Leanne Tander is Australia’s top female racer.

As one of very few females in the male-dominated sport of motor racing, Leanne is not just racing to make up the numbers - she’s making history and attracting world-wide media attention along the way.

In 2007, Leanne became the first female in the world to win a race in Formula 3, an internationally recognised feeder category to Formula 1. She went on to finish 2nd outright in the Australian F3 Championship against fields of up to 22 men.

Continuing her winning ways in the 2008 Australian Formula 3 Championship, Leanne won five races, and finished on the podium a further four times out of a total 15 races. She earned three pole positions and secured a lap record at the
daunting Phillip Island Circuit. Leanne narrowly missed out on the Formula 3 Championship by a mere four points
when her engine blew up in the final round of the year.

Prior to her Formula 3 success, Leanne came to prominence in the V8 Supercar Development Series where she
became the first woman to stand on a V8 Supercar podium.

She is 100% committed to succeeding in the ultra-competitive world of motor sport, working hard on and off the
track to achieve her goals. Attractive, intelligent, articulate, personable and a great role model for all walks of life,
Leanne is a favourite among the media and fans alike.

With a Bachelor of Commerce under her belt, Leanne juggles her driving duties with that of team manager and
truck driver alongside a gruelling training schedule to ensure optimal fitness and strength.

Leanne is married to 2007 V8 Supercar Champion, Garth Tander.

Demonstrating the ability to be successful in any category she enters, Leanne is now looking forward to the next
step in her career as she re-enters V8 Supercars with Wilson Security Racing.

Career Highlights

2009

• Production Cars 

  Leanne raced a Conroy Motorsport Honda Integra Type S at the Bathurst 12 hour event, securing pole in her class and finishing 2nd in class and 13th outright. Doing double duty in the Bathurst 12 hour, she also contested support races in a Mazda RX-7.

2008

• Australian Formula 3 Championship - 2nd
• Mini Challenge       

  Leanne was invited to race the Uber-Star Mini at Barbagallo Raceway (WA). She qualified second in her first outing and, despite being taken out in race 1, went on to set the lap record in race 3.

2007

• Australian Formula 3 Championship - 2nd.

  Leanne became the first female winner of an Australian Formula 3 race.

• Toyota Racing Series (NZ)  

  Leanne raced three events in New Zealand in their premier open-wheeler category, Toyota Racing Series

• Production Cars 

  Leanne raced in the factory-backed Holden Astra Diesel at the Bathurst 12 hour event.

2006

• Australian Formula 3 Championship - 5th outright
  Including a pole position that made Leanne the first female to qualify on pole in Australian Formula 3.

2005

• Improved Production 

  New South Wales and Victorian State Champion

2004

• Australian Production Car Championship - 1st in her class and 3rd outright in the championship

2001 - 2002

• V8 Supercars 

  Leanne raced in the V8Supercar Development Series for two seasons.
  She became the first female ever to stand on the podium of a V8 Supercar race and also raced at the QLD 500 and Bathurst 1000 in 2001.

1998 - 2000

• Formula Ford - 3rd in the 2000 Championship against Rick Kelly, Will Power and Luke Youlden.

  First ever female to win a round of the Australian Formula Ford Championship.

1994 - 1997

• Karting

  Leanne scored 3 state championships, runner up in the 1996 Australian Karting
  Championship and placed 13th at the World Cup in Suzuka, Japan.