Profile

First name: Tracy
Last name: Gaudu
Profession: Vascular Surgery and Trauma Physician Assistant
Service: United States Air Force Veteran
Vehicle: 2008 atomic orange Corvette ZO6
Motor/Specs: Lingenfelter LS7 427 Eliminator Soec R motor. Max wHP 650 max torque 560
Racing Class/Team/Division: Team Tracy Motorsport

NASA Super Unlimited class in wheel to wheel racing and SCCA Appalachian Hillclimb Series Outlaw class in hillclimbs.

Hometown: Johnson City, TN
Home track: Road Atlanta
Personal website: www.teamtracymotorsport.com
Clubs/Affiliations: NASA, SCCA, NCCC

Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, Alcon Specialist Brakes and Clutches, ProSystem Brakes, AMSOIL, Hoosier Racing Tire, RPS Performance, Vettes For Vets, Race Chick, Trackdaytire, APR Performance, ProAuto, GSpeed, inTech Trailers, Kim’s Gold Dust, Redline Ace, Redtide Canopies, TrackShaker, Race Ramps, Anderson Composites, Corsa Performance, Ignite Racing Fuel, Roswell Outback Automotive Racing, Women In Motorsport North America, Cincinnati Supercars, Next Level Raceworks, Backroads of Appalachia, Faircloth Composites, Radium Engineering, Longhorn Corvette Club

• 2025 Pikes Peak International Hillclimb competitor
• Certified NASA instructor
• NASA Southeast Super Unlimited Champion, 2024
• Queen of the Hill SCCA Appalachian Hillclimb Series at Pine Mountain Hillclimb and record holder, April 2024
• SCCA Appalachian Hillclimb Series Modified Unlimited Champion, 2023
• 2023 Car Chix Woman in Motorsport
• Obtained my NASA competition license in mid 2021.
• NASA Southeast 3-time Time Trial Champion in TT1 (2019, 2020) and TTU (2021)
• Ran my first Grand Prix in Chattanooga last year winning second in class and overall, Oct 2021.
• Chosen to compete in Grassroots Motorsports Ultimate Track Car Challenge at Hyperfest at VIR in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 making it to the Knockout Finals all 4 years
• Won the inTech Trailers Max the Tach V trailer sponsorship in December of 2020 and am their ambassador with my new 24' enclosed trailer
• National Council of Corvette Clubs National Champion in 2008

“If everything seems under control, then you’re not going fast enough”

-- Mario Andretti

I am a one woman race team (Team Tracy Motorsport) and am the car owner, driver and sole financier of this team.

I started out in motorsports in 2006 (with a 2005 corvette) in low speed autocross with the National Council of Corvette Clubs (NCCC) primarily and some local SCCA events with Spokes out of Austin, Texas. I continued in autocross with my 2008 C6ZO6 corvette as well and really learned how to drive a manual transmission on this car in the first year of owning it and even won the National Championship with NCCC in 2008.

I then began to do hpde’s (high performance driving education) with NASA and different organizations to learn how to drive the car on the track. Got my NASA TT license in 2018 and began to run hard for the 3 championships I won back to back from 2019, 2020 and 2021. Obtained my wheel to wheel competition license through NASA in 2021 and ran a few races while going for my last TT championship.

In 2022, I won Queen of the Hill award with a new hillclimb record at Pine Mountain and continue to lower that record time each year.

Started to hillclimb not on only with the SCCA Appalachian Hillclimb Series but also with the Pennsylvania Hillclimb Association.

Won my first hillclimb championship with SCCA AHS in 2023 in the Modified Unlimited class.

In 2025, a dream came true as we will be headed to Pikes Peak International Hillclimb this June as a rookie driver!!!

My career in medicine (surgery) as a physician assistant, hiking and working with my plants in and around my home.

Women In Motorsport North America (WIMNA)

Grassroots Motorsports Magazine

Corvette Track Enthusiasts

SCCA Appalachian Hillclimb Series

NASA (National Auto Sport Association)

LPE (Lingenfelter Performance Engineering)

Don’t give up. Accept there will be huge sacrifices for racing (unless you have husband/family/independently wealthy). Be your own biggest cheerleader as there will be people out there who will try to derail you. Ignore the haters.

-- Tracy