Christina Lam Is Living the American Motorsport Dream—and She’s Just Getting Started
Key takeaways
- A trailblazer for Asian American women in motorsport, Lam's journey inspires pride and admiration, showing that barriers can be broken.
- If you look at the who’s-who of any racing series on the planet, you might notice a pattern with the drivers who make it to the top.
- Lam’s motorsports journey began at the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife, but not in the way you might expect.
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A trailblazer for Asian American women in motorsport, Lam's journey inspires pride and admiration, showing that barriers can be broken.
If you look at the who’s-who of any racing series on the planet, you might notice a pattern with the drivers who make it to the top. Most of them start karting the day they can crawl, win championships by the time they can walk, and move on to formula cars once they can run—oh, and they’re almost all dudes. But many of today’s racing drivers are demonstrating that this longstanding formula for making it is no longer holding as much water, with Christina Lam serving as living proof of someone who’s forged their own path—in more ways than one.
Lam’s motorsports journey began at the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife, but not in the way you might expect. On an unrelated vacation through Europe, she found herself a stone’s throw away from the famed ribbon of tarmac and decided to participate in one of the Nordschleife’s many Touristenfahrten (tourist drive) sessions. It’s important to note that she also learned how to drive a manual car during the same excursion. That must be the coolest "how-I-learned-to-drive-stick" story we’ve heard.