Inessa Tushkanova

Gentlemen, start your engines for Inessa Tushkanova, a rally driver from Verkhnedneprovsk, a small town in the southeast Ukraine. Shes a professional rally driver she placed 6th in the Ukrainian National Championship who just so happens to be a Playboy model. Shes posed for Ukrainian, Russian and Lithuanian editions of Playboy, and has graced the cover of all three issues. My family moved to Kiev when I was thirteen, she says. A few years later, I was offered a contract with a modeling agency in Japan. While in Japan, Inessa fell in love with cars. When I returned to the Ukraine, she says, I started training to be a rally driver. Her hard work paid off in 2013 shell be competing in the final frontier of the Finnish Rally Championship, where drivers get a crash course in high speeds and low temperatures. Im going to be a world champion, she says. Rally driving is traditionally dominated by men, but as a woman, I get better sponsors.