Tasmin Pepper

**Tasmin Jay Pepper** (born 19 June 1990 in Edenvale, Gauteng, South Africa) is a South African racing driver, who competes in the 2020 BRSCC W Series Championship using #31 as her race number. The daughter of Iain Pepper, a South African Touring Car driver and elder sister of Jordan Pepper, a GT driver, **Pepper** secured tenth in the 2019 edition of the Championship.

## Background

After starting her career in karting in her native South Africa, Pepper got her first taste of car racing in 2006, entering the Formula Ford South Africa series. Eighth in the Championship saw her retain a seat in the series for 2007, where she finished fourth with 65 points. For 2008 Pepper moved into the South African Formula Vee Championship, finishing seventh, as well as claiming a spot in the Formula BMW Pacific.

### A Volkswagen Vault: 2009 - 2018

Formula Vee South Africa became Pepper's main source of entertainment for the next four seasons, with the South African youth claiming fourth in 2009, claiming one win. 2010 saw her claim second in the series with another victory, before slipping back to fourth in 2011, and eighth in 2012. For 2013 she moved into the Volkswagen Polo Cup South Africa, securing eighth in the Championship in her maiden campaign.

2014 saw Pepper claim fifth in the Polo Cup Championship, before securing fourth in 2015 having remained in the series. In 2016 Pepper would claim her fist Polo Cup victory en-route to second int he Championship, before dropping back to fourth in 2017. 2018 saw Pepper bounce back to challenge for the title, finishing second once again.

## W Series History

Pepper was one of the original 55 applicants for the 2019 Driver Selection Test, and would subsequently secure a full race seat for the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship, using #31 as her race number. Pepper duly impressed at the season opening round in Hockenheim by climbing from sixteenth to eighth in the race, securing her first points of the season. The following round in Zolder saw Pepper start higher up the field in seventh, and after battling in a group of cars behind Sarah Moore, would rise to sixth by the end of the race.

At the 2019 Misano Race Pepper would run to a lonely seventh, having fought with Marta García in the early stages for sixth. The following round at the Norisring was a similar story, as Pepper ran to a lonely eighth behind Sabré Cook. After that, Pepper would have her first retirement of the season in Assen, spinning on the opening lap before being collected by Miki Koyama.

After an anonymous race at the Season Finale, Pepper ended the 2019 Championship in tenth, and hence secured an automatic qualifying spot for the 2020 season.

### A Pepper Up: 2020

Pepper would return to the W Series for the 2020 season, again using #31 as her race number.

## Full W Series Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Tasmin Pepper'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 Tasmin Pepper during their W Series career:

 2020 | 31

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Tasmin Pepper's full W Series record.

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 'W Series announces 18 drivers for 2020 season', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 21/10/2019), https://wseries.com/w-hub/w-series-announces-18-drivers-for-2020-season/, (Accessed 01/04/2020)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 [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
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 'Tasmin Pepper', *driverdb.com*, (Driver Database, 2020), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/tasmin-pepper/, (Accessed 07/04/2020)
4. ↑ [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
5. ↑ [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
6. ↑ [Archived] 'Misano, Italy', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506173425/https://wseries.com/races/misano/, (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] 'Assen, The Netherlands', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506100417/https://wseries.com/races/assen/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
9. ↑ [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