Karen Gaillard: Winner in talent review 🎥
BEST IN FRANCE A year after winning the Young Driver Challenge, Karen Gaillard has now also won a talent show in France. With this, her career is taking a turn. In a video message, Karen Gaillard announces the good news to her friends and supporters and what it means for her. A year ago, Karen Gaillard went from being [...]
In a video message, Karen Gaillard announces the good news to her friends and supporters and what it means to her.
A year ago, Karen Gaillard emerged as the winner of the third and final season of the AutoScout24 Young Driver Challenge powered by Cupra. Now she has proven her talent once again.
Well known French racing school
The 18-year-old from Fribourg, who works as a trained nurse at the Fribourg Cantonal Hospital and looks after Covid 19 patients on her ward, took part in a Filière Endurance selection in France.
The founder and head of this racing driver school based in Le Mans is racing professional and sports manager Jean-Bernard Bouvet. His palmarès includes nine participations in the 24 Hours of Le Mans (two podiums LMP2) and several national championship titles in France.
Strength in all areas
The two-day course on October 20 and 21 at the Circuit de Mornay was not primarily about fast lap times at the wheel of a Funyo sports car.
Much more decided the physical and mental condition, as well as the general appearance, skills in communication and expertise in mechanics and other areas. Note the gallery.
Karen was convincing everywhere and thus emerged as the winner in the end, just as she had a year earlier in the Switzerland-wide Young Driver Challenge. As a reward, she will join the driver squad of Filière Endurance, which focuses on the endurance and GT scene.
Only woman among men
This comes with a 30,000-euro sponsorship bonus and personal coaching from Bouvet to turn her into a complete racer.
Karen Gaillard: "I thought that as the only woman and a Swiss, I wouldn't really stand a chance against the French candidates anyway. Now I'm another step closer to my dream of becoming a professional one day. I'm looking forward to the new tasks and will give everything to justify my choice."
Start in Dubai
Jean-Bernard Bouvet got to know her when she raced with Team Vortex SAS in French mini endurance races. The Frenchman encouraged her to take part in his talent scouting and now looks after her from then on.
The first race fixed is the 24 Hours of Dubai from January 14 to 16, 2021, on a Vortex prototype with a Corvette engine. She is familiar with this race car from four entries this year with Vortex in the Trophée Tourisme Endurance and the Ultimate Cup Series.
Farewell to the TCR
Karen Gaillard is saying goodbye to touring car racing for the time being. With Topcar Sport, she was only able to contest the 12-hour races of Monza and Hockenheim in a Cupra TCR in this "strange year," as she calls it due to the Corona pandemic.
She will forego the originally planned last TCR event this weekend in Italy (Mugello 12 Hours) in order to focus on her new future.
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