Sara Price

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Sara Price
Sara Price Honda Indy Toronto.jpg
Price at Honda Indy Toronto in 2016
Nationality American
Born (1992-09-02) September 2, 1992 (age 29)
Riverside, California
Extreme E career
Debut season2021
Current teamChip Ganassi Racing
Car number99
Co-driverKyle LeDuc
Starts1
Stadium Super Trucks career
Debut season2016
Car number78
Starts14
Wins0
Podiums0
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Best finish11th in 2016
Finished last season24th (2017)
Last updated on: April 4, 2021.

Sara Price (born September 2, 1992) is an American racing driver, having competed in motocross, rallying, the X Games, Stadium Super Trucks and Extreme E.[1] She currently races in Extreme E for Chip Ganassi Racing.

Price has won 17 national motocross championships and she has medaled in the X Games.[2] She hails from Southern California and has been racing since the age of 8.[3]

Racing career[]

In 2010, Price became first female factory supported motocross racer to race for Monster Energy Kawasaki Racing.[4] Over the next few years, Price raced for Monster Energy Kawasaki and medaled several times at the X Games before transitioning to racing off road.[4][5][6] Price placed first at the 2013 Elsinore Grand Prix and won the Terracross Championship in 2015.[7][8]

In 2016, Price won the Off-road Motorsports Hall of Fame Rising Star Award in the UTV, MX, and ATV Category.[9]

Price made her debut in Stadium Super Trucks at the 2016 Honda Indy Toronto race weekend, becoming the first female driver to compete in the series.[1] The following year, she ran the season finale at Lake Elsinore Diamond.[10] Price did not return to the series until 2020, racing at the Adelaide 500 race weekend.[11]

In 2017, Price won Hoonigan and Fiat's Female Driver Search to become next female Hoonigan Athlete.[12] She also placed 6th place at the Climb to the Clouds” at Mount Washington in a Fiat 124 Rally Car.[13]

Price made her debut in a trophy truck in the 2017 Best in the Desert Laughlin Desert Classic and placed second.[14]

In 2019, Price became the first female SCORE International Baja 1000 IronWoman by solo driving the entire race and finishing second in the trophy trucks spec class.[15][16]

Price first raced rally in 2015 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles, finishing first among rookie participants.[17][18] Price did not return to rally racing until 2020 when she placed second in the UTV Class at Sonora Rally.[19][20]

On June 11, 2020, Chip Ganassi Racing announced Price would race with the team for the inaugural Extreme E season in 2021. She was the first confirmed driver for the series, and the first female racer in CGR's history.[21]

Miss California USA[]

Price competed in the Miss California USA in 2013, but did not make the finals.[6][22]

Motorsports career results[]

Stadium Super Trucks[]

(key) (Bold – Pole position. Italics – Fastest qualifier. * – Most laps led.)

Stadium Super Trucks results
Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 SSTC Pts Ref
2016 ADE ADE ADE STP STP LBH LBH DET DET DET TOW TOW TOW TOR
8
TOR
9
CLT
5
CLT
6
OCF
4
OCF
6
SRF
9
SRF
11
SRF
6
11th 130 [23]
2017 ADE ADE ADE STP STP LBH LBH PER PER PER DET DET TEX TEX HID HID HID BEI GLN GLN ELS
9
ELS
DNQ
24th 25 [24]
2020 ADE
10
ADE
8
ADE
10
ROA ROA N/A1 [25]

1 Standings were not recorded by the series for the 2020 season.

Extreme E[]

(key)

Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pos. Points
2021 Chip Ganassi Racing Spark ODYSSEY 21 DES
Q

7
DES
R

8
OCE
Q

7
OCE
R

7
ARC
Q

7
ARC
R

9
ISL
Q

5
ISL
R

4
JUR
Q

8
JUR
R

8
7th 60

Filmography[]

Year Title Role Notes
2009 Semper Ride Herself
2016 The Grand Tour Stunt driver One episode
2019 Shadow Wolves One episode
Jumanji: The Next Level
2020 NOS4A2 Four episodes
Coyote Pre-production

References[]

  1. ^ a b Hall, Emme (July 15, 2016). "Sara Price becomes first woman to race Stadium Super Trucks". Road-Show. CNET. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
  2. ^ Fryer, Jenna (July 13, 2016). "Abreu headed to Eldora for early start before truck race". Associated Press, The Brandon Journal. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
  3. ^ "Sara Price's Biography". Supercross. 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Monster Kawasaki WMX Sara Price Profile". September 13, 2010. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  5. ^ "Sara Price X Games Competition History".
  6. ^ a b Wilkie, Jim (January 14, 2013). "Price makes her point at pageant". ESPN. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
  7. ^ "IMG Motorsports Sara Price wins Rounds 1 & 2 at Terracross Championship". Dirt Toys. July 2015. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  8. ^ "Sara Price wins Open 1000 Class at Lake Elsinore Grand Prix". OutdoorHub. November 15, 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  9. ^ "Off-Road Motorsport Hall of Fame 2016 Induction Ceremony". Race-Dezert.com. November 8, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  10. ^ Dunster, Sean (December 18, 2017). "Stadium Super Trucks sees return of two top names — including one from NASCAR –in racing". Alt Driver. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  11. ^ Nguyen, Justin (February 19, 2020). "SST entry list for Adelaide 500 revealed". The Checkered Flag. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  12. ^ Korecki, Danny (November 9, 2017). "Hoonigan's Driver Search Winner Sara Price Tackles Mexican Hillclimb". TheDrive. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  13. ^ Lee, Michael (August 19, 2018). "Off-Road Racing star Sara Price talks with us at the 2017 SEMA Show". The Ride to My Road. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  14. ^ "Method Race Wheels Laughlin Desert Classic Official Results" (PDF). May 13, 2017. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  15. ^ Clark, Dominic (November 25, 2019). "Ampudia Brothers overall winners in 52nd SCORE Baja 1000". Racer.com. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  16. ^ "Price competes in race as only Ironwoman". FridayFlyer.com. November 22, 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  17. ^ Ritchie, Donna (June 26, 2015). "Sara Price, Erica Sacks officially are Gazelles". FridayFlyer.com. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  18. ^ Prescott, Mariah (April 7, 2015). "Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles 2015". RacingJunk. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  19. ^ Fiolka, Marty (March 19, 2020). "Sara Price and Skyler Howes up front at Sonora Rally". Racer.com. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  20. ^ Fiolka, Marty (March 21, 2020). "Brabec, Pelayo take home Sonora Rally glory". Racer.com. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  21. ^ "Sara Price joins Chip Ganassi Racing for Extreme E". Racer. June 11, 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  22. ^ Wilkie, Jim (January 14, 2013). "Sara Price didn't win Miss Califonira USA but she made an impact". ESPN. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  23. ^ "2016 Overall Point Standings". Stadium Super Trucks. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  24. ^ "2017 Overall Point Standings". Stadium Super Trucks. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  25. ^ "2020 Adelaide Results". Stadium Super Trucks. Retrieved November 25, 2020.

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