Girls On The Grid
by McLeod Media
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 spotlight the incredible achievements of women on and off the track, proving that the grid isn’t just for guys!
Episodes
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Priya & Tenayah Debrief the 2026 Repco Bathurst 1000
Brodie Kostecki and Todd Hazelwood won the Bathurst 1000 for Dick Johnson Racing, and Tenayah was in the Shell V-Power Racing team garage with a camera when it happened. Priya, meanwhile, spent every minute as a fly on the wall in the Red Bull Ampol Racing garage. On this week’s Girls On The…
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From Frosty Fan to Friend with Renee Winterbottom
Host Tenayah McLeod and returning guest Renee Winterbottom hit the road for a candid chat about their unlikely friendship. Renee was instrumental in Tenayah's early career, opening the door to the Supercars paddock. While volunteering at Supercar events, Tenayah always had a camera close by,...
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Jillie Johnson: From the 1980 Bathurst 'Rock' to Meeting Tom Cruise
Jill Johnson has seen about all there is to see when it comes to the Australian motorsport scene. Jillie has been by Dick Johnson's side from the days of the Shell servo in Woolloongabba, to 'The Rock' in 1980, to becoming a 5x Australian Touring Car Champion. In this episode, Jillie takes us…
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Grace Rowe: From ICU to Centre Stage
Grace Rowe grew up splitting her time between ballet and motocross, going on to become one of only a few women in Australia to clear the 75ft pro men's gap in Freestyle Motocross. In a split second, Grace was left with injuries that changed the course of the next year and a half of her life. She...
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Imogen Radburn on F4, F1 Academy and her All-Female Mustang Cup Team
Imogen Radburn joins Priya to talk through her rise in motorsport, from Formula Ford and Australian F4 success to testing with the F1 Academy. With a new chapter ahead, she’s now leading an all-female Mustang Cup team, ready to hit the track at Phillip Island.
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Alice Buckley on her Super2 Announcement
Alice Buckley joins the Girls On The Grid podcast on the day her Super2 campaign is officially announced. Alice takes us behind the scenes of what it really takes to pull together a Super2 program, from securing and managing sponsorships to building long-term corporate partnerships, while...
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Jess Dane on Career Change, America & SVG
Four years on from Episode 1, we reconnect with Jess Dane for Episode 66 of the Girls On The Grid podcast. Since her first appearance on the podcast, a lot has changed for Jess - from living in Australia and being co-owner of Triple Eight Race Engineering to making a major career change and…
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Josie Spillane - Girls On The Grid
In this episode, we sit down with Josie Spillane, the dynamic CEO of Highlands, Hampton Downs, and Taupo Motorsport Park. As Tony Quinn’s right-hand woman and a trustee of the Tony Quinn Foundation, Josie is a driving force behind the incredible growth of New Zealand motorsport. From her…
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The Catch Up Episode - Girls On The Grid
We recorded this in February - and just never got around to releasing it - so join us for a catch up, where Priya and Tenayah unpack a hectic start to 2024, plus catch up with Maisie Place!
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Kate Peck - Girls On The Grid
Welcome to 2024, and Episode 63 of the Girls On The Grid Podcast. Priya and Tenayah catch up to discuss all things 2024, and their plans for the season. Plus, Kate Peck joins us for a full chat about her career and life in motorsport.
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2023 Season Wrap - Girls On The Grid
After a hiatus from releasing podcast eps, Tenayah and Priya catch up to wrap up their 2023 season.
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Renae Ferris - Girls On The Grid
For Episode 61, Tenayah is joined by Renae Ferris for an awesome chat about doing "what we're supposed to" vs what we want to do. Renae followed the path of doing what everyone told her to do, and ended up miserable, until she took back control of her life, and did it her way. Renae is married to...
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Rhianon Gelsomino, Part 2 - Girls On The Grid
Part 2 of 'Girls On The Grid' with Rhianon Gelsomino: Australian navigator Rhianon Gelsomino joined Priya all the way from Idaho, to talk about her exciting career as a rally navigator, currently competing alongside Lia Block. She comes from a successful rally background, having raced with her...
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Rhianon Gelsomino, Part 1 - Girls On The Grid
Australian navigator Rhianon Gelsomino joined Priya all the way from Idaho, to talk about her exciting career as a rally navigator, currently competing alongside Lia Block. She comes from a successful rally background, having raced with her brother Brendan Reeves in her early rally days. Rhianon…
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Rachael Eggleston, Part 2 - Girls On The Grid
We pick up for Part 2 of the Girls On The Grid podcast with Rachael Eggleston. The girls discuss the challenges of running a race team at the top level, fostering talent through their development program, and how Rachael balances it all.
