RAC(H)ER PROGRAMME

Double Olympic champion Nicola Adams becomes a Rac(H)er mentor! The athlete will coach drivers, offer valuable advice to employees and chair conferences, to raise awareness of diversity as a key driver of performance. Zara Rutherford, who perfectly embodies the Rac(H)er spirit, is also joining forces with us. As the youngest female pilot to complete a solo round-the-world flight in a microlight aircraft, she will come to Enstone for a study period during which she will be able to share her inspirational experience with the younger generation.  

As part of the Rac(H)er programme, six young women drivers are officially joining Alpine’s young driver karting programme: Angélina Proenca and Lisa Billard (both 13 years old, from France), Aiva Anagnostiadis (15 years old, from Australia), Chiara Battig (12 years old, from Switzerland), Maria Chiara Nardelli (12 years old, from Italy) and the very young Kaur Kera Sukhmani (10 years old, from the United Kingdom). The six young drivers will benefit from a tailor-made training programme to become the champions of tomorrow. These announcements embody Alpine’s ambition to accelerate the development of female racing talents in motorsport.

Internally, Alpine will benefit from Springboard’s 34 years of experience in creating high-level personal development programmes to nurture female leadership at Enstone. This pilot programme will be combined with other initiatives, such as the “Allyship Training” workshop implemented at its Enstone factory for the empowerment of women or also “Women in Engineering”, a pioneering working group to raise awareness of these new issues among female engineers. The aim is for women to make up 30% of our teams within five years!