Reema Juffali

Reema Juffali is a Saudi racing driver, born on 18 January 1992 in Jeddah. ^{1 2} She is the first Saudi Arabian woman racing driver, the first Saudi woman to hold a racing licence, and the first Saudi woman to win an international motor race. ¹

Juffali was born and raised in Jeddah, and took an interest in cars and sport as a child, at a time when women were banned from driving in Saudi Arabia. ¹ She was educated at the British International School of Jeddah and studied international affairs at Northeastern University from 2010. ¹ She obtained a driving licence in the United States in October 2010 and her racing licence in September 2017, the month the Saudi ban on women driving was lifted. ¹

Juffali's debut race came in October 2018, and she registered her first major victory that December. ¹ In April 2019 she contested the F4 British Championship at Brands Hatch, and on 22 November 2019 she became the first Saudi woman to take part in an international racing competition inside Saudi Arabia, as a guest driver in the Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY in Riyadh. ^{1 3} In 2022 she founded her own team, Theeba Motorsport, which competes in the International GT Open, and she was named to the BBC's 100 Women list of 2022. ¹

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