Molly Taylor doco lands nomination at LA film awards
Drive Like a Girl is a finalist for Best Documentary Feature at the 2026 International Motor Film Awards, with the winner announced in NovemberThe News
Australian rally champion Molly Taylor has spent her career being judged by stopwatches. Now she's being judged by film critics – and it's going rather well.
Drive Like a Girl, the Australian-made documentary charting Taylor's career, has been named a finalist for Best Documentary Feature at the 2026 International Motor Film Awards. The winner will be announced on November 14, 2026 at a red-carpet gala at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
The Key Details
- Drive Like a Girl is a finalist at the 2026 International Motor Film Awards
- Nominated for Best Documentary Feature
- Judging panel includes Ben Collins, Tiff Needell and Magnus Walker
- Winner announced at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles
- Available on YouTube, Kayo Sports and Apple TV, with a shortened cut on 7flix
The Finer Details
The film follows Taylor – reigning FIA Extreme H World Cup winner, inaugural Extreme E world champion and 2016 Australian Rally Champion – as she chases drives, sponsorship and results in a resolutely male-dominated sport.
It covers the highlights, including her move to the United Kingdom as a 20-year-old, the rally silverware and the small matter of tackling the Dakar Rally.
It also covers the bits nobody puts in a highlights reel: a violent four-roll crash in Saudi Arabia that left her bruised but mercifully unbroken, plus the endless churn of changing teams, chasing sponsors and paying the bills.
It's not the first gong, either. Drive Like a Girl won Best Use of Digital Media at the 2025 Motorsport Australia National Awards.
The Road Ahead
If you want more Taylor before the envelope gets opened in November, she's the guest on episode three of carsales original series Idle Talk, where she joins host Feann Torr in the Mad Garage before a memory-lane road trip in a 1989 Subaru Brumby.
She talks through the Subaru factory program folding during COVID, explaing "I thought that was maybe it on my driving career" and also talks about the email from Nico Rosberg she assumed was a prank.
There's also the Extreme E rollover, her near-miss on SAS Australia, going wheel-to-wheel with Sebastian Vettel, and a spirited debate about dropping a WRX engine into the Brumby. Watch it on the carsales YouTube channel and everyone at carsales hopes she gets another trophy in LA.
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