Ashley Freiberg started her racing career as an 11 year old working as a Burris Circle Tour official in timing and scoring. Her brothers, Eric and Brian, raced go karts on asphalt ovals and, at the time, she was more interested in playing basketball. As time went on, she became more interested in racing. At 13, when her brothers moved on to road racing with go karts of higher speeds on road courses, she decided to give it a try. So Ashley’s dad, Chuck, sent her out to the Jim Hall Kart Racing School out in Ventura, California. That was where she fell in love with the sport.
In December 2004, she attended her first race with the World Karting Association at the Daytona International Speedway on the 24 Hour Road Course. There she raced in the Jr. Sprint Lite and Heavy classes which reached speeds up to 80 mph. That season, she raced in all WKA races along with all of the Championship Enduro Series (CES) races. At the end of the season, she finished 7th in points with WKA and 4th in CES. Finishing in the top ten in both series in her first year of racing was a huge accomplishment and she now knew she had the potential to finish at the top.

The next season, in 2006, she had to continue racing in the Jr. Sprint classes for both series because she wasn’t old enough to move forward yet. At the end of that year, she was undefeated in two different classes in CES and also won a National Championship in WKA. After winning these three championships in only her second year, she decided it was time to start a new challenge and step up to cars.

In 2007, Ashley attended both the Three-day School and the Two-day Advanced School with Skip Barber, so that in the summer she could race in the Skip Barber Midwestern Series. She also moved up to the Piston Port Can 340 and 360 classes with CES. Because she was racing the Skip Barber Series, she didn’t have enough time to also race in the WKA series, but she did happen to find time for one WKA race and it was the last race of the season at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia. There she broke the undefeated season of the points leader and took 1st place. She also won her 4th karting championship in CES.

This year Ashley has accumulated six top 5 finishes in the Skip Barber Racing Series and 3 podium finishes. She also attended her first race in the Formula Mazda with the Sports Car Club of America National race at the Infineon Raceway in Sanoma, California. There she started 26th and worked her way up to finishing 4th in her class. She has also recently moved up to racing 125 cc shifters with CES, and in her only race where she had no mechanical problems that caused her to fall out, she finished 5th out of 19. Ashley has also decided to start experimenting with different types of racing to see what fits her driving style best. This summer Ashley attended the Finish Line Racing School in New Smyrna, Florida, so she could get a taste of what it’s like to drive a stock car.