TERRI HUNDERTMARK

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Terri is in her third year of auto racing. She raced 48 times her first year and spent an amazing 53 days on the track the first six months of 1999. Her dedication is apparent; she has already had her first podium finish June 5, 1999, placing third at New Hampshire International Speedway.

Terri started off her 2000 season competing as a ‘warm-up’ in the Skip Barber Formula Dodge event at Phoenix International Raceway in February.
She followed that with a 12th place start and 9th place finish at the first
race of the Women’s Global GT Series (WGGTS) at Sebring International
Raceway on March 17. Her run in the Tire Kingdom/ Michelin/ Racing For Kids
WGGTS entry was her first run in a sedan since the April WGGTS event at Road
Atlanta where she ran as high as 2nd before finishing 8th.

The most recent WGGTS event came at Road Atlanta. Terri qualified seventh
and would finish her season high fifth place in the Michelin/ Racing For
Kids/ MsSpeed.com/ TCR Panoz. Despite her newness to sedan racing she is
learning quickly and is looking forward to the remainder of the WGGTS season
as she becomes more acquainted with the unique characteristics of the Panoz
Esperante WGGTS. Terri is currently seventh in points.

Terri has won at everything she has tried. She was a successful high school athlete in her native Longmont, Colorado and moved that competitive spirit into the world of personal watercraft ("Jet-Skis") in 1990. She made history at the Hot Water Tour in Phoenix, Arizona in 1992, by becoming the first woman to ever win a national personal watercraft event in the Runabout Division.

In 1997 she was offered her first opportunity to go auto racing. At the time she had no intention of leaving the fame and success she had found competing on the water but once through the Skip Barber Racing School she knew her destiny was set. She competed in her first auto race, at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut, in May of 1998.

Competing in the Barber Formula Dodge Eastern Series—a race series matching drivers in identically prepared open wheel, open cockpit formula style cars— Terri raced to 38th in a championship chase that included 171 drivers. A season high finish of sixth at both New Hampshire and Lime Rock guaranteed that she would be the top finishing woman in the season-long standings.

Now, just three years into her auto racing career, she has completed three Skip Barber series— two seasons of the Barber Dodge Eastern Series and a season in the Barber Dodge Southern Series. In the Southern series, she was again the highest-ranking female driver and 30th out of 151 drivers in season-long points. 1999 ended with her strongest performance in Skip Barber competition yet, taking the 25th spot in points out of 164 drivers in her second season in the Eastern series.

She completed the grueling 1999 & 2000 Michelin/Car and Driver One Lap of America. In 1999 she placed 11th in her class driving the Team Johnson Controls/Michelin Ford Mustang Cobra SVT. In 2000 she placed 14th in class driving a stock BMW Z Coupe for Michelin. She also made history running in the inaugural event for the Women’s Global GT Series. Terri ran up-front all day but would eventually take the checkered in 8th place.

In early January 1999, Terri organized a team of five other women to race in a grueling 24-hour event at Moroso Motorsports Park. The team competed in one of the quicker classes in the multi-division event, the Spec Racer Ford class. Terri arranged pledges for each lap of the event the team completed. This gave her the opportunity to focus on two of her loves, auto racing and helping the Racing For Kids program. Racing For Kids has been an important part of Terri’s life for four years. Terri has been the sole female spokesperson for the charity, created to help make the dreams of terminally ill children come true, since she joined the Racing For Kids’ team. She looks at Racing For Kids as a chance to give something back and plans a greater schedule of hospital visits and other fund raising activities in 2000.

For more information on this super racerchick check out her website at www.MsSpeed.com.  For more information on Racing for Kids click here.

Check out her article "I'm a Girl Why Should I Worry About Tires?"