Audrey Zavodsky
Panoz Race Series Driver
 
Audrey Zavodsky, Ph.D., begins her 3rd season of racing under the
Visteon banner. This year will be her 5th year of racing
competition. Audrey has a list of successes in racing that include
the inaugural win in the Women's Global GT series and 2 out of 3
first place finishes in the last 3 years in the SCCA's area 4
Central Division.
Audrey has flown a F-16 fighter jet with the United States Air
Force Thunderbirds. Audrey maintains her contacts with the world
famous Thunderbirds. She uses this connection to keep her many
interactions with high school children groups current. Audrey
encourages the students to look at the Air Force for career
opportunities as well as pointing out that they are a source of
American pride.
Audrey is participating in the Panoz Racing Series that is an
outgrowth of the Panoz Racing School and WGGT series. This series
will have within it 2 distinct racing groups. They are the Panoz GT
and Panoz GT Pro series. The overall series will consist of an
8-race schedule. The Panoz GT Pro series will have 3 races that are
conducted along with the American Le Mans schedule. This series will
feature the Panoz GT and Panoz GTS racecars.
Audrey's reputation is that she races "clean" and is a consistent
fast driver. As testimony to this Audrey holds track records in the
Panoz GT car at the Laguna Seca and Road Atlanta race tracks. She
has made many friends in the racing community as a result of her
skills on and off the race track. Cindi Lux, Divina Galica, Belinda
Endress, Sascha Maasen, Dick Barbour, Scott Bove, and Sonja Bayer
are amongst her many racing friends.
Audrey shares her experiences with children of all ages. It is
not unusual to see Audrey visiting schools, hospitals, youth homes,
and businesses as she spreads her enthusiastic message to stay in
school, eat and live right, stay off of drugs, set goals, and live
your dream. Audrey has been invited as a motivational speaker to
speak at colleges, 1000 cheerleaders at the NFL Spirit Week, to
resident engineers, Kids on Track, civic groups, corporations, and
many other groups.
She also works closely with car focus groups to help bring new
ideas and driving experiences into the mix. She evaluates vehicle
systems from a performance perspective that translates to best in
class characteristics. This is accomplished as she applies her
racing and consumer experience to test the various product features.
Her ability to communicate helps the engineers to build products
that achieve market excellence.
Racing and Visteon go hand-in-hand with Audrey's success on and
off the race track. She has the position of Corporate Nurse at Ford
Motor Company with the responsibility of several of their plants in
various locations. She believes that employees are the lifeblood of
the company and that they deserve the very best in medical care.
Audrey has driven several different brands of vehicles including
BMW's, Toyotas, Datsuns, Mazda RX-7's, Mazda Spec Racers, Mustang
Cobra's, Mustang GT's, CART 101, NASCAR, Dodge open wheelers, Spec
Racer Ford's, and others. She has her sights set on Trans-am and
CART as future areas to race in.
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