NAME Amna Al Qubaisi
AGE 23- born March 28, 2000
COUNTRY Emirati
JOB Racing driver
Amna began her karting career in 2014 at the age of 14. She was the first Arab woman to participate at the Rotax Max Challenge (RMC) World Finals. Two years later she began competing internationally claiming top 10 finishes. In 2017, she was the first Arabic girl to win the UAE RMC Championship. She was also the first female to be sponsored by Kaspersky Lab. She was also the first female to be selected by the ATCUAE to represent the UAE at the GCC Young Drivers Academy Programme which she won.
Amna and her sister Hamda participated at the X30 Euro Series in Wackersdorf with Team Driver. It was Amna's first time to drive in Wackersdorf and she has showed great pace being amongst the top five in one of her heats. Amna has finished 16th overall out of 54 drivers, and she was also the only female to reach the Final.
Amna competed in the 2018 Italian F4 Championship with the championship winning Prema Powerteam. She competed in six of the seven rounds, with her highest place finish in a race being 12th. She also took part the following season, finishing 31st with no points.
Al Qubaisi was one of nine female drivers to take part in a test session on 16 December 2018, after the first round of the 2018-19 Formula E Season at the Ad Diriyah ePrix on a street circuit in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. She drove for Envision Virgin Racing in an Audi-powered Formula E car in an initiative by the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission. It came less than six months after women were legally allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia for the first time.
Al Qubaisi took the place of her sister Hamda for the Barcelona round with Prema Racing, in the 2022 Formula Regional European Championship.
In 2023, Amna signed with MP Motorsport in the newly launched all-female F1 Academy championship. She ended the season with 2 wins and placed 6th. For 2024, she re-signed with MP and joined the Red Bull Academy Programme to represent RB Formula One Team.
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Women in Motosport
AcakMotosports are full of men. Hopefuly, some women take part of this wonderful sport. I wanted to create this book to show us that women can be in motosports too.
