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At the August 2024 Portland IndyCar event, Kim received the Women In Motorsports North America (WIMNA) SHEro award for her contributions to the race industry, and for being a role model for women looking to have careers in motorsports.
For over 20 years, Kim Kuzma McFarland has been a leader at the local and national level for motorsports operations. She has worked in a variety of roles from flagger to starter to pace car driver here at PIR. In addition, she is a current Friends of PIR board member; is a pace car driver for Oregon Region SCCA; works in race control for Formula E and NASCAR races here in Portland; at the national level, she works in race control and is a Deputy Race Chair and Race Operations Coordinator for IndyCar, Formula 1 and MotoGP events in Austin, Miami and Las Vegas and beyond. Since getting into motorsports, she is a past board member of the Cascade Sports Car Club and Oregon Region SCCA, a past chief starter for SOVERN and Cascade Sports Car Clubs.
Over the past 20+ years, Kim has also been recognized as the 2001 Oregon Region SCCA “Rookie Flagger” of the year, and the 2014 SCCA National “Worker of the Year” as a starter.
All of this was done while holding down a full-time job in marketing!
Kim was nominated for the award by E.C. Mueller, past PIR General Manager and current WIMNA board member, and Darrell LeBlanc, President of Friends of PIR. E.C. and Darrell LeBlanc. At the award ceremony, Mr. LeBlanc said “The award recognizes and celebrates Kim’s achievements of outstanding women in the industry and is meant to inspire the next generation of female leaders in motorsports.”
The award was presented at a gathering of volunteer workers at the Portland IndyCar event. What better way to celebrate this achievement than with almost 150 of your closest track friends?
