Find a racer
Open road, land speed and hill climb results for every driver and navigator. The names behind this box are the women who race, sized by how many times they have been behind the wheel.
Three ways to race
Closest, fastest, quickest. Each kind of race keeps score its own way.
Women on the board
Every start by a woman behind the wheel. One dot per start: yellow for a class win, orange for second or third.
More women behind the wheel
Women driving each year, with first-time drivers in orange.
2026 counts run through the Big Bend Open Road Race, Fall.
Latest results
The newest results to land, and where Carly is racing next.
Get in the car
Most of the women on this site started with a street car and somebody in the right seat. Carly will tell you how she did it.
- Pick an eventOpen road races run on closed highways in Texas, Nevada and Nebraska, spring through fall. Hill climbs and salt meets fill in the summer.
- Pick a speed you can holdOpen road classes are target speeds. The 2026 Silver State field started at 95 mph, and the closest run of the day was at 140.
- Bring someone for the right seatMost open road teams run two up.
Results
Closest runs by women
The smallest variance each woman has driven, best first.
Every open road event
Laid out the way the season runs. Bar length is the size of the field.
Land speed
Scored on top speed. These results are entered by hand, and only Carly's are on the books so far.
| Driver | Event | Top speed |
|---|---|---|
| Carly Bates | Texas Mile, standing mile | 190 mph |
| Carly Bates | Bonneville salt flats | 149 mph |
Hill climb
Scored on elapsed time, start line to summit. These results are entered by hand, and only Carly's are on the books so far.
| Driver | Event | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Carly Bates | Virginia City Hill Climb, Nevada | P2 |
How close to perfect
Open road. Seconds off a perfect run at every event with a published variance. Higher is closer.
Moving up in speed
Open road target speed entered, by year. Dot color is the finishing position.
Career grid
Finishing position at each open road event on the calendar.
In the other seat
Navigators in the right seat, and drivers navigated for.
Every result
Finish times are shown where the sheet prints them or they can be worked out exactly. calc marks a computed time.
Silver State Classic Challenge 2026
Rookie spotlight
Silver State through the years
Every Silver State on the books, 2015 to now. There was no event in 2020.
Precision by class
Every finisher, by seconds off a perfect run. Each gridline is ten times farther from perfect.
Transcribed from the posted sheets. Finish times are worked out from the 90-mile course: the time a perfect run takes at the class speed, plus or minus the variance. Two duplicated rows on the paper are counted once.
