La Presse profiles five Montreal high school students — Azure Klopp, Sen de Montigny, Magnolia Pilot, Léa Leduc, and Mailly Zang — who make up ASAP Racing, an all-girls engineering team headed to the international STEM Racing World Finals in Singapore.
The article highlights their journey from idea to global stage: discovering the F1 in Schools competition, dividing roles naturally based on talents, and teaching themselves advanced tools like CAD modeling, CNC machining, and even building their own wind tunnel. Along the way, they overcame obstacles like budget challenges, shipping delays, and even a melted prototype.
Despite these hurdles, the team placed second in Canada, won multiple awards, and secured major sponsors including Rolls-Royce, Air Canada, and the Antje Graupe Pryor Foundation. Their project blends engineering precision with advocacy, using their unique position as one of the only all-girls teams to promote feminism and STEM inclusion.
The piece captures their energy, humor, and resilience, from using the safe word “pineapple” to manage feedback between friends and teammates, to showing up at car dealerships in school uniforms to pitch for funding. Above all, it frames ASAP Racing as an inspiring example of young women breaking barriers in engineering and motorsport, proving that passion and teamwork can carry them to the world stage.
