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Girls On The Grid
Welcome to Girls on the Grid, the podcast that celebrates the women making waves in motorsport! Hosted by Priya Richards and Tenayah McLeod, this podcast dives into the stories of trailblazing women across all levels of the industry—from drivers and engineers to marketers and content creators. We bring you candid conversations, expert insights, and inspiring tales of determination, resilience, and success. Whether you're a die-hard racing fan, working in the industry, or simply curious about the behind-the-scenes world of motorsport, Girls on the Grid has something for everyone. Join us as we...
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Mar 17, 2026
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Episodes
Chloe Grant - Girls On The Grid 12.02.2023 54:12
Chloe Grant is a 16 year old driver from the UK. She has just completed the 2022 season of GB4, finishing 9th in the standings. She had a successful karting career and has a few championships under her belt, which we spoke all about in the episode, and also her future aspirations.
Amber O'Keeffe - Girls On The Grid 05.02.2023 1:10:46
Amber O'Keeffe joins Tenayah for a chat inside a studio in New York City. Amber O'Keeffe is a young social media specialist and public relations officer, currently based in Europe and travelling around the world to sportscars and endurance events. Amber chats about how her career got started, what it's *really* like to date a race-car driver, and her plans for 2023.
Loren Hazelwood - Girls On The Grid 29.01.2023 45:10
Loren Hazelwood is a sponsorship executive at Motorsport Australia, and a very passionate champion for the Girls On Track program. She grew up around motorsport, watching her younger brother Todd, move through the racing ranks and followed her passion to build a career in the motorsport industry. Loren joins Tenayah to share her story, and speaks about how she has moved through different specialit...
Eden Evans - Girls On The Grid 22.01.2023 1:03:48
Off-road racer, Eden Evans joins Tenayah for a chat about growing up with both parents who are rally champions, and how she was always destined to get behind the wheel! She drives a Kincrome SXS in the Australian Off Road Championship, and tells us about her journey so far!
Chloe Chambers - Girls On The Grid 15.01.2023 31:49
Chloe Chambers is an American racing sensation, who competed in the 2021 W-Series, for Jenner Racing, alongside Jamie Chadwick. She joins Tenayah in New Zealand for a chat about her career, her current focus, the Castrol Toyota Regional Oceania Championship, and what might come next!
Beck Connell - Girls On The Grid 25.12.2022 38:59
Beck Connell joins Priya to chat about her go karting career and life away from the track in Forbes NSW, and what she hopes to achieve in the coming years. Thank you to our audience for all the support this year, we hope you have a safe New Years and we’ll chat to you in 2023!
Emma Gilmour - Girls On The Grid 11.12.2022 30:13
Emma Gilmour is a professional rally driver from Dunedin, New Zealand, and is currently a McLaren Factory Driver in their Extreme E team. Tenayah caught up with Emma Gilmour during a trip to New Zealand for a Castrol content shoot. They sat down, in person, for a podcast chat, to talk all things career, rally and what it means to be a woman in motorsport.
Zoe Woods - Girls On The Grid 20.11.2022 43:54
Zoe Woods joins Priya for a chat right off the back of the final round of the Australian Production cars at the Bathurst International. The 21 year old has driven driven alongside Luke Youlden & Max Vidau in the 2022 season. She talks about her family race team Tekworkx and her own business LuLu Lashes & Beauty, we also talked about her future plans and goals as a driver in the comin...
Babes who Bring The Bathust - Girls On The Grid 09.10.2022 43:36
A week filled of Bathurst antics has culminated in a podcast ep where Tenayah took the mic, and went wandering down the pit lane during the Great Race. We chat to Ainslie McCormick, Sarah Paul, Nicole Bryant, Charise Bristow and Hayley Moneith. And the man who really brings the Bathurst, Gary Reid joins us for a quick chat about the Repco Bathurst 1000.
Coral Taylor, Part 2 - Girls On The Grid 02.10.2022 43:31
We are back for the 2nd part of our interview with Coral Taylor. Head back to listen to Part 1 if you missed it! Coral Taylor is an Australian Rally Co-Driver, having won the Australian Rally Championship 4 times alongside Neal Bates. Having started her career at the age of 18, Coral has had great success over her rallying years, and most recently won with Harry Bates at Rally Launceston this year...
Coral Taylor, Part 1 - Girls On The Grid 25.09.2022 39:20
Coral Taylor is an Australian Rally Co-Driver, having won the Australian Rally Championship 4 times alongside Neal Bates. Having started her career at the age of 18, Coral has had great success over her rallying years, and most recently won with Harry Bates at Rally Launceston this year. She is also the mother of 2016 Australian rally champion Molly Taylor, whom she has also co-driven with. Coral...
