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Sara Senske of Kennewick, Washington, won her first race at age 8 and is now one of the fastest-rising stars in auto racing where she drives for Lynx Racing, a championship-winning team owned by two women, Peggy Haas and Jackie Doty.

Lynx Racing's mission is to seek out young drivers with the potential to make it to the top of the sport, and provide them with the resources, funding and training to realize that potential.

For the 2000 season, Sara has moved up to the Barber Dodge Pro Series, which utilizes single-seat, open-wheel 'formula' cars that are similar, though smaller and less powerful, to those that run in the IRL or the highest level of racing, the ChampCar Series. This is her next step up the professional ladder.

Lynx Racing has affiliated teams at each level, and Sara is being groomed to rise through the ranks, with the ultimate goal of becoming the first female driver to win a ChampCar race and championship.

"My father was a driver, and he encouraged my dream starting when I was very young," says Sara. "I started in karting, as virtually every big-name driver today did, and won my first race at age eight. Ever since then, my focus in life has been to become a successful professional driver and to use that success to help other women get into the sport. And driving for Lynx Racing is a major step toward that goal. Lynx has a reputation among racers and teams for signing the top drivers and teaching them to be champions, and in my heart, I. ve always felt like a champion."

Early in her racing career, Sara won three karting Grandnational events, won the International Karting Federation Region 6 Gold Cup Championship in 1988 and again in 1989, and was the regional champion three years in a row, 1990-1993 in the Junior II 4-cycle class.

After making the switch from karts to cars at the Skip Barber Racing School in 1996, she scored five podium finishes and one victory in the Skip Barber Western Race Series, and was voted 'most improved driver.'

Sara signed with Lynx Racing and took a step up to drive in the final six events of the 1997 Star Formula Mazda Championship, and a full 12-race season in 1998, finishing 8th overall in the championship. She is currently sixth in the 1999 championship points battle, and also drove in the first-ever race in the new Women's Global GT Series at Road Atlanta.

The next step up the ladder for Sara will be to graduate to the Lynx-affiliated DSTP Motorsports team competing in the U.S. Formula 2000 Championship. Like Lynx, DSTP is owned and run by a woman, Dede Rogers, and DSTP and Lynx share personnel in the form of team manager/driving coach Steve Cameron and engineer Jim Griffith.

"We chose Sara not because she. s female, but because we saw in her that special something that we. ve come to recognize as championship potential," says Lynx Racing co-owner Peggy Haas. "We've always wanted a woman driver on the team, but we weren. t willing to sign someone for that reason alone. Lynx drivers have to be capable of taking the opportunity and knowledge we give them and rising to the top levels of the sport, and Sara has that quality."

When not behind the wheel of her racing car, Sara is a student who pursues her interests in communications and sports marketing at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. Her hobbies include ice skating, rollerblading, skiing, biking, writing poetry and listening to contemporary Christian, jazz and classical music. She counts the Bible as the greatest influence on her life, and Indy 500 driver Lyn St. James as her 'racing hero.' Her favorite TV show is "I Love Lucy," her favorite food is Thai and the thing about her that would surprise people is that she can juggle. If she couldn't be a racing driver, she'd like to be on the Olympic Women's Hockey Team.