OnlyFans star Renee Gracie details her journey from racetrack to adult content creator

Former ‘Supercars driver turned porn star’ Renee Gracie says the ‘door is closed’ on a V8 return, detailing the shocking bullying she has received in the sport.

Adult star Renee Gracie would not entertain a return to the Supercars fold even if she was to be extended a shock wildcard invitation, saying she was now happy rekindling her love for racing in a series where she was “respected”.

Reflecting on her journey from motorsport to adult content creator, the self-confessed former “Supercars driver turned porn star” has conceded the “door is closed” to her making a V8 return in a Bathurst 1000 cameo.

After almost six years away from motorsport, Gracie relaunched her racing career last year when she got back behind the wheel in the GT World Challenge Australia championship.

A two-time Bathurst 1000 competitor, Gracie walked away from motorsport to make a fortune creating adult content on subscription platform OnlyFans, now backing her GT entry.

Gracie has traced her motorsport career, the obstacles and bullying she faced as a young woman in the sport and her journey from the track to developing risque material in a new Stan documentary Revealed - Renee Gracie: Fireproof.

Now relishing racing in the GT series alongside her career in front of the camera, Gracie has all but given up on any hopes of a V8 return after unsuccessfully pursuing a Bathurst 1000 wildcard entry last year.

Asked if she would still consider an invitation to race in Supercars if a Bathurst wildcard offer presented itself, Gracie said she had now moved on.

“No, I would absolutely not accept that,” Gracie told CODE Sports.

“I am happy in the GT category and the GT is where I am meant to be and where I belong.

Adult content creator Renee Gracie is back racing in GTs.

“One thing I have learnt in my time in motorsport is, if you are happy and you are respected and everything is going well, don’t move, don’t change and don’t let anyone convince you that the grass is greener on the other side because sometimes it’s not.

“I am super happy where I am and I have no intentions of changing or going anywhere other than the GT category.

“I just wouldn’t go. I just think the GT cars are better, I enjoy them a lot more as a driver, they are really challenging, they are super fast.

“When I was looking at returning the GT category contacted me and they welcomed me with open arms. I wanted to go where I was welcomed and I wanted to go somewhere that was willing to have me.

“I think for my progression and where I want to improve and how I want to grow as a racing car driver and where I want to end up in the future, it is with the GT category.”

Gracie famously made her Bathurst debut in 2015 in an all-female line-up alongside former IndyCar racer Simona de Silvestro.

The pair returned to tackle Mount Panorama again in 2016 and finished 14th, but Gracie only raced in Supercars’ feeder series Super2 for one more year before she quit the sport.

Gracie felt motorsport’s attitude towards women had changed little during her time in the sport and more needed to be done to encourage them in the sport and protect them from the “negativity” online.

“Unfortunately, I don’t think motorsport in Australia has changed too much around women in general,” Gracie said.

GT racer and adult star Renee Gracie. Pic: Supplied image

“Women just aren’t fully encouraged to the capacity that they should be.

“From when I left until when I returned there was a big gap in between …. understandably, I am a bit controversial and people are going to have their opinions of me, but I still felt like not much had changed in that seven year gap.

“A lot needs to be done about how women are perceived in motorsport. The biggest thing for me is the policing of the negativity and all the stuff online, I think so much more can be done.

“The way people react online and how women are treated, how people comment on comments and instead of saying, ‘I hope she crashes and burns’ it would be good if the governing bodies of whatever category that female is in is protected.

“I know that women who would want to be in motorsport would look at my pages and look at my comments and look at what I go through and probably be discouraged, scared or nervous that might happen to them.

“Obviously I put a target on my back having OnlyFans as a sponsor and being who I am and that is totally fine … I’m happy to take the heat.

“Hopefully that makes it a bit easier for other girls to come through.”

Gracie reflected on her struggles as a young woman and the abuse she received online – and in person – in the documentary.

“I just didn’t get bullied online, I got bullied in person. I have had beer cans thrown at me and I have had horrific, horrible things said to me in person,” Gracie said.

Renee Gracie poses for the camera. Pic: Supplied image

“To this day, I still get people yelling things at me and screaming things at me, I get people calling me fat and ugly to my face still to this day.

“It is something that has been horrible. The worst was back when I was racing when I was younger which was even worse because I was just barely 20.

“I’ve been getting slammed and through my whole entire motorsport journey … a lot of that is highlighted in the documentary, just a small glimpse of the stuff that I went through and I still go through.”

Gracie said she had no regrets about the way her career on or off the track had panned out, but admitted she had suffered from her inexperience in the racing industry at a young age.

“The hardest thing was that I was just so young when I was in this environment and being in motorsport and just didn’t know things,” Gracie said.

“I was 17, 18, I was a young female, I was not business minded and I couldn’t stick up for myself and I was barely an adult.

“I wish that I could have been a bit more savvy … there were just certain things that a teenager just doesn’t quite get.

Renee Gracie with Simona de Silvestro before the 2016 Bathurst 1000. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)

“But I think that taught me so many lessons in life … and I think that has all helped me to where I am now.”

After initially walking away from motorsport, Gracie said her move into adult content creation had been “life-changing”.

She hoped the documentary would help change “people’s perceptions about me”.

“I would like people to understand that moving forward with my OnlyFans career and everything that I am doing now, I am still the same person I am driven, I am competitive,” Gracie said.

“There are a lot of people that only know me as an OnlyFans girl and they don’t know my previous history in motorsport, so I’m hoping that this maybe puts me into perspective.

“I’m hoping people get a whole picture of who Renee is.”

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