Jennifer Tumminelli 
She attracts an audience with her aggressive, no fear driving style.
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Her passion for racing coupled with her natural driving talent in both open wheel (indy) and sports car (road racing) has brought forth much success to her professional racing efforts. Jennifer's professional racing resume includes driving for a Porsche and Mazda factory championship team, scoring the inaugural pole in the Women's Global GT Series, awarded the hard-charger in the Star Mazda Series for moving up the most positions, running second in the Dodge Neon celebrity race and having served as a Pace Car Driver for CART Indycar Series (now the Indy Car Series). Jennifer has competed as the only female driver among 60 top drivers in the American Le Mans and Grand-Am Series often qualifying and turning the fastest lap for her team. Jennifer has been priviledged to co-drive and team with championship team and drivers to include: Lucas Luhr, Dirk Muller, Sasha Maasan and Terry Borcheller to name a few.She has driven alongside Mario Andretti in the Indy Car Pace Cars and shared co-driving duties with the legendary actor, Paul Newman. She has competed against Nascar and Sports Car racing stars: Boris Said & Ron Fellows and F1 driver, Alan McNish to name a few.. A Walnut Creek California resident, Jennifer lives next to some of the most technical racetracks in the world including her hometracks Infineon Raceway, Laguna Seca Raceway and Thunderhill. Passionate about racing, Jennifer created a website that features news fueled by women in professional racing. Check out Motorsportsgirl.com !!Her strong interest in the business of auto racing and sponsorship started early as single mom and Corporate Executive Assistant. Not one to be side tracked by lack of funds she worked hard to pursue her racing dream. She was one of the first women to create a racing website, volunteered on racing teams to gain racing experience and earn rides and used her administrative skills to network with Executives and soley secured over a million dollars in corporate sponsorship. Her fascinating life story in pursuing her dream has been featured on Oprah. Jennifer is currently working on writing her racing story to be published in the near future. Check back for more details.Jennifer's favorite hobbies include interior decorating, baking cupcakes, go-karting, waverunning and shopping for shoes, handbags and clothes. She is an avid poker player and is hoping to try her skills in a poker tournament someday.
Professional Race Car Driver
Resides:
Walnut Creek,
California
Experience:
Road Roacing
Endurance
Open Wheel
Indy Pace Car
Height:
5'5
Weight:
120 lbs
Daughter: Nicole Tumminelli
Racing Career 
The American Le Mans Series offers a mix of the worlds premier manufacturers and leading independent teams with races on North Americas most prominent permanent road courses and urban street circuits. The greatest names in motorsports have tested their skills in the American Le Mans Series. Names like Beretta, Brabham, de Ferran, Franchitti, Kristensen, Lehto, McNish and Salo fill the talent roster. Acura, Aston Martin, Audi, BMW, Chevrolet, Ferrari, Panoz, Peugeot, Porsche and Saleen are among the marques that have tasted victory in the Series. Such aspirational brands attract a passionate and affluentant base. According to Nielsen Media Research, the median ALMS fan is highly educated, a key decision-maker and has a high level of net worth a median income of $125,000 more than any regularly televised sport in America. Series fans alsoare fiercely loyal, with 75 percent saying they prefer to purchase brands that are associated with the form of motorsport that drives their passion and interest. It is no surprise then to see the makeup of the ALMS paddock: high-end automotive products including multiple tire and fuel manufacturers as well as premium non-endemic partners such as The Patrón Spirits Company, Yanceys Fancy New York Artisan Cheese and others. They will all take center stage in a multi-platform television partnership that includes broadcasts on ABC and ESPN2 in concert with live streaming of allqualifying and races on ESPN3.com.Le Mans stands for diversity, innovation and relevance platforms the American Le Mans Series embraces and furthers with each event. Whether it is advancements in energyefficiency, car and safety constructions or tire technologies, the American Le Mans Series IS the ultimate on-track R&D laboratory and the premium brand of motorsport.
GRAND-AM's top-tier Rolex Sports Car Series has established itself as the most competitive professional road racing championship in North America. The Rolex Series Daytona Prototype category has attracted the attention of superstar drivers and universally recognized teams through its extremely raceable and relatively affordable format, and has revolutionized sports car racing with plentiful battles at the front of the field and close finishes in virtually every race.Like the Daytona Prototype class that has redefined prototype sports car racing, the Rolex Series GT class has done the same for high-performance, production-based sports car racing. With an eye toward the cost-containment and close competition that has propelled the popularity of the Daytona Prototype class, the GT category provides a stable battleground for the world's top automobile manufacturers. Perhaps best of all, the Rolex Series' two-class format allows race fans watching from the grandstands or on television and the media covering the sport to follow the action with just two easy-to-distinguish classes of race cars - Daytona Prototypes and GT. GRAND-AM races at some of the world's most prestigious venues - Daytona, Montreal and Watkins Glen - and has taken the role of a top annual attraction at some of the newest venues in the industry such as Miller Motorsports Park, Barber Motorsports Park, Virginia International Raceway and New Jersey Motorsports Park. GRAND-AM is also making a standard out of the newest form of circuit racing - stadium road racing - on the road course layouts at tracks like Homestead-Miami Speedway. The Rolex Series is also home to some of the best and most recognized names in motorsports - Scott Pruett, Max Angelelli, Alex Gurney, Jon Fogarty, David Donohue, Andy Lally and more - and is a road racing showcase for NASCAR notables such as Jimmie Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya, AJ Allmendinger, Jamie McMurray, Bobby Labonte and Paul Menard. Open-wheel stars like Scott Dixon, Dario Franchitti and Darren Manning and others will also make spotlight appearances in the Rolex Series this season.
The Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear is now in its 21st year as the triple-A baseball of auto racing -- a high-speed training ground for future stars of the sport and a part of the new Mazda Road to Indy that includes USF2000, Star Mazda, Indy Lights and IndyCar. The Mazda Road to Indy –complimented by the MAZDASPEED Motorsports Driver Development Ladder -- is the only open-wheel driver development program that reaches all the way from karting to IndyCar … and provides scholarship funding for the champions in each series to move up and compete in the next level. The 2011 Star Mazda Champion will receive funding to compete in the 2012 Indy Lights series… and the 2011 USF2000 champion will move up to race in Star Mazda in 2012.In addition to being a key stop on the Road to Indy, with graduates such as IndyCar stars Marco Andretti, Graham Rahal and Raphael Matos, the Star Mazda Championship is also a well-established 'gateway' series for drivers to advance to various forms of racing. Star Mazda alumni include NASCAR racers Michael McDowell, Colin Braun, Scott Speed, Brad Coleman and Moses Smith. Also on the list are prototype and sports car racers Joey Hand, Guy Cosmo, Adam Christodoulou, John Edwards and Dane Cameron (all of whom were Star Mazda champions). Drivers from around the globe, both male and female and ranging in age from 16 to 56, competed in the 2010 Star Mazda Championship – including racers from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, France, Norway, Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia. Most were young racers moving up from karting, Skip Barber, USF2000 and European series like GP3, Formula Renault and Palmer Audi, but drivers in the Expert Series for racers 30 and older also included company CEOs, a top U.S. SuperBike racer and a world-class polo player and a retired competition acrobatic pilot. CEOs, doctors, bankers and entrepreneurs racing at 160 mph, battling wheel-to-wheel with top young drivers from around the world are a feature of Star Mazda Championship races. Expert Series drivers (age 30 and older) race the same cars in the same races as the young rising stars, and are competing for the same points and prizes, but also have their own race-within-a-race and championship-within-a-championship. Four drivers participate in the podium ceremonies at each race; the top-3 overall finishers and the top-finishing Expert Series driver.Drivers in the Star Mazda Championship are racing for one of the richest prize packages, valued at more than $1.5 million, in any open-wheel development series. Prize money is paid down to 15th place in the championship, with the Series champion receiving $100,000 in cash and scholarship funding to compete in the 2012 Indy Lights series.\•In 2011, the Star Mazda Championship schedule includes six IndyCar weekends, two American Le Mans events, an event where Star Mazda and Indy Lights are co-featured and the high-profile USAC 'Night Before the 500' event at O'Reilly Raceway Park. Tracks include road courses, street circuits and both long and short ovals. Like Formula One, the Star Mazda Championship utilizes standing starts (on road and street circuits; rolling starts are used on ovals). A series of 18 x 18-inch mobile LED panels, all wirelessly connected to the starting computer, are placed at intervals alongside the starting grid. Horizontal rows of super-bright red LED’s will begin to glow, moving up the screen like a thermometer. When the final row of lights comes on and the screen is full red, the starting computer will randomly select a delay of between .5 and 3.0 seconds, after which all the red LEDs will go out simultaneously and the entire screen will turn green, signaling the start of the race. The Star Mazda Championship race cars look like ¾-scale IndyCars, but are high-tech, high-speed race cars race cars featuring sophisticated aerodynamics and suspension as well as a legendary Mazda ‘Renesis’ 250 horsepower rotary engine that also powers the RX-8 sports car. With a race weight of 1,335 pounds, including fuel and driver, a Star Mazda race car has a top speed of 160 mph and accelerates from 0 to 60 mph in just 2.8 seconds. All the cars feature a carbon fiber chassis, sophisticated aerodynamics, fully-adjustable ‘pushrod’ suspension, sequential 6-speed gearbox and Goodyear radial racing tires.
Originally began as Women's Global GT Series, formed by Lyn St. James in 1999, the series began as a support race to ALMS for women racers, using the race modified version of the Panoz Esperante series of cars.The series was an invitational affair with forty one drivers selected out of four hundred applicants to participate in the Womens Global GT Series. The grid would usually consists of experienced racers such as former Formula One drivers, Giovanna Amati and Divina Galica, NASCAR's Shawna Robinson, and Italian Audi factory team touring car driver Tamara Vidali against talented amateur drivers from varying degrees of professions, such as radio personality, police officer, law student, and racing simulations art designer for Microsoft. The pole-sitter at the 36-car inaugural race held at Road Atlanta was held by Jennifer Tumminelli.