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Rachael Eggleston, Part 1 - Girls On The Grid
Rachel Eggleston has been around motorsport her whole life. Her father was a successful racing driver, and her love of the sport started early. Rachael joins us for part one, of this two part chat, to dive deep into her motorsport journey, how 4x championship winning team, Eggleston motorsport…
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Girls On Track Pathways, Sydney Event
In Episode 56, Tenayah takes you inside the Motorsport Australia Girls On Track Pathways event, where over 60 young girls, aged 15-22 were introduced to the programs champions and ambassadors, and showed a wide range of opportunities in the motorsport industry. Tenayah chats with two…
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Jess Bell - Girls On The Grid
BMW E30 Racing President, racer and BMW Drivers Club magazine editor Jess Bell spoke to Priya all about her involvement with the BMW brand in Australia. With a family background in the BMW E30 Drivers Club, it would be no surprise that Jess herself would become involved. With club championship…
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Sabré Cook - Girls on the Grid
Former W Series contender and current Carrera Cup North America competitor Sabre Cook joins the podcast this week to talk about her career in motorsport so far. Sabre is a former karting champion, was one of the first people to ever race in the W series, and has now stepped into Carrera Cup North...
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Kass Brumley - Girls On The Grid
For Episode 53, we are joined by photographer AND rally navigator, Kass Brumley. Kass spoke to Priya about travelling with the Supercars series being behind the lens, and rallying alongside Michele Van Der Wilk. Having previously worked for Kelly Racing, she also told us about what it was like to...
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Nora Rhiannon Jordan - Girls On The Grid
Joining Priya all the way from Canada, racing driver Nora Rhiannon Jordan spoke to Priya all about her short, but so far successful racing career. She is a Formula Woman finalist, and this year she will be racing in the Super Production Challenge. Nora is a passionate advocate for women in...
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Jess Golding - Girls On The Grid
This week, former karting champion Jess Golding spoke to Priya about starting her own go karting team. The female led team focuses on developing drivers to the highest level of karting. Jess also spoke to us about her own success in karting, being the ReSa Light Australian National Karting...
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Simona de Silvestro - Girls On The Grid
To celebrate 50 episodes of the Girls On The Grid podcast, Priya and Tenayah are joined by Simona de Silvestro for an awesome chat about her racing career, IndyCar, Supercars, her love of Mount Panorama, being a Porsche Factory driver and her goal of going to the Olympics for bobsledding! It's a...
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Our Favourite Moments So Far - Girls On The Grid
Tenayah jumped into the archives of over *15 hours* of podcast eps to pull out a few favourite moments from our first 49 eps. Plus, Priya joins us at the end to announce our guest for Episode 50, coming to your ears in a few days!
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Bathurst 6 Hour with Team Buccini - Girls On The Grid
Another Bathurst 6 Hour has been run and won, and Tenayah took the opportunity to document the weekend of the only (and first ever!!) female-only entry. Car #999, driven by Courtney Prince, Ellexandra Best and car owner, Karlie Buccini had a challenging day, but drove an awesome race to finish…
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Tara Morrison - Girls On The Grid
At 19 years old, South Australian motorbike racer Tara Morrison is already racing at ASBK rounds in the SuperSport 300 series Tara and Priya caught up to chat about her family's impressive motorsport background, her career highlights so far, and hopes for the future
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Emma Notarfrancesco - Girls On The Grid
Emma Notarfrancesco is a journalist and tv presenter, currently hosting the Drive TV show every Sunday. She has also spent plenty of her career around motorsport, hosting and presenting at Supercars, SpeedSeries and Superbikes events. Emma joins Tenayah and Priya for a chat about her career, her...
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Kate Raymond - Girls On The Grid
This week we are joined by Targa Tasmania champion Kate Raymond, who is a successful rally navigator, having won the Targa Tasmania championship 3 times, twice with Tony Quinn & once with Paul Stokell. Kate spoke all things rally with Priya, including the incredible highs and the sometimes...
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Rianna O'Meara Hunt - Girls On The Grid
Priya caught up with Kiwi race car driver Rianna O’Meara Hunt to talk about her upcoming season in the SRO GT4 championship campaign in the USA, and all about her racing journey to getting there! We also chat to Courtney Prince on her recent news that she will be joining the Porsche Carrera Cup...
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Chloe Grant - Girls On The Grid
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.
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Amber O'Keeffe - Girls On The Grid
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…
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Loren Hazelwood - Girls On The Grid
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....
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Eden Evans - Girls On The Grid
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!
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Chloe Chambers - Girls On The Grid
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!
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Beck Connell - Girls On The Grid
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!
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Emma Gilmour - Girls On The Grid
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...
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Zoe Woods - Girls On The Grid
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...
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Babes who Bring The Bathust - Girls On The Grid
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…
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Coral Taylor, Part 2 - Girls On The Grid
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…
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Coral Taylor, Part 1 - Girls On The Grid
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...
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Mattleena Pukkila - Girls On The Grid
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…
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Maddy Dunston - Girls On The Grid
Maddy Dunston joins Priya Richards for a chat about her racing career, including Aussie Racing Cars and Toyota 86, and what is next!
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Sally Parkinson - Girls On The Grid
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…
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Priyanka Chadha - Girls On The Grid
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…
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Danielle Foot - Girls On The Grid
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.
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Imogen Radburn - Girls On The Grid
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...
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Elly Morrow - Girls On The Grid
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...
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Maddi Scordia - Girls On The Grid
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...
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Emma Milesevic - Girls On The Grid
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...
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Cass Hoare - Girls On The Grid
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 this show
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 spotlight the incredible achievements of women on and off the track, proving that the grid isn’t just for guys!
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