NICOLE DROUGHT IS IRELAND’S TOP FEMALE RACING DRI VER.

Nicole started racing in the ITCC series in a Honda Integra. Having taken class pole at her first meeting, she took two wins in her first year and narrowly missed out on the Production Class title. She was subsequently inducted into the Murphy Prototypes Young Driver initiative and travelled to a number of ELMS rounds with the Irish owned International Sportscar team. Towards the end of 2016, she was named by sportswomen.ie as Irish Sportswoman of The Year, beating names such as Katie Taylor and Annalise Murphy in a public vote to decide the competition. In 2018 and 2019 Nicole competed in the popular Endurance Trial Championship. In 2018 she took her first championship victory, when she won the Endurance Trials Class A1 Championship. In 2019, she defended her title and dominated, with six wins from six starts to make it two Championships in a row. Having tied up the title before the final round, she elected to move up to the main class and took a class win there too.

In August 2019, Nicole made headlines when she tested a Formula 1 car at the Mondello Park Historic Festival. In front of a capacity crowd, she drove the famous ex Derek Daly Guinness liveried March 811, a car which was demonstrated at Mondello Park by Daly almost 40 years before!
The car is now owned by Irish US expat John Campion and forms part of his impressive collection. Having subsequently signed a three year contract with Campion’s CJJ Motorsports team, Nicole travelled to Palm Beach in Florida to test Campion’s Jordan 192 F1 car, along woth some other cars from his impressive collection.

In 2020, Nicole competed in the Britcar Endurance Series, taking four class wins in a Porsche 718 GT4, en route to second place in the class championship. In 2021, she debuted the factory built Hyundai Motorsport i30 N TCR Touring car with a win on the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit with the Motus One team. Towards the end of 2021, Nicole made her Rally debut, taking the E Fox Engineers Mini Cooper to a popular class win on the Killarney Historic Rally.

In 2023 Nicole, with backing from Renault dealers Joe Mallon Motors, won the Open Clubman Irish Rallycross Championship in a Renault Clio. In 2024, she returned and successfully defended her title.

Also in 2023, Nicole competed in selected races in the UK EnduroKA series, taking a memorable win in the Oulton Park 5 Hour, and at the Brands Hatch IndyKA 500, and alos leading the Donington 3 hour, before a menchanical failure with only 30 minutes to run. She also made her MSV TDC debut at the season ending meeting at Brands Hatch in November, finishing second in the EBC Brakes Honda Civic Type R.

For the 2024 season, she teamed up with Justin Roberts and, again in the EBC Civic, they won the 2024 TDC title. In doing so, Nicole was not only the first woman to win a race in the series, but the first ever female champion. In 2025, driving solo this time, Nicole is defending her title and she won the opening two rounds at Snetterton and Silverstone.

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