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Ashley Freiberg: Speed Is Her Game
Ashley Freiberg
Birth Date: 22 November 1991
Hometown: Homer Glen, Illinois
Speed has always been part of Ashley Freiberg’s life.
The 18-year-old from Homer Glen, Ill., a Chicago suburb, spent the early days as a child watching her brothers compete in karts and open-wheel cars. She even worked in the timing and scoring tower at age 11.
The personable female racer was just waiting for her chance behind the wheel.
To fill in the competitive gaps, Freiberg participated in basketball and continues to train in martial arts. But racing was her true love.
After a training session in the Jim Hall Karting School in California, Freiberg was hooked. She wanted to race. Her goal was to become a professional driver.
“I was hooked on racing right away,” Freiberg said. “In my second year of go-karting, I was winning a championship (in the World Karting Association). “
Freiberg captured five karting championships and established herself as one of the top rising young drivers in North America. Now it was time to move into the cars.
“Mazda provides a ladder system where you go from karting to the (BFGoodrich) Skip Barber National Series to Star Mazda to the Formula Atlantic Championship series,” she explained. “I’ve been successful in karting. Now, I want to be successful in cars.”
In 2008, Freiberg collected nine top five finishes and seven podium (top three) appearances in her first year in car racing in the Skip Barber Regional Series. Ashley also graduated from Lyn St. James’ Driver Development Academy.
In 2009, she won five Barber regional races at the famed tracks of Sebring, Road America, Road Atlanta and Carolina Motorsports Park. She finished sixth in the BFGoodrich Skip Barber National Series final points.
“There’s only a certain time in life where you can attack these opportunities,” said Freiberg. “If I’m going to give racing may best shot, I have to do it now.”
Freiberg knows that racing takes sponsorship to advance to the top levels in the sport. And she hopes her abilities on and off the track will attract the sponsors to move her up the racing ladder.
“Every weekend, whenever I get in a car, my goal is to learn something new,” she said. “So getting seat time in a race car is most important to me right now. The more I learn, the faster I will become. Standing on the top of the podium will get me noticed. Of course, being a woman helps too. But I want to win. Winning is all I think about right now.”