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Write for Horsepower & Heels

September 17, 2015 // by Horsepower & Heels

Thank you for your interest in writing for HorsepowerandHeels.com!

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We’re always looking for freelance writers that have relevant content for female racers, women in motorsports and other ladies racing content. We’d love to hear your personal experiences, tips and stories, racing news, strategies and advice.

Do you have a story to share or an editorial idea we haven’t covered? Let us know at horsepowerheels AT gmail DOT com.

Woman of Motorsports Features

Are you a woman participating in the motorsports world and would like to be featured in one of our Motorsports Spotlights? Here’s what to do:

If you are involved in the motorsports world in any fashion, be sure to add yourself to our Women in Motorsports Directory. (Drivers, Crew Members, Public Relations, Business Owners, Entrepeneurs, etc.)
Send us an email to let us know you’d like to be featured with some background information about yourself, and we’ll send over some interview questions for you to answer.
Gather some original photographs (be sure to obtain permission to post!) to submit with your interview.

Guest Posts/Blogs | Article Submissions

Overview: Horsepower & Heels is dedicated to supporting women involved in the motorsports and automotive industry. Read other Horsepower & Heels posts to get a feel for what we are about. We always welcome input that shares the successes of women in the sport, tips and advice to help ladies in the motorsports world, and other informative, relaxed content that would be enjoyed by Horsepower & Heels readers.
Topics: Prior to submitting your article, search our site (top right) to make sure we haven’t already covered the topic you’re pitching.
Post length: Aim for 900-1,000 words. Write in a relaxed, blog-friendly style that’s fun to read.
Expert Help: We’d love your expert opinion. Do you have information that could help women in the motorsports field? Share your experience and advice with focus on. How will your post help readers grow, promote themselves, and achieve their goals? Share detailed instructions to help someone else use your expert advice to succeed.
Resources: Links are encouraged, to support what you’re writing about. Bonus if they relate back to another post on Horsepower & Heels.
Author Biography: Please also submit a brief, two-sentence bio at the bottom of your post. Let us know some interesting information about yourself and your experience. Add link to your website, blog or social media profile so readers can find you.
Submission: We prefer your article be submitted via editable Google Doc to horsepowerheels AT gmail.com (Google Drive Share Instructions).

Frequently Asked Questions

What topics can I write about?
We are all about covering the successes of women in the motorsports industry, and helping them with resources geared to advancing their causes. We love to hear unique stories about women in the industry, tips and suggestions on how they can improve professionally and personally, and fun anecdotes from the field. Some of our most popular posts are:

Paid Assignments?
Currently, article submissions for paid assignments are only accepted when pre-arranged with our editor. We do include your bio and links to your website/social sites with your article to direct traffic back to your site. We also promote each article through all of our social networks for added exposure, and invite you to connect with readers in the comments. (Paid writers do not get a link in their bio.)

Are posts edited?
We do limited editing for grammar, content and clarity, but try our best to preserve your original work as submitted.

Accompanying photos?
We would love to include your original photos, with use permission from the photographer. Submit via Google Drive with your article submission.

We look forward to reading your article submissions!

What could have been… Pro 5.0 Maverick

May 14, 2015 // by Horsepower & Heels

Here’s a little-known Throwback Thursday fact for you!

Back in late 2004, just after I had made the decision to try and sell my beloved Drag Radial coupe off to chase my Pro 5.0/Pro Mod dreams, there was another path that almost came to fruition. Before the Thunderbird, before even the radial car found a new home, there was another Ford that almost became my first Pro 5.0 race car.

1972 Pro 5.0 Maverick

Wanting to move up to the Pro 5.0 class and end my long run in Drag Radial to pursue faster time slips, I knew I needed to find a full tube chassis car on a very limited budget, hoping that I could transplant my build little 302-based turbocharged bullet into it for a rookie run at Pro 5.0. A long-unfinished Pro Street project from back home at Lugo Performance sat untouched, but posed a perfect opportunity for a partnership. Dennis made a few calls, and it was agreed that I could pick up the car and get to work on putting my engine/transmission combo in for a joint Pro 5.0 Maverick venture.

A trip down to Florida, and the car was brought back up to Parker Chassis to get down to work. We started mocking up mid-plates and removing the sheet metal to send out for powder coating, Unfortunately, early in the process, I received another phone call. Apparently, the owner’s wife wasn’t too keen on having someone else racing the car, and they decided against continuing. It put a damper on my spirits at the time, but it wasn’t too long afterwards that I got a message from good friend, Mike Herring — a lead on the Thunderbird that would give me my great start in Pro Mod.

But, had it come to fruition, this would have been the first Horsepower & Heels Pro 5.0 Race car, a 1972 Pro 5.0 Maverick.

What a difference in what Horsepower & Heels’ first Pro Mod could have been!

Guest Post: We are ALL equal

November 20, 2014 // by Eddie Maloney

Editor’s Note: Although Horsepower & Heels mainly focuses our writing from the woman’s perspective of helping each other, we are always grateful to our male supporters are as well. This guest post comes from Eddie Maloney about his first experience with Women in Racing.

We all ALL Equal

By: Eddie Maloney, Las Vegas

I was raised in central New Jersey by two loving parents who taught me to treat women with respect. My father would take me to Old Bridge Township Raceway Park (Englishtown), where we would watch Bunny Burkett and Shirley Muldowney match race.

Naturally, when it came to racing, respect towards women was not any different. In fact, I lost my first bracket race to a cute female firefighter in November 1998. After she tree’d me and ran dead on the dial, I went to go try and find her in the pits because we were both racing Pontiac Firebirds. I approached her to tell her “good race” and then I asked her out on a date. Well I lost that battle too…

I have personally never known anyone as “unequal”, no matter who they were or where they came from. In racing, we need to support each other for the love of sport. We can still remain competitors and still treat each other with respect. We are ALL equal.

-Eddie Maloney