Susie Wolff

Susie Wolff changed who could imagine a place on the grid.

A girl from Oban who became a professional racing driver. A Williams Formula One test driver. The first woman in 22 years to take part in a Formula One race weekend.

Motorsport has always loved speed, danger and courage, but for a long time it struggled to picture those things in female form.

Susie made that harder to ignore.

After racing, she moved from driver to leader, becoming Team Principal and CEO in Formula E, then Managing Director of F1 Academy.

Now girls can look at the world’s most famous racing championship and see something that was missing for too long: a route in.

Few women get close enough to Formula One to change the view from inside it.

Susie did.

Photographed by Sane Seven for The Sunday Times cover story.