Sara Price

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Sara Price
Sara Price Honda Indy Toronto.jpg
Price at Honda Indy Toronto in 2016
NationalityFlag of the United States.svg  American
Born (1992-09-02) September 2, 1992 (age 32)
Riverside, California
Extreme E career
Debut season 2021
Current team Chip Ganassi Racing
Car number99
Co-driver Kyle LeDuc
Starts5
Best finish7th in 2021
Finished last season7th (2021)
Stadium Super Trucks career
Debut season 2016
Car number78
Starts14
Wins0
Podiums0
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Best finish11th in 2016
Finished last season24th (2017)
Last updated on: February 9, 2022.

Sara Price (born September 2, 1992) is an American racing driver, having competed in motocross, rallying, the X Games, Stadium Super Trucks and Extreme E. [1]

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Price has won 17 national motocross championships and she has medaled in the X Games. [2] She hails from Southern California and has been racing since the age of 8. [3]

Racing career

In 2010, Price became first female factory supported motocross racer to race for Monster Energy Kawasaki Racing. [4] Over the next few years, Price raced for Monster Energy Kawasaki and medaled several times at the X Games before transitioning to racing off-road. [4] [5] [6] Price placed first at the 2013 Elsinore Grand Prix and won the Terracross Championship in 2015. [7] [8]

In 2016, Price won the Off-road Motorsports Hall of Fame Rising Star Award in the UTV, MX, and ATV Category. [9]

Price made her debut in Stadium Super Trucks at the 2016 Honda Indy Toronto race weekend, becoming the first female driver to compete in the series. [1] The following year, she ran the season finale at Lake Elsinore Diamond. [10] Price did not return to the series until 2020, racing at the Adelaide 500 race weekend. [11]

In 2017, Price won Hoonigan and Fiat's Female Driver Search to become next female Hoonigan Athlete. [12] She also placed 38th place [13] at the Climb to the Clouds” at Mount Washington in a Fiat 124 Rally Car. [14]

Price made her debut in a trophy truck in the 2017 Best in the Desert Laughlin Desert Classic and placed second. [15]

In 2019, Price became the first female SCORE International Baja 1000 IronWoman by solo driving the entire race and finishing second in the trophy trucks spec class. [16] [17]

Price first raced rally in 2015 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles, finishing first among rookie participants. [18] [19] Price did not return to rally racing until 2020 when she placed second in the UTV Class at Sonora Rally. [20] [21]

On June 11, 2020, Chip Ganassi Racing announced Price would race with the team for the inaugural Extreme E season in 2021. She was the first confirmed driver for the series, and the first female racer in CGR's history. [22]

In 2024, Price made her debut in the Dakar Rally, driving in the SSV class. [23] In this race she became the third female driver and first female American driver to win a Dakar stage, by winning Stage 10. [24] [25]

Miss California USA

Price competed in the Miss California USA beauty pageant in 2013, but did not make the finals. [6] [26]

Motorsports career results

Stadium Super Trucks

(key) (Bold – Pole position. Italics – Fastest qualifier. * – Most laps led.)

Stadium Super Trucks results
Year12345678910111213141516171819202122SSTCPtsRef
2016 ADE ADE ADE STP STP LBH LBH DET DET DET TOW TOW TOW TOR
8		 TOR
9		 CLT
5		 CLT
6		 OCF
4		 OCF
6		 SRF
9		 SRF
11		 SRF
6		11th130 [27]
2017 ADE ADE ADE STP STP LBH LBH PER PER PER DET DET TEX TEX HID HID HID BEI GLN GLN ELS
9		 ELS
DNQ		25th25 [28]
2020 ADE
10		 ADE
8		 ADE
10		 ROA ROA N/A1– [29]

1 Standings were not recorded by the series for the 2020 season.

Extreme E

(key)

YearTeamCar12345678910Pos.Points
2021 Segi TV Chip Ganassi Racing Spark ODYSSEY 21 DES
Q
7		 DES
R
8		 OCE
Q
7		 OCE
R
7		 ARC
Q
7		 ARC
R
9		 ISL
Q
5		 ISL
R
4		 JUR
Q
8		 JUR
R
8		7th60
2022 Chip Ganassi Racing Spark ODYSSEY 21 DES
4		 ISL1 ISL2 COP ENE 4th*12*

* Season still in progress.

Dakar Rally

YearClassVehiclePositionStages won
2024 SSV Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Can-Am 4th1

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2009Semper RideHerself
2016 The Grand Tour Stunt driverOne episode
2019 Shadow Wolves One episode
Jumanji: The Next Level
2020 NOS4A2 Four episodes
CoyotePre-production

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  4. 1 2 "Monster Kawasaki WMX Sara Price Profile". September 13, 2010. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Sara Price X Games Competition History".
  6. 1 2 Wilkie, Jim (January 14, 2013). "Price makes her point at pageant". ESPN. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
  7. ↑ "IMG Motorsports Sara Price wins Rounds 1 & 2 at Terracross Championship". Dirt Toys. July 2015. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Sara Price wins Open 1000 Class at Lake Elsinore Grand Prix". OutdoorHub. November 15, 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  9. ↑ "Off-Road Motorsport Hall of Fame 2016 Induction Ceremony". Race-Dezert.com. November 8, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
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  13. ↑ "2017 Climb to the Clouds Overall Results" (PDF). Jul 9, 2017. Retrieved Jan 20, 2024.
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