By alley - Jun 1, 2017, 12:22 PM ET

Women in motorsports: Stephanie Andersen

Stephanie Andersen went from Spec Miata to a B-Spec Mazda2 for one reason: to race in Pirelli World Challenge. After winning in the Spec Miata, including taking the Midwestern Council championship in 2014, the lure of pro racing was too much to resist. It may have only been one race, but that fire still burns. In the meantime, she’s racing in the SCCA U.S. Majors Tour with her eyes on the 2017 SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

“I just did the one [World Challenge] race at Road America,” Andersen says. “My goal was to build the Mazda2 because I wanted to do a pro race, just as my own personal achievement. But it was a huge cost, so this year I wanted to make my money go as far as I could and decided to do the Majors Tour to the Runoffs.”