Aimée Gauthier

Aimée Gauthier (born January 17th, 2001) is a French racing driver, and the granddaughter of former Formula 1 driver and Equipe Gauthier team boss Guillaume Gauthier.

Early Life
Aimée's early years were spent in close proximity to cars. Her family owns one of the biggest garage chain in southern France, and her grandfather Guillaume was one of the country's many Formula 1 stars in the late 70's and early 80's, on top of owning a racing team. When he was not busy running his team, Guillaume would regale Aimée with tales of his racing exploits, and from an early age she knew she wanted to follow in his footsteps.

Aimée was also privilege to one of the best educations money could buy, as her family had become very affluent in the wake of both Guillaume's Grand Prix success and the boom in business for Garages Automobiles Gauthier, in which Aimée's mother attained a rather high rank.

Karting (2009-2015)
Her father, Arnaud, was more interested in the technical aspects of motor racing as opposed to actually racing, but when Aimée turned 8, he surprised her with her very own kart with which to begin her racing career. At this stage, Arnaud was making a name for himself as an engineer within Equipe Gauthier, but was able to spare enough time to maintain the kart. Very quickly Aimée began crushing all opposition she came across, and by the time she was 10, Guillaume had seen fit to give her full backing from Equipe Gauthier, allowing her to compete on a national level. By the end of 2012, she was French Under-13 Karting Champion at the age of 11. A year later she earned the European title. Aimée then won the European Under-15 Karting Championship, and began looking for a way into single-seaters, eventually settling on the F1 Rejects Development Series.

2016
Equipe Gauthier did not run a F1RDS team, so Aimée had to rely on finding another team to accept her. Thanks to her karting results, this was not too difficult. She will compete the 2016 F1RDS season for Écurie Prenois.