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Sarah Marie Fisher (born October 4, 1980) is an American retired professional race car driver who competed in the Indy Racing League (IRL, now IndyCar Series) and the Indianapolis 500 intermittently from 1999 to 2010. She also raced in the NASCAR West Series in 2004 and 2005.
- October 4, 1980 (age 43), Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
- 17th in 2007
These records include the first woman to win the pole position for a major North American open-wheel event, the fastest woman to ever qualify for the Indianapolis 500 and the current track record holder at Kentucky Speedway. Fisher was an INDYCAR team owner for eight years, another first by a woman.
Jul 27, 2021 · Sarah Fisher, a former NTT INDYCAR SERIES driver and nine-time Indianapolis 500 starter, was standing at the fence of Whiteland (Indiana) Raceway Park on a recent weekday afternoon, monitoring her two children zipping around the go-kart track she owns with her husband, Andy O’Gara.
- 'Can This Little Girl Help Save The Irl?'
- Love at A Street Race
- Rising Through The Ranks
- Passing The IndyCar Test
Fisher doesn't remember the morning of May 28, 2000, the day she would run her first Indianapolis 500 at age 19 — the third and youngest woman to compete in the iconic race. She doesn't remember getting up or what she ate for breakfast. She doesn't remember much about race day at all. "It was just such a whirlwind," said Fisher. "As a 19-year-old k...
Dave and Reba Fisher met at a go-kart street race in Commercial Point, Ohio, in the 1970s. Reba Fisher, whose mother, Evelyn Grindell, was one of Ohio's early woman aviators, was there to race. Dave Fisher, who had competed in go-kart races against drivers such as Mark Dismore and Scott Goodyear, was there to race, too. "My mom grabbed my dad’s att...
She was barely 5 when Fisher started driving quarter midgets. Her whole family raced, uncles and cousins, and so she was next in line. "The thrill of driving, being behind the wheel, it got in my blood from the very start," she said. "And as far as other cars around me at five years old, I couldn’t understand all the bumping. Why they were doing th...
By the time the "Today" show had come to her high school, Fisher knew she wanted to be a professional race car driver. She decided that at 15. But she also was impressed with how smart her mom and dad were, how educated. So after graduating high school, she enrolled in the engineering program at Ohio State. After her first day of classes, the phone...
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May 10, 2022 · Sarah Fisher will drive a 2023 Corvette Z06 70th Anniversary Edition as the pace car for the 2022 Indy 500
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Oct 9, 2009 · Sarah Fisher: The Female Driver With the Most Indianapolis 500 Starts. What I'd do differently. Steven Cole Smith Published: Oct 9, 2009. At 19, she was the youngest driver at the time to...
May 10, 2022 · By Marshall Pruett | May 10, 2022 1:36 PM ET. Former IndyCar driver and team owner Sarah Fisher has been selected to drive the pace car for the 106th running of the Indianapolis 500. The Ohio native made nine Indy 500 starts, with the first coming in 2000 and the last in 2010.
