INDIANAPOLIS -– Lindsay Brewer, a 24-year-old racecar driver and content creator backed by an immense fan base on social media, will advance to the Indy Pro 2000 Championship this year.
The championship is an official feeder series for the NTT IndyCar Series and Indianapolis 500, as part of the Road to Indy presented by Cooper Tires. The Road to Indy ladder program has been a proven formula to turn aspiring drivers pro. Of the 33 starters in the 2021 Indy 500, 20 of them were Road to Indy graduates.
Brewer is committed to the progression steps to hone her racecraft. She will race the No. 93 for Exclusive Autosport, as well as carry sponsorship from Mastermine and EVO.
“I’ve been testing in Indy Pro since last summer and thrilled to finally get on the grid and make my way through the Road to Indy,” said Brewer. “I’ve worked really hard in the gym with my fitness regimen and have the same commitment to learn as much as I can on the racetrack this season.”
Brewer will be racing in a Tatuus IP-22 racecar, which is a single-seat, open-wheel Indy car style chassis with a halo-type device. The racercar has a top speed of roughly 165 mph.
Her Indy Pro 2000 schedule will feature a blend of road courses and street circuits as well as ovals, with her first race of the season taking place at Alabama’s Barber Motorsports Park on April 30. Brewer will contest a 16-race schedule, which will take her to Portland Int’l Raceway on Sept. 4.
Brewer’s fascination with racing began at age 11 with a trip accompanying her father to a go-kart event where a test ride for fun clocked faster times than the drivers who were competing. Bitten by the racing bug, Brewer placed top-10 in various national and regional championships and won the Rockies Regional Champion in her home state of Colorado for four years in a row.
She embraced road cars, winning the U.S. Legend Car Championship in 2015. She then took four years off to attend college, graduating with a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of San Diego. She secured a podium in Saleen S1 in 2019 and raced for Skip Barber, the largest race school in the world, in 2020 and 2021.
Brewer also participated in the TC America Series Race at Sonoma Raceway, placing in the top-10 in her first two rounds. Her final step before deciding on the Road to Indy was testing with the W Series—an international junior single-seater motor racing series for female drivers. Now, with the Road to Indy, her dream is to compete in the Indy 500.
Brewer will prove once again that auto racing is one of the few sports where men and women compete on an equal playing field. The first woman to compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500 was Janet Guthrie in 1977. Guthrie will be immortalized in the upcoming film “Speed Girl,” where she’ll be played by two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank.
“Female athletes serve as a strategic priority for advertisers as they create compelling partnership opportunities for brands,” said Klint Briney, Brewer’s agent. “Someone like Lindsay provides a valuable vehicle for brands to speak through as her followers fall in a key demo for advertisers. I’ve seen first-hand representing other female drivers in the past—people were always cheering for their success, which brewed powerful narratives and provided great value for our partners who invested in those efforts.”
In addition to her racing and aggressive training schedule, Brewer is constantly making viral content for her vast social media following. Brewer is currently transcending her sport of auto racing in both awareness and appeal, following in the footsteps of fellow racer Danica Patrick.
At the height of her career, Patrick was the most popular female athlete in the world behind Serena Williams and was the most marketable athlete in motorsports with a DBI score ranking above legends of the sport including Earnhardt Jr., Michael Schumacher, and Jeff Gordon.