Jen Horsey (born October 28, 1975) is a Canadian automotive journalist, TV personality and motorsport competitor with a specialty in

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and

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. Horsey is a longtime contributor to ESPN’s digital and television programming. who, in 2012, became ESPN’s first-ever female motorsport analyst, broadcasting from the announce booth for X Games and other rallycross competition. She debuted on-air at ESPN as an in-car commentator in 2009. In what was reported as a television first, she and fellow commentator Chrissie Beavis rode along in the passenger seat with top drivers during racing competition and offered their analysis and commentary live-to-air. She and Beavis returned to the broadcast in the same capacity the following year. In 2011, Horsey joined the on-air team at X Games as a pit reporter for rallycross. In addition, her numerous articles on automotive and other topics have appeared in a vast range of media outlets, primarily in the United States and Canada. In competition, she is best known as a rally co-driver, although she has also competed as a rally driver in both the US and Canada. She is the voice of the co-driver in the third installment of the Codemasters videogame,

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, and returned for

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. Her most notorious co-driving appearance came in 2008 during

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competition when, during a head-to-head race against

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(and his co-driver Alexander Kihurani) driver

Andrew Comrie-Picard Andrew Comrie-Picard (born ) is a Canadian race car driver, X Games athlete, stuntman, and TV personality. He has competed in rally racing, drifting, desert off-road racing, short course off-road racing, hillclimbing, and endurance circuit rac ...

shorted the 70 ft (20 m) gap jump and her team’s

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made a spectacular front-flip. Neither Horsey nor the driver were injured. Since 2005, she has earned four division podium finishes, including two wins, in five appearances as a co-driver at the

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rally. Her first Modern division victory came in 2006 as co-driver to Keith Townsend in a

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. She repeated in 2008 alongside

in a factory supported

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. In 2011, she co-drove

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in a

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and the duo finished third in the Modern division. In 2012, she moved to Open division with driver

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and finished in second-place in a factory supported 2012 Fiat Abarth. She has also co-driven

Steve Millen Steve Millen (born 17 February 1953) is a retired New Zealand IMSA race car driver. In the 1970s and 1980s, Millen raced in hillclimbing and Formula Ford before doing stadium off-road racing in the United States in the Mickey Thompson Ente ...

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in a Nissan GTR, as well as competing in numerous stage rallies, primarily in Canada, with various other drivers.

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