Shea Holbrook

**Shea Holbrook** (born 10 April 1990 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA) is an American former racing driver, who competed in the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship using #67 as her race number. A veteran of the Pirelli World Challenge, **Holbrook** arrived in W Series knowing that it would be her last chance to forge a career in motorsport, although after a pointless season **Holbrook** would opt to retire.

Away from racing, **Holbrook** has the distinction of having assisted Denise Mueller-Korenek in claiming the land speed record for bicycles at 183.932 mph.

## Background

Holbrook began her career in karting after having adopted a keen interest in water skiing, before making her car racing debut in the 2008 Teen Mazda Challenge (East Coast), finishing fifth. The following two seasons saw Holbrook battle with funding issues to secure one-off drives in various series, before moving into the Touring Car class in the Pirelli World Challenge. There, Holbrook appeared to finally find her feet, claiming fourth in the Championship with two podium finishes, having completed the full season.

### Pirelli Potential: 2012 - 2017

Holbrook moved to the TCB class in the PWC for 2013, although she would be unable to hit the heights of the season before, slipping to seventh in her class. A move into the TCA class followed in 2014, with Holbrook ultimately finishing second in class with five class victories, although she would lose several major sponsors. As a result, Holbrook was only able to complete a partial season in 2015, although she did claim two podium finishes.

2016 saw Holbrook return for a full TC campaign in the PWC, with the American racer duly securing fifth in her class with her self-entered team. For 2017 she would return to the TCA class, claiming one win, before moving back into the TC class, albeit without much success. 2017 would also see Holbrook secure a seat in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America in the AM class, finishing sixth.

In 2019 Holbrook moved into single seaters for the first time, getting a part-time seat in the F3 Americas Championship, albeit without major success.

## W Series History

Holbrook would be one of the original 55 drivers to register an entry into the 2019 Driver Selection Test, and duly filtered through the evaluation process to claim a full season seat for the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship. Yet, Holbrook would not impress at the opening round in Hockenheim, qualifying at the back of the field eight seconds off the pace, before finishing sixteenth in the race, a quarter of a minute behind Vicky Piria in seventeenth. Fortunately for Holbrook she would have more impressive pace at the 2019 Zolder Race, finishing twelfth having spent the race in a queue of cars behind Esmee Hawkey.

Holbrook would have another anonymous race in Misano, and was likewise a non-presence at the Norisring, having been caught out by an early accident between Vivien Keszthelyi and Sarah Moore. The following pair of races saw Holbrook run at the back of the field without dramas, leaving her in eighteenth in the Championship with zero points. As a result, Holbrook was denied an automatic qualifying spot for the 2020 W Series Championship, and was subsequently dropped from the 2020 Driver Selection Test.

## Post W Series Career

Holbrook opted to retire from professional motorsport at the end of her W Series escapade, focusing instead on her various business interests and raising a family.

## Full W Series Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Shea Holbrook's career in the W Series in statistical form.

### W Series Entries

The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for Shea Holbrook during their W Series career:

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Shea Holbrook's full W Series record.

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 [Archived] '2019 W Series Drivers', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20200321160627/https://wseries.com/2019-drivers/, (Accessed 04/04/2020) - Original
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 'W Series concludes three days of testing in Almeria', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 18/09/2019), https://wseries.com/w-hub/on-track-for-2020-w-series-concludes-three-days-of-testing-in-almeria/, (Accessed 04/04/2020)
3. ↑ Bill Chappell, 'Woman Rides Bicycle To 183.9 MPH — A World Record', *npr.org*, (NPR, 18/09/2018), https://www.npr.org/2018/09/18/649221471/woman-rides-bicycle-to-183-9-mph-a-new-world-record?t=1586087459861, (Accessed 05/04/2020)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 'Shea Holbrook', *driverdb.com*, (Driver Database, 2020), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/shea-holbrook/, (Accessed 05/04/2020)
5. ↑ [Archived] 'The Weekend at Hockenheim', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20191013101433/https://wseries.com/races/hockenheim/, (Accessed 01/04/2020) - Original
6. ↑ [Archived] 'Zolder, Belgium', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506170558/https://wseries.com/races/zolder/, (Accessed 02/04/2020) - Original
7. ↑ [Archived] 'Norisring, Germany', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506102913/https://wseries.com/races/norisring/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
8. ↑ [Archived] 'Brands Hatch, UK', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506194151/https://wseries.com/races/brands-hatch/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
9. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `HolRet`