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.
Every race since 1997
Each square is one race. Bigger squares had bigger fields, and an orange corner means a woman drove. Pick any square for its full results.
Swipe the calendar for earlier years.
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.
Years behind the wheel
First start to latest for the women who have raced the longest. One mark per start: yellow for a class win, orange for second or third.
Three ways to race
Closest, fastest, quickest. Each kind of race keeps score its own way.
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.
Events
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
Everyone who has shared the car, most races first.
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
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.
Stats
The cars
Every make that came to the races since 1997, from Corvettes to a 1931 Ford Roadster.
Explore the carsRecord book
The closest runs on the books, and who has raced the most. A record run needs a class, a place and a sheet printed to at least thousandths.
Getting closer
Seconds off perfect, by year
The median class winner and the median finisher across every open road race that year. Lower is closer; each gridline is ten times closer.
Median finisher, by series
The typical finisher inside each series. Lower is closer.
Where the field runs
Entries by class speed
Share of each year's entries in each band of target speeds.
Women in the field
Counted from the women on the RaceCarly list, so early years are undercounted: a woman shows up once she is on the list.
Share of driving starts
Starts by women drivers as a share of all starts that year.
First-timers who came back
Of each year's first-time drivers, everyone included, the share who raced again in a later year. Recent years run lower: there has been less time to come back.
Teams
Longest partnerships
Driver and navigator pairs, most races together. Either seat counts.
Family teams
Pairs who share a last name.
Women's partnerships
Teams with a woman in either seat.
Navigators in demand
Navigators who have ridden with the most different drivers.
The cars
The make race
Top ten makes, year by year
Share of that year's entries. Press play or drag through the years.
See the numbers
Corvette years
Corvette entries by generation
The width of the river is how many Corvettes ran that year. Hover or tap a year for the split. Only entries with a model year can be placed in a generation.
Every entry
Model year against race year
One dot per entry. Dots on the line are brand new; dots low on the chart are old cars still running.
Who runs what
Where each make enters
Share of each make's entries by class speed, fastest makes first. Makes with at least 60 entries matched to a class.
The garage
The oldest, rarest and strangest things to show up on a results sheet.
Rarest badges
Makes with six entries or fewer, and how many times each one ran.
As entered
Every race
In calendar order, with the closest run of each day.
Closest runs of the year
Any race, any class.
Most class wins
First in class, driving.
