That’s some serious helmet hair

Swiss F3 star Natacha Gachnang is the first female driver to sign up for the new FIA Formula Two Championship. Don’t be surprised if one day she makes it all the way to F1. The 21 year-old certainly has the genes to succeed in motorsport: she is the cousin of Red Bull test driver Sebastien Buemi, who looks set to win a 2009 race seat for Toro Rosso.

The new F2 category will use a new car based on a chassis built by Williams and an engine built by Audi.

Lewis Hamilton’s WAG pouts for German mag

Nicole Scherzinger stars in the January issue of Maxim Germany, and Gridcrasher has tracked down the best photos from her cover shoot. Because we care about you in that way.

More photos after the jumpy thing…

She’s cute and she’s a better driver than you

Carmen Jorda is 20 years old and cuter than a basketful of kittens. She drives in Spanish F3 for the Campos Racing team, which means she’s also more talented than a basketful of kittens. Last season, she finished fourth in the Spanish F3 Cup.

Carmen qualifies as a WAG because she’s going out with Superbikes rider Fonsi Nieto. The pair have just announced their engagement, so Carmen is off the market. Doh.

More photos after the jump…

Forget about the F1 crisis, focus instead on hot WAGs

When anxious feelings about F1’s future arise, softly chant the following mantra: Connie Montoya, Connie Montoya, Connie Montoya…

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One half of the cutest couple in F1

Meet Gabriela Constantino, the girlfriend of Nelson Piquet Jr. She’s done a spot of modelling and she comes from a rich Brazilian family. And she’s 18 years old… and very cute. Shit negro, that’s all you had to say.

More photos if you step into our virtual office:

Nascar star’s former squeeze likes to get nekkid

This is Amanda Beard (not to be confused with Amanda Huginkiss). She’s a very successful Olympic swimmer, winning seven medals from 1996-2008.

But what’s she doing on Gridcrasher, you ask? Well, she used to get jiggy with Nascar star Carl Edwards, which is more than enough to qualify her as a Grid WAG. That and the fact she has taken her clothes off for Playboy.

More photos after the jump (some include nekkidity, so don’t click if the boss is standing behind you)…

X Factor star has the hots for Pussycat Doll

The horror! The horror!

This has to be the scariest picture we’ve seen since Robert Kubica last took off his crash helmet (note to our Polish readers: that’s what we like to call ‘a joke’). You might recognise the poser in the trunks as Rhydian Roberts, the weirdo singer who came second in last year’s X Factor.

Anyhow, news reaches us that Rhydian has the major hots for Nicole Scherzinger, aka Lewis Hamilton’s WAG. Be afraid Lewis, be very afraid.

“She’s the fittest woman I’ve ever met – and I got to sing with her,” an overexcited Rhydian revealed to the Sunday Mercury.

“I know she’s going out with Lewis, so I didn’t overstep the mark. But she was rather flirty.”

Stalker alert.

This year, we shall mostly be looking at nude models and elephants

Gridcrasher is pleased to bring you some preview images from the 2009 Pirelli Calendar. This year’s theme is hot naked models (as ever) and… big scary elephants. Elephants? Er, ok.

Anyway, the photography, by famous lensman Peter Beard, is stunning. The women aren’t bad either.

More photos after the jump. They involve barenekkid ladies, so the rest of this post comes with an obligatory NSFW warning…