07-05-2025
‘No one ever cared about my feelings': OnlyFans star Renee Gracie on motorsport comeback in GT World Challenge
Renee Gracie is finally getting her flowers.
The 30-year-old skyrocketed to national fame a decade ago as the country's only female V8 Supercars driver before leaving the sport in 2017 and starting a lucrative adult career on OnlyFans.
Supercars officials publicly tut-tutted the X-rated move and slammed her subsequent attempts to re-enter motorsport using the profits from her OnlyFans career.
She finally returned to the racetrack for the GT World Challenge Australia two years ago and is currently leading the 2025 driver's championship in the Am category.
'It's great to be here, but you know, I started my return back into motorsport back in like 2021 and I didn't get in the car until 2023,' she told
'So it was many years of lots of no's, lots of ignored phone calls, ignored emails and people just not returning my calls, people laughing at me.'
The racer, who is also an aspiring boxer sat down with ahead of the second round of the GT World Challenge at Sydney Motorsport Park last weekend.
'It's a good racing program and I'm just another competitor on the field out of everyone that's here,' she said.
'I feel like my purpose now essentially on my return is that no female should ever have to work this hard to get into motorsport.'
The Queenslander has reunited with Melbourne Performance Centre this season in the same Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo2 that she drove to a maiden trophy class victory in 2023.
Gracie has even combined her two passions after inking a major sponsorship deal with OnlyFans, whose logo is proudly wrapped around her Audi R8.
'Racing is obviously my number one thing right now, but I'm so lucky to combine both OnlyFans and my motorsport together,' she said.
Despite strong support within the GT racing community, Gracie claimed she has faced resistance from TV broadcasters who bristled at showing her OnlyFans-branded car on camera.
'In the beginning it was a bit difficult with TV coverage and people still obviously feeling a certain way about the sponsor and what I was bringing to the category,' she said.
The racer's re-entry into motorsport was immortalised in the Stan documentary Renee Gracie: Fireproof, which chronicled her complicated stint in Supercars and her subsequent switch to GT3 racing.
Through archival footage, viewers relive a pre-MeToo media's obsession with her appearance and the stomach-churning moment a former manager joked about her weight on camera.
The kicker occurs when the same looks-obsessed media turns on Gracie after she opts to monetise her appearance through OnlyFans.
'I think for many years with the media and the way that things were manipulated and spoken about in the way I was treated, there was a level of control and manipulation over my story,' she said.
'I felt like my whole journey, no one ever cared about my feelings, thoughts and emotions, and they care less now that I'm out of (Supercars).
'So I when I had the opportunity for the documentary, I thought this might be the only thing I can ever do to just share my side of the story.'
Now officially in her thirties, Gracie said her career in motorsport may just be getting started.
'The beauty of the GT world challenge is that age is no limit,' she said.
'The doors actually aren't closed for, you know, someone in their 30s who's a strong Am driver, if anything, I'm actually quite valuable.'
