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Home » Glamorous motor sport star lifts the lid on the dark side of the Bathurst 1000 race after getting death threats
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Glamorous motor sport star lifts the lid on the dark side of the Bathurst 1000 race after getting death threats

By uk-times.com8 October 2025No Comments4 Mins Read
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Trailblazing Australian motorsport star Renee Gracie has reflected on her Bathurst debut, the ‘P***y Wagon’ scandal, and the shocking abuse that exposed the dark side of Australia’s most famous race.

The former V8 Supercars driver, who has now become an OnlyFans millionaire, debuted at Bathurst 10 years ago in a race that she describes as life-changing.

Gracie teamed up with Switzerland’s Simona de Silvestro to create the first all-female Bathurst 1000 driving team – but they soon made headlines for the wrong reasons.

During an interview in the lead-up to the race, driver Dave Reynolds referred to the all-female team’s car as the ‘P***y Wagon’.

The comments were widely condemned by the motor racing community as sexist, highly inappropriate and distasteful, and Reynolds was slapped with a $25,000 fine.

Gracie says she was not at all offended by Reynolds’ remarks, but the abuse she suffered following the incident changed her relationship with the sport.

Australian motorsport star Renee Gracie has reflected on her Bathurst debut 10 years on

Gracie says she received shocking abuse from some of the fans at Australia's most famous race ¿ even death threats

Gracie says she received shocking abuse from some of the fans at Australia’s most famous race – even death threats

‘(There) was death threats, I had a beer can thrown at me, I had people abusing me, I got booed,’ Gracie told News Corp.

‘If you’re a motorsport fan, we all know the type of people that hang up on the top of the mountain, and it was all of those people who were really quite nasty and horrible to myself.

‘Unfortunately, I felt there was a little bit of a divide between myself and Simona as well, just because Simona was an established racing car driver and people had real respect and love and support for her.

‘Where I was still kind of proving myself and I feel like the Australian fans and motorsport fans, they really didn’t want a female in the category and they really let me know about it.’

Gracie said that the entire event is one that she has mixed feelings about. 

‘The Bathurst 1000 for me is something that made me and something that put me on the map in Australian motorsport … unfortunately, it wasn’t overly positive,’ Gracie said.

‘It helped me tremendously with everything that I did, but sadly enough, I think the course of that weekend and everything that transpired over that period of time before Bathurst and then after Bathurst, was also when I realised that I didn’t want to be in the sport anymore.

‘That was a really, really tough thing for me to understand and for me to swallow.

Gracie teamed up with Simona de Silvestro (pictured together) to create an all-female Bathurst 1000 driving team

Gracie teamed up with Simona de Silvestro (pictured together) to create an all-female Bathurst 1000 driving team

The former Supercars driver turned OnlyFans millionaire returned to racing in 2023 with the GT World Challenge Australia series

The former Supercars driver turned OnlyFans millionaire returned to racing in 2023 with the GT World Challenge Australia series

‘Just the way that I was treated and things that happened to me over the course of that weekend … it was one of those weekends where I refer to it as the start of the end, that’s how I explain it in my mind and in my world of what happened.

‘That’s when I realised a lot of things weren’t how I wanted them to be and I wasn’t really a race car driver, I was a marketing tactic.

‘I was making all these people money, I was getting everybody’s attention but I wasn’t getting all the right care that I wanted. I wasn’t getting looked after how I felt that I deserved to be looked after.’

In 2025, Gracie told Daily Mail Australia about the blatant sexism and harassment she’d faced during her career in motorsports, which ultimately led to her quitting Supercars.

‘I think a lot of people assumed that things were easy for me, being a girl in motorsport, but it was the opposite,’ she said.

‘And, you know, people didn’t want to talk to me because I was a girl. People would tell me, to my face that they didn’t think that girls should be in motorsports.

‘… And it was very frustrating, because in some ways I wish that it did make my life easier being a female. But in motorsport, it was the absolute, complete opposite, from the moment I entered the sport.’

In 2023, Gracie returned to racing with the GT World Challenge Australia series, running her own team that is sponsored by OnlyFans.

‘I’m honestly still very surprised that I’m here for my third year,’ Gracie said

‘I know that sounds so insane. I really never expected it to be more than a one-year program. The fact that I’m here on my third year, it’s every day that I’m so grateful for.

‘I try to live in the moment and enjoy everything, because I know that it’s not going to be forever. If it could be forever, I’d be the happiest person alive, because ultimately this is what I love doing.’

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