Mattleena Pukkila - Girls On The Grid 18.09.2022 38:29
Porsche Cars Australia Motorsport Operations manager Matleena Pukkila joins Priya for this weeks episode, to talk about her career working for Porsche. Having worked for the Brand in Australia, Finland and Germany, Matleena has a world of knowledge and a stand out passion for motorsport. Priya grew up watching Matleena manage the category her father Steven raced in (Porsche Carrera Cup). You can l...
Maddy Dunston - Girls On The Grid 11.09.2022 41:33
Maddy Dunston joins Priya Richards for a chat about her racing career, including Aussie Racing Cars and Toyota 86, and what is next!
Sally Parkinson - Girls On The Grid 04.09.2022 40:58
Sally Parkinson's love of motorsport started when he Dad used to race cars against her future boss. In 2009, she landed herself a job at Garry Rogers Motorsport, and she has never looked back. She was there for some huge moments, such as GRM's Holden-to-Volvo change, as well as Scotty Mac's famous "just gave it some jandal and f**k yeah!" We chat about all these things, including what her role inv...
Priyanka Chadha - Girls On The Grid 28.08.2022 48:28
For episode 30, we speak to a lady who is doing incredible things for women in motorsport. Priyanka Chadha is the national participation lead at Motorsport Australia, and is responsible for organising and excepting on programs such as Girls On Track. Girls On Track is a program that hosts workshops all around Australia, giving girls aged 8-22 the opportunity to take part in workshops focused aroun...
Danielle Foot - Girls On The Grid 14.08.2022 47:48
Danielle Foot joins Girls On The Grid to talk about how she got started racing motocross, her motocross career and her switch the desert racing, including tackling Australia's Greatest Off-Road Race, the Finke Desert Race.
Imogen Radburn - Girls On The Grid 07.08.2022 38:20
16 year old Formula Ford driver Imogen Radburn joins us on this week’s pod to talk about her experience so far in her debut Formula Ford season. Having recently graduated from karting, Imogen tells us what she’s been working on this year and her hope for the future to race in Supercars. Priya caught up with her again at the recent round of Formula Ford at Sydney Motorsport Park to see how she’s pr...
Elly Morrow - Girls On The Grid 31.07.2022 36:44
BJR Super2 Driver Elly Morrow recently had a chat with Priya to talk about her season so far in the Dunlop Super2 series. Elly is a passionate motorsport lover, having previously raced karts for 10 years at national level, and now hopes to take her racing career even further down the path of Supercars. In episode 26 of Girls On The Grid she also talks about how she hopes she can inspire the...
Maddi Scordia - Girls On The Grid 24.07.2022 48:31
Maddi Scordia is an Australian-born MotoGP journalist currently living in Ireland, and recently sat down with Priya to discuss her successful career so far. Before becoming a journalist, she worked in sales and marketing which eventually lead her to her role today in MotoGP, however her initial introduction to motorsport was working as an umbrella girl. She has shown some amazing strength over the...
Emma Milesevic - Girls On The Grid 17.07.2022 1:06:47
Priya has spoken to a few of our guests about horses, so now it's time for Tenayah to geek out over motocross. And the lovely Emma Milesevic joins Tenayah for Episode 24, to chat all things motocross. Emma is a professional motocross rider, currently racing in the WMX at ProMX for HRC Honda, and she sits 2nd in the championship with one round to go. Tenayah and Emma bonded over their similar child...
Cass Hoare - Girls On The Grid 11.07.2022 31:46
Circuit Excel racer Cass Hoare recently sat down with Priya to talk about her racing career. The South Australian was hooked on motorsport after doing a tarmac rally with her brother Josh, and started racing competitively in 2019. She is also a Girls On Track Ambassador and is super passionate about girls getting involved in motorsport.
Maisie Place - Girls On The Grid 03.07.2022 35:38
Making her mark on the motorsport world is Canberra based RX8 Cup driver and mechanic Maisie Place. Also a rally co-driver, Maisie chats about all things motorsport and her goals as a driver and dedicated mechanic.
Tahan Lew - Girls On The Grid 26.06.2022 50:58
Tahan Lew burst onto our tv screens in the 2013 Big Brother House, but around the same time - she had just started dating Supercars Driver, David Reynolds. Almost 10 years later, Tahan is still learning about motorsport and joins this weeks episode to chat about how she adapted to life in motorsport, her time in the Big Brother house, and her opinion on getting rid of grid girls...
Here's to 20 Episodes - Girls On The Grid 19.06.2022 25:34
Tenayah and Priya caught up, in person, to record the first GOTG vodcast - here's the audio only, and you can catch the full vodcast ep over on Youtube.
Romy Mayer - Girls On The Grid 12.06.2022 50:19
Romy Mayer is currently an engineer for Triple Eight Race Engineering, and will be the race engineer for the Supercheap Wildcard of Craig Lowndes and Declan Fraser at the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000. She joins the girls for a chat about her motorsport background, how she juggles being a mum but also working in a demanding industry, and what we can do to help make the sport a more welcoming place for...
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