, once again, how women, like men, can compete in the same championship without compromise and without limits.
The best way to say goodbye to the GTE championship that from 2024 will be abandoned. A farewell that leaves a bit of bitterness in the mouth for all the fans who will no longer see these cars of extraordinary beauty to make way for Hypercars.
Maybe one day we will still see them on the track, in some minor championship or open day.
But now it is time to celebrate everything else takes a back seat.
Never Give Up.
Motorsport is beautiful
The Iron Dames will go down in WEC history 🙌
The 8 Hours of Bahrain saw them get their maiden win, as the first all-female team, in the last ever LMGTE Am race ✨#WEC #8HBahrain pic.twitter.com/2hg3P8fzrz
— FIA World Endurance Championship (@FIAWEC) November 4, 2023
