Entrepreneur Zoë Barry, artwork advisor Spring McManus, and award-winning skilled racecar driver Aurora Straus have introduced the launch of their new initiative, Pushed Artists Racing Group (DART Automobile), a female-led, mission-driven skilled motorsports crew, to raise the achievements of ladies in the historically male-dominated fields of motorcars and wonderful artwork. Debuting in North America this spring with a McLaren Artura GT4 racecar, DART Automobile launched with an inaugural fee by acclaimed modern artist Mickalene Thomas, who has created a customized wrap for the racecar as effectively bespoke driving fits and hand-painted helmets for Straus and Barry, who makes her skilled debut this season. The DART Automobile racecar was formally unveiled on the Traditional Automobile Membership Manhattan on Tuesday, February 18. DART Automobile’s first race of the 2024 season was the SRO GT4 America at Sonoma Raceway in March and the crew plans to end the 12 months in January 2026 on the 24H SeriesMiddle East Trophy in Dubai and Abu Dhabi as the primary all-female-led crew within the collection. Feminine athletes account for solely 4% of drivers within the prime classes of motorsport, which till just lately was a mere 1.5%.
Moreover, artworks created by feminine artists account for solely 3.3% of world public sale gross sales, in line with the 2022 Burns Halperin report. Impressed by the legacy of the BMW Artwork Automobile, an organization for which Straus has served as a Model Ambassador, DART Automobile is the primary initiative of its sort in motorsports to accomplice with modern feminine artists and ladies motorsport rivals to design and race high-performance artwork automobiles on the earth’s most prestigious auto occasions. These distinctive collaborations anchor DART Automobile’s advocacy program, which strives to raise ladies’s accomplishments in motorsports and fund an annual commissioning programming with the world’s main feminine artists.